Rise in the number of “FT beggars” in Singapore
May 30th, 2010 | 
Author: With the pro-PAP government opening Singapore’s doors to foreigners from all over the world, it appears that even Singapore beggars are facing stiff competition from “FT beggars” too.
According to a Sunday Times report today, 109 beggars were picked up by officers from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS), out of which 62 were locals and 47 were foreigners.
The number caught is probably the tip of the iceberg and contradicts an earlier boast by PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew a few years ago that there are “no beggars in Singapore.”
Beggars are becoming a common sight in Singapore this year as the country’s liberal economic policies and lack of social safety net have exacerbated the income-gap between the rich and the poor, leaving the latter worse off than before.
“FT beggars” are commonly found in Chinatown and Geylang, most of whom are from mainland China. Some come to Singapore on a social visit pass to earn a “quick buck” and more than often now, Singaporeans are conned into “donating” to them.
Due to the PAP’s ultra-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.
It is hardly surprising that the number of “FT beggars” in Singapore has been increasing.
Perhaps one day, we will see one of them being awarded a Singapore PR by the PAP which has already given Singapore PRs and citizenships to countless of cleaners, construction workers, masseurs and even freelance prostitutes.
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How many flies have come in?
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On Saturday, whilst queuing to pay for the merchandise that I intended to buy (at the John Little Expo Sale), I got talking to an Indian guy in front of me. I learnt that he has been a Spore PR for the last 14 yrs and intends to go back to India in the next 2 yrs.
The ironic thing is that he himself agreed that the new batch of migrants are of much lower quality compared to those who came over here 10-20 yrs ago. He even slammed his own country men (the new Indian PRs) for not showing much dedication at work. He cited that many kept jumping ships every 2 yrs just to get extra pay; abolutely no sense of loyalty nor commitment unlike him who has worked for only 2 firms in the last 14 yrs.
He also mentioned that sometimes when he checked his work from home over the weekends, he realised that his juniors had not even done the tasks that they were supposed to do. He didnt even disagree with me when I told him about some horror stories I that read in Temasek Review abt Indian programmers who screwed up projects big time. It only goes to show that such screw ups are nothing new I guess!
It’s sad that loyal, hardworking Sporeans are being displaced by cheap but inferior quality migrants.
Are employers and the PAP govt that daft???
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There are a lot of them around the Toa Payoh MRT Station. Some would pretend to be selling something whereas others would make a lot of noise with their so called “musical instruments”; I guess I would give them some money if they would stop making noise but I don’t think they would; so I always just walk away from them as quickly as I can.
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We are pathetic. Don’t even know how to beg. Need FT to teach us.
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Best thing to do with these parasites is to ignore them totally instead of giving them anything. The government created this mess, they should clean it up themselves
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“You go down New York, Broadway. You will see the beggars, people of the streets. Where are the beggars in Singapore? Show me. I take pride in that.”
- Lee Kuan Yew (Minister Mentor)
“There are no homeless, destitute or starving people in Singapore. Poverty has been eradicated, not through an entitlements program (there are virtually none) but through a unique partnership between the government, corporate citizens, self-help groups and voluntary initiatives. The state acts as the catalyst–matching financial support, sponsoring preventive and social care, and ensuring that basic needs are provided for.”
- Kishore Mahbubani (Former Singapore’s permanent representative to the UN)
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Those beggars are people who in the past didn’t vote for PAP. Since they never vote for PAP, why must PAP care for them. They die their business.
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The only reason why LKY said that before…was ..in fact the govt hid and hounded all the beggars off the streets. Now they have been found out.
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Those are the professional beggars FT. Singaporean don’t know how to beg, so the gov need to import these FT to teach people in singapore how to beg cos singaporean only know how to “kao peh kao boo”.
You can see in ST and here in TR people only KPKB but still happy with miw as their spokeman come election time.
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Cheap foreign workers. Foreign prostitutes. Foreign criminals. And now foreign beggars.
