The disparity and unfair
advantages to the India Indians are so clear and obvious, not only in
writing but also in practical terms. It is totally indefensible! Period.
Any
minister who attempts to defend it, in any way whatsoever, will just
stand out like a sore thumb and looks stupid by unwittingly displaying
preconceived bias, in the eyes of the public.
This CECA Pact with
India is, in effect, a racist pact, allowing one particular racial
ethnic group to dominate and control most of the important and lucrative
jobs (217?) in our job markets, in favour of foreigners, against
Singaporeans' livelihood and survival interests and the well-being of
our future generations.
In addition, it is definitely against the
aim of nation-building because it is divisive, disruptive, disingenuous
and disharmonious. In fact, it is distrustful and destructive.
It
doesn't matter whether the CECA Indians are carelessly, crazily or
craftily lumped into a basket of "locals" made up of "rojak" ingredients
including residents and citizens, they are factually and practically
FOREIGNERS!
If ministers are unable to or refused to distinguish
between the two, then something is very wrong with their mental
faculties. If that is so, then they are not fit to be the ministers
leading us. Therefore, the right thing for them to do is to step aside
or retire from their present posts. It does no one any good, including
themselves, if they stay on and continue singing for the foreigners'
interests against Singaporeans' interests.
It is also a political suicide for the PAP as a political party, in the long run (next two general elections).
The
correct remedy to this highly controversial CECA Pact with India is to
terminate it immediately and renegotiate a new and more fair and equal
trade agreement.
A trade agreement shall not and must not be able
to be turned into a political ransom tool for the other party to call
the shots over the integrity, security and sovereignty of Singapore and
the livelihood and survival of Singaporeans, whether short or long term.
LIPS, At Your Service.
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Ask the ministers these questions
ReplyDeleteWho are you serving?
Your country or India?
Your fellow citizens or foreigners?
The Prime Minister or Singaporeans?
PAP or Singapore?
ReplyDeleteOur first generation leaders and the pioneer citizens worked hard diligently and intelligently to build up Singapore to what it is now but this imbecile 4G nutty leaders are tearing down the good economic edifice in no time with lightning speed. Hope the spirits of the First Generation leaders especially Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee and Lim Kim San will visit these useless obsolete leaders and tear them down. Remember LKY said he would rise up to right the wrong doings of stupid leaders if he sensed something wrong in the government.
Hope LKY will quickly appear to get rid of these useless obnoxious leaders.
A blue angry Singaporean
All the ills in Singapore that are happening today are contributed by one person only. This one person has been able to pull all the strings to its (for want of a better pronoun) whims and fancies, favour, advantage and idiosyncrasies.
ReplyDeleteThat person, I believe, is the richest person in Singapore today, with the wealth amassed quietly, subtly and cleverly in the background fof the last 20 years or so. Even richer than Li Kai Sing of HK.
Benifitted tremendously from the power and positions it wields, at the great expense of the well-being of all common Singaporeans, such obscene wealth is a flagrant disregard of and disrespect for the fellow citizens.
ReplyDelete"573 is the highest number of daily cases since Aug 5 last year, when 908 were recorded. But I think this is only the start. In a few days time, the 908 cases Record will be broken. The probability to hit the 1666 mark, the mark of the Beast is very good. If 1666 cases is exceeded, we will know that the Beast is in full control of Singapore. His gangs must be running the shows now?"
THE 908 RECORD HAS BEEN BROKEN!
"First Generation leaders especially Lee Kuan Yew"
ReplyDeleteCan people stop talking about this joker ? This joker is the reason why we land up in this sad state. What happen now is the karma of this crazy man who once led a party of opposition and only to suppress everything once in power against opposition. Didn't people realize that what the new generation of sycohrants and leeders wannabees are just reflection of this old men's ideologies and tricks to stay in power ? You just need to go back to 1980s and watch those youtubes that PAP has always been this way , and never change. The one and party with absolute power and control will always bully, and this is always the case in history. Did anyone even notice that everything that talk about opposition party that PAP love to talk about is (Raiding reserves, kangarooness, evil, bad etc you name it) they themselves doing it.
