Just Who Is Entitled To Entitlement Mentality?

So how has the NATCON progress?

Poor sod, ST Editor reminds all that NATCON needs to focus attention on critical issues at hand. He has now set an agenda on what we should 'con' about. ST Nov 11, 2012 Think Page 45 

Sadly for him and PAP, the way things are, it's degenerated into a self-talk between PAP and mainstream media.

The lastest charm offensive was at the Singapore Children's Society where the Prime Minister said, "The government cannot, and should not do, try to do everything. It is too impersonal. It can be bureaucratic and help then becomes a matter of social administration, not of care and compassion. And eventually, this fosters an entitlement mentality, instead of a sense of mutual obligation of and of gratitude between the helpers and the helped." [Link]

Oops! To who does this entitlement mentality belong? Though it hurts, let's wise up to the fact that entitlement mentality of the less endowed is less harmful than entitlement mentality practised by the rich and powerful!. Here are some good examples:

• PAP MPs who think they are entitled to and deserve to show off their faces and advertise themselves cheaply at every street corner at every festivity, be it Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Christmas, Deepavali, Moon Cake Festival, etc. 

• PAP Ministers who think that they are entitled to and deserve obscene salary
• PAP MP who think that they are entitled to special privileges, rights and power in messing with rules, regulations and laws. Did you hear of PAP MP Seah Kian Peng instructing traffic warden not to issue summons for offenses committed? [Link].
• Attorney General who was entitled to read and interpret English in a funny way when Lee Hsien Loong, Goh Chok Tong and Tony Tan were caught in a polling station in Cheng San GRC. "Plainly, a person inside a polling station cannot be said to be within a radius of 200 metres of a polling station" [Link]

I'm sure readers would have known of more incidents of 'entitlement mentality' practised by others. It'll be good to hear from you.

Meanwhile, you may like to read this [Link] and watch the following to dig deeper into what entitlement mentality is all about.

From the way that PAP treats FTs so differently from the way it treats Singaporeans (what with one calling us "dogs"), this angry foreigner in the video above in his entitlement mentality may even think that he can get away with murder!

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