pls note that i am not trying to protect mindef/saf...
there is a difference between really a training/service
death and accidental self death (among several factors)...
even a typical MOM workmen compensation
injury report, it will ask, 'is the worker performing a
lawful act/official work for
his job?'
machiam like accidents vs. freak accidents...
wrong time at the wrong place... just got driver (the culprit) car
crashed into the bus stop, and a person just die like that, who is
just unknowningly drinking his coke and happily playing his psp on
the way to school... this kind of example...
and the DBS minibonds thing... the hongkong citizens had it
better... they staged even bigger protest for their govt to
pay them their money...
DBS is a commercial entity. Not a charity or govt organisation
(though some dreamers are in dreamland and dream that GLCs are govt
handouts). The ONLY reason DBS approved the HK thing is because the
sums are much smaller to the point of negligible. It's nothing more
than a commercial, business, calculated decision. The reason why
these whiners can't accept it is because they still view DBS as
their neighbourhood residents' committee centre and think DBS owes Singaporeans a
living beyond functioning as a commercial entity.
Look, I took up a home loan NOT with DBS but with Maybank at
first cos it gave me the best rates then. Why did I not support DBS
even though it's a Singapore company and I am a Singaporean? Simply
cos banks are now commercial entities and I'm aware of that and am
at peace with it. Did DBS badger Singaporeans to support them over
foreign banks?? They surely did not. My spouse stopped crediting
salary into DBS account some time ago because we set up a Citibank
account that gave us slightly higher saving interest. After my
lock-in period ended for my home loan, I immediately shopped for a
new one and found DBS to give me the most attractive rates in a
promotion they had. Then we jumped to DBS from Maybank.
Banks in Singapore, with the exception of POSB that is still
positioning itself to be a national-interest bank, function as 100%
commercial entities and made no bones about it. No Singapore bank
has ever hidden that fact or tried to communicate otherwise.No
Singapore bank including DBS has ever coerced, pressured or pointed
a gun to any Singaporean's head to make them give DBS any business
on the account of citizenship, patriotism or any sort. DBS, like
UOB and OCBC are fully commercialised and DBS never portrayed
itself in any other way. I'd like to tell me when DBS ever played
the nationalism card on Singaporeans.They never did. Neither did
any of the other local commercial banks or companies.
Singaporeans I know around me all shop for banking services
based on the best deal they find. if it's a foreign bank they dun
care also. Yet when push comes to shove, as usual Singaporeans many
of them being deadbeats and losers cry the nationalism card on
DBS.
Singaporean crybabies, whiners & deadbeats should stop
expecting everyone to nanny them. They should stop looking for
elsewhere to blame when they get into fixes and when failing to
find an immediate blame-target, they blame the government.
I wonder what caused this weird syndrome in many Singaporeans
and this reliance on the state and the tendency to blame others or
be spoonfed or nannied. I have not seen it in any other citizens of
any country in my interactions with others from many countries
whenever I go overseas with my spouse for work. It is totally
disgraceful.
I hope any Singaporean still living in dreamland take the
time to reflect on this. Look at yourself in the mirror first
before thinking of blaming others. And when they find no one to
blame, they blame the govt. So disgraceful.
The most amusing thing is how so many of these losers say they
want to leave the country. I'll be laughing my ass off cos I know
the foreigners will be appalled and laughing at them when they
resettle anywhere else in the world with their deadbeat and
give-me-handouts-the-state-owes-a-living attitude.
As a Singaporean, i fully support and encourage these Singapore
deadwoods to leave Singapore for a better future for myself. Good
riddance to rotten trash.
