a bit extreme but that's the long and short of our lives here...
the politicians twist words..
because no one is protesting, the Dragon Prince says we're happy with the policies...
they compare our wages with people like countries with definate lower wages and tell us to be happy... but there, everything's cheaper..
they scrimp and save to get some savings of a few dollars while throwing millions away with useless Ministers of State... when the Minister himself should be more than competent enough.. why else we pay him millions?
there are more.. just scratch underneath the shiny surface and see the rotten core of the people in power
Originally posted by oceanic:
tke a look at this.. posted fr another forum
I draw 1700 dollars a month with no increment for the last 3 years. My
mum draws 500 dollars a month. We have long
> working hours, and rarely get to see each other. After CPF 20% cut and
other taxes, we can barely make it through
> the end of the month.
>
> Yet we have a rude shock when we both found out we are the third highest
paid workers in the world. Our PAP
> Government has just told us that we draw higher salaries than even
Australia and USA! Our unemployment problem is
> due to the Singapore Citizen's fault. Our Salaries are just too high!!
>
> Well, just a few years ago, the PAP government says they were going to
resume CPF to 40%. Now, the tune has
> changed. We are paid too high. Cut CPF. At the same time the signal is
being sent that salaries should not be paid
> too high. Remember? China and India much cheaper. Yes! But does the cost
of a car or a house the same as the cost
> in Singapore??
>
> Next year, GST increases to 5% and everybody pays. This they keep mum.
Our ministers and MPs are the highest paid
> in the whole world. They get millions a year. Each constituency have 3 or
4 MPs. PAP is a big party. Singapore is
> very small island! Do we need so many MPs? So many civil servants are
redundant, overpaid and highly inefficient.
>
> Here we have a government who thinks they know best and never consults
the citizen of any decision that's made. In
> these times of difficulties we have a $650 million Esplanade splurge.
>
> Plus:
>
> We have a transport minister whose main priority isn't transport
efficiency but profits.
>
> We have the first driverless system that cost the citizen's transport
extra and breaks down frequently since its
> 1st use. We were told the fully automated system was developed to keep
running cost down. Yet we're required to pay
> a lot more for it. And it comes free value-added random breakdown feature
to 'attract' passengers!
>
> We have a government who on one hand splurge on the Esplanade but scrimp
on HDB upgrades on the other. Who won't
> learn after repeated mistakes of bankrupt contractors delaying the
upgrading project time and again? It is only
> after flare ups do they take attention to the issue. Have they gone so
fat in the middle that they have gone thick
> in the head??
>
> PAP is entirely faultless, so they claimed.
>
> I see now an increasingly bleak future for Singapore. The government has
a death gripe on the enterprises here and
> practices pseudo-deregulations and privatizations. They have no
directions. Despite top scholarly decisions made,
> Singapore's economy is going down, down, down. And now, to top it all,
they have resorted to pointing fingers
> shifting blames. The lowest of the low. Our salaries are higher than the
US (what a joke) Now we can all look
> forward to work till the end of our lives trying to pay up mortgage and
have an absolutely zero quality of life.
>
> I can barely survive on my own, much less talk about getting married and
having children. I guess that option is
> reserved for the PRs and the expats. I am in a country where Singaporeans
and its government look down on its own
> Singaporean citizens. Where they give all the key roles and development
to Angmoh expats and PRs.
>
> Seems to me as the day goes by that the quitters are winners and losers
are stayers.
>
> Ask yourself today, do you want a better quality of life? Will and can
Singapore gives you a better quality of
> life?
>
> Make a decision today. You'll feel better after you know where to go. For
those who want a better quality of life?
> Make plans. The PAP has shortchanged you and makes you slave to their
system till the end of your days. Only you
> can change your life.
>
> Emigrate when the time is right.
>
>
> What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
> what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
