[stephenkhoo]

I cannot agree more that this is just treating the short term issue and symptom but not the root and longer term issues. We have become unproductive over the years and we keep opening up without any barriers to entry. In the end we who are born live and die here for the past 3 generations will no longer have a stake or be a stakeholder and everything may just come to naught in the end. Whereas if you turn the tables where someone who is here to earn the income remits the money home will inherently help their own economy over time and always have a place to return to. Do we want to end up like Dubai? Dubai is a classic example of how wrong it can get with a wrong turn of events in the global economy but the difference is Dubai has strong backings and network from its neighbors namely UAE.