6/14/2013
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
The exuberance of foreigners working in this little island is understandable. They need not be at top management to be able to see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And if they do rise to top management level this is heaven on earth. After their stint in the island, with good quality living and a reasonable income, many would have made a small fortune to bring home and live a life very much better than their contemporaries. Many could even join the ranks of nouve riche back in their countries.
Look at the Singaporean counterparts, the citizens of this island. Unless one is in the top 10 or 20 percent of the income bracket, many will remain in the asset rich and cash poor category, feeling rich but living from hand to mouth, every month just enough. Many will remain living in their HDB flats, unable to own a car, and trying to feel good, to justify taking public transport to work or to play.
Where is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for the average Singaporeans? Many of the PRC Chinese, India Indians, the Pinoys, Malaysians, and other Southeast Asians will be returning home rich while just an average Joe here, earning much less than the average Singaporeans. Isn’t it an irony, a kind of sick joke, that many of the citizens of one of the richest country in the world will spend the rest of their lives chasing the rainbow but not finding the pot of gold. On the other hand, the average foreigners are all counting the days when they can return home rich, some very very rich. Many will have their dreams fulfilled with great certainty.
Why like dat huh?
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"Why like dat huh?"
Because you stupid and voted for the Pro Alien Party.
I was talking to a former Malaysian who regretted taking up citizenship. He said he would be better off remaining a SPR and retaining his Malaysian citizenship. Had it been so, he said he could now sell off his HDB and retire back in Ipoh a richer and happier man with a car and a landed property and money in the bank earning good interest.
Sinkies should be very happy living in a million dollar HDB flat and taking world class public transport.
The 60% cowards and daft voted the evil PAP freeloaders these miseries and frustrations for the 40%........Sinkies works against Sinkies for the benefits of the evil PAP freeloaders, Singapore is a JOKES lol,lol....
aiyah, sinkies! after you stop working go malaysia, thailand, indonesia, india, sri lanka and china and live there lah. form s'pore enclaves there. help each other. s'pore too small, it is a city state. unless the economy goes downhill no way things are getting cheaper. life is too short to hanker over nationalism. too short a time on this earth. you have the whole world. enjoy. just like the apek who cleans the public toilet his whole life and sit outside collect 10 cents. after he has saved enough, why want to stay in that toilet. get out! smell the roses.
"Unless one is in the top 10 or 20 percent of the income bracket, many will remain in the asset rich and cash poor category, feeling rich but living from hand to mouth, every month just enough."
rb
I think it is more than 20% lah. At least 43%.
43% have to be in a good income bracket in order to be happy and satisfied living in high cost Sinkieland.
Or else they would not have voted for PAP in a by election what.
If Sinkies are so unhappy, then PAP would have only received 10-20% of the votes, using redbean's estimation of top income bracket.
Because unlike in a GE, in by election, WP not ready to be govt doesn't matter what.
Bangkok Post
[Recalibrating majority rule, minority rights]
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is associate professor and director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University.
"From Turkey to Thailand and elsewhere where political legitimacy derives from electoral democracy,
the relationship between majority rule and minority rights has become problematic and in need of recalibration.
If a more effective majoring-minority moving balance is not found,
electoral democracy is likely to be discredited and undermined
to the detriment of societies it was cultivated and designed to govern."
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/355015/recalibrating-majority-rule-minority-rights
43% votes is guaranteed for PAP, whether in general election or by election because these voters are rich, and therefore happy and satisfied.
About 17% Sinkies may be suffering but they are also scared if WP become govt, they will suffer even more. So these suffering Sinkies will vote PAP in a GE but not in a by election.
So 43+17=60% will therefore vote PAP in a GE. It happened in 2011, and most likely also in 2016.
Unless a miracle happen to WP lah.
But no miracle for 2 years since 2011 so why there be one 3 years time in 2016?
I have not been rich for the past 20 years.
I also don't buy toto, 4D, big sweep or gamble.
So will I be rich in 3 years time?
Strawberries are very marginalized because we have chosen papayas as the leaders. Strawberries need to learn to stop voting for papayas to reverse the situation. Any watermelons or nutmeg is a better choice.
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