Can anyone expect a 'hum' to understand any logic when
it is accustomed to a fivolous life of frothing even as it breathes
without any effort to be useful in any ways ?
It proves again my point that you do not read anybody's reponse
and will simply jump into any thread with your 'la la la' attitude
to make any impetulant comments simply to spam the thread into
irrelevancy.
As a Taiwanese 'hum' - how qualified are you to even begin to
understand the social problems faced by the lower income group in
Singapore ?
Does it take a genius to state the obvious that
"if you do well in your young
days, you will get your reward" ?
Are you so certain that preparation in your younger days alone
provide the foundation for the rest of your life - irregardless of
the political, economic and social situation that shakes up
your entire world ?
It is easy to generalise and pass judgmental comments with one
broad stroke - do you seriously believe that those who are now
"down and out" remain responsible for their own present
circumstances ?
What is the basis for making such generalise derogatory
assumptions ?
What is the basis in your categorization of Singapore's
poor which you claimed can be attributed to either
the "environment" or
to the fact that they are "poor
performer" ?
Can the poor be so neatly compartmentalize - even with your ill
informed generosity to have the "environment" to
be beyond the control of the poor ?
Are you certain that the "environment" itself has not contributed to
the poor becoming a "poor
performer" - in a perpetual vicious cycle of poverty causing
deeper poverty ?
It is easy to blame the private individual when the evidence is
that the Singapore Government has not done much to improve the
lives of the poor nor the poorest in the community of the poor.
It is easy to blame those who have not known anything except
poverty from birth, and do not know anything more then what is life
beyond their poverty.
What has the Government done that is realistic to help the poor,
who will grab any life line that can be thrown out to them ?
The Singapore Government may have provided some
programs to help the poor, but most of the help given are
conditional, and with the poor at times not even able to fulfill
the minimum condition before such help can be given.
Even when help is offered - most of the poor do not even
know the existence of such programs when their poverty give them no
access to any information.
Many poor in Singapore - as well as those who are "not
so poor" nor "well-to-do" - have preferred to depend on
themselves to the best of their own abilities as many know the
declared position of the Singapore Government.
Even if there are government programmes that are laid out to
supposedly help to give "new skills" to jobless Singaporeans, are
some of these "new skills" realistic and give relevant skills to
the jobless Singaporeans - or even to the poor ?
Some programs demand basic education or some basic skills; other
programs simply require the jobless to change their entire career
plans - such as an executive in a Financial Institution
retrenched at an age of late 40s being retrained to be a staff in
the hotel housekeeping department taking care of guest rooms.
It is sheer arrogance of an impetuous Taiwanese "hum" to believe
that Singapore society thriving on "merit" and "good performers" should deride
the Singaporean Poor, and demand that the poor
should reflect on themselves before blaming anyone.
This alone clearly confirms the ignorance of an immigrant
"hum" that is accustomed to its good pampered life and continue its
'la la la' attitude in passing judgment towards the poorest
section in a society that it has no familiarity.
It is sheer insolence that a immigrant "hum" will
dare to offer any derogatory opinion towards those
Singaporeans who have strived and given the best of their
youth to build a Singapore that will abandon them in
their old age, or when they have fallen into misfortune, but
will open the doors to useless immigrant 'hums'.
Uncle, seems like you like to complicate things when actually it is
very simple, wall of texts but not meaning in it, be simple ya.
You have to agree with me that even our poor are having a better
life than other countries, it is not that I did not travel around
to see for myself, you also have to agree with me that in every
country, there must be poor and rich, between the middle class, in
most of the other countries, if you are poor, you become poorers,
and hardly you get chance to be rich unless some miracle happens,
but in Singapore, it is different, as long as you have the will,
smart and merited, even if you are a youtiao seller's son, you
can make it big, most of our rich here, are from poor, not the
middle class alone. LKY had put it rightly when he said, if you got
the ability, the shrew in business, the power to challenge, the
will to learn and be educated, we want you, because we believe you
can make it big...poor or rich is not a issue in Singapore which
is base meritocracy. Our poors are definitely more fortunate
than others, there get extensive helps and alway a roof on top
of them,
What i am trying to address here is that we can help the poor,
but the poor must help themselves out of the ring, dun alway
believe that you will get poorer or that govt make you poor, that
is obviously lazyiness and lame excuses. A poor have to ask
himself/herself, what have i done and what should i do next to stay
up, or what should i do to help my next generation to be rich...and
the legend continue. NO one, especially the our ancestor of Chinese
and Indian came to Singapore in the early years as a rich man, all
came with nothing, and it is only those who had a good foresight, a
goal in life and hardworking to work toward it, bring about a
rich decendents.
