In today Singapore, the reality is that there are dirt-poor
aunties and uncles living from day-to-day in run-down, dirty,
smelly 1 to 3 rooms flats who are unemployable,
owing people/govt this and that.
At the same time next field/premise/strata, you have the
filthy-rich living unbelievable opulent lifestyles. Many
whom are recent migrants from Indonesia, China etc.
Anyone guesses how they get their money? China fella - money
from corporate raiding? Indonesia fella - money from Suharto
era corruption?
It is no wonder that Singapore is now known, all over the
word, as a place for money laundering!
Dear Mentor,
As much as i wanted to join you to care for the poor, we also
need to understand that the world is never fair. All over the
world, there are rich and poor, some got 10% very very rich and the
rest 90% poors. Singapore poors are not as poor as other countries'
poor people. And yet our poor consitute only about 10%, who in one
way or the other get to ride as free rider along with the rich and
the middle class.
People becoming rich by hook or by crook is up to people ability
anc capability, there is a price to everything, we therefore,
should not put that in our mind, if not, everyday you will get
anger and frustration just by thinking of it.
When you want to help the poor, help them with open arms, help
them with no condition, and help them by not differentiating them
with the rich, then you can truly help them. It does not imply that
because of poor, which exist in every society, the very rich are at
fault, sometimes, the poors are the one who make themselve
poor.
