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  • I feel very sorry for children here too.

    Mother need to go back to work as soon as possible to support family so MAID take care of babies and children and no real family value there at all.

    One of my friends said he was so lonely and felt distant from his parents since he was forced to spend more time at other caretaker's house as soon as he was able to walk.

    Local children are so pushed for getting high marks and be competitive since very early age and lot of children wear glasses too.

  • I have many local friends and they are very nice and lovely people.

    But this country is so controlled and I do not feel any freedom.

    Real natures are kept destroying and most of garden/greens areas are artificial.

    River, water reservoir and some road and area smell soooooo bad and feel the contamination.

    If you go to beach early in the morning, it filled with rubbish and soooo dirty.

    There are no respect for nature here....people are not educated in that manner but chase money.

  • Tourists and foreigners are so targeted to bring more money and they spend completely different life style from locals. From Airport to main roads to City are so clean and beautiful.

    But most of locals are pushed into tiny and bad conditioned rooms where they do not even have place to hang cloths or cook properly.

    Maid are used and they live much worse conditions where the room with no window or aircon.

    I was shocked people put same human beings in that room and ask them to work so hard...

  • I traveled 16 countries and lived in Singapore 3.5 years.

    I found this country ignore especially the LOCAL and BASIC NEEDS.

    Government FORCED and created so much MONEY based social system which destroying the family value and creating such a discrimination between races.

    All dirty/hard/hated work are done by poor or more poor countries workers who has no skill and no responsibilities.

    And people are so afraid to raise voice since they are told they will be put in jail if they do.

  • This video went viral on Dakar

  • homeless in singapore? gosh..

    

  • I am saddened by those images. Btw, that is a nice song but it is annoying in this context :|

  • I think I'm poor but after watching this...I'm now thankful and blessed for what God has supplied for me...

  • hey singapore boasted it has the best medical social service in the world--didnt you smell the stench from Orchard Road, oops, I mean from geylang bahru

  • i'd rather be poor and homeless in Sg then be poor and homeless in afghanistan. Compared to other country, the poor and homeless in singapore are considered well off.

  • @JinotGaming Its even worse lol

  • @JinotGaming so is there any political philosophy better then capitalism? think about north korea too

  • @JinotGaming compare that with communism which is worse?

  • Well there are homeless, destitute, starving people in Singapore because either they don't know how to get help from community service or they chose not to. There should not be people like them suffering in Singapore.

  • Hey its not that bad as this video depicts. I mean there are old ppl slping at void decks but i dont see one like in days but rather in a blue moon( like a few mths to maybe a year)

    And singaporeans will help if they injure themselves or need help. Over exaggerated. Singaporean here.

  • Chinese-Malay or Chinese-Singaporian, still the roots are from china. malay are malaysian original muslims, singapore is originally from malaysia.

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  • @RedPlumJam another motherfucking malay who is intolerant towards chinese

    P.S. I am a Malay.

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  • @RedPlumJam why should I be tolerant to someone who is daft and senile?

  • Honestly does this look like a first world country to you more like third.

  • @LYJManchesterUnited u have homeless people in new york city too

  • @diztorcion666 Not those in their 90s

  • Your homeless and poor have electric wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, and clutches! That's what I call lucky!

    The impression I got from this video is that the majority of your very small indigent population is either a much older generation, some mentally challenged, or uneducated immigrants from nearby countries.

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  • growing up in Sg back in the day you never thought you would witness scenes like these but sadly we see more and more of them today . i really hope we can all do something for these homeless folks

  • @SuperDevildick Who asked you to have such a fucked up mouth?

  • How could ya expect? the Government is really a rip off ALWAYS O kong us (that means fine us) ._.

  • in your face, PAP

  • @sgpolitics your pictures can be misconstrued so please explain what makes you so sure these old folks are homeless.

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  • At least they are clean!

  • these poor babies.... i've been homeless, it's a terrible, frightening, difficult way to live. people look at you like an animal, not like a person. i had an abandoned house to sleep in with a mattress, these people don't even have that.....

