It sounds so good for the leaders to be talking about boosting or strengthening the Singapore Core. How can this be wrong or unsound and to be wary of? Is this not good for Singaporeans?
Strengthening the Singapore Core at face value is a good thing to the unwary and unsuspecting Singaporeans. The Singapore Core must be about Singaporeans and thus must be good right?
Wrong. Make sure you know the definition of the Singapore Core. The Singapore Core is not about Singaporeans but about Singaporeans and PRs ie the infamous four letter word aka 'locals'. So why is this dangerous to the well being of Singaporeans? The Singapore Core at this moment is a term used loosely and freely without a clear definition. This can be very dangerous. The ratio of Singaporeans to PRs in the Singapore Core, if not specified, can be anything from 90:10 in favour of Singaporeans or 90:10 in favour of PRs that are not citizens, not Singaporeans. Are Singaporeans happy with a Singapore Core consisting of 70% or more PRs among the PMETs?
If the percentage of PRs in the Singapore Core is not clearly defined, it would be the same as the flood of Employment Pass and S Pass holders running out of control at the detriment of Singaporean PMETs. Can you see a Trojan Horse with more PRs than Singaporeans inside, at the extreme could be anything from 60% to 90% PRs. If that is the case, is it good for Singaporeans? The Singaporean Core is no different from lumping Singaporeans and PRs together as 'locals'. Singaporeans must object to this Core.
Without any definitive clarification, unthinking daft Singaporeans would again be taken for a ride to believe that strengthening Singapore Core means strengthening Singaporeans when it could be strengthening the position of foreigners, ie PRs. This is like saying 70% of the staff are locals without telling how many are Singaporeans. Singaporeans must not take things for granted like the CECA is good without questioning until thousands of PMETs lost their jobs and thousands of Singaporean families are in dire straits. And with employment statistics hidden under the term 'locals' do Singaporeans know what is the true state of affair of Singaporeans?
Singaporeans must demand a clearly defined Singapore Core and not to let this go against the interests of Singaporeans. We have enough of Trojan Horses, Singaporeans cannot afford to have another Trojan Horse that would seal their fate as a minority and third class citizens in their own country.
Do Singaporeans know what is the meaning of 'locals' and what is the meaning of the Singaporean Core? Why must the Singaporean Core be about Singaporeans and PRs and not Singaporeans alone? When foreigners are easily and quickly converted to PRs and be included in the Singaporean Core, who is wiser? It makes a mockery of the Singaporean Core.
So have 2.5 Millions in and had them as PRs as the Singapore Core?
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They, the PRs are the very Sinkies CORE!
Singaporeans became the Rotten Fruits COREs.
Singaporeans must demand a clear distinction between citizens and PRs, also not to be lumped together with PRs as locals.
ReplyDeleteWe are the citizens of Singapore. We pledge ourselves as.......
Singaporeans: Please Don't Become Ah Q
ReplyDeleteThose skilled in deception deceive without deceiving.
Think of the above truism which I have pointed out many times before.
They simply play with words, especially among the highly intelligent con men and women.
We must always read the tiny fine prints before accepting any sales person's words. All sales persons will tell you only the good things to entice you into believing them and so buy from them the "enhanced property" at your own peril.
Never, never, never trust a sales person. Any politician who is able to win 61% of your votes must be among the top sales persons.
Once you have stupidly believed in their sales gimmicks and tactics, you are as good as the idiot called Ah Q.
What happened to Ah Q in the end?
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JT's husband is a PR? Sure?
Will try to sieve a photo of many PAP ministers and their spouses with descriptions of their appointments in various Government and GLCs positions.
DeleteOne of JT and her hubby in one of what's high ranking Govt Ministries.
Go and hear her speech yesterday night news reports.
ReplyDeleteCrying for Singaporeans woes.
Many sanctuaries to go to with her millions
Cheers
DeleteHi V49 933am
No time for her speech lah! Busy here busy there lah....
Yes! Heard she cried. Poor thing... after my friend LW!
Here's the link to JT's hubby Teo Eng Cheong as ex CEO International
Deleteof Surbana Jurong.
