Babies

Our government finally decide to get tough on our baby problems.

It's approach?

1. Encouraging marriage and parenthood
2. Engaging and bonding with overseas Singaporeans
3. Attracting foreigners to become Permanent Residents (PRs) or Singapore citizens.

Strangely enough, the 1030 words article had 80% of it on point 3.

I guess they had given up on point 1 after cracking their head over it for so many years. Point 2, well if someone had decided to undergo the tedious process of uprooting and move away I think it must have came with a lot of thought and planning. So most likely it won't be repeated to reverse the whole thing. (Any idea how many Singaporeans migrate out per year?)

So new intake it shall be.

Personally I have no issues with foreigners. Our ancestors all were and even if the current ones are here merely for stepping stone purpose, their daily expenses would concertedly contribute somewhat to our economy.

But just look at us. Our ancestors were immigrants. They copulate like nobody business(My grandma had 10 children and I heard this is only quite average) and gave birth to our parents. (I only have one sister).

See the funnelling effect? Now that it's my turn, I can't even fathom the thought of having even one child.

So hypothetically, the son's and daughter's of these new immigrants would eventually adopt my current mindset.

A vicious cycle.

So point 1 is really the symptom that should focus on and correct the cause, whereas point 2 is more of a sustaining issue. No point giving birth to a dozen with 11 of them opting to migrate out.

Is it so hard to realise why people are not giving birth? It's not that we don't want to. It's that we can't afford to.

No point in giving incentives to breed. Just like raising the bus fares permanently and give us a paltry ERS or NSS to pacify. It will only distract us but the problem of higher travelling expenses won't be solved. And if you don't do your sum right, it will smack you right in the face in time to come.

And giving more birth incentives ain't going to make people suddenly go," Oh man! I gotta quickly have 4 kids! Must.earn.that.incentives."

If so, then I think we have a bigger problems on hand. Stupidity.