Let be honest with ourselves. Singapore has never been a miracle, but a myth that perpetuate to make this crazy man a god like status. It just happen that Singapore's growth is at the right place and right time while others countries are having civil wars back in 1960-2000, and that is more like opportunists. With such 100% docile hardworking sinkes living in easy-to-control tiny red dot, how the hell it cannot be successful ?
""573 is the highest number of daily cases since Aug 5 last year, when 908 were recorded. But I think this is only the start. In a few days time, the 908 cases Record will be broken. The probability to hit the 1666 mark, the mark of the Beast is very good. If 1666 cases is exceeded, we will know that the Beast is in full control of Singapore. His gangs must be running the shows now?"
THE 908 RECORD HAS BEEN BROKEN!" For goodness sake, anything that dish by this PAP just multiplied by at least 2 to 3 times. If they put this figure, likely that it already been discounted.
Multiply by 10 times. I found this out in 1969 during the racial riots. I was the one manning the incoming information. The casualties on daily basis were at least more than 100 but the newspapers published stated as 2 or 3!
DeleteWowlike that mean daily casesinstead of 900 is 9000? Very scary leh
DeleteCivil servants and politicians do not face competition from foreigners, as these roles are for Singaporeans only. Operating in a domestic environment insulated from job contest by foreigners, policymakers need to work doubly hard to empathise with and understand the concerns of citizens over foreigners taking away their rice bowls.
ReplyDeleteIn Parliament on Tuesday, Mr Wong said the People's Action Party is prepared to fight the next election on this issue of remaining open: "As Mr Ong Ye Kung (the Health Minister) said in July, we are prepared to fight the next election on this issue; we are prepared to fight any party that chooses to take a populist line and stirs racism and xenophobia."
In the mid-2000s, that disconnect translated into a loss of seats for the ruling party in 2011. The next election is not due till 2025.
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ReplyDeleteCECA is here to stay. Nothing can be done to counter this burden on Singaporeans. The only way to rid this burden is to VTO in the next GE. Remember Singaporeans, please do not be swayed by the angpow or a few chicken wings just before the GE. By all means take the bribes they give out, but when you get into the voting booths, remember CECA!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe fools seriously believe that they are doing a great job for 'locals' and 'residents' and would not hew the Singaporeans. They would frame the CECA in gold and hang it in parliament.
ReplyDeleteMark my words, they would be the first victims of their 'locals' and 'residents' and would be remembered by Singaporeans in history books as traitors.
CECA Issues: Populist, Xenophobia,
ReplyDeleteRacism OR Existential Issues?
It seems like some PAP millionaire "leeders" are barking very bravely and loudly up the wrong tree. It seems that they are cock-sure that they are right, on the right side and right sight of the people, citizens, breadwinners, voters.
Some gangho and dare devil newbie PAP millionaire 'leeders" seems adamant that barking up the wrong tree by twisting the main rice bowl, bread and butter survival issues that the people are suffering from, as a result of the CECA favouritism to foreigners, is the right approach to tackle this pain in their neck "political" problem.
By stupidly using standard motherhood statements employed by the old guards in the past, such as "populist", "xenophobia" and "racism", they think they can threaten the voters into submission to their will, whims and wiles again?
It will not work this time around.
While old dogs cannot learn new tricks, new and young puppies cannot bark like the old dogs. These young puppies simply do not sound threatening at all. In fact, they sounded so funny, like a squirrel trying to imitate a lion's roar.
This time around, it is definitely not a populist issue, nor xenophobia, nor racism.
It is a bread and butter, survival, life and death issue - an existential issue to the people and the future generations. This is not funny. This is not political even. This is a very serious matter. This is real!
This time around, it is not going to be the PAP fighting any alternative political party or opposition politicians. It is going to be the PAP fighting for its own life and survival against the people's life and survival. Either they get kick out or the voters die of hunger and misery. Simple as that.
