This 9K thing... not everybody who has served NS is going to get
it.
Those who ROD already have to suck thumb, because apparently it
does not apply to them. So their NS is too late to be
"appreciated".
For me I ORD liao, so I only get 6k cos I missed
first tranche... sorry suck thumb, my time in NS, including
the times in my combat vocation when I was nearly shot my a
misfired round from one of my men... can't be "apperciated"... ah
wells. Not that that's too much of an issue cos we can't really
touch most of the money anyway, and by the time we finally do who
knows what inflation would have done to it?
This is not trying to be unhappy with anything they do, but
quite simply that if this is how you show "appreciation", a little
package with so many strings attached that eventually leaves out a
large portion of those who have gone through NS anyway... its
becoming less and less of an "appreciation" and more and more
of an insult. Is this how we honour the people who have done their
duty to keep Singapore safe?
I am just saying. Now that the details are out, I don't know who
thought up of this policy or managed the sales pitch, but it's
going to cost them some support on the ground as opposed to
actually building it.
Like I said, it's a fiasco.
They will always set up lots of conditions to make it difficult,
but at the same time, announcing that they are nice to give this
$$$ to Singaporeans.
For me, I am getting nothing, not that I am complaining about
it, as I am working overseas. Anyway, $9k is nothing to me,
just that I find it pretty insulting to us NSMen.
