Singapore's Rising Poor
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What am i doing? Well i am here lurking and skulking in the safe confines of cyberspace ever ready to put down propagandist slur that you type out. The Supreme Conster laments the fact that there are not enough "streetfighter" in S'pore. Well someone has to step up to the plate.Originally posted by Salman:So what are you doing?
When yu can't debate, you start calling names.
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Why are you feeding trolls like you said?
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so you've finally admitted you are the troll, aren't you? : )Originally posted by Salman:Why are you feeding trolls like you said? -
He called me a troll and he's feeding me, he must be contradicting himself. That doesn't mean i am a troll or admit to be one.
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okOriginally posted by Salman:He called me a troll and he's feeding me, he must be contradicting himself. That doesn't mean i am a troll or admit to be one. -
Comcare reaches out to help the poor in singapore. a family was extended 257.50 per month to help them through.
can that amount help anyone? -
Yes dragg; I wonder too, can $257.50 "help"?Originally posted by dragg:Comcare reaches out to help the poor in singapore. a family was extended 257.50 per month to help them through.
can that amount help anyone?
Take the number 257.50, and see what number of things can be done with it. Or is it just for basic food and then other domestic bills keeps piling up to the ceiling? -
that amount is hardly enough to feed 1 person, let alone a family.
i wonder how many households are there with such problems? we regularly see reports or hear of students skipping meals, unable to pay school fees, no money for books etc.
mind you. we have hundreds of billions of national reserves. our ministers are paid over 100k a month. we have the faster growing percentage of millionaires.
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Well dragg, if our government keeps hoarding money for themselves only, WHAT CAN WE DO???
We're all frogs in this big fat well!!
We're all keeping our heads above the waterline as it is!
You see, we're all so pre-occupied trying to survive.
Unless, there someone like Superman other than that Chee Soon Juan fellow...
There's no credible opposition who can stand up to our PAP who wields the mighty sword of justice so skillfully. -
If Comcare seriously thought that $257.50 is sufficient for a family to last a month. Guess it is time for the MPs or Ministers who are heading the group to speak up and propose that our our PM, SM and MM have their salary review to $25,750 monthly.Originally posted by dragg:Comcare reaches out to help the poor in singapore. a family was extended 257.50 per month to help them through.
can that amount help anyone?
It is still 100 times more than $257.50.
Hahaha....... $257.50!!! What a joke
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Ask for more?
Then you would hear the oft repeated statement by some MIW : Singapore is not and will not be a welfare state...
I guess its what the starving people want to hear ... how principled our MIW are ... Hurray! -
As I said, this country is great for the rich and very hard on the poor
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WHY must we always expecting the opposition party to fight for the unjust, unfair happenings created by the ruling party aka PAP who formed the government.Originally posted by ShutterBug:Well dragg, if our government keeps hoarding money for themselves only, WHAT CAN WE DO???
We're all frogs in this big fat well!!
We're all keeping our heads above the waterline as it is!
You see, we're all so pre-occupied trying to survive.
Unless, there someone like Superman other than that Chee Soon Juan fellow...
There's no credible opposition who can stand up to our PAP who wields the mighty sword of justice so skillfully.
WHY cant the PAP comrades (MPs) of our own gahmen fight for the cause of the poor.
For this moment, I like to ask the WHY my PAP MP is not fighting for the cause of the poor (in this instances of $257.50) on behalf of us as citizen of Singapore.
DO my PAP MP also think it was a sufficient amount?
Maybe time will tell, since the report just came out in the news yesterday, I could be wrong. Possibly my PAP MP will speak about this subject (and his own feeling) in the next paliament sitting.
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maybe i should correct myself. 257 is a lot.Originally posted by ShutterBug:Well dragg, if our government keeps hoarding money for themselves only, WHAT CAN WE DO???
We're all frogs in this big fat well!!
We're all keeping our heads above the waterline as it is!
You see, we're all so pre-occupied trying to survive.
Unless, there someone like Superman other than that Chee Soon Juan fellow...
There's no credible opposition who can stand up to our PAP who wields the mighty sword of justice so skillfully.
it might be discontinued after the election is over. by then they wont even have 257.
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I mean, what's the point? The government offers financial "assistance" but puts up a barrage of creterias to be met, that most may not qualify for "aid" or simply don't know how to begin asking for help.
Everything is so "by the book", that even if you are obviously ill or handicap, you won't be recognized as needy if you have no paper certifying your medical condition/s.
They will say that so long as you're standing, you can work.
This is the blind stupidity of our government's system. They either expect you to become a vegetable in hospital bed or die before letting you have your CPF money to help yourself.
Yes, you have to be dying before you can touch your own money.
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did you watch the renci charity show recently?
one of the patients was a prisoner who fell and hurt his head. he was pardoned.
and renci (actually singaporeans who donated) ended up providing for him. -
New economies can be developed based on the above statement.Originally posted by mistyblue:As I said, this country is great for the rich and very hard on the poor -
very chim.Originally posted by shade343:New economies can be developed based on the above statement.
can you elaborate further, mr professor?