Undesirable consequences of too much cheap foreign labour!

I read this report in your paper, Riot breaks out in 'Little India' Singapore not without some trepidation. The continuous dependence of countries like Singapore and Malaysia on cheap foreign labour to fuel their development, has also brought in some negative consequences as I have already written previously. Besides the drain on our diminishing resources like housing and potable water, such cheap foreign labour inevitably introduce undesirable elements in their local environment into our civil society, one of them being their propensity to start violent protests for any reason, as shown in this reported incident.

I am writing this out of great concern that the foreigners who have arrived from the same country to Malaysia will watch this with avid interest, and as recent global events have proven, 'copycat' the acts, out of utter frustration and perhaps apparent alledged employer 'abuse'. Additionally, Malaysia have much greater numbers of foreign workers from the various countries in the Asia Pacific region {Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar and Vietnam, to name a few}, and these foreigners come from places that are not averse to or are accustomed to violent responses to any social ills and injustices they perceive the local Government and/or employers had inflicted on them

I feel it is important for our Government to view the incident across the Johor Straits with serious concern, and consider the impacts that our rampant 'import' of about 5 million such low level foreign workers will have on our civill society in the very near future!

Don't say that we have not been forewarned

View Singapore riot incident seriously..