  • Mah Bow Tan claims that HDB flats are still 'affordable' even though they are skyrocketting :/

  • if only they tried harder in life maybe even commit some illegal things there is money everywhere...i would never do that shit........

  • but the leaders are the highest paid in the world.. why?

  • Most of them end up like this because their Son daughters or parents abandon them..

  • @jungle2u not SO many are so 'bo liao' nthing to do until this state rite...

  • @neonskecther WAKE UP!!!

  • @esiosan the fact here is that the party for the government doesn't have a time limit to how long it can remain...

  • "show me the beggars in Singapore?"

    Said Singapore blind moron dictator lee kuan lew who is from weathy family!

  • so sad... every time i see these type of people i always wish i culd do something for them :(

  • I used to be pro-PAP, but since the 1990s they have becoming increasingly right-wing and have chipped away at the basic social security structures that people rely on. HDB has becoming more like a private developer than a government institution to ensure the housing needs of it's citizens are met, and provision of HDB rental arrangements has become inadequate. Most of all though, provision for unemployment is wholly inadequate, and downright shameful.

  • I'm American, and Wow! JUST WOW!

    Your homeless and poor have electric wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, and clutches! That's what I call lucky!

    The impression I got from this video is that the majority of your very small indigent population is either a much older generation, some mentally challenged, or uneducated immigrants from nearby countries. Correct me if I'm wrong, thanks!

  • @esiosan :not all of them have electric wheelchairs..unlike in the states,our govt dont look out for pple like them..im a singaporean and seeing this makes my heart heavy...roof is the basic need for survival in my opinion.

  • @victor0721 are you joking singapore has a much better health system than the us

  • @juiced2death fucking twat propaganda by our government talking shit and donno any thing of the hidden side of singapore..

  • @juiced2death but much more inhumane.

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  • wow, I've never come across a developed place without a public school system. Does Singapore have a public school system? -(the video said that 2000 children didn't go to school because their families couldn't afford it)

  • @donauld1 singapore residents do not need to pay for school. and those kids parents with a salary lower than $2000 i think? will get free coupons [at least for my school] to eat at the canteen

  • The 18 people who dislike this must no heart... Is either they are blind to such misfortunes and poverty or they are those elitist rich people who dun care about the poor, only for the rich and rich only.. And its a fact that some elitist thinks this way.. Sadly, this is the outcome... :(

  • 18 people are PAP fanatics.

  • These are not homeless people! They have simply overworked themselves in the flourishing economy and need a quick power snooze! These hard working singaporians need more vacation time!

  • but really... with a basic 3 room government housing costing about 200k how can a low income person who earns about 1k or less a month afford?

    FYI there is no minimum wage in singapore... a worker at a fast food joint only gets paid 4-5 dollars an hour... so how are the lowly educated expected to raise a family with wages like that!?

  • @hayashiyuuzen "how are the lowly educated expected to raise a family with wages like that!?" Uhh get an education, start a business, etc. They should have thought about that before they goofed off in math class.

  • @savemyplaylist though you can't deny that whatever the situation there's a high number of these folks around.... and its easy to say that... but you may not realize but some of them may not have an education not because they goofed off... but rather their family situation does not allow them too...

  • There are homeless people in Switzerland too.

  • @mintico - just read your posting , wendyneo is another mother fucker like you trying to tarnish the singapore government. You must be a malaysian from my judgement and if you think malaysia is better , brother , please go back and read the news properly. Where did singapore get the chicken,pork,rice we have money , we buy from anywhere, money is KING stupid! Convert all your land to kampong and rear chicken to sell lah, so stupid just like WENDY NEO , a opposition lacky,sucker

  • I once read in the Straights Times that someone was feeding the homeless in Little India somewhere (a bit like "soup kitchens" in the UK). I would like to help out. Does anyone know if this still takes place and if so, where?

