You've been living in a dream world

"Right now, PRs enjoy the same subsidies as Singaporeans for education and healthcare, and in fact in healthcare, foreign workers also receive subsidised treatment. I think we should make a clear difference – PRs should pay more than Singaporeans but less than other foreigners, there is a distinction... If you are not a PR and not a citizen, you should be given good treatment but we will not give you special privileges."

Lee Hsien Loong, 2 Dec 06

"We got feedback from many Singaporeans and even from my own constituents that since everything's equal for Singaporeans, foreigners and PRs, what's so special about being Singaporean? To some extent, short of being nationalistic, PM's message of 'citizens first' is well overdue. It'll be much appreciated among Singaporeans who are wondering what's in it for me holding that red passport,"

Hong Kah GRC MP Zaqy Mohamad, 2 Dec 06

Huh? What "right now"? You mean all these while for the past 10-15 years until "right now", foreigners and first generation PR who need not serve NS, have been treated equal to citizens in education and healthcare subsidy???

And what "well overdue"? You mean we have not been treating citizens better than foreigners for more than a decade since we first announce the FT policy and so it is now "well overdue"?!? What "feedback from many"? When did they start giving feedback? 15 years ago, or was it only 1.5 months ago?

When the Head of State of a country has to openly announce to the world that *henceforth* it will start treating its citizens better than foreigners, something is very wrong right now something has been very seriously wrong for the past 15 years and continue to be so "right now"! (In fact, it will probably be just as wrong in the future, even after some token "preferential" treatment is implemented to fool angry citizens)

I, the Human Battery, have always thought that all these while, Singaporeans have been treated better than foreigners and PR? No? My Goodness, I must have been living in a Matrix for the past 15 years! Have I? Have I?

Morpheus: You've been living in a dream world, Neo.