And have a huge outcry?Originally posted by highway69:Scrap entrance fee.Feel humiliated not able to enter your country bloody casino.
Genting is not easily accessible as it is high up in the mountains. malays/muslims are banned from casinos. all other malaysians have to pay deposit upon entry. hence it is not right to compare them to ours .Originally posted by Heartlander:It is mind boggling why the govt keeps acting like a fatherly figure looking after Singaporeans like kids or like fools who do not know how to look after themselves. Just because a compulsive gambler jumped to his death in Tampinines, they generalised that every gamblers will do the same. The Tampinines case might be just an isolated case. Any like minded Singaporeans will know gambling is bad and unproductive and the govt needs not have to impose that $100 or other restrictions to stop any Singaporeans to enter any casino. The whole world is laughing at Singapore for behaving in such pathetic manner in setting up a casino, even islamic Malaysia did not have that outcry when they set up a casino in Genting years ago. Singapore must be bold enough to step forward and catch up with the world and not wasting time on those petty issues as no other countries in the world have gone to such pathetic extent and taking such pathetic measures to bar its citizens from going to have a peeps at what the hell is going on in the dream world casino.
Go Genting bloody casino thenOriginally posted by highway69:Scrap entrance fee.Feel humiliated not able to enter your country bloody casino.
humiliated because you are not able to enter the casinoOriginally posted by highway69:Scrap entrance fee.Feel humiliated not able to enter your country bloody casino.
I like your question. Thats what I was wondering too.Originally posted by dragg:humiliated because you are not able to enter the casino
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humiliated because you cannot afford the $100 ????![]()
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Just like to add. If you are old enough, they also try to resist entry by making you wear their batik shirt.Originally posted by dragg:Genting is not easily accessible as it is high up in the mountains. malays/muslims are banned from casinos. all other malaysians have to pay deposit upon entry. hence it is not right to compare them to ours .
if the govt make entrance free-for-all most singaporeans will complain. you belong to the minority as far as this issue is concerned.
so let all those who wants to go to genting continue to do so. what is the point of whining about the entrance fee when the tender has not even begun. details are not even available.Originally posted by Heartlander:Sentosa has once charged an exorbitant entry fees and even those well off locals find it expensive to visit Sentosa. Eventually they lower it to some level but most Singaporeans, poor or wealthy already have that expensive charges built into their mind set. Many just did not want to go there and prefer to spend the money visiting Malaysia.
Malaysia has happily louded the building of the $100 entry fee casino in Singapore. They said it will certaintly promoting tourism in the region and in fact they read the minds of most lower salaried Singaporeans, who will rather spend the RM230 entry fees visiting Genting for at least a night and still can have some fun there! Many Singaporeans have in fact, taken a free cruise-to-nowhere to gamble in the cruise ship every night, they will not go to the $100 entry fee Casino on the mainland!
It had always been.Originally posted by Heartlander:It is mind boggling why the govt keeps acting like a fatherly figure looking after Singaporeans like kids or like fools who do not know how to look after themselves. Just because a compulsive gambler jumped to his death in Tampinines, they generalised that every gamblers will do the same. The Tampinines case might be just an isolated case. Any like minded Singaporeans will know gambling is bad and unproductive and the govt needs not have to impose that $100 or other restrictions to stop any Singaporeans to enter any casino. The whole world is laughing at Singapore for behaving in such pathetic manner in setting up a casino, even islamic Malaysia did not have that outcry when they set up a casino in Genting years ago. Singapore must be bold enough to step forward and catch up with the world and not wasting time on those petty issues as no other countries in the world have gone to such pathetic extent and taking such pathetic measures to bar its citizens from going to have a peeps at what the hell is going on in the dream world casino.
They always have been succussful. we are not like Korea, China or indonesia. Talk Aloud! Everyone in here just sit at home and keep quiet, wait someone (Our Hero) to stand to talk Aloud and fight fo fairness!!Originally posted by NuLife:It had always been.
The government had let success into their head.
And many sporeans basically do not have their own mind
following everything their government said is correct.
why do you use the word 'their'?Originally posted by NuLife:It had always been.
The government had let success into their head.
And many sporeans basically do not have their own mind
following everything their government said is correct.
Pease lah.It is not about the money.Why should we pay for something that is built on our own soil whereas the foreigners get in for free.GET IT?Originally posted by dragg:humiliated because you are not able to enter the casino
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humiliated because you cannot afford the $100 ????![]()
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Yeah.Why don't all of us strike, have riots juz like other countries.Obviously then you will say no.Originally posted by elindra:That's because a lot of Singaporeans like to be treated like kids
The government has been accumulating surpluses for most of the years even during recessions at the rate of S$2.0 billions per annuum.Originally posted by elindra:That's because a lot of Singaporeans like to be treated like kids
Originally posted by robertteh:where did you get such information?
[b]The government has been accumulating surpluses for most of the years even during recessions at the rate of S$2.0 billions per annuum.
Surely, before any departments or ministries ask for any fee increases the heads of departments or ministers can check with the Auditor General Mr. Chuan Kwong Yong whether the surpluses from national budget can be utilized to help out any particular shortfalls within any particular department.
If this cannot be done because like ex-President Ong Teng Cheong's case, civil servants cannot give figures of surpluses or asset values, the PM can use some of the extraordinary surpluses at statutory boards and GLCs to foot the shortfall.
The government is dragging its feet now not to use government surpluses to cover pocket shortfalls existing within certain departments and want all of them to make monies or surpluses.
This kind of creative accounting is wrong, anti-social and inequitable. No wonder the government is getting richer and people are getting poor and economy cannot grow.
If government has got talents and leadership, let them tell the voters whether this kind of creative accounting is correct or good corporate governance in the next election. [/b]
HDB/JTC and statutory boards have accumulated S$14 billions over the last 10 years of so. Monies made by HDB through land acquisition (using Land Acquisition Act) were transferred to the consolidated fund and lands sold back to HDB at market price.Originally posted by dragg:where did you get such information?
The annual government official budget surpluses were released in annual budgets. The off-budget surpluses accumulated by HDB and other statutory boards (S$14 billions over the past 10 years or so) were published in the ST and other papers in 2002.Originally posted by dragg:sorry. i dont find your answer in your reply.![]()