  • Q.Q

  • Just come back from Singapore. Very beautiful and clean place. The people I talked to told me they earn S$1,700.00 a month. Not a great deal but they seem to manage and food is quite cheap if you know where to eat. Considering the country has no natural resources it's a top notch effort. If it was more `democratic' things would probably be a lot worse. Having a strong leader at the top does have its advantages considering the democratic sham we have in Australia.

  • Those who dislike this has no heart. The homeless and poor people are working very hard to earn some money for them and their family, they went to the streets to beg for money, people may think going to the streets begging for money is shameful, but they have no money for their surgery or for food such, so they have to choice but to beg! I felt dam sad, every time when i saw beggars on the street, I would give them free money, they even said thank you politely, yet, lots of people are ignoring.

  • @ilkization some people disliked this video probably because they don't like seeing such misfortunately people and they feel deeply sorry for them.

    somehow i feel, althought probably not true, that the people who liked this video like looking at the habits of the homeless/financially unfortunate and are having a laugh at them...

  • @ilkization you can't say that those people who dislike this has no heart.... disliking this video has many meaning. it could also be disliking their plight. so its not fair to judge pp based on ur personal definition of disliking this. You do not know what they meant

  • I can see that most of em is from Chinese race, Really pity of those old chinese folks, A Mom can take care of 10 childrens but 1 child can't even take care of 1 mom.

  • @mikeshary Most Singaporeans ARE chinese, naturally, you'd see more chinese people in a video about Singaporeans. It has nothing to do with culture or race.

  • @mikeshary its not that.... there is more support for the malays here... in terms that their religious association takes most of them in... the chinese how ever... not much and even if there is, they don't proactively look for these people to help...

  • @mikeshary that's because the majority of the Singapore population is made up of Chinese but I definitely agree with your latter statement. i believe that our society is advancing so quickly that most of us are prompt to focus more on trying to catch up and to make ends meet, and sustain ourselves that some subconsciously lose important values like filial piety, and sometimes, we may be forced to forget about it if we cannot even provide for ourselves. also, children these days are too spoilt.

  • @mikeshary i''m not sure i understand you, but you know that Singapore is in Maylasia, so they are all asian?

  • @chocolatedonut31 You do not understand the sentence? oh gosh, and...Singapore is in Malaysia? who teaches you that? Asian have different races...so if philipine is not anywhere near Malaysia , they are not asian? lol

  • Yeah,, It's really sad,,

    and it does in every countries and cities.. I feel suddenly very sad..

  • @ Destroyer470 btw I do not hail from a third-world country. About 42% of the city-state's population are foreigners. Foreign skilled-workers help meet the manpower needs for your industries. The third-world foreigners build the infrastructure required at a much lower cost (are you, Destroyer470, willing to do hazardous, back-breaking work for roughly S$600 a month?). In fact I dare say that foreign workers, skill and unskilled, has significantly contributed to YOUR current benefit today.

  • i don't know but i can imagine how easy it is to be rendered homeless if one lost their job. i lost my job and was forced to immediately return to my home country because my basic salary of 1700 didn't leave me very much savings at all. sure i guess it was my f&^%iN fault that i decided to rent a room for myself? a little cost for food here, a little accounting for bills there and a smodgin of travel fares and a small mishap with my job and ~ voila! no more room!

  • Well, well, WELL, was I nearly hoodwinked by this mintico. Profiling this chap tells me that this is the same DUD (not dude) that goes around Youtube putting down Singapore. He/she uses the name of WENDYNEO, using FAKE FEMALE PIC. Sounds familiar? the 'fools' and wet dreams words are his common usage., characterization..just too much similarities. Her profile states .. Perth??? Big joke.

    I'm just aghast at the vulgarities used. A BAD SINGAPOREAN, INDEED!

  • @trini133 what the fuck?? wendyneo?! im not that girl u moron. i only have one account. why should i make a two account for? moron. who the fuck is wendyneo?