This time around, it is going to be the exposure of a group of people (possibly
traitors) who have been in cahoots with foreigners to cause unnecessary and undue sufferings to their own fellow Singaporeans and countrymen, women and children. This is a treachery that has lasted far too long, unnecessarily and undeservedly, which could have been easily avoided long time ago.
It is going to be the Pro-foreigners vs Singaporeans.
It is going to be the millionaires vs the Poor an Commoners.
It is going to be the Elitist Aristocrats vs the Farmers, Peasants and Workers.
It is going to be the Haves vs the Have-Nots.
It is going to be the Power-receiving (Voted) vs the Power-giving (Voters).
It is going to be our own Stupidity vs our own Wisdom!
It is THE Question that needs an Answer:
Shall we survive as a people and country or perish under the hands of some questionable PAP millionaire "leeders" whose primary concerns are their status in life, power over all of us, wealth amassed at taxpayers' expense, and their political longevity?
LIPS Service.
RB,
ReplyDeleteI have deleted the original version. The above is the amended and re-titled version to make it more presentable, I hope.
Noted.
ReplyDeleteMany of us are aware that certain countries will not re-admit citizens who gave up their citizenships such as China, Singapore. However India is known to accept their citizens who have renounced their citizenship with open arms.
ReplyDeleteCounting PRs as locals or residents makes a joke of citizenship. For who do we elect the goverment for?
Many countries refuse to accept CECA terms with India, only our very clever ministars agreed. Even if these CECA transfers convert to Singaporeans, they can easily revert to their original country easily when they accumulate enough to retire like a maharaja back home. What these opportunists left behind is a mess for the rest of us to deal with if we still do not wake up in 2025.
THE REAL CANCER THAT IS PERMEATING DEEPLY INTO THE SINGAPORE SOCIETY IS ELITISM, NOT RACISM...
ReplyDeleteISN’T A SYSTEM OF CLASS FILTERED BY MERITOCRACY STILL A SYSTEM OF CLASS?
Lord Young (1958) , the man who coined the word meritocracy, clearly understood the real dangers of meritocracy if misused.
Meritocracy, like other man-made ideas such as capitalism and democracy, are dangerous concepts when applied to their extreme ends.
In Singapore, we have witnessed Mr Umbrage who talked down to the reporter, Mr slip-of-the-tongue Minister who called an NMP illiterate and a Senior Minister who sees anyone earning less than S$500,000 per annum mediocre.
What happens in a society when mechanisms of mobility turn into fortresses of privilege?
What happens when meritocrats become insufferably smug, much more so than aristocrats who are measurably humbled by knowing they have achieved advancement quite often not on their own merit but from inheritance?
The carapace of “merit”, Young argued, had only inoculated the winners from shame and reproach.
Put simply, winners of the “merit” game can easily and dangerously be led to believe that their success in life is solely due to themselves and others who fail only have themselves to blame.
This is the meritocracy trap that Singapore has fallen into and a big dose of socialism maybe needed to dig the society out of the deep hole.
RACISM IS THE RED HERRING OF POLITICAL DISTRACTION...
Racism is a political red herring used by the ruling elites to distract from the real issues of inequality, social justice, loss of dignity and self-esteem amongst the commoners, policies that over reward a few and under-compensate the rest on the false narrative that cognitive jobs pay a thousand times more than honest blue-collared jobs.
The hypothesis that minorities will always feel racially discriminated by a majority population is bollocks. Have you ever heard of a minority white Swiss banker, German CEO and British scientist becoming a victim of racism in Singapore?
Why is there no racism amongst the rich, educated and famous people in the world?
Billionaire Oprah is an icon in America, regardless of her race. Will Smith has no problems booking the best restaurants in Beverly Hills at short notice. The mega-rich are colour-blind. And I am also willing to bet that our highly paid MPs, mayors, and ministers of minority races are colour-blind and do not suffer the least from racism too.