Resigned as CEO
https://news.nestia.com/detail_share/4912821?
Worse than school children debating.
ReplyDeletePrepared questions in advance, prepared answers in advance.
If she cried for someone who tragically lost his life, then maybe real tears.
ReplyDeleteIf she cried for someone who merely lost his job, that's definitely fake tears! Wayang! Politics! Play to gallery!
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Singapore must allow dual citizenships so those Prs that are around for 30years paying taxes and did NS can be citizens. Singapore must embrace diversity.
ReplyDeleteThis "local" label is one Trojan horse that has many citizens fooled. This is how they can claim that DBS Bank has 90+% of Singaporean core in its staff and Stanchart, Citibank and HSBC have more than 65% of Singaporeans in their employ. Majority of these "Singaporeans" could very well be PRs as anecdotal evidence seems to suggest.
ReplyDeleteWould they dare to be transparent on this?
ReplyDeleteThe Story of Ah Q - A Summary
ReplyDelete"The True Story of Ah Q" is an episodic novella written by the famous Lu Xun, first published as a serial between Dec 1921 and Feb 1922, comprising 9 chapters - considered among the masterpieces of modern Chinese literature.
The character of Ah Q in Lu Xun's short noval has given rise to a unique expression in China called "Ah Quism".
"Ah Quism" is the attempt to find cheap moral victory in defeat and failure. A typical Sinkie trait, which is now being displayed through the speeches of PAP leaders in Parliament over the last three days.
In the story, Ah Q is continually defeated, by his fellow low-lifes, by respectable people and by revolutionaries.
Yet he keeps turning each and every situation around in his head afterwards, in order to feel good for himself.
For instance, while being beaten by loofers, he loudly denigrates himself as being as low as an insect, thus showing himself to be the "foremost self-belittler" - and certainly being "foremost" in anything is admirable, is it not? So, in this manner he is spiritually superior again to his persecutors.
To some people, "The True Story of Ah Q" may be confusing because it seems to have no moral centre.
Ah Q is motivated by self-interest, even when he tries (and fails) to join the revolution. None of his persecutors nor his victims seem to be people of any integrity.
The ending is tragic and ironical. Ah Q had wanted to join the revolutionaries in order to enjoy a better life and higher status but he failed to do so because he overslept and missed the train. Later the revolutionaries, the very people whom he had looked up to, framed him up for the crimes they have committed. Ah Q was arrested and executed. He signed on his death sentence note as Q instead of O, the standard signature for illiterates in those days.
Ah Q was executed for the crimes of others, yet he died without any regret nor protest. This is what most Sinkies are - always suffering in silence without making any protest, yet still can feel great about their existence and predicaments. Chronically tragic!
This all seems to be a lawless and sadistic black humour.
To really get the morals of this story, you must understand the historical context: China had just gone through a bourgeois democratic revolution in 1911, overthrowing the last imperial dynasty and setting up a Republican Government the following year.
However, the new government could not throw off foreign domination (by Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA) or bring about needed reforms to improve the lot of the people.
So, in 1919, the famous May Fourth movement began with a student protest in Beijing. And several decades of political upheaval and bloodshed on a mass scale followed, before the eventually victorious Maoist Revolution set China on the path to what China is today.
It was in the confusing Republican period that Lu Xun started writing, placing the story of Ah Q in the turmoil of the incomplete revolution of 1911. It was a time when many Chinese looked to Western ways (like our bananas) to overthrow ancient Chinese traditions rooted in the feudal system.
A character in "The True Story of Ah Q" is just referred to as the "Imitation of Foreign Devil", an affluent Chinese person who adopts the fashions of the West.
The "revolutionaries" in the story are an ambivalent lot, far from the ideologically driven revolutionaries who came later.
Ah Q is thus both a ridiculous figure — with his self-centred ignorance and his psychological "victories" - and a pathetic low-life unable to compete in a vicious environment made more difficult by foreign powers dominance.
While laughing at Ah Q, the reader somehow also understand his confusion and applaud his hapless attempts to improve his situation against all odds.