Every weekend cars and people streaming into Malaysia. Boats filled with Singaporean flocking to see their love ones in Batam, Karimun and Tangjung Pinang. Remittance shops queued not by foreigners but by Singaporean. After 50 years, this is what we are becoming, a foreigners in our own motherland, thanks to the million dollar Mps. By years this trend is getting worse. Are we following the lifestyles of foreigners? Where they are here to make a living where they do not take Singapore as their home. Are we following the same trend? Alot us of are not aware that we are following the foreigners way of life thanks to how the way the PAP run this country.
Aziz, having the same name as me, told me, he just married a tanjung pinang woman. He was crying; “I have no futures here.” Yes I totally agree with him. Property prices beyond the reach of many. With the minimum sum kicks in many feel they do not think they would see their money. Many prefer to throw their citizenship, take their money and venture into business into their new found adopted country. Every man not the same, every one want to become rich and independent. It is commonsense to them even if they can meet the minimum sum, the $1200 per month is just inadequate. The problem is that our government is only interested increasing the prices, instead of how to save locals the burden of the high cost of living. Our GDP is fake, not driven by real economy but more to constructions as Government bringing in dick, tom and harry here. Our country is fueled nothing but the construction industries.
Our Prime Minister said he prefer to bring more billionaires; The most stupidest Prime Minister ever. By bringing more rich, they can easily cornered the market as we are a small country, business are forced to pay high rental which passed the bucks to the consumers. Shops prefer to sell high end foods and products to cater for the new rich citizens that the government bringing in, as they need to cover the high rental cost , even the NTUC which founded by the workers now also venturing into these new markets. What do the locals left with? We are being cornered by these rich shops. Shops that sell to local becoming rare, as shops forced to cater for the rich.
WE ARE BECOMING ALIENS IN OUR OWN MOTHERLAND.
Our Gov believed foreigners are better;
Our town councils run by Australians, bribing millions to bring in new citizens that bring them golds in sport, even dubious Pinoy and Indian replacing Singaporean. What has our country becoming to.
We have mediocre ministers and mps, where millions being paid to them, where the only solution to solve the problem is to increase the price, millions paid to them but we having to pay the heavy price. Good example is Dr. lee wah, just need to pay millions to bring overseas talent to bring medals for us. What kind of idiot is this? Even a child can come out with this simple solution. Did she really do the job by grooming the locals to bring medals ?, NO , like all PAPs, they had failed us.
Our fore-fathers left their native lands to come here and now we are following our fore- fathers footstep by leaving our own land to find a better place. Aziz, in his factory, ¾ of them married Indonesian wife and having property there.
My cousins and business associates , bought properties in Malaysia, stay in Malaysia and work in Singapore. All these are categorized as foreigners as they are one step in foreign land. Is this the society the government want? This is a national catastrophe , are PAP making us less nationalistic, less proud of our country and becoming a foreigners in our own land. Indonesia and Malaysia are now having amenities that can rival Singapore, cost of living is extremely cheap and we can have the taste of landed property and with wide open space.
PAP should sit down and analyze as I believed we are heading into a grave situations, a national disaster.
Bravery, nationalistic and proud something that money cannot buy.
Aziz kassim
TRS Contributor