1. I don’t want to buy a house with a Cash-Over-Value of
$100,000
2. I don’t want to be accused of being fussy if I don’t want to
live on the first floor or basement bomb shelter, or ulu ulu places
like Kusu Island
3. I don’t want keep hearing that flats are “affordable” when I
really cannot afford flats.
4. I don’t want to see foreigners flood our condos, HDB estates,
MRT trains, buses, schools, EVERYWHERE
5. I don’t want to know about how ministers are getting lots of
landed and prime property both local and overseas when I have
trouble getting a 3-room flat.
6. I don’t want ministers who get multi-million dollar salaries
when I do odd jobs and some months I don’t make more than
$2,000.
Ministers in other countries may take bribes and embezzle. My
ministers are smarter, they get more money claiming more MILLIONS
in salary LEGALLY.
7. I don’t want to pay ERP just because foreigners’ cars are
clogging my roads. Especially, when ERP do not solve congestion
problems!!! We still have terrible traffic jams!
8. I don’t want to do NS and reservist to protect my country
against foreign invaders when:
(A) I don’t have a house to protect
(B) I cannot afford to start a family to protect
(C) I have to protect foreigners and their property with my life
when they run away during war.
(D) Foreigner PRs do not have to serve
(E) I get paid worse than a Bangala worker. To think that National
Service needed people donation’s in 1967, after a year, it gathered
S$ 3 million from Singaporeans when we were all so poor.
9. I do not want to see PRs and New citizens flashing their blue
and pink ICs on their national days.
10. I do not want to see the shamelessness of importing foreign
athletes and claims that Singapore won when a foreigner won. Oh
yes, we pay these foreigners millions of dollars so that Singapore
can claim that it won. WOW!
11. I do not want to hear jeering against the SG local soccer
teams from foreigner spectators when we play against other
countries IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!
12. I don’t want to pay 7% more for everything I buy in my whole
life when the government gives my $200 in “compensation”
handouts!
13. I want to see a local student being the top student. Not
some China kid. Not hearing from ours kids that there is no point
to work hard as some foreigner is going to squeeze them down
inevitably.
14. When there is public curiosity, I expect my government
(especially Law minister) to be transparent enough let us know
about Temasek and HDB cost to build a flat, etc.
15. I want my country to be known as a COUNTRY. My country is
NOT just a city like some idiot claims.
16. I don’t want LHL’s son to be the next succeeding prime
minister.
17. I don’t like how China suckered us in the Suzhou park
initiative and we still have to kiss their assess.
18. I cannot understand why local siblings cannot buy flats when
foreigner PR siblings can buy flats.
19. Singles are not allowed to buy flats before 35? Are singles
supposed to be forced into marriage just because of this? By the
time singles reach 35, the flat prices will be higher by $100,000
to $300,000. These singles worked very hard to scrimp and save only
to see savings ERODED away by inflation!
20. I do not want to read the paper when it is pro-PAP and there
is major censorship and selective publishing and late publishing
for what cannot be hidden.
21. I don’t want my life-savings to be belittled as the salt on
the “peanuts”.
22. I don’t like it when my country’s reserves lost tens of
billions of dollars and the PM’s wife can still head Temasek!
23. I want important national assets key to our security like
power stations to BELONG to our country, not sold to
foreigners.
24. I like to add hum to my mee siam by the way.
25. I want a president who actually DOES more. Not one which who
I seek shakes hands, seldom speaks, does not even pardon and spare
a 19-year-old kid his life. Not a president who kids confuse with
Mas Selamat (Many kids who know Mas Selamat do not EVEN know
Nathan)
26. I don’t want to have my next national day parade at the
silly riverside place….AGAIN! How long does it take to make a
stadium? We are a country but we don’t even have a national
stadium?? How about loaning Malaysia’s Merdeka Stadium for
Singapore’s National day?
27. I want job security. A contract for 1 or 2 years, Then look
for work again. The cycle repeats. We have to worry for our jobs
and livelihoods on a daily basis. When we are over 40 years old,
who want us anymore? I might as well join the army as sign on. But
wait, that is contract TOO!
28. I don’t want the next generation to suffer like me in
university. I had to work part-time to support my uni fees in NUS,
while foreign students get free uni education thanks to MOE PLUS
$500 allowance every month. After that, NUS still has the cheek to
call me up and ask me to donate to NUS. Why they need money? They
lost hundreds of millions of endowment in the financial crisis. I
can still remember working and saving for 3 months before I could
afford a 2nd hand laptop.
29. I want to protest in the streets to voice my discontent
without being put to jail by the ISA act or made bankrupt. For
goodness sake, I don’t even dare to accept Singtel’s offer of
giving me free 6 months internet if I switch from Starhub to
Singtel, because I am scared that my IP address and my name will be
blacklisted by the government. (considering Singtel’s afflictions
with the govt)
30. I want an opposition party in power. Any opposition is
welcome. As educated and smart as my current and soon-to-be-ex
ministers may be, I want people who CARE and LISTEN. Even if it is
a guy who had graduated from kindergarten would be welcomed if he
cares.
