Hi,
With all the happenings in Singapore, I am wondering is it worth to
be a Singaporean?
Prices of things keep on going up but our pay isn't! To add on to
our misery, we have to fight it out for our jobs with the high
influx of foreign workers coming in to our tiny island.
I had a Filipino collegue who was granted a Singapore citizenship
and soon after he's off to the USA to get a job there! Apparently,
it's much more difficult to get a job there with his Philippines
passport as compared to our Singapore passport. Guess what, he
recently managed to land a job in New York as a security guard and
he's making plans to apply for a citizenship there! He once shared
with me his plan which is to get any kind of job which could like
him to get a green card and retire back to Philippines with his US
citizenship and make use of the unemployed/retirement package that
the US government is providing for her citizens when he's
old.
It makes my blood boils when he told me of his plan. Instead of
appreciating of being a Singaporean, he has an ulterior motive of
getting it and it seems like he's not the only one doing it, other
converted-Singaporeans are doing it too because another collegues
of mine (from India) is following his steps!! While we,
born-Singaporeans, have to serve NS, reservist, put up with the
price-hikes, absurd minister pay-rise and of course the members of
the infamous "fami-Lee"!
I'm not part of any opposition party but sometimes, I wonder, it is
worth being Singaporean? Already the influx of foreigners poses a
threat to our jobs and public security but to have these foreigners
make use of our citizenship to benefit themselves, it's purely
disgusting! It seems like the government is not doing much to take
care of us. For these foreigners, at least they have their native
country to go back to when things go bad..but how about us?
What do you guys think?