  • @mintico Just like a thief who denies he stole anything. Don't use trash words..you're only demeaning yourself further.

  • @mintico

    You know what, I really don't like those pussy-ass keep talking shitting about my country, but you sir are hilarious I just love how my country people keep taking shot at you and you wasting your own life starring at internet everyday won't stop. That is funny. Bring the hatred bitch, just to show you that we can help these people up and better your pathetic New York cold-blooded always nothing but gang fight all Singaporeans on me go get this Garbage ass!

  • @Angsc09 if u say new york is shit then singapore must be 1000x shit because like it or not NYC is still better than singapore as a whole country. they have important financial place like wallstreet that earn more money than singapore..loser wallstreet alone make more money than ur entire country.

  • @mintico that is incorrect, check world stats, im from venezuela but I live and study in the united states.. singapore has a better standar of living than the USA. Not only that but also there is less poverty per capita. Cities like NY, Miami, LA, are really not to far away from latin america as a matter of fact worst in the distribution of money. There are Super-Rich , a lot of mid class, a lot of poor Citizens.

  • @cochexzzz u should take the size of US into calculation too. whether u like it or not, Singapore has lower poverty level because of the population too, its small and the island size is small too

  • @mintico

    At Least, we save from all those natural disasters that every happened every year now get out of here.

  • @Angsc09 oh u r such a loser and now u use natural disaster!! LOSER. no u get out, youtube is owned by american company not singaporean. Moron

  • @Destroyer470 and what makes you usefull?/ huh?? you dont have the right to call other people trash. without FOREIGNERS, singapore is SHIT!!! its the fact. look around you, singapore is devoid of natural resources. people like you that hate foreigners are singapore's bane. without us, foreigners, singapore wont even have food u moron. u hear me, the food that u singaporean eat comes from other part of the world. singapore is too small to have its own farm. so i say u r the useless singaporean!!

  • The main reason they are safe to sleep at night is because the Singapore Government has zero tolerance on drugs and crime. Not only that, but more important is the Singaporean people are kind and respectful toward others, unlike some countries.

  • Looking for Utopia in Singapore?

    At least, they've got nice, clean and safe place to spend their night.

    Try do it in JB or NY, U'll be R&R, Robbed & Raped.

    Go take a tour of the Africa continent and your views will change drastically !

  • @ywkvincent how dare you insult new york city u stupid singaporean. Ok i agree NYC is kinda dirty but that doesnt mean you'll get robbed or raped. what makes you think ur goddam tiny island country is safer than nyc?? huh!! open ur eyes for god sake, ur country is not as safe and clean as you think. Dumbo.

  • In every country there are poor and rich. The pictures you shown are the people who refuses to get help from service community. Some are homeless because they dont want to stay with their family. Some just didnt know where to get help because they are alone and old. That is why we have alot of communities volunteers going around helping the poor and old. Some of this old people sleeping outside because they are being abandon by their own families. Someone is out to ruin the reputation of d gvmt

  • the guy at 1:18 looks like he just fell asleep there. he looks like he has a bluetooth or something :l

  • @EmerylYun i think its a hearing decive? or smth

  • Although we are proud to say we r better than US, these video is true. I totally agree to this.

  • @stselvam05 Whoa whoa whoa, singapore is a nice country overall in terms of trade, culture, politics and investment, BUT BUT, u guys are not better than US for god sake. Its ur wet dream!!! Singapore GDP is smaller than indonesia for god sake. US GDP is way way way bigger than singapore.

    US in overall is the best country for now because it can produce the most, its banking and investment is good, military and influence.

    you are a fool if u think the current sg is better than US

  • The one who put up this video think he is living in heaven!. Name a country that do not have poor , sick people? Just lend me a camera , buy me a ticket to any country and I can easily take much more of these type of photos , so bird brain, try harder. People like you should be born in africa in your next life as you dont treasure the good life that was given to you staying in spore. Maybe I should put up a video showing all the rich singaporean , he he he

  • @rambo12352 did you read at the beggining of the video.. he responded to an idiot comment that there are no homeless in singapore... not to show the poor people in comparison with his wealth

  • Those who pick from dumpsters are NOT necessarily homeless.

