Wake Up!
1. You have needs. The need to feel secure in your own country. The need to be respected. The need to be employed, to build and look after your family. The need to feel wanted and valued
2. You have rights. You have the right to vote out the people who introduced the policy of relatively easy FT entry out of office.
3. You have choices. You have the choice to do something that will make a difference. For example you have the choice of patronising businesses run and staffed by Singaporeans
4. You have a voice. Use it. Tell others how you feel. Speak often, speak to more people and speak you heart out.
5. You have the means. See your MP, blog your concerns, discuss the issues in online forums, participate in discussion groups, debate the issue, seek solutions and save your country for the next generation.
6. You have options. Explain nicely to FTs how your family, friends and fellow Singaporeans have been affected. Tell them there is no country in the world that allows it own citizens to displaced purely on costs and not on the basis of skills shortage. Tell them you do not want to compete with their kids for a place in a good school in you own country. Tell them you would not wish the same for them in their own country.
7. You need not be fooled or misled by attention seekers or limelight whores including Singaporeans who mistakenly argue you that you are xenophobic, racists or intolerant. There are limits. Political correctness does not put food on the table.
8. You are not required to make foreigners welcome who deprive you of fair employment, deny you the right to build and have a family life or take away your right to have sufficient space and a peace of mind.
9. You need not participate in any integration or assimilation programme if you are displaced from gainful employment prematurely purely on cost. You have family and relatives in the same position. You are aware of former play mates, school mates, NS mates, colleagues or fellow Singaporeans who are in a similar position.
10. Most importantly wake the fuck up. Watching the world go by or waiting for others to do something will not alleviate the situation.
1. You have needs. The need to feel secure in your own country. The need to be respected. The need to be employed, to build and look after your family. The need to feel wanted and valued
2. You have rights. You have the right to vote out the people who introduced the policy of relatively easy FT entry out of office.
3. You have choices. You have the choice to do something that will make a difference. For example you have the choice of patronising businesses run and staffed by Singaporeans
4. You have a voice. Use it. Tell others how you feel. Speak often, speak to more people and speak you heart out.
5. You have the means. See your MP, blog your concerns, discuss the issues in online forums, participate in discussion groups, debate the issue, seek solutions and save your country for the next generation.
6. You have options. Explain nicely to FTs how your family, friends and fellow Singaporeans have been affected. Tell them there is no country in the world that allows it own citizens to displaced purely on costs and not on the basis of skills shortage. Tell them you do not want to compete with their kids for a place in a good school in you own country. Tell them you would not wish the same for them in their own country.
7. You need not be fooled or misled by attention seekers or limelight whores including Singaporeans who mistakenly argue you that you are xenophobic, racists or intolerant. There are limits. Political correctness does not put food on the table.
8. You are not required to make foreigners welcome who deprive you of fair employment, deny you the right to build and have a family life or take away your right to have sufficient space and a peace of mind.
9. You need not participate in any integration or assimilation programme if you are displaced from gainful employment prematurely purely on cost. You have family and relatives in the same position. You are aware of former play mates, school mates, NS mates, colleagues or fellow Singaporeans who are in a similar position.
10. Most importantly wake the fuck up. Watching the world go by or waiting for others to do something will not alleviate the situation.