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March 11, 2010 by Our Correspondent
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Fearful of losing its grip on the nation, the PAP is going all the way out to woo the immigrants by making it compulsory for them to attend “sharing sessions” to learn more about grassroots organizations
Minister for Community, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan revealed in Parliament yesterday that permanent residents who intend to take up Singapore citizenship will now have to go through a Singapore Citizenship (SC) Journey which will include a “sharing session” with grassroots leaders.
Dr Vivian had unveiled a $10 million Community Integration Fund to make the immigrants feel “welcomed” in Singapore.
During the recent parliamentary “debates”, PAP MPs fretted over how to “integrate” the foreigners into Singapore society with one MP Seah Kian Peng suggesting that the government spends more taxpayers’ monies on programmes to help assimilate the immigrants.
Due to the PAP’s liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, foreigners now make up 36 percent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 percent in 1990. Of the remaining 64 percent who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas
As a result of a lack of foresight in planning, the floodgates are opened to allow too many foreigners into Singapore within too short a period of time such that we are now having a headache on how to integrate all of them.
The PAP’s knee-jerk response is to throw money at the problem in the hope that the immigrants will somehow find their places in Singapore society when some of them do not even speak or understand a single word of English.
Making it compulsory for new citizens to attend “sharing sessions” with grassroots leaders may prove to be another insidious attempt to rope them into grassroots organizations which are pseudo-PAP organizations.
PAP’s octogenarian leader Lee Kuan Yew admitted recently to a group of visiting officials from China that the CCCs, RCs and CCs are all “part of the PAP”.
According to Dr Vivian, some 4,500 PRs and new citizens are currently serving in these grassroots organizations in various capacities and not surprisingly, some of them may “cross over” to the PAP eventually since grassroots leaders are often card-carrying members of the PAP.
With native Singaporeans getting increasingly peeved off with the PAP for its lop-sided discriminatory policies, there is an urgent need for the PAP to bolster its flagging support base with new citizens who usually support the government.
The next election may be the last chance for Singaporeans to reclaim ownership of their nation. At the rate the PAP is mass importing foreigners to replace the locals, Singaporeans may soon be relegated to being second-class minorities in their own country of birth.
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March 11, 2010 by Our Correspondent
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/03/11/pap-all-out-to-woo-new-citizens-by-making-it-compulsory-for-them-to-attend-sharing-sessions-with-grassroots-leaders/
Written by Our Correspondent
Fearful of losing its grip on the nation, the PAP is going all the way out to woo the immigrants by making it compulsory for them to attend “sharing sessions” to learn more about grassroots organizations
Minister for Community, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan revealed in Parliament yesterday that permanent residents who intend to take up Singapore citizenship will now have to go through a Singapore Citizenship (SC) Journey which will include a “sharing session” with grassroots leaders.
Dr Vivian had unveiled a $10 million Community Integration Fund to make the immigrants feel “welcomed” in Singapore.
During the recent parliamentary “debates”, PAP MPs fretted over how to “integrate” the foreigners into Singapore society with one MP Seah Kian Peng suggesting that the government spends more taxpayers’ monies on programmes to help assimilate the immigrants.
Due to the PAP’s liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, foreigners now make up 36 percent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 percent in 1990. Of the remaining 64 percent who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas
As a result of a lack of foresight in planning, the floodgates are opened to allow too many foreigners into Singapore within too short a period of time such that we are now having a headache on how to integrate all of them.
The PAP’s knee-jerk response is to throw money at the problem in the hope that the immigrants will somehow find their places in Singapore society when some of them do not even speak or understand a single word of English.
Making it compulsory for new citizens to attend “sharing sessions” with grassroots leaders may prove to be another insidious attempt to rope them into grassroots organizations which are pseudo-PAP organizations.
PAP’s octogenarian leader Lee Kuan Yew admitted recently to a group of visiting officials from China that the CCCs, RCs and CCs are all “part of the PAP”.
According to Dr Vivian, some 4,500 PRs and new citizens are currently serving in these grassroots organizations in various capacities and not surprisingly, some of them may “cross over” to the PAP eventually since grassroots leaders are often card-carrying members of the PAP.
With native Singaporeans getting increasingly peeved off with the PAP for its lop-sided discriminatory policies, there is an urgent need for the PAP to bolster its flagging support base with new citizens who usually support the government.
The next election may be the last chance for Singaporeans to reclaim ownership of their nation. At the rate the PAP is mass importing foreigners to replace the locals, Singaporeans may soon be relegated to being second-class minorities in their own country of birth.
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