Some Cursory Reflections on an Article by 五十米深藍

標籤: 左冷禪

五十米深藍,with greatest respect, I am very surprised by what you wrote in your article saying “香港人已不可再慷慨起來?” and “香港愈來愈變得某種人的意識形態作主”. First of all, can you please tell me why should I be generous to groups of immigrants who are reluctant to work and come to Hong Kong cherishing the fantasy that their well-being will be taken care of? What makes my/our generosity justifiable before people who choose to fold their arms up and idle their lives in restaurant or elsewhere and don’t bother to find a job and earn their own living? Situation would be otherwise if they are handicapped or have totally lost their working capacity. I have little idea of how much income tax you have to pay throughout all these years or how benevolent you are but I truly believe anyone with a reasonable mind would agree that public interest could be served better by having our income tax, derived from sweat and toil, spent on social infrastructure, education etc than feeding those good for nothing men of sloth. Nobody points a gun at their heads and asks them to marry women in mainland as one will not die of being a bachelor. At the time when these gentlemen put their signatures on the marriage certificates, they should anticipate separation with the loved ones is inevitable. Nor does anyone ask them to give birth to offsprings as neither of them are pedigree dogs or horses with prize-winning ancestry. So when it is on their own initiative to have children, they are not obliged to rely on you or me to pay their expenses out of our tax money. Even if you think Hong Kong is a place with abundant wealth, they are not entitled to look upon us for endless financial support. If they are orphans or widows with several children who have no means to earn their bread and butter, social welfare support of course should never be withheld as a miser would do in a situation as such. But for those who deliberately choose not to work and idly expect that bread be gifted by some merciful souls, then Hong Kong definitely should not portray itself as their wonderland where milk and honey is flowing everywhere.

Perhaps you may think I am just another victim of individualism or class consciousness, but honestly I am only an advocate of fairness. Right/welfare should only be rendered if there is an obligation borne on a person. In the West, the working population is heavily taxed, they therefore entirely deserve all the social welfare available for them and their family. But THEY, who only take but never give, are no better than locusts and deserve nothing but pesticides.

In relation to the inflows of mainland pregnant women, the problem could only be solved by amending the legislation of Hong Kong. Had our immigration law been amended to the effect that only babies with Hong Kong citizen parenthood could obtain the right of abode in Hong Kong, I daresay the number of mainland pregnant ladies coming to Hong Kong would have dropped within a forenight. Hong Kong is never, nor will be a legend(神話). Hong Kong is only a place where opportunities are available for those who would bother to give a try.

Personally I wish to give an applause to the Indians and Napelese who support their families by working as a security guard at a building or workman on the construction site.

Lastly, I think it is utterly unfair to compare the present immigrants, to whom Hong Kong is trying to close the gate, with those immigrants in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Those who came in the 50s and 60s did bring along with them capital, both economic and cultural. Hong Kong's success should largely be attributed to their labour and investment, without which a barren rock could never have turned into an international metropolis.