6.9 million people by 2030
Singapore's population could hit 6.9m by 2030
By 2030, Singapore's population is projected to reach 6.5 to 6.9 million based on a government White Paper released on Tuesday.
This will comprise a resident population of 4.2 to 4.4 million, of which 3.6 to 3.8 million are citizens and the rest Permanent Residents. Non-residents will make up about 2.3 to 2.5 million by then.
To keep Singapore's citizen population from shrinking, Singapore will need 15,000 to 25,000 new citizens each year, assuming the current total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.2.
About 30,000 new Permanent Residents (PR) is needed to keep the PR population stable at 500,000 to 600,000.
Quality foreigners, not numbers, is what we need -
The above was released in the White Paper just after the Punggol by election 2013. It looks like the PAP is devoid of ideas and simply tries to increase population for the sake of increasing population. It hopes that somehow, magically, with larger numbers, the economy would turn for the better.
Our immigration population should be such that we only accept those with the skills we want. Not any Tom, Dick or Harry. But looking around us, it seems that any Tom, Dick of Harry is accepted. In so many companies, we see customer service officers, telemarketers, salespersons, whatever, mostly filled by foreign nationals. As if Singaporeans have been avoiding these jobs. Isn't this a sign that the govt has been taking in about anyone just for the sake of increasing the population?
I have mentioned in this blog before, that the govt is using a crude method to gain revenue. By increasing numbers, it hopes that the revenue collected from GST would increase. It is hoped that these people, just by being present in Singapore, would spend their living expenses here. That itself would increase the collection from GST. You don't need to have highly skilled and professionals to increase your GST collection. Here is that publication I made - LKY's over-simplistic immigration policy to stimulate economy
The 7% GST is quite substantial. And you can't escape it. As long as you are a human being, never mind citizen, PR or foreigner, you have to eat, clothe yourself and have a roof over your head. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, whatever religion, healthy or sick, young or old. You need to spend on essential items - which attract the 7% GST.
Naturally, the more people we have here the greater the GST revenue. Isn't that a crude and simplistic way for the govt to collect revenue and re-distribute it back to the economy?
I also mentioned that it is quality and not quantity that we need.
We need to make numbers count -
If you were to seek PR in any developed country, the first thing you must have is the skills they want. Unlike Singapore where there is no criteria, your skills and employability is the number one factor. No skills no talk. Period.
PAP's meritocracy system simply churns out more leaders with same ideas packaged with same mistakes -
After its embarrassing loss to WP at the last Punggol by election, the PAP stands proud and stout, defending its out-of-touch meritocracy system, churning out homogeneous scholars who simply parrot and mimick everything past leaders have said and done - mistakes included, of course. This of course includes the mistake of increasing our population for the sake of increasing our population.
I have shown earlier, how simplistic LKY is, believing that numbers itself is the magic formula. This is repeated by DPM Teo Chee Hean. Here two more examples of how PAP churns out the same type of scholars so that they can repeat and continue the same PAP policies, regardless they are realistic or workable or not.
1. Education - For a long time, PAP believes in the idea that there has to be an elite group leading the the non-elites. So it deliberately makes sure that there are those who are more academically achieved than the rest of the population. In other words, they FORCE a situation that somehow, there must be a top 1%, top 5%, top 10% and so on, to create a distinct class that stands out from the rest. Here is a post I made that testifies that. PM Lee, if we need to control varsity intake to prevent jobless grads, why then the liberal immigration policy?
The ill effects of the above are not only obvious, it actually runs contradictory to PAP's explanation that there are not enough grads to fill up jobs and hence, we need to increase the number of foreigners!
