杨木光在发言时用捕鱼形容人们在环球化经济中求职的情况。
他说：“有人想要鱼，不会抓；有人看得到鱼，但是身体差没法抓；有人灰心丧气到只想向人要鱼，不想抓了；有人辛辛苦苦学会抓鱼了，鱼却游走了或眼看着鱼让别人抓走了；有的是嫌抓到的鱼越来越小；还有人刚抓到鱼却又抓不牢，有如工作一下子就失去了。”
因此，杨木光认为，必须将低收入者和他们所碰到的问题加以分类再对症下药，通过提升技能和重新设计工作程序等，协助他们培养就业和接受挑战的能力。
他说，人民行动党的议员一向采取具针对性的措施帮助弱势群体。
“我们不能像有些人拿着铁锤到处敲，遇到问题总是眼到、耳到、脑不到、手不到，头脑还可能被铁锤敲昏掉；有时看似帮忙，却是抓破人的伤疤，甚至在伤口上撒盐。”
杨木光的话引起反对党议员刘程强（后港）“反击”，他问杨木光：“水里面没鱼时，怎么办？即使有鱼，天有不测风云，天气不好闪电、打雷的时候，不能捕鱼怎么办？再者即使冒着生命危险，为了生活需要出去捕鱼，万一给闪电打死的话，那又怎么办。”
Let me try to translate it for those who don't read Chinese.
Yeo Guat Kwang uses fishing as an analogy to describe people seeking employment under globalization.
He said."Some people want to catch fish, but do not know how; some see the fish, but cannot catch them due to ill health; some are so depressed that they ask others for fish and don't wish to catch the fish themselves; some learn to fish diligently, but see the fish swim away or end up being caught by others; some grumble about the fish that they catch are getting smaller and smaller; yet others are unable to hold onto the fish they catch, like jobs that are gone in a flash."
Therefore, he believes the problems faced by low-income earners should be categorized and a targeted approach be used to solve them, to help them become more employable and resilient through initiatives like skills-upgrading and job-redesigning.
He said, the PAP has always taken a targeted approach to help the weak in society.
"We cannot be like some people who knock around with a hammer, whenever they meet a problem, the eyes are there, the ears are there, but the brain and hands are not, the brain could have been possibly knocked out by the hammer; sometimes it seems like they are helping, but in reality they have reopened the wound, and at times even sprinkling salt on it."
Yeo Guat Kwang's speech prompted Opposition MP Low Thia Kiang's "rebuttal". He asked Yeo Guat Kwang, "What if there is no fish in the water? Even if there is fish, the weather is unpredictable, when there is thunder and lightning and you cannot fish, what do you do? If one takes the risk and goes out fishing, he may get struck by lightning. What do you do then?"
Don't you wish they had put this on TV?
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