So who have we left out?
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Yes we must vote PAP. Problem is why PM or MM never said so??
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@silenceisgolden: lols, those beggars told you they voted for opposition? Since when PAP cares for us? It makes no difference if we vote for them. They are senile elites, we need a proper leader who can forecast the nation’s future, not bullshit and make people suffer like today’s issue.
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Maybe next time Member of Parliament also need to be imported from China or India. Local MP are too daft.
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==> 109 beggars were picked up by officers from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS), out of which 62 were locals and 47 were foreigners.
47 out of 109, that’s just about right. Everything in singapore is 1/3 meant for foreigners, 2/3 meant for locals, except doing 2 years of NS.
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Ruling party, please do us a favour! Get these FT beggars off our streets back into their respective countries. Our native beggars are facing stiff competition already!
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To : New Era
Foreign Minister, soon they’ll take over since Sinkaporean aren’t good enuf, so need import foreigners to become minister too
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Someone please please dun talk “cock” here!
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We shall see 82 local FT beggars on the next GE!
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Is it a SIN to BEG when you are truly hungry or it it more a SIN to demand more when you are already receiving this globalised world’s’highest ministerial salaries?
WHY condemn your poor citizens who merely ask for money to fill their hunger and quench their thirst;some of whom did slogged rather hard in their younger days and now made more impoverished by the govt policies one way or another?
The rich cannot or will not understand the hungry pangs of those they have made POOR;some even think they have the god-given rights to ‘ROB’ from those they already made poor…what a GLOBALISED world indeed???
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Anyone know exactly what’s happening to TOC? They said they are going on a hiatus.
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I personally feel that an increase in the number of beggers gives a hint of some social issues.
If one is able to get a job and the job’s pay is higher, more honourable and not as difficult as being a begger, usually one will prefer to take up the job instead of becoming a begger.
An increase in people becoming beggers will probably shows that
case 1. One could not find a job, and being a begger is the only choice
case 2. A begger’s job & pay is more attractive than any other jobs one could get
Besides the increase in the number of “foreigner” beggers, the numbers shows that more than half of the beggers picked up are, in fact, locals.
My instinct tells me that most probably the “local” beggers falls into case 1 and the “foreigner” beggers falls into case 2. And if it is true, this is really very sad.
I remember a scene I saw in a old Stephen chow’s movie, where the head of the begger clan tells the Emperor of China
“The number of members in my clan is not determined by me, it’s determined by you. If every one of your people has a job and gets to eat, who will want to be a begger?”
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Full time Mom – I mentioned sometime ago too. The new FT will be taking over the jobs of the Filipinos, Indians, Chinese who came here first to work and settle down those many years ago. It’s the cycle of life. The only thing is the government keep repeating the mistakes. Who suffers, all of us, including the new FTs. Soon the word will spread that Singapore is not the place to work and live, so we are back to square one. Moral of the story, take care of the citizens first.
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Most FTs are beggars. They have no commitments here. All they want is PRs for job mobility to higher pay via job-hopping and access to employer’s contribution to their CPF. After they got what they want of this place, they just withdraw the CPF back to home country. Or they come back for second helping again. As for others who got citizenship, they simply trade their Singapore passports for foreign citizenship taking out their CPF balances. They commitments to Singapore are transparently nil as those working in HR departments can attest to these scheming behaviour.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100531-219249.html
The FTs know the political situation here and its gloomy future. Strike whilst the iron is hot as the saying goes. The MIW are the fools that take this economic beggars with or without a pair of hands or legs – NO DIFERENCE whether the thievery is in the air-con office or outside MRTs and shopping complex preying on public sympathy of their physical handicap. In China or in India, NOBODY CARES.
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Lee Kuan Yew said there are no beggars in Singkapore. Ha ha ha what a joke. Except for influential PAP members (e.g famiLee, Jack neo, Rony Tan, ministers and others), all Singkaporeans are beggars at the whims of PAP. Singkaporeans even have to beg for their money in CPF, beg for rights to drive a car, beg for a job, beg for almost everything.