2. Defence - Again, the same parroting by scholars. The point here is to parrot the make belief enemy who wants to usurp Singapore, never mind that we have nothing worth to be invaded for. Here is a post I made, citing an SAF scholar's thesis, showing how naive he is to repeat the exact words his leaders have been saying. He truly believes that we are surrounded by hostiles, yet never questions the fact that we also have nothing worth to be invaded for. War-happy SAF's shift from defence to engagement in wars of others
Isn't PAP's policies the result of its so called meritocracy system? Isn't it all about churning out more scholars who simply repeat what previous leaders say, never mind if that includes repeating the same mistakes? In this post, I have mentioned a total of just three examples, which touched on immigration, education and defence policies. Of course there are many more.
Wrapping up and conclusion -
OK. Back to the topic of increasing our population to the ridiculous number of nearly 7 million. PAP simply tells us that we need to increase that number for economic sustainability. PAP does not show us why this number is the magic number. Why not 8 million or 9 million. For that matter, why not 4 million? PAP has not shown us why 7 million is the threshold and 4 million is not. If PAP wants to import foreigners, it has to be the people with the skills and resources want. Not any Tom, Dick or Harry.
At the same time, what PAP's policy of meritocracy means is that it simply wants to reproduce scholars who think alike. There is no room for out of the box thinking. This situation does not help Singapore. PAP is simply repeating the same mistakes till perpetuity.
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Increase in the population number is associated with an expected increase in GDP growth. Note that their annual bonus is dependent on this key performance indicator: GDP growth ( not decline)
There is something worth invading Singapore for. Its geographic location and hopefully an intact port and airport infrastructure.
Regardless of who is the enemy, the prize is the location. Getting it beats building one of your own which may take a couple of decades to do.
With all the technology available, the Suez and Panama canals is still valuable assets to acquire.
If you really believe that we have something worth invading, then surely we also have something worth for highly qualified and economically wealthy immigrants to migrate here.
So where are these high net worth migrants in Singapore such that we don’t have to depend the Toms, Dicks and Harrys to make up the 7 million?
We have NOTHING. And that’s why PAP is trying to CREATE something. That something is the 7 million mass that will contribute the GST to IRAS.
Take a look at Brunei. They have something worth to be invaded. OIL and GAS. They don’t need numbers to keep their economy up.
The ports and what not we have are useless to invaders. It is cheaper for them to develop their own ports.
If we have something that is worth invading, we won’t even have to deal with PAP’s ludicrous idea of making up the numbers. We’ll capitalize and exploit whatever we have. Like Brunei.
You are wrong already. Singapore is at strategic location at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. So our enemy want our location not our natural resources.
Stop being a dinosaur living in the last century.
Firstly, Malaysia and Indonesia have such a long coast line, they can always build a new port and operate it much cheaper than we can.
Secondly, why we WERE the perfect geographical location LAST CENTURY was because of the thriving tin and rubber industry in Msia. The Brits used the Malayan rail system to transport the goods down to Tg Pagar station to have them shipped to the rest of the world.
Now that the tin and rubber industry is no longer around, our importance as being the southern most tip of Msian Peninsular has lost its glamour.
As mentioned, you can now build any port anywhere along the hundreds of km along the Msian or Indonesian coast.
Update yourself. You are at least one century behind time.
That's no way to defend Singapore, you know.
hmmm...
Has anyone give the thought...that in the event of a blockade or the ports are interdicted with missles/rockets...and food supplies can't be unloaded in singapore...
or most of our food supply is from a major supplier who can suddenly decide to squeeze PAP gov't balls...etc etc...
I wonder how many days or weeks..will food riots and killing of each other just to survive with that 7 million population figure...
I wonder...
Btw...by the time that happen..regret or saying sorry...doesn't mean anything to the dead innocents.
Strategic position in the southern tip. Just my type. I service gay men and I know all about it. Your port hole must be strategically positioned at your southern tip. If it is placed elsewhere, your customers will not want to do business with you. If it is placed there, invasion will be rampant and business will be good.
>>Has anyone give the thought...that in the event of a blockade or the ports are interdicted with missles/rockets...and food supplies can't be unloaded in singapore.
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Yes, those repetitive words are from the SAF scholars minted straight from the factory, that has filtered down since last century. I told you to stop being a dinosaur.
