The perception grows that the country that the people had built, and continue by their best efforts to keep safe, well and functioning, now benefits a class of foreigners who are either more affluent than the Singaporean, or by their skills are enjoying a status as privileged as Singaporean citizenship.
The headache for the Singapore government is that with this perception also grows a sense of injustice among the people of Singapore. What the leaders of Singapore experience today are the pains of nationhood. Their people, despite their apparent wealth, are unhappy because they perceive their special position as the rightful people of Singapore to have been trespassed by policies, which combine the free market with regulations to favour the foreigner. Full story
