How can the talk big Pap govt help its citizens ? By giving out $100 or $200 rebate can’t solve the problem. The govt always say work til 62 and beyond, but at 46, no body wants to employ us because the employers say above 40 are too old.
How Pap ? Mr Lim Swee Say, how you can help the workers ? Retraining and retraining ? What we want is 3 meals ok??

When I go to overseas, foreigners keep singing praises for Singapore. But they just do not know our real situation and plight. At least they can still grow “kayu ubi” and breed chickens at their backyards. What can we breed? Cockroaches? Flies? Ants? Cats?

In this bad time, more and more people will soon be facing this kind of situation especially those above 40. The handouts by the garment are hardly enough not even to think of the daily 3 basic meals. In this way, majority of these people will just have to do whatever they can to pull through. There will be more anger, more frustration, more hatred and ultimately leading to more crime to come when people became too desperate. All these you can only find in a tiny red dot called uniquely singapore indeed.

retraining will only benefit those government or ppl close to government. as they can set up retraining centre and earn more money.

ordinary singaporean will not benefit much.

maybe government should make more donation to those charity.

like there is one chinese temple called ju shi lin near to md sultan road, which provide free 3 meals everyday.

or maybe government can nationalise the temple and every singaporean if in need can go there to eat for free.

but government not stupid. they will not do this type of dirty and no profit jobs.

good jobs and big earning jobs government will do only.

dirty jobs and low profit jobs all let private companies do.

I am jobless for a many many months already.
am pretty well qualified
but jobless and experienced.

i wonder is there help for people like me.
not just talk talk kind of help but real help that can be proven.

got so much reserves .
why not use a bit for this purpose in
this financial tsunami
to help all
citizens, highly educated or lowly educated?
why why why?
why not?

6) goh teo hoot raymonda on January 6th, 2009 8.54 am
got so much reserves why not use a bit for this purpose in this financial tsunami
to help all citizens, highly educated or lowly educated?

With the numbers of losses in overseas investment by GIC/TEMASEK, don’t think there is any much left in the nation reserve. If there still are then why the need to continue and press on with all the high price hikes even the country is already into bad reccession? There are only 2 possible answers here 1) either they are and still very greedy and want more and more, or 2) they need to recuperate all those losses incurred by them as quick as possible before next coming GE, just in case to show the people that country is in safe hand when being quiried.

7) tiredsingaporean
I 100% agree with u that not much nation reserve left. I think the second answer u mentioned is more likely. We the citizenry hv to suffer due to these groups of stupid elites’ blunder. sigh.