  • fuck all singaporen people,fuck all of yaa asian cuntss

  • @MrSydneyli What are you then? a loser?

  • @LChinese1991 you fucken idiot moron,your are just chinese,do yu know wht it does mean???your are third or fourth class person,fucken asian cunt,i hate you alll...go back your country,go back,clean asustralia,clean singaporee

  • @MrSydneyli Can we kick out this guy? He's racist and narrow-minded.

  • @MrSydneyli Trade between Australia and China its biggest trading partner increased to A$86 billion in the 2009 financial year, Jeff Turner, Austrade’s Senior Trade Commissioner in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, said in an interview today during an event in Sydney. Turner said. “If that trend continues, we could see bilateral trade this financial year get to A$100 billion.” in 2010.

    Australians are very friendly towards others, let's keep it this way Everyone isn't alike. Cheers!

  • I am not a big fan of PAP since I'm forced to served the army but for gods sake, afew pictures of old people begging around singapore and I see so many netizens hurling insults at the govt and accusing PAP of mismanaging the country?Someone here name me a single country IN THE WORLD that doesn't have a single beggar/homeless?so does that every govt/PM in the world is incompetent? at least homeless in sg have decent clothes to wear, void decks/shelters to sleep in compared to other countries

  • Another uncivilized libertarian shithole!

    

  • makes me cry this video. We must be happy of what we are

  • What I find shocking is not the number of homeless people in Singapore, but the fact that the government lies about there being any.

  • @wako407 Let me tell you something about singapore my friend. The singapore government doesnt want to tell the world that singapore has got homeless people because that will signal to foreigners that living condition in singapore is getting more and more difficult. lesser people will want to migrate into singapore and work or live there. and this will indirectly cripple singapore as they might lost some potential skilled foreigners talent. so the government lied about it to the rest of the world

  • Disgraceful.

    These self-serving, self promoting PAP Ministers...

    led by a detestable Old Man who is way past his expiry date.

  • I'm NOT a man of faith or religion, but I do have a heart. If one day I have a million dollar, I mean JUST a million dollars. I will give that one million to every homeless person on the streets.

    "Be humble and give the poor what you have. Then heaven will award you with a star." ~ Buddha

  • 4:45 to 4:53 very sad

  • What can I say? Shocking!

  • wendyneo is a oppostion ball sucker - She boast of adding 100 videos of slandering the PAP leaders and also bluntly telling the immigration authority of spore that she have a dual citizenship of AUSTRALIA & SINGAPORE thus hinting to the government , immigration , police that she is untouchable direct challenging the authority. I think this rambo lady need to be teach a lesson or else others will think the police are weak or do nothing.

  • Having a high shifting population , Singapore is facing a homeland identity crisis. Instead of comparing to other developed nations and the how its ok to let a small percentage trickle down, singapore needs to treat the people of its land with better, more comprehensive love and care especially since the people are thier only resource. A very small annual contribution from GIS or Temask will greatly help. As a citizen and thus a shareholder of these govt companies please increase contribution.

  • Lee Kwan Yew should be helping these people, if this video is true.......???? .....thought Singapore is doing good...........???? Every country has got her problem, Singapore is no less.

  • How to solve the problem? Simple, vote for SDP. Let them have the experiences on how to handle a country like singapore.

  • Well, Singapore is a country where you earn what u work for. There is always oppotunities out there, if you're willing. people who can't work have permits to sell things around. well, others just dun bother to help themself by telling the government that theyre in such a state. Some of them are not beggers, theyre just old and keeping cardboards and cans to sell them. This is how they earn their income, not by begging.

  • Oh by the way, some of them are not beggars, rather for them to sit around the house bored and sighing all the time, they rather make use of the time by working.

