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Policies against foreigners to appease Singaporeans

  • Rovingswordsman

    That Indian PR Mrs Sweta Agarwal is an idiot - making paying taxes like a big deal, can tell she definitely dodge taxes back in her village.  I am in a position to hire people.  I will take every chance to hire anybody with a surname Agarwal and tekan the shit out of him or her.

  • John Penn

    New citizen condemns suggestion to tweat P1 balloting rules to differentiate new citizens from old

    December 29, 2009

    A former Malaysian and new Singapore citizen by the name of Chong Kok Kean had written a letter to AsiaOne yesterday condemning Mr Edmund Lin’s earlier letter to the Straits Times Forum urging the government to tweak Primary One balloting rules to give old citizens an advantage over the new citizens.

    Obviously sounding peeved and distraught, Mr Chong wrote:

    “As one of the new citizens, I condemn this practice emphatically as this rule is going to split the nation among the citizens……Mr Edmund Lin is trying to call for our Singapore Government to implement some sort of racist politics alike here but in another forms to split the old citizens from the new ones.”

    Mr Chong boasted that though new citizens do not serve National Service, they “contribute” to Singapore by bringing in investments:

    “While you can serve National Service (NS) because you are born Singaporean, some new citizens bring in millions of dollars of investment to Singapore after their conversion by transferring their entire wealth from overseas to Singapore.”‘

    Though it is true that some new citizens help add value to Singapore’s economy by bringing their wealth over, not all of them are as rich as Mr Chong.

    The Sunday Times reported last week of a China construction worker Mr Chen whose son just passed out as a SAF Officer from OCS. He got his Singapore citizenship within 12 years.

    With due respect to Mr Chen, how much “wealth” is he able to transfer from China to Singapore? Besides construction workers, cleaners, masseurs and beauticians are given Singapore PRs and citizenships easily too.

    According to the Home Affairs Ministry, two out of every three PR applicants are successful, an astonishing high success rate considering the fact that there is no minimum period of residency imposed here in Singapore before a foreigner can even qualify to apply for PR.

    Mr Chong appeared to be eager to have a “taste” of National Service:

    “We could equally serve the NS if we were born here; we are willing to trigger the gun shot to fight our enemies even though we are not trained in NS.”

    Perhaps Mr Chong would like to walk his talk by enlisting himself for National Service at the MINDEF Manpower branch at Depot Road. He should have a feel of how it is like to waste the two most precious and productive years of a man’s life “rotting away” in the SAF.

    Mr Chong ended his letter with an impassioned plea that he does not want Singapore to end up becoming another racist country.

    Singapore was really never a racist country like Malaysia, except that in Singapore, some people think they are a class above the rest just because they belong to a particular political party.

  • ☃®

    These foreigners who are politically aware, are good  with their words.

  • John Penn

    foreign aliens

  • likeyou

    Dont squeeze the sporean.

  • NaCha
    Appease Singaporeans? In your dreams. We have a pro-foreigners government in place. These policies are created and launched for the sake of coming election! Wake-up, bodoh.