Henzell touched a raw nerve. You see, what Singapore does is not exactly in the spirit of nation building either. Bringing in hordes of foreign players into the workforce, some with doctored and dubious paper qualifications, and calling them talents. Gong Li and Eduardo Saverin may have signed on, but they only add to the rarefied list of multi-millionaires, not the types doing the grunt work like having to bear arms to defend a country. At time of jumping ship, the Brazilian-born resident of Singapore was reputedly joining a growing number of people giving up U.S. citizenship ahead of a possible increase in tax rates for top earners.
Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong celebrated the "achievements of Singapore" on his Facebook page, "especially our table tennis team which continued to dominate". Fortunately he did mention by name the ones who rightfully deserve our congratulations: Joseph Schooling (swimming), Hoe Wah Toon (gymnastics), Danny Chrisnanta and Chayut Triyachart (men's badminton doubles), Derek Wong (singles), Teo Shun Xie (gold medalist, 10m air pistol) and Jasmine Ser, who brought home a gold for women’s 50m rifle, 3-positions. That's the politically correct thing to do.
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Gong Li and Jet Li took up Singapore citizenship for travel conveniences only. If you ask them their nationality, I bet they will say they are China citizens lah. Don't know what have they contributed to Singapore??
ReplyDeleteDon't know what have they contributed to Singapore??
Delete- they fit into PAP's ideology of a super race of successful & rich Singaporeans.
They took up citizenship so that they can contribute to inflating property prices, benefiting the rich like LHL and making it impossible for the common folks to own one.
ReplyDeleteAnd it qualifies them to buy GCB. CCB!
DeleteSuper class FTs buy the super-ex GCBs (above 100m a door) from the first, second etc families and the "less well endowed local provincial party secretaries" with their tens of millions snap up the pent houses units from our civil servants. Spread the wealth within their patronage, drip down capitalism (with a mug halfway to prevent the bottom 50% from catching even the tiniest crumbs). The rest will pay subsidized rate for hdb 2 room flats.
DeleteI have no objection if the FTs we import are decent people. But PAP government is so greedy for their money that they are welcoming with alacrity highly immoral people so long as they are rich, even though they have a very tainted past, I know of many of them who were cheats who purposely turn themselves into bankrupts from HK, drug pedlars from Myammar, corrupted Chinese princelings, prostitute and gambling den operators from Vietnam, money launderers from Indonesia, and smugglers and loan sharks from Eastern Europe, etc. There is no way that we decent local Singaporeans who earn an honest day's pay for an honest day's job can compete against the ill-gotten wealth of these rich foreigners for the same limited COEs, private housing, medical services, school and university places, etc. All the greedy PAP government cares is to get the mostest money by bidding from the people regardless of the contribution of the local people.
DeleteCitizenships whoring by the MIWs. They should do the same for themselves, bring in FTs for political leadership, why limit the competition to rank and file only.
ReplyDeleteActually the MIW did bring in FTs for political leadership, but unfortunately FTs like LeeBeeWah, Puthucheary, IreneNg, AmyKhor, etc, prefer to join the MIW. As you can see, these FTs are super clever, reaping max gain with minimum effort.
DeleteYou call that Talent? More like TooLan
DeleteIsn't Singapore, like Hong Kong, a province of China under Deng Xiao Ping "one cuntry, two systems"?
ReplyDeleteWhen LKY understood that he cannot rule Malaysia, a Malay majority nation, he separated the red dot from the Federation. His Son may habour an ambition of extending His Empire to China?
We are prostitutes lah.
ReplyDeleteThe pimp is the P_P... we are just bodies used for any purpose.
as long as can sell, we will be sold.
If winning medals is the yardstick, did the sillipore garmen win any medals?
ReplyDeletewhich would you rather have: medal or millions?
DeleteThe PAP buggers can claim to have the longest winning streak in any GE, i.e, undefeated for the past 50 years... UsainBolt, MichaelPhelps can only dream of having such a phenomenal record.
DeleteHow sad and shameless, to scout for, import and pay foreign talents to win medals. Goes to show that the PAP's efforts at nation building are a complete fail and all wayang. How do you build a national spirit when your achievements, at sports and in the economy, are through foreigners and opening the flood-gates? Congrats to the true blue Singaporean medal winners AND losers because your efforts are appreciated. As for table tennis we are China's B team and the gold medals are nothing to cheer about.
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