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  • thk 4 d meaningful video.. it useful & update us on current situation in SG.. It sad but its d true.. alw look on d bad rather thn a good side of life.. thn u will learn & improve!!

  • to author, did you help these people? it is easy to take vidoes and post. Did you help?

  • Agreed,did he help.

  • instead of just looking at the videos, please get up from your air conditioned room and lend a hand to these needys. this is what makes a good society.

  • hmm.. so all the beggers in SG have nice clean clothes. a good country after all.

  • What's the song called, please?

  • @LycanzRulez Hey there Delilah by Plain White Tees.

  • @art10080 Ohhh, thanks alot

  • this is the result of the ethos & practices of the incumbent regime. this is the land where people are squeezed dry & bled white during their productive years...

    7 left to wither & fade away into oblivion once their use-value has come to an end. humanism is a concept alien to singaporean society. 'everyman for himself' & 'you die your business' reign unabated in the land of sin... unchecked & overwhelming due to the vice like grip of apathy...

  • "The future is not what it used to be." I see indications of a worldwide trend toward corporate government that uses people up, then abandons them for dead. Before the internet dies, let me say Welcome to the coming Dark Ages. It's been done before.

  • this video is trying to tell u, if you are a Singaporean and if u grow old, u will be like this. Honestly, I am a Singaporean and i can tell u, once u r old, u will be poor and helpless. The government does not provide welfare for the old, you only use the very little of what u have in your CPF

  • @liangjun24 good one. finally a singaporean who can accept or see the fact. the singapore government exploit you people when you were still young. they want you to work as hard as possible and then extract all ur juices out from u. once u r out of juice to squeeze( literally means when u get old) the government no longer have any interest on you. they will just toss u aside and give u ur cpf fund which had been partially "taxed" by the sg government.

  • good video but very sad. someone choose to live on streets ( homeless) but some not ,they are forced by the un"human-society" 5* and my compassion for those

  • the rich should help the poor..i hate those rich people who act big with their money and nt helping others..errr

  • @27ersc27 i imagined you are the poor then? use your brain and dont blame the rich. why did the rich people get rich? its because they contribute more to society. ur idea of taking money from the rich and give it to the poor is just ur wet dream. it will never happen. so nice of the poor to just sit around and have their expenses paid by the rich. no way dude.

  • i hope those politician, people who talks like "get a job, dont be lazy", the goverment and business man can put themselves in these people shoes.

  • this video is posted in year 2007 but theres still lots of homeless people out there now who still hoping for miracles even tho they know it wont happen but they also seek happiness they also seek a better life. Please just dont let them die this way with meaningless life, if only i can speak out for them for the humanity that belongs a fair leaving. the only thing that i wish and pray is for equal leaving! equal rights! no war! world peace! and we are not lazy we have our reasons!

  • Thank you so much Singapore for being a fucking jerk! look at these people they are humans for pete's sake! politics!money! buildings! the fucking rich!educations! racist! casino! what about those everage people? not that they are lazy, not that they cant work, not that they find all those sickness, not they all wanted not to go to school, not they all wanted not to work?they have reasons please help them,

  • @AshydXc ok first of all ur level of thinking is extremely low. i'd imagined you as a young fellow, a kid perhaps with no knowledge or background on how goverment operate. Ok, you want singapore's government to help to poor. Oh sure, why not, lets put our money into building houses for the poor, we will even pay them food, clothing and leisures. Dude wake up!!! that's just ur wet dream. the government wont help them because of the same reason why u wont donate ur money to help the poor.

  • @AshydXc If you are a singaporean and you dont want to end up like those people in this video, i suggest you study hard when you were young and then get a good job with good salary. or better still migrate to australia or other country. because in the near future, singapore is going to get more and more expensive just to live there. the gap between the rich and the poor will expand more and more. eventually the poor simply cant afford to live anymore and are forced to die somewhere.

  • just to let you know its impossible to NOT VOTE for them - by default the challenger is on a steep losing edge...