31. Elites who have been born with a silver spoon, who never had
trouble finding a job, who never had money difficulties, who never
went hungry, who breezed through NS, do NOT deserve my respect nor
should they be in the government. We need people who UNDERSTAND
what it is like at the pits and bottom! Not some shortie who claims
to understand hardship with a childhood living in 3-room flat but
marries an angmoh and lives in a landed mansion.
32. I want a better electoral system! I don’t want WALK-OVERs
again. Some of the seniors did not even get to vote ONCE in their
whole lives. How is that democracy?
33. I want fairness. Is it a coincidence that certain estates
under certain members of our government are especially well-cared
for with upgrading etc incentives? Is this fair? Are residents of
areas under the opposition similarly cared for? I quote a resident
from Potong Pasir “the lifts here are so old and I can’t climb the
flight of stairs to reach my place anymore.” I supposed the 60 year
old aunty would be forced to vote for PAP to get new lifts.
34. I want a limit to the number of years the PM can hold
office, so that as bad and as lousy as the PM is, we can at least
have a chance to start afresh.
35. I want small quotas/ratios legislated for foreigners.
36. I want foreigners to be restricted to less than 20% of our
population instead of 36%.
37. MBT actually said that foreigner PRs were under-represented
in HDB flats. Pah! No more than 2 flats in a block should be sold
to PRs! Otherwise, how can the many old uncles and aunties have
pocket money for retirement by renting out flats?
38. I want their CPF contribution percent to be much higher and
that their CPF to be forfeited if they leave SG.
39. I want higher income taxes and property taxes for
foreigners.
40. I want NS for foreigners.
41. Foreigners who bought HDB flats cannot be allowed to rent
their flat out EVER!
42. I want the SGD to be moderated downwards! A higher SGD may
benefit those who can afford to holiday overseas, those who are
rich enough to send kids to overseas for studies, or PRs and
foreigners when they remit money home. BUT overly high SGD deters
investments into Singapore.
43. I want curbs on inflation. To that effect, we need to
install restrictions on property speculation, raise reserve ratios
in banks, and have more stringent criteria before loans are issued.
AND OF COURSE, GST lower back to 3%
44. When foreign talent enters my country. I want these people
to be REALLY foreign talent. I don’t want my country’s pink IC and
PR to be handed out like toilet paper.
45. I want more heavily subsidized birth-delivery, child-care,
pediatric health and education care to boost local numbers. If
S.Korea can do it, why not us? The practice of replacement
diminishing local numbers with foreigner number MUST STOP.
46. Instead of always saying Singapore does not have enough
talent, will the government spend more money and effort in
education and grooming the young? Every time they say that there is
not enough of certain type of people, the government will import
these people in masses and hordes.
47. I expect government-affiliated institutions to not indulge
themselves with luxuries when other citizens have bread-butter
problems:
When NTUC income unilaterally announced major cuts in its bonus
for insurance-policy-holders, the MAS allowed this to happen. NTUC
income claimed financial woes, but took HUNDREDS of agents to
Australia for an exorbitant expense-paid holiday as they made the
announcement earlier this year!!! Do they think about the widows
and orphans when they dine fine with wine???
At first I could not believe NTUC Income to be capable of this,
then I checked on the web and saw the NTUC CEO hugging 2 BIKINI
girls and drinking champagne in Australia too.
(1) http://ms-my.facebook.com/photo.php?…1001838&ref=mf
(2) http://ms-my.facebook.com/photo.php?…1001838&ref=mf
48. I expect the MAS to protect citizens financially too:
When thousands of investors lost their life savings in the
mini-bond fiasco, where was the government?? Unlike the Hong Kong
government which had exerted pressure on its local banks to
compensate a minimum sum to its minibond holders, the Singapore
authorities chose to stay out of the matter….. MM Lee Kuan Yew even
chided Singapore investors for “walking in with their eyes open”
and therefore did not deserve a compensation.
49. I have 1 more issue with the state Media Press. HOW can they
publish photos of people suspected of crimes when they have not
EVEN been convicted?? Imagine the tarnishing to the poor suspect’s
reputation if he were innocent! It is not as if the guy can sue ST
and get $400,000 in defamation compensation.
50. Anyone can give the 50th reason??????????????? Come on my
fellow locals. If I can say so much, you can at least say
something! Few thousand people viewing this article and so little
comments???
Every citizen in this world have more than a thousand hate
reasoning against their govt, and if singapore govt got only
50 reasons, that is good for our govt. Because on the other side of
midnight, there are also people of singapore giving 50 reasons of
loving our govt...
1. I love my govt cos they provided me goodshelter.
2. I love my govt cos they provided me good foods
3. I love my govt cos they provided me good business
opportunity
4. I love my govt cos they give us peace and harmony
5. I love my govt cos they are very systematic and clear about
policies and laws
6. I love my govt cos they provided me good education
7. I love my govt cos they provided me a clear vision of what
the future will be
8. I love my govt cos they are proactive to prevent any harm to
singapore
9. etc etc.....
