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TOC’s Forum on Transformation

TOC’s Forum on Transformation. Foreign Workforce Polic y 11 June 2011. Foreign Workforce. Core multi-purpose policy tool 1. Economic - GDP, Labour Supply, Productivity 2. Financial - FWL, Source of Government Revenue 3. Social - More hardworking, harddriving vs

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TOC’s Forum on Transformation

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  1. TOC’s Forum onTransformation Foreign Workforce Policy 11 June 2011

  2. Foreign Workforce Core multi-purpose policy tool 1. Economic - GDP, Labour Supply, Productivity 2. Financial - FWL, Source of Government Revenue 3. Social - More hardworking, harddrivingvs World’s unhappiest workers 4. Political - New citizens’ vote of gratitude - Racial balance 5. Governance - Ministerial pay, bonus formula, GDP growth, Company profitability

  3. Yardsticks 1. Policy Trade-offs 2. Minimum Wage - Singapore’s competitive position 3. CPF Equalisation Levy - Work Permit - S Pass - E Pass 4. Ministerial Pay - Delink from GDP growth, CEO salaries

  4. Transform, Tweak or Counter? 1. Sincerity 2. Survival 3. Dominance Where is PAP’s confidence level?

  5. Yet Lee refuses to take the PAP's continued success for granted.  He does not care whether the PAP exists in perpetuity, he said.  What is important is that Singapore perpetuates itself.  He is not interested in seeing the PAP victorious at all costs, he told us.  If the party lost the voters' trust and let another more capable group take over, so be it.  To Lee, the PAP would sow the seeds of its own destruction if it deterred the best people from rising to the top or failed to deliver what the electorate needed.  Lee also sticks to his government's line that it is not its job to ease Singapore towards a two-party system and ensure a less traumatic handover if that came to pass.  After all, his party had clawed its way up from the ranks of a rowdy opposition, succeeding against the colonialists and leftists in its own nest.  Lee believes that the same kind of pitched battle is possible in today's Singapore.  Any opposition party can challenge the PAP and knuckleduster its way into power.  The worthy will prove themselves in conflict.  Contrary to what the critics claim, the opposition's main problem has nothing to do with the state of civil liberties.  It is that the PAP has left no stone unturned.  Any credible opposition would not be able to come up with a truly alternative platform because if it were made up of smart people who want to do what is best for Singapore, it would arrive at similar conclusions to that of the PAP's, he said.  PAP’s DNA?Extract from Page 45 of Hard Truths:

  6. PAP’s DNA?Extract from Page 45 of Hard Truths: Any credible opposition would not be able to come up with a truly alternative platform because if it were made up of smart people who want to do what is best for Singapore, it would arrive at similar conclusions to that of the PAP's, he said. 

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