Over the last two decades or more, IT has become the exploiter of the people, making use of the people to hold on to and prolong IT’s power, only paying lip-service and dishing out cursory peanuts and sweeteners to pretend to show IT still has a heart for the people. From the meaningless and misleading words of the present bunch of incompetent and self-over-rated world’s highest paid millionaire-aspirant ministars, we can easily sense their insincerity and hypocrisy.

It is very obvious that we are all now left by ourselves to fend for ourselves. The superficial measures that they are taking a merely cursory short-term fire-fighting actions to blur our eyes in order to tie them over once again. They do not really have any long-term measures to ensure our quality of life in the long run.

Therefore, in the next GE, we should all register a loud and clear response to these self-serving and self-enriching lot of elitists and hypocrites. May the force be with all of us, the common people in the next GE.

Singapore’s central bank is likely to flood the local money market with liquidity in the coming months as it prepares to let its currency weaken to head off a sharper economic slowdown, analysts said on Tuesday.

By flooding the money market with S$ to weaken our currency, imported goods that are sold in Sg will become relatively more expensive for the Singaporeans.

That is because we need to import most of our necessities from overseas and will be paying with a currency that is likely to be worth less in future.

So as the citizens are in the midst of battling recession and suffering declining wages and job opportunities, our monetary policy is weakening the purchasing power of the people.

What a double whammy.

army got teach ma day1 – take cover!

so maybe due to this, need many reasons to take cover ma…

but if those PEOPLE do in this way,

commoners how huh? who help commoners? commoners help themself?

aiyoyo

I hope OECD will continue to put more pressure on this issue. While the rich gets richer every year even in bad times, the poor and the middle class people will be suffer. This world is now nothing but a huge playground for monopoly of businesses among a bunch of dirty political crooks.

we should not complain.
we accept the system.

we as in the majority.

wah, even must say thank you to the majority lor.

knn! kampong news networkz.

and hi 17) lemans! the rise in import cost is partly due to the gahmen need to increase export, and that’s usually done at the expense of import cost *depreciation of SGD for export”

The issue of food inflation is serious, but has been given a lip service so far.
Why? Because (1) There is not enough lobbyist around to champion the cause for the general public and consumers (2) The mainstream media is not covering this topics so they dont have to ask the Ministers (who dont have the answers) to tackle such issue.

My question is: If the World Class team cannot address the food inflation issues that’s affecting the low and middle-income singaporeans, how could the Team tackle other more pressing issues? Shouldn’t we expect 1st Class solution from a World Class team?

If I pay for a rolls royce, I expect the best, no 2nd grade.

Like that the whole thing is looking so ex-NKF. Keep sucking in all the funds and yet no tansparency to the public.

Let us manage our own money. Keeping a minimium amount for MR is good enough. When I retire I want to withdraw my own money to use it on my own. If they are afraid the the old folks is too senile to manage his own money then take a mental test to access the level of mental and grant the equal amount of CPF retirement fund allowed to withdraw.

Keep all our money and yet all the secrecy. F!

turning a deaf ear is what they are well-versed in, ain’t it? and appeal or voice out that we have is usually met with that…

Many hawkers complained, but govt turned a deaf ear!!!

how much more shit must we endure from them? we are like getting endless shit for the past few years?

The gahmen has all the figures of the citizen’s Medisave amounts, their average savings rate, annual healthcare costs and projected increases in future healthcare costs.

Instead of finding means to REDUCE or at least keep healthcare costs unchanged, it seems to me that they are still driving ahead with their own agenda of providing a swanky healthcare system that will eventually be beyond the means of the average Singaporean.

No matter how often the minister of health steps forward to proclaim how “affordable” healthcare is in Sg, those of us at the paying end know otherwise. As the saying goes “It is better to die early than to pay the high healthcare bills in Sg.”

So whenever I see huge plasma screen TVs or fully air-conditioned wards, perhaps it is time for the Ministry of Health to change their mindset. Instead of building the most modern, expensive, beautiful hospitals, can they build more basic buildings and provide less frills so that the average S’porean can readily afford instead of modern expensive hospitals that average S’poreans will find it hard to pay for?

After all, the average Singaporean goes to the polyclinic and hospital to get treated, not to get a visual treat. If we wanted that, we’d pay to enjoy the surroundings of Shangri-la Hotel instead.

Are the providers of healthcare here really reading the needs of the people accurately? Or are they projecting their assumptions and agendas onto their projects?

Are hospitals here meant to be showcases for the Ministers and scholars to show off to the world and get promoted? What about having hospitals places to provide a basic level a basic level of healthcare for all citizens?

As we take the first steps into a recession, perhaps Khaw and Co should reflect on their role and responsibilities to the middle and lower income citizens.

Is it time to have a healthcare system that does away with all the bells and whistles so that the extra costs will not add to the people’s financial burden especially during these trying times?.

Lastly, does anyone know if the cost of land that the hospital or polyclinic is imputed into our healthcare bill? If so, what is the basis that the hospital land is priced at?