12 July 2007

Benefits of $ingaporean?

Have you ever wonder what benefits do we have as a Singaporean? Besides having a clean, organise and safe place to stay. I agreed that these are important, but we share all these benefits with foreigner and PR. Where's our exclusive benefits we have as a Singaporean? Only for Singaporean - Singaporean here represent a single person or married with family.

Here's one of the article taken from Straits Time on 20 Jan 2007:
After reading the article, I send an email to stomp which was not published, so I decided to share my thoughts here instead:

Re: Articles on 20 Jan 2007 - The dollars and sense of citizenship

Dear Editor
After reading through the articles on saturday regarding about the benefits of singapore, I have some comments on this issue. The example used was based on the SIngaporean who has a family, how about those who does not have a family, those who are divorce or single?
The example stated for housing was based on the price that the family paid for in 1983, which has a 200% plus growth after 24 years. Are you sure that houses brought now will have 200% growth in the next 23 years? As for the heathcare, you will only be able to benefits if you are sick which nobody wants to. For education, the fees was used to compare with foreigners instead of PR, plus it will only be benefits if we are Singaporean with kids.
What about benefits of Singaporean as a "Singaporean" itself? You know, any of my friends from oversea, they are so proud to be their citizen of their own country. What do we have to be proud of our own country? What is our country doing for us? I have served the army for 2 years and now still serving as a reservist and PR in Singapore don't have to do it and enjoy most of the previlege we had and even better. Why is it better?
For PR, you can buy a resale HDB with sibling as long as the parents are not here. Singaporean can do that too, but how many Singaporean whose parent are not here? We should be given better advantages in getting a "Space" of our own. We will be more independent, doesn't mean that we won't married when the time is right. You can't force people to marry because of the HDB, ending up, you will just achieve a higher divorce rate instead. Example 2, if based on what the government discussion on the IR, if Singaporean need to pay in order to enter IR, then what is the benefits of being a Singaporean?
Sometimes, the government should let the people choose what we think is best for us and not what they think is best for us.
Thanks and Regards


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