  • then ur pathetic country singapore sucks bad razer868

  • @ShaneNankervis uh yeah I left this "pathetic country" that sucks bad, and its not getting better from what I've been apprised! lol! cheers, pal.

  • @KaydenKolldy are you trying flame asians because you know nothing or suddenly have an adrenaline rush because of this video? come on grow up :]. Haha some animal's brain is big too ~ just like yours, you're just a sub human

  • this is a good debate. but to call others sub human is not gentlemanly.

    let's reason this out - if you have the reasons then you'll know why singapore is the way it is today.

  • HAHA did u call kaydenkolldy a subhuman? geez have a look at this vid kid. Seems like you asians are the subhumans actually

  • @ShaneNankervis HAHA i think i hurt your subhuman pride :/ anyway normally only truth hurts :)

  • doesnt look so bad, try to stay outside at -30 celcius, way harder !

  • .....and yes, some of them sleep at the void deck to avoid going home because of crisis at home, but still goes to work in the morning and bathe at workplace. can u see the clothes that the "poor people" are wearing? so my question is, is the vidoe maker targetting to resolve the problem or actually expressing his dissatisfaction against certain rulers?

  • in SG, we ALL should have homes, if we live accordingly within our means and not taking high risks or be greedy to make big money, yet failed. before we all jump into conclusion abt those featured in the video, it's wise that we go down to the ground first and find out ourselves. the info in this video is blown out of proportion and can be a threat to harmony. if the leaders are being the target, i don't care. but this info is definitely incorrect.

  • some are just drunkards. some are greedy fellas who rent out their homes to illegal immigrants and got their flats confiscated. some slept at the void deck to study and fell asleep. some sleep at the void deck because they didn't plan their lives accordingly. some are begging foreigners with syndicates behind them. yet, u can see them returning again and again. have u checked their passports and ICs? in other words, they have their own reasons or problems caused by themselves.

  • even if they caused their own problems, it doesn't mean that they don't deserve a 2nd chance?

  • some are foreigners waiting for their court hearings with MOM and their former employer. some are gamblers or business people who lost a lot of money in their greed to make BIG MONEY. some are divorced cases that their family members had chased them out. some of them were street gangsters and drug addicts who, after release from prisons, are not accepted by their families.

  • i am not a politician nor am i a supporter of any political party. but looking at this video, i think that the maker has his own hidden agenda. these people featured in the videos are not reported correctly. some of them are actually working as cleaners and some who are collecting cardboards and looking into bins for recycling are also working. they have homes! those sleeping at the void decks are there for a few reasons.

  • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2009

    National Slavery

    it has been 7 months since I ORD but the bitterness, rage and hatred I felt from National Service did not a bit fade away. these negative feelings get amplified each time when

    1) I hear PAP Ministers and MPs claim how much they "sacrificed" for the Nation(only to be remunerated with ridiculous paycheck)

    2) I see foreigners outnumbering Singaporeans in any places be it public transport or a restaurant.

  • NS is a way of retarding males from advancing in their lives whether locally or internationally - somehow evn 24 months can do lots to screw up your life!

  • grow a backbone

    stop whining and actually do something about it

    "oh i feel sad this is sad"

    do something about it your sympathy doesnt mean a thing

  • there is no such a thing as "sympathy" in the collective psyche of Singaporeans. believe it or not - its a Dog Eat Dog Rat Race out there.

  • i agree! this IS sad..but this sadness and this sympathy isn't worth a thing, unless you take your sympathy, and you do something with it to help the situation.

  • You should ask PAP to help them as I'm already struggling here.

  • i love my country singapura .. its where my family is at ...friends... but the country still saddens me . everyone is stil struggling... even my old dad still has to work to pay em bills...

  • actually, singapore is entering the business era to hold the asian economy to be on par with japan and south korea.. but.. will singaporeans create privatised multi national corporations? its up to us the younger generations.. or else we will be fighting for jobs amongst the foreigners..