Singapore Democratic Party member Wong U-Wen highlights the difficulties and discrimination faced by the disabled and deaf communities in Singapore.
Read: 10 years and still no public transport subsidy for disabled.
Read other reports here, here, here.
Enough of the pathos, SDP.
TOC is recruting.
Oh my goodness, I am lost for words.
We should just remove rams and lifts in MRT stations and neighbourhoods, the many expensive new wheelchair accessible buses that you often see (with not a single wheelchair bound person in sight I might add), and the long standing tax benefits for those who care for the disabled, etc. I am pretty sure there are other examples you can think of. They have been basically all for naught.
By the way, the guy in the video just claimed that the “mainstream media” discriminates against deaf people? Apparently, this guy is part of the statistic which refuses to get with the times and move on to the Internet for news. Has it occurred to him that that way he does not have to read lips? By the way, “mainstream media” is a political term conveniently used in and imported from the U.S. So there you go, SDP, thank you for not advancing the political dialog in Singapore with political junk.
Folks, can you really see the people of SDP as leaders of our nation. I didn’t think so.
Young new political party must be given time to mature and the members equally given a little extra room to grow with it. We must not expect them to be as savvy as the PAP which had 50 years of practise. Unless given a chance, there will be no chance in our country. Remember the country is run by the civil servants and as long as the civil service is there, the country will run as well. What we see will be the changes to policies e.g. health, FT/FW which are very unpopular with SinKaporean. maybe the granting of PR and citizenship policy will be changed as well. If we think the situation is bad now, sadly more bad news is in the pipeline. Please see link below: The discovery of the northern passage through the Russian Arctic will remove a large part of Sinkapore’s port businese. If the global warming continue which it will, the day will come when the shipping routes to Europe from Asia will take this short cut . Our only permanent lifeline. When that day arrived Sinkapore position as a trading country will be seriously affected.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8264345.stm