We have had two generations of Job Security What do we have now? Job Insecurity.
With intense globalisation over the past decade, we are linked ever more tightly with the rest of the world, in all ways — economically, socially, and to a certain extent politically. What has that given us? Yes, GDP per capita that is even higher than Britain, our former colonial masters, but what came with that?
West Coast GRC MP Ho Geok Choo
What came with that? White Supremacy, Madam MIW
What came after that? Elementary, Doctor Watson (I mean, Madam Ho)!
Many things came after that, not in proper sequence of events happening:
1. We have political “stability” and further entrenchment of power. The knuckle duster and the iron fist grip even harder and stronger. So much so it has become a stranglehold.
2. Instead of from one PM to the next PM, it has become from father to son. And what came after that? We have something like an entire family of Indians working in the same rubber estate.
3. Singaporeans have been accused of being complacent when Mas Selamat escaped from the ISD’s high security and high sensitivity detention, after two years of lock-up credited to Indonesia police’s help in finding and arresting him.
4. Singaporeans have been accused of being a “Nation of Complainers” openly in Parliament by none other than a very highly educated PhD holder MP.
5. Singaporeans have to compete with foreign talents and foreign talons to get a job, the salary of which has either stagnated or gone down the gutters.
6. Singaporeans have been told to “Stay Together and Move Ahead” but in reality only the top few “Move Ahead” while the majority of the citizens have been left by the wayside to fend for themselves “Staying Together” by themselves.
7. Singaporeans have been made to pay exorbitantly high price in order to lease a 99-year long-term rental flat misnomer-ly called a Home Ownership Scheme, which will take the rest of their working life to pay by monthly installments and eats up all their hard-earned CPF savings, leaving them nothing much for their retirement, resulting that they have to work until they drop dead.
8. Many Singaporeans fell through the cracks that have either been deliberately put there or inadvertently created by the authorities and some preferred to call it a day by jumping onto the MRT tracks or down the height of a 20-storey HDB flat to end their lives prematurely.
9. Singaporeans could not do a damned thing when the Ministers decided that their pay, though already the highest in the whole wide world, is still too little for them to survive honestly and therefore needed to be increased even higher based upon absurd assumptions and yardstick of measure.
10. Singapore’s MPs, before being elected showed how sincere they would be in representing their constituents but after having been elected, conveniently stop representing their constituents, except to vote in unison and collaboration in favour of whatever laws or policies being put forth by the ones whom they might have deemed to be their “Bosses”.
11. Though we have no beggars (because begging has been made an offence), we do have old gentlemen and ladies, well over 70 years of age, going around collecting cardboards, empty tin cans and bottles, as well as pretending to sell tissue papers, in order to earn a meager living. And we have the cheek to call ourselves a First World Country?
12. Last but not least, the changing of policies becomes like the changing of underwears but one thing which should have been changed long ago remains stubbornly unchanged and became popularly known as “Welfare Is A Dirty Word”!
Do you want some more? I will leave some for others to add on.
Sherlock Holmes.
04 February 2009.
is she in a daze? or is that a rhetorical question? something is wrong with our model..STUPID!
3) blackfeline on February 4th, 2009 8.22 am
It is a rhetorical question. Her answer to the question (you can click the link to read the rest of her speech) is:
“We had the 1998 financial crisis, the 2001 dot-com bust and ensuing recession, and in 2008, global financial meltdown and a global recession which continues.
Some economists predict this to be the worst recession since the Great Depression. Remember, we also had the Sept 11, 2001-induced world recession, and in 2003, we had SARS, a tragic international epidemic that underscored how globally connected Singapore is. Clearly, with our increasingly globalised economy and society, the periods of growth have become shorter, placing tremendous strain on individuals and families.
A Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) report recently noted that growth could dip to -2 to -5 percent in 2009. But with economic conditions rapidly deteriorating, I won’t be surprised if MTI further revises its forecast downwards in the near future. This is indeed a GLOBAL economic downturn and as the Finance Minister rightly pointed out, we cannot hope to export ourselves out of this recession. The US is in a full blown recession with unemployment in December 2008 at a startling 7.2%, the worst in 60 years, the Euro zone 7.8% and Japan, 3.9%. China and India are slowing down sharply as well.”
It is another case of people raising question of Singapore growth model and she is from PAP.
Singapore has changed physically but remains mentally retarded at the top.
numbers and figures are not everything.
Quality of Life,
Freedom,
Justice, Equality so as to achieve.
more important.
Afterall, a human compiled the statistics.
I think this crisis indicates its wise to have more Alternative Ideas in the Parl when there is already so many ……..
And now we have another case of “mad man” threatening an MP.
Wow, Singapore has really improved by leaps and bounds.Two such cases in a year.