Increase in Defence Budget to Feed Them?

Posted on 24 Feb 2012
Army officers so free? They occupy 3 tables at coffeeshop to have breakfast


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The STOMPer wrote:

"I saw three tables full of full-time army officers of various ranks having breakfast and drinking kopi.

"What has happened?

"Are these army officers so free?"

Stupid stomper must be a charbor who never serve NS....

Meaning that MINDEF will be giving special bonus to its personnels?

I wonder what is the point of Spore having such a large defense budget as a proportion of GDP, when we are soo flooded with FOreigners like pRCs, Pinoys etc who are already a security risk to the country...spend so much on defense but let in so many security risk domestically,,,,dumb man and waste if money

The_Hypocrite said:

I wonder what is the point of Spore having such a large defense budget as a proportion of GDP, when we are soo flooded with FOreigners like pRCs, Pinoys etc who are already a security risk to the country...

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I think the answer is actually quite simple:

The ruling elites in Singapore want to use those kinds of foreigners as SLAVES to increase (or at least maintain) the wealth and power of the elites, while a VERY strong army (as well as the police, of course) is needed by these elites to ensure that their slaves do NOT rebel against the elites in some kind of CIVIL WAR (during which the police won't be powerful enough to fight back).

Furthermore, since the huge majority of Southeast Asians (especially Malaysians and Indonesians) are NON-elites, and since Singapore is the highest-ranking city and financial centre for not just the Singaporean elites, but also for the rich/powerful non-Singaporean elites in Southeast Asia, simple JEALOUSY by all these non-Singaporean NON-elites from outside Singapore could motivate them to invade Singapore and take over its Government. Whether or not Singapore becomes severely damaged (after any war) would not matter to them; what matters is that they simply want Singapore to become INSIGNIFICANT. After that, they can slowly rebuild Singapore if they want; or they could just focus their resources on other cities within Southeast Asia.

This is why LKY and the PAP were, and still are, so DESPERATE to maintain Singapore's "indepedence", even though we are still so dependent on other countries for the most basic thing of all, i.e. FOOD. So the only solution they can think of is to maintain our MONETARY wealth, in order to be "financially free" or "financially independent", even though there's actually no such thing since being "financially independent" only means not depending on SOME people for money, because EVERY wealthy person NEEDS to depend on CERTAIN people for their wealth, otherwise how else can they RECEIVE their money?

(In a worst-case scenario, ALL those countries who have been exporting food to Singapore might just stop doing it.
And if those countries include Malaysia and Indonesia, the Singapore Government would have no other choice but to order the SAF to literally invade probably Johor to obtain food for Singaporeans.)

So to summarize:
The ruling elites simply want to prevent internal rebellion by residents (usually meaning "civil war") and external invasion by foreign armies.

I know this kopitiam, it is in Yishun. Favourite haunt of personnel from Chong Pang camp to nua during their 'tea break hours'