http://temasektimes.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/singaporean-in-australia-i-am-happy-i-need-not-serve-singapore-anymore/
Shame on you bro, shame on you! And all who are ever-ready to give up your red passport.
I may disagree with some of what the incumbent is doing or saying, but the so-called change that you are looking for is precisely why so many other nations are NOT succeeding; it's not even about the end result, the process is destructive enough to kill. Even if you are unhappy with how our "Draconian" and "Authoritarian" form of one-party government has brought us stability and development, compare the kind of opportunities you are given while in Singapore to those of our neighbouring citizens. You are complaining so much about FTs, but are you willing to lay the bricks or clean the toilet? Is it not because of "them" that we are what we are today? Accept this fact: your grandparents were FTs; and I am pretty sure they didn't complain when the red passport was so readily given to them! They fought so hard to get it, and now you're giving it up so easily, how ironic that you are now somewhere else being a FT yourself (think of how others are looking at you now)! Look around you, is the competition from the FTs so tough that you are sweeping the floor with a graduate degree in your pocket? No! In fact, you are still earning much more than what your counterparts from other countries are earning (and so why are we complaining that LHL is earning more than Obama when you are probably earning more for the same position as someone from US?) And yes, face the fact, I never like people from certain other nationality coming in to "dilute" our culture, but is their presence here still a want or has it become a need? Think about it, what if one day they are done with their mining here and leave us after wiping their ass clean? Sounds familiar? It's the same argument so heated up few decades back about bringing MNCs in, where all of you people who are against FTs are like those genius rejecting the idea of taking the risk that comes along with these Foreigners. Look now, look you simpletons, everyone had the last laugh for even if you had lost your case, you benefited from the government's apparent "foolishness." You really rather anything but PAP? Tell me who do you wanna trust to bring you an average of 8% GDP growth for 2 decades then. What you have been eating, drinking, sheltered in, living in and traveled in, they didn't come because LKY was revolutionary, they came because the team were made up of visionaries. Now tell me more about how you DIDN'T have a smooth MRT ride for the past few decades and then tell me how you complained about the one-in-a-thousand chance of you being caught up in the train. Damn the public transport for breaking down only after so many years of being a good servant.
Anyway, I don't have a comment box so your views are not required. Okay, thank you, goodbye.
