Singapore 'Swiss' Standard of Living
As I grew older I feel that I’m becoming more and more bitter at the things I’m lacking of, and the growing envy for those who are more blessed than me in terms of material possession.
I know one’s wealth does not make a better happy person, nor will it constitute a person’s value in this world, but it can however add to your happiness.
It doesn’t help that the Government is still implementing policies that favour the rich, while giving crumbs to its people.
We then have our profit-making Goverment-Linked Companies (GLC) such as Temasek squandering billions instead of channeling it to welfare.
I don’t see it as a handout nor will it be a clutch mentality, as I would rather see the money be used taking care of its own citizen than rolling the dice at its open market investments.
We still have workers doing long shifts at minimum wage, while our millionaires population rose at the fastest pace in the world.
We need jobs pays that pays well for us locals to survive, and not wages limitation which was set up in order to attract foreign investments.
It’s a fact that there’s plenty out there who does not even earn enough to pay income tax. The divide between rich and poor in Singapore is indeed widening, that is a given.
Majulah Singapura …
1st of all I chanced upon yr blog while searching for some malay porn. Yes porn and for some reason we share the same name but different U. I like this post as I’m agree with u totally. The divide is huge. Fruit of public labour has always been unevenly supplied. The rich will get richer and the poor will suffer. They’ll jack up utility bills and petrol prices to the point where the middle class suffer. I believe the Government is good… good at jacking up everything except our pay. I work with foreigners every single day for 16 freaking hours. From management post to general workers. And it always eats me inside when I see those so called professionals drive and live in 5 rm hdb flats with their maids. Maybe I should ask the IRS what they do with my 2+k income tax that I pay every year. Is my degree worth less than one from Indian, China or Myanmar? Or do I need to shower in peroxide everyday? Well all I can say is I believe in what Francois de La Rochefoucauld said.
” In The Misfortunes Of Even Our Greatest Friends We Take A Certain Pleasure. “
We always complain yah…but i think our government is one of the best in world, in my opinion…I don’t think the divide between the middle class and the lower class is wider than many of the countries in the world. Let’s just take our South East Asian neighbours. Aint it true? Our government may not be perfect but we do uphold greatly the policy of meritocracy, aint it.
Woohoo (i hope LKY is reading this and would give me extra months bonus for being a loyal and ardent gahmen worker!) heh!
Your flawed sense of security is commendable. Meritocracy? U kidding right? The only uniform I wear is the colour of my skin n I doesn’t help that its the same colour as mud. And u know how people treat mud ( except those in India ) rite? My 2 cents. I dun wanna argue with some PAP Youth member. LKY dun read anything he has his people to do it.
Wow Uncle Sha, I see that you have very strong views on this issue..The gahmen do provide fair opportunities for all to succeed. Just look at our education system; all race, religion or gender is given equal opportunity. Not every country is as undiscriminating as ours. Take Afghanistan. Females are at a disadvantage when in comes to education. How lucky are we aint it?
Moreover,I can confidently say that even the poorest of the poorest in Singapore still is in a better condition than the poverty-stricken ones in Indonesia. We do have our grassroot leaders at least trying to make the effort to improve the situations for the less unfortunate ones like the Monday sessions at RCs.
Our politicians aint that bad compared to some politicians in other countries who are even using religion as the basis of winning the people over, but in the end, what has been done?
It’s all an act of a soothsayer or in this case an act of a Grande Talker.
Perhaps the issue at hand here is not so much of the gahmen not upholding meritocracy but the problem more of the society still having typical mindsets with hints of prejudices. The problem lies in us and not the gahmen. . .
Well anyway if we can’t handle it, just escape and party at Ibiza! Woohoo! :)
For your info, there’s two different Sha here.
Uncle Sha and Sha in this entry is two different person.
Uncle Sha is the blog author for this entry, and while another Sha who has the same name as me, who is the one who replied to your comments so far, aside from this, for which I replied.