Societies divided by class and caste have existed long before societies understood racism. Policies can only get you thus far and beyond which the free and ruthless market takes over.
There may be an EIP system to prevent racial enclaves in the HDB flat allocation system. But has any study been done to investigate elite racial enclaves amongst our privileged new citizens (> 500,000 of them in the last 15-20 years), PRs (>500,000 of them today) and EPs (200,000)?
Many core Singaporeans have served NS and helped built the Singapore of today and by some estimates, more than 100,000 of born and bred locals are now displaced by new Singaporeans, PRs, EPs and SPs.
This is the COLLATERAL DAMAGE caused by the ruling elites' desire to turbo charge and punch our economy well above our natural weight.
ReplyDeleteGiven that we are a tiny hub city with no natural resources, inflating the economy on “steroids” – huge overflow of multinationals and foreign talent - IS NOT A SIN PER SE.
What is sinful is when the “loot” or the “artificially inflated economic cake” created by multinationals and foreign talents – whom of course will have their generous cut – is reaped by a few elite Singaporeans while leaving the majority of Singaporeans, in particular the old and under-educated ones, to fight over the crumbs.
LKY warned that if we did not vote the PAP, our women would become maids in foreign lands. But instead, we now have 40,000 core Singaporean men driving Grab, 30,000 delivering food, 16,000 driving taxis, 40,000 cleaners and landscape personnel, 30,000 security guards etc. all of whom are lowly paid compared to the imported high-flyers.
Throw in Covid-19 stresses and the mix can become explosive.
Therefore, racism may not be all about elitism but is more likely to be substantially a part of it. The cure for racism is not so different as the cure for elitism. A more egalitarian and a fairer society is a less racist society.
To a large extent, racism is just an excuse or bogeyman used to mask the real problem of elitism, class, and caste.
And in Singapore, how can one not expect to see an elitist pecking ordered society when a certain ruling party MP once said that if a senior bureaucrat is not paid a very high salary, how can she conduct a meeting with a CEO of a corporation who is paid much more?
What a set of bollocks and false narratives.
In Singapore, money has been wrongly and conveniently used as the sole yardstick to measure job responsibility.
By this definition, Jacinda Ardern would not be able to do her job effectively because she is paid much less than many corporate high-flyers and does not live in a "good class bungalow" in New Zealand.
She earns less than $500k per annum and by our Senior Minister's definition, she is supposed to be mediocre. Yet she was voted this year by Fortune magazine as the world's greatest leader, beating all our Singapore leaders by a mile.
In Singapore, the ruling elites have inadvertently created a big elephant in the room known as elitism. The scholarship system worked well at the time when the nation was poor. Today, the same system perpetuates elitism.
Why is there a $2 billion private tuition market if not abundantly explained by an artificially created intellectual arms race?
Therefore real cancer that is permeating deeply into the Singapore society is elitism, not racism.
A highly questionable and gamed meritocratic system, where the top salaries are uncapped and gamed (with obscenely low individual taxes for the million-dollar earners) while the bottom salaries are uplifted in a miserly and calibrated way (all cleaners will eventually earn $2420/-by year 2028!).
So, the government now wishes to conflate elitism, societal stress due to excessive and unfair competition, Covid-19, loss of self-esteem amongst commoners, pretty much everything suffering caused by skewed policies, and conveniently blame it on one single issue, which is racism/xenophobia.
Racism and xenophobia are merely the external manifestation of some FAR DEEPER ROOT CAUSES that the ruling elites are slow to address.
Next topic on CECA:
ReplyDeleteCECA: The Creation Of An Elitist Cult Gone Bonkers
Using the above two articles, very well-said, combined with my own thinking, I shall endeavour to write the next article on CECA (The Elitist's Tool Of Intimidation, Subjugation and Oppression).
Hi Virgo49, Just for your info. citizenship given to someone cannot be revoked. So all the CECA citizens will be forever in Singapore to share your lunch.
ReplyDeleteJust say agreements by rogue garments would not be honoured.
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