Bret L
February 25th 10, 12:03 AM
((I'm always reluctant to say good things about Singapore, which
genuinely is a Fascist country, also one where healthy whites would
find oppressive and malodorous their legal and political environment.
But consider the context. Singapore is not designed for whites, but
for elite Chinese and elite Malays to live together in harmony. Judged
thusly it is a success. Bret.))
Employment and Immigration: Singapore shows the way.
[Patrick Cleburne]
>> "With the American employment disaster the most serious since the 1930s, we at VDARE.com keep asking why the most obvious ameliorative measure, a moratorium on the million plus legal immigrants still coming here annually, is never discussed in the MSM or amongst the political classes.
This is even true amongst friends. Look at a search on the subject on
the website of the Great White Whale of the immigration restraint
outfits, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) here.
Better – or more patriotically - managed countries are more
responsible about immigration policy. The latest example comes from
Singapore: Singapore Withdraws Red Carpet for Foreigners With Eye on
Vote By Shamin Adam Bloomberg Feb 24 2010
Singapore is, of course, an interesting case, a 274 square mile City-
state with the 5th highest GDP per capita in the world. As J.Phillippe
Rushton has noted, it breaks the general pattern of tropical counties
being unprosperous – because 75% of its population are ethnic Chinese,
a classic demonstration of the IQ/National Wealth thesis. Most of the
rest are pretty high quality too.
But the global slowdown is being felt, and
foreigners make up one in every three people. The government plans
to slow the inflow to avoid being “overwhelmed,” and unveiled higher
levies for overseas laborers, cooks and janitors in its Feb. 22
budget.
(These levies have been a deliberate effort by the government to
prevent Singapore moving to a cheap labor economic model. The contrast
to America is pitiful.)
In the past few months, the government has lowered healthcare
subsidies for permanent residents, increased public school fees for
non- citizens, and tweaked a balloting system to give Singaporean
children twice the chance of getting into the educational institution
of their choice.
Once again, in direct contrast to America, affirmative action is
designed to benefit the native born majority, not immigrants.
Although to its credit, Bloomberg has reported this story, the
notoriously top-down edited service clearly strongly disapproves. The
notion it advances that these changes are in response to electoral
pressure is absurd. The ruling party has been in power since 1959.
Its politicians currently hold 82 of 84 elected seats in parliament.
Prime Minister Lee in a speech on Jan. 25 noted a speculation “fever”
of early elections, while adding that it’s not imminent.
Furthermore the quotation it ends with of the architect of modern
Singapore, “Mentor Minister” Lee Kuan Yew noting positive aspects of
immigration is seriously unrepresentative. As Steve Sailer reported
this grim but deep-thinking figure saying in 2005:
Lee Kwan Yew, noted in a recent interview:
“In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your
economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with
race and religion.”
Americans need to heed the example of Singapore."<<
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/02/24/employment-and-immigration-singapore-shows-the-way/
genuinely is a Fascist country, also one where healthy whites would
find oppressive and malodorous their legal and political environment.
But consider the context. Singapore is not designed for whites, but
for elite Chinese and elite Malays to live together in harmony. Judged
thusly it is a success. Bret.))
Employment and Immigration: Singapore shows the way.
[Patrick Cleburne]
>> "With the American employment disaster the most serious since the 1930s, we at VDARE.com keep asking why the most obvious ameliorative measure, a moratorium on the million plus legal immigrants still coming here annually, is never discussed in the MSM or amongst the political classes.
This is even true amongst friends. Look at a search on the subject on
the website of the Great White Whale of the immigration restraint
outfits, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) here.
Better – or more patriotically - managed countries are more
responsible about immigration policy. The latest example comes from
Singapore: Singapore Withdraws Red Carpet for Foreigners With Eye on
Vote By Shamin Adam Bloomberg Feb 24 2010
Singapore is, of course, an interesting case, a 274 square mile City-
state with the 5th highest GDP per capita in the world. As J.Phillippe
Rushton has noted, it breaks the general pattern of tropical counties
being unprosperous – because 75% of its population are ethnic Chinese,
a classic demonstration of the IQ/National Wealth thesis. Most of the
rest are pretty high quality too.
But the global slowdown is being felt, and
foreigners make up one in every three people. The government plans
to slow the inflow to avoid being “overwhelmed,” and unveiled higher
levies for overseas laborers, cooks and janitors in its Feb. 22
budget.
(These levies have been a deliberate effort by the government to
prevent Singapore moving to a cheap labor economic model. The contrast
to America is pitiful.)
In the past few months, the government has lowered healthcare
subsidies for permanent residents, increased public school fees for
non- citizens, and tweaked a balloting system to give Singaporean
children twice the chance of getting into the educational institution
of their choice.
Once again, in direct contrast to America, affirmative action is
designed to benefit the native born majority, not immigrants.
Although to its credit, Bloomberg has reported this story, the
notoriously top-down edited service clearly strongly disapproves. The
notion it advances that these changes are in response to electoral
pressure is absurd. The ruling party has been in power since 1959.
Its politicians currently hold 82 of 84 elected seats in parliament.
Prime Minister Lee in a speech on Jan. 25 noted a speculation “fever”
of early elections, while adding that it’s not imminent.
Furthermore the quotation it ends with of the architect of modern
Singapore, “Mentor Minister” Lee Kuan Yew noting positive aspects of
immigration is seriously unrepresentative. As Steve Sailer reported
this grim but deep-thinking figure saying in 2005:
Lee Kwan Yew, noted in a recent interview:
“In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your
economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with
race and religion.”
Americans need to heed the example of Singapore."<<
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/02/24/employment-and-immigration-singapore-shows-the-way/