Should we differentiate Singaporeans from aliens more?
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After the recent elections, clearly a large proportion of Singaporeans are not satisfied with the current status quo.
Talking to many friends, one issue that comes up is the perception that Singaporeans feel they are treated poorly or less supported than aliens, potential immigrants, PRs, FTs.
What do you think? -
1. PRs cannot buy HDB apartments.
2. Singaporean students meeting minimum academic requirements should all be in the courses of choice.
3. All Singaporean recipients of scholarships cannot be bonded.
4. All tax-residents pay National security tax on income and re-distribute to NSF/NSman in service at market rates for such services - yet right to bearing arms is a citizen-only right.
5. COE rebates for NSF/NS man with families - skew sub-urban lifestyle (highest quality of life) to Singaporean families.
6. The only pathway to citizenship is through NS.
7. HDB apartments to be built minimum 1500 sq ft, 2500 sq ft for middle-middle class families, and leasehold changed to freehold - highest quality of life with living space equal to living in most suburbs of cities in countries larger than Singapore, and a permanent stake in Singaporean real estate.
8. Future free-trade agreements with foreign countries include that trans-national corporations must provide National treatment of Singaporean customers equal to what customers get in their home-countries. (especially retail customers)
9. Singaporeans can have dual-citizenship so that they can own assets elsewhere and be treated as Nationals .. .... enlarge individual asset/property base without foreign restrictions - Native born Singaporeans drew the short-straw when it came to land - greatest impact on quality of life. Aliens/PRs/new immigrants expressly not permitted to have dual citizenship.
10. All PRs/FTs/aliens need to register with the police, finger-printed, photographed, numbered and provide DNA samples and are potential terrorists until proven otherwise - Singaporeans need not carry NRIC at all times because it is their civil liberty to do so in their own country - they may be some Nazi like behavior in government if not ipped at the bud.
11. First generation/new immigrants cannot be the President.
12. If first generation immigrant wants to be president then curent rules for elected presidency applies. Native Singaporeans have absolutely no restrictions on right to run for presidential elections. Pre-specified criteria for presidential elections be deemed unconstitutional and unSingaporean (restricts freedom)
13. Board of Censorship only apply to non-Singaporeans.
14. Aliens/FTs cannot comment on Singapore political issues at public forums ... ... Singaporeans can do so without fear of reprisals. Politicians filing law-suits during political discourse be automatically jailed for unconstitutional activities for disrupting freedom of speech.
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Good luck trying to get these constituted. It appears people tend to forget how their ancestors arrived here.
1. PRs cannot buy HDB apartments.
2. Singaporean students meeting minimum academic requirements should all be in the courses of choice.
3. All Singaporean recipients of scholarships cannot be bonded.
4. All tax-residents pay National security tax on income and re-distribute to NSF/NSman in service at market rates for such services - yet right to bearing arms is a citizen-only right.
5. COE rebates for NSF/NS man with families - skew sub-urban lifestyle (highest quality of life) to Singaporean families.
6. The only pathway to citizenship is through NS.
7. HDB apartments to be built minimum 1500 sq ft, 2500 sq ft for middle-middle class families, and leasehold changed to freehold - highest quality of life with living space equal to living in most suburbs of cities in countries larger than Singapore, and a permanent stake in Singaporean real estate.
8. Future free-trade agreements with foreign countries include that trans-national corporations must provide National treatment of Singaporean customers equal to what customers get in their home-countries. (especially retail customers)
9. Singaporeans can have dual-citizenship so that they can own assets elsewhere and be treated as Nationals .. .... enlarge individual asset/property base without foreign restrictions - Native born Singaporeans drew the short-straw when it came to land - greatest impact on quality of life. Aliens/PRs/new immigrants expressly not permitted to have dual citizenship.
10. All PRs/FTs/aliens need to register with the police, finger-printed, photographed, numbered and provide DNA samples and are potential terrorists until proven otherwise - Singaporeans need not carry NRIC at all times because it is their civil liberty to do so in their own country - they may be some Nazi like behavior in government if not ipped at the bud.
11. First generation/new immigrants cannot be the President.
12. If first generation immigrant wants to be president then curent rules for elected presidency applies. Native Singaporeans have absolutely no restrictions on right to run for presidential elections. Pre-specified criteria for presidential elections be deemed unconstitutional and unSingaporean (restricts freedom)
13. Board of Censorship only apply to non-Singaporeans.
14. Aliens/FTs cannot comment on Singapore political issues at public forums ... ... Singaporeans can do so without fear of reprisals. Politicians filing law-suits during political discourse be automatically jailed for unconstitutional activities for disrupting freedom of speech. -
Hehehehe
It won't happened but its for fun ... ...
however, surely we need to address the truth or perception of poorer treatment, or show the tangibles and intangibles of citizenship. -
We r the ailens
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Aren't we all descendents of aliens?
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You are right but we didnt make the world the way it is ... ...
We were here FIRST ... we ought to dictate more the terms of joining our "club".
I don't buy this we were all immigrants and children of immigrants ... ... we make Singapore the way we want it to be for ourselves and our children, so that they have a super-duper competitive edge and comparative advantage.
Aliens should salivate like crazy to be like one of us ... ... That's how you make Singaporean citizen ultra-valuable.
Some of us are 3rd 4th and 5th generation indigenous people without substantive ties at all to their ancestral countries.
Do you think the US/Australia/Canada/South American countries or other "New World"/"colonial" countries with substantive immigrant populations make it easy for immigration?
I want to make it such that my children have unlimited freedoms and liberty to dream and pursue their dreams without excessive competition for the basics.
P.S. Basics for most Singaporeans are considerably more than what the current government policies envisage and strategize for. -
I do think tat we need more differences between us n them though
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Sorry to dig up this old thread. Like your suggestions Dogtor! Hilarious, some of them.
What do everyone think of this? Jobs for cheap foreigne.........sorry, here i go again, i mean for foreign talents are only on a contract basis of 1-2 years. At the end, if a local applies and have the same qualifications, the local gets the job.
Not easy to implement i know, but sounds great eh?