Until PAP changes for the better or Singkaporeans vote them out, most Singkaporeans will continue to be beggars.
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Household income not exceeding two thousand dollars living in Singapore, unofficially are beggar. This group of people is most likely to vote for PAP. Using an analogy to explain, PAP is like insulin to diabetes. Without PAP how can they survive.
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Why the fuss?
In any democracy the pareto principle counts – 80 – 20.
I doubt our beggars account for more than 0.1% of our population?
Right?
It’s worse in many countries today. Call it whatever. Basking or wat.
Today, the West after its beating in the recent global downturn has a substantial number of homeless and vagrants. Whites, mind you.
Without FTs and counting on some of our complaining people Singapore would have sunk a long time ago.
Without say ex-Malaysians like the late Dr Goh Keng Swee, NeWater
Olivia Lum, etc., we couldn’t have survived.
Thin hard lah.
Excuse me, I’ve received my GST credits from the post.
Thank you Singapore.
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Which countries on the PLANET have no beggars?
Ask any Sec 1 pupil and even he knows the answer.
Only ours is relatively just a drop in the ocean.
So stop talking cock and let’s move on.
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With the 62 were locals , how come never break down of Local beggers with PR status ??
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It is wrong to simply said that there are only a mere small number of ‘BEGGARS’-disregarding FOREIGN ONES-in tiny PROSPEROUS SINGAPORE which boast haughtily of the world’s highest paid ministers and where relatively minisculed plots of bungalows cost tens of millions in Sentosa and where poor men’s abode HDB cages cost close to a million bucks.
Look,how many UNEMPLOYED have BORROWED OR TAKEN MONIES fROM RELATIVES or FRIENDS AND NOT ABLE TO RETUEN THEM?
DO TH RICH SINGAPOREAN ELITES CARE ENOUGH AS TO SPARE THESE UNEMPLOYED,educated professionals included,a thought?
NO,ZICLH…aren’t these living like BEGGARS too?
And,how about the countless old folks,half-bended through the toil of the years,collecting litters just to eke out a DIGNIFIED less than subsistence living her ein HIGH-CLASS Singapore?
THINK,ALL YOU papies’ dogs AND IF YOU HAPPEN not to HAVE A BRAIN, at least USE YOUR EYES TO SEE!
hOW MANY OF THESE SINGAPOREANS CHOOSE TO BE ‘beggars’?
tell me.
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when will we have our version of 犀利哥, a china handsome beggar (who once serve in the military)who became famous overnight after pictures of him wearing winter clothes picked from rubbish heap was shown on internet.
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Aiyoh! Whatever LKY had said and proclaimed loudly, stridently and vociferously were always for “INSPIRATION” only!
If you were to believe LKY, you are likening to believe a pig which makes up with a lip-stick can really fly and fly and fly…….
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Yawn, this is like TR’s tagline on “FT”
Due to the PAP’s ultra-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.
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Hey HAYOO, yawn at yourself, wonder what you’ve been doing to help share alternative information with Singaporeans.
The reason they repeat it is to remind Singaporeans of the facts. Repetition is a key marketing tool, and TR is doing well in that regard.
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Not to worry. Locals don’t want to be beggars. No job competition here.
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@silenceisgolden you mean the beggars? without PAP, beggars cannot survive? lols. They’ll be doing something else instead begging? So if PAP is around they are beggars. So you are trying to say, vote them out?
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Bobby Sim:
May 31, 2010 at 12:51 pm
“…Without say ex-Malaysians like the late Dr Goh Keng Swee, NeWater
Olivia Lum, etc., we couldn’t have survived.
Thin hard lah…”
YES, ABSOLUTELY.
Your THINKING is absolutely ‘THIN” of substance and truths. Farts elsewhere please.
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must send our local beggrs for SPURS,so that they can compete.
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