Comments on PM National Day Rally 2006

Foreign Talent
It is true that birth rate in Singapore has fallen. To overcome this, we need to recruit more foreign talent to sustain manpower in the up growing economy. But the problem is why there still unemployment happening in Singapore? Although there are skill training available everywhere for elderly workers and those who need to change their field of work to earn for a living, there are still voices of unemployment although they went round and round of training, and some every been replaced, just because cannot commit 24 hrs standby (real life single parent encounter), which foreign workers willing to commit with a much lower pay.Are we working forward to economic grow together with zero unemployment or just economic grow but sacrifice the few who is left behind? The current policy for recruitment of foreign talent should be improve but not letting loose. Will the high living cost in Singapore attract them to still on?Government should enforce laws and right for Singaporean such as adjustable a percentage of local employment in the company by close monitoring the market grows just like the adjustable salary scheme. We must take care of foreign talent by the same treatment of local workers. They are our future key to maintain our success in our nation growth, but let us not forget the few as they are still the foundation of our nation.
Medical Cost
Let me welcome PM for allowing increase of withdrawal of medisave, medisave top up and also posting of individual hospital medical fee on line to increase competitiveness for a lower medical fee because of rising cost of medical care.

Elvin Ong