Well said..but isnt the pap govt penalising SG guys?
I think all this is too obvious. Let's take this up to the next level. The PAP knows that the worst possible thing is to be rich and weak. So they overcompensate by making singaporeans do 2.5, and now 2 years of NS, pour well over 10 billion dollars each year into defence, ally with the United States and allow naval bases to be set up here, and so on.
If you're a reasonably smart person you've got to understand you can make choices in this world. You choose the singapore model, your kid must undergo NS slavery, be treated like scum, have his girlfriend [censored, since you're a lady] by foreigners while he protecting their arse, endure high property prices when he grows up, compete with FTrash for jobs, have his savings permanently locked up in CPF, and if God forbid he meets with misfortuene later in life, there's no social safety net to help him.
Or you can choose a 1st word country like NZ, OZ, USA, UK, etc, that already has a first world political system. Pay much higher taxes, have your tax dollars bail out the unworthy and the unprincipled, but in return the system will help you should you fall. You meet with more corruption, but also get to see the world, meet new people, broaden your horizons, avoid getting treated like an economic digit. And best of all not become cannon fodder which is the worst thing a parent can wish upon his children.
Penalties of being singaporean extend far beyond NS.