Stop. Think. Analyse. Block us for what? To make us submit to them so that we give our land up? What land talking you when you now admit we have no resource for us to be invaded for?
The “they want our strategic port” is the argument of the last century. During the Brit colonial times, our port was an economic and strategic point for the Brit empire. Spore, together with Msia, was the Brit Empire’s goldmine of the East - in the first half of the LAST CENTURY.
The tin and rubber industries in Msia help funded the Brit economy while Spore, being the world’s centre of distribution of those goods laden with $$$, was an important port.
If at all, the threat was internal. From the communist leaning Chinese in Singapore. Way b4 WW2, there were already attempts to dislodge the Brit empire. The Chinese clans wanted to have goldmine Spore port for themselves, and hence, pretended to sell the idea that the Brits were shortchanging us. In Msia, they also sold the idea that Brit was selling the people out, but they were actually eyeing the lucrative rubber and tin industries. So they fought against the Brits.
During WW2, these Chinese communists pretended to fight the Japs and the Brits armed them. It was a marriage of convenience, although the Brits never trusted the commie leaning Chinese extremists. After the Japs left, these Chinese commies did not return the arms but instead used them to fight the Brits!
In Singapore, there were riots conducted by these Chinese extremists, led by Lim Chin Siong and Fong Swee Suan. The idea was to get rid of the Brits so that they can have Spore, the lucrative strategic port included.
In Msia, these Chinese groups led a bloody war for 11 years, far longer than WW2 itself! Why? They wanted the rubber and tin industries to themselves too!
So if at all, today, the “we are a strategic location” is:
1. Outdated bcos you are quoting a situation that is already about one century old and no longer relevant, with the beginnings around the turn of the last century.
2. The argument was actually used by the Brits to show that these Chinese extremist groups were up to no good.
3. The so called threat was INTERNAL - from the Chinese extremists WITHIN Singapore and NOT the Malays from Msia or Indonesia.
Next, time if any SAF scholar or SAF spokesman wannabe quotes the “we have a strategic port” argument, ask them if they want to get rid of Chinese extremist in Singapore.
I told you to get yourself updated. You once worked for MINDEF, didn’t you?
SAF - armed with latest equipment, laden with last century philosophy. Tsk, tsk.
oh daddybear...your understanding and 'analysis' of various things, whether the strategic picture or history is so flawed (and backed up by erroneous assumptions that really reveal your latent racism more than anything) that it's almost amusing! blockades are not simply about acquiring territory, but also compelling other political actors to bend to one's aims, which could just involve the modification of positions and policies to a stand more 'amenable'. what you're advocating is basically the finlandisation of singapore, isn't it?
well, for various historical reasons (lamentable or not), singapore ISN'T malaysia and indonesia (or say, the PRC, either). our interests may converge with theirs sometimes but to expect the lion city to always toe their line and to champion their own biased and selfish reasons of state (as self-serving as ours, admittedly) is simply ludicrous. maintaining armed forces actually capable of deterring any untoward intentions is a necessary insurance policy and gives the political leadership more leeway and additional options. SEA isn't western europe...to expect the complicated crisscrossing interests in this truly shitty neighbourhood to be as huggable as the likes of you is simply naïve. well, if you truly prefer the foreign policy of malaysia (e.g. vis-à-vis ur fave pallywood cause), FTs like you are certainly welcome to return there. good riddance!
Cut the big talk. Answer this simple unanswered Q - What do we have that makes it so attractive for anyone to attack us?
Oh yes, it takes only a few posts for you to expose yourself the Dr Chameleon the Troll, taking on new identities. Only you hate Palestinians so much you mock and celebrate their deaths. Pallywood? You're still stuck with your hate site FFI Orgywood, no?
Still waiting for that one single intellectual post from you, doc.
LOL. O1k, you are such a witty guy with all your jokes livening up boring blogs like this. I am a great fan of yours and have been following many of your witty comments in so many other blogs which otherwise are also so boring. Keep it up O1K.
Regards your true fan
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