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The Defence Ministry “is considering giving more recognition to NSmen by giving them a bigger stake in the country, such as in the areas of housing, healthcare and education“.
AWARE had said that, “Every person deserves access to housing, education and healthcare, because these are basic requirements for human sustenance and social participation.“
There has been some debate over this issue.
Let’s take this debate to the fundamentals.
This situation has arose because:
1.First, NSF and NSmen have not been adequately compensated in the first place by the PAP. Also, the PAP has not satisfactorily explained the need for enforced conscription and the differential standards surrounding conscription.
2.Second, all Singaporeans have not been adequately protected for our housing, healthcare and education needs in Singapore – the prices we pay are unaffordable.
In the first place, it is a basic right for all Singaporeans to receive adequate support for housing, healthcare and education. It is not the PAP’s prerogative to use housing, healthcare and education as tools which they can use to bribe citizens with.
This means that we have to be very clear in this debate – giving more “recognition” to NSmen for “housing, healthcare and education” is long overdue not only for NSFs and NSmen but to ALL Singaporeans. Using this as a tool to placate NSmen shows that the PAP believes that the provision of these basic rights to the citizens is a power beholden only to them. It is not. As a government, they should have provided these long ago for ALL citizens.
The fundamental wrong here is that the PAP wants to use housing, healthcare and education as bribes to NSmen, when in the very first place, the PAP has reneged on its responsibility to provide adequate and affordable housing, healthcare and education to NSmen and ALL Singaporeans.
If we are to fall for the PAP’s show of appreciation to NSmen via more “recognition” for housing, healthcare and education, this means that we have forgotten that they have neglected their duty in the first place not only to NSmen but to all Singaporeans. We should be aghast at how they are using this as a bribery tool, when it is a basic right of all citizens to receive adequate support in these areas, which has not been provided.
The solution, as has been discussed by many, is this: http://thehearttruths.com/2014/04/25/more-ways-to-recognise-nsmen-do-not-let-pap-divide-us/
AWARE had said that, “Every person deserves access to housing, education and healthcare, because these are basic requirements for human sustenance and social participation.“
There has been some debate over this issue.
Let’s take this debate to the fundamentals.
This situation has arose because:
1.First, NSF and NSmen have not been adequately compensated in the first place by the PAP. Also, the PAP has not satisfactorily explained the need for enforced conscription and the differential standards surrounding conscription.
2.Second, all Singaporeans have not been adequately protected for our housing, healthcare and education needs in Singapore – the prices we pay are unaffordable.
In the first place, it is a basic right for all Singaporeans to receive adequate support for housing, healthcare and education. It is not the PAP’s prerogative to use housing, healthcare and education as tools which they can use to bribe citizens with.
This means that we have to be very clear in this debate – giving more “recognition” to NSmen for “housing, healthcare and education” is long overdue not only for NSFs and NSmen but to ALL Singaporeans. Using this as a tool to placate NSmen shows that the PAP believes that the provision of these basic rights to the citizens is a power beholden only to them. It is not. As a government, they should have provided these long ago for ALL citizens.
The fundamental wrong here is that the PAP wants to use housing, healthcare and education as bribes to NSmen, when in the very first place, the PAP has reneged on its responsibility to provide adequate and affordable housing, healthcare and education to NSmen and ALL Singaporeans.
If we are to fall for the PAP’s show of appreciation to NSmen via more “recognition” for housing, healthcare and education, this means that we have forgotten that they have neglected their duty in the first place not only to NSmen but to all Singaporeans. We should be aghast at how they are using this as a bribery tool, when it is a basic right of all citizens to receive adequate support in these areas, which has not been provided.
The solution, as has been discussed by many, is this: http://thehearttruths.com/2014/04/25/more-ways-to-recognise-nsmen-do-not-let-pap-divide-us/