Finally Singapore in Google News Top Stories - wrong reasons
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talking about maids, the employers here pay $480 a month excluding lodging, food and airtickets, but the maid only get $280, the balance goes to the government as a levy, for what? issuing the permit? who is exploiting the maids???Originally posted by oxford mushroom:Just ask how many Singaporeans give their maids a day off? How many of them expect their maids to work 12 hours a day, 365 days a year for $300 a month. Environment? Excuse me...how many hybrid cars do you see on the road?
how many hybrid cars do you see anywhere in the world?? how does it reflect environment friendliness??
Let me add this, the strikes in HK during the WTO/WB meetings there, did not affect the business there at all, but the smog from south china, hovering over HK, is now driving foreign investors away. Look at what the CSOs are advocatin, not just focus our eyes narrowly on the way they express themselves. -
The levy is to meant to discourage all and sundry from hiring even more FTs. Without the levy, will Singaporeans pay their maids more? I doubt it. How many Singaporeans are willing to give their maids a day off?Originally posted by sgdiehard:talking about maids, the employers here pay $480 a month excluding lodging, food and airtickets, but the maid only get $280, the balance goes to the government as a levy, for what? issuing the permit? who is exploiting the maids??? how many hybrid cars do you see anywhere in the world?? how does it reflect environment friendliness??
Let me add this, the strikes in HK during the WTO/WB meetings there, did not affect the business there at all, but the smog from south china, hovering over HK, is now driving foreign investors away. Look at what the CSOs are advocatin, not just focus our eyes narrowly on the way they express themselves.
How many of those tree-hugging environmentalists own hybrid cars then? Isn't it pure hypocrisy? Fact is, most Singaporeans are not interested enough in environmental issues to consider switching to hybrid cars, even with the tax incentive.
Bottomline is: majority of Singaporeans are more motivated by financial considerations than any human rights or environmental issues. If you want them to give their maids a day off, you've got to legislate. If you want them to drive hybrid cars, you have to drastically increase taxes on ordinary cars. -
and the party that produced the education ministers of these mindless souless economic robots? Send that party to Outer Mongolia for re-education...
Instead of educating the young for the country and their own dignity; educate them to work as slaves... oppressing and exploiting them all for what?
So that they can rob the money from Singaporeans and lose it to investments like Optus and Shin Corp...
what a remarkable family with such great abilities to make money from monopolies in Singapore and give it to foreigners...
wakey wakey sheep... the whole intelligent world looks upon your idols as pariah dictators except you who had your brained washed... -
there are reasons why employers here are not willing to give their maids a day off, or rather they prefer their maids to get paid in lieu of, or take the off days at the end of the contract and leave early. They get paid instead of money taken away. maids are no FTs!!Originally posted by oxford mushroom:The levy is to meant to discourage all and sundry from hiring even more FTs. Without the levy, will Singaporeans pay their maids more? I doubt it. How many Singaporeans are willing to give their maids a day off?
How many of those tree-hugging environmentalists own hybrid cars then? Isn't it pure hypocrisy? Fact is, most Singaporeans are not interested enough in environmental issues to consider switching to hybrid cars, even with the tax incentive.
Bottomline is: majority of Singaporeans are more motivated by financial considerations than any human rights or environmental issues. If you want them to give their maids a day off, you've got to legislate. If you want them to drive hybrid cars, you have to drastically increase taxes on ordinary cars.
we have agreement on your last two paragraphs, singaporean, like sgPAP, looks only at bottomline, money!! who are developing those hybrid cars? who ensure that emission limits are implemented? history tells us that we can't just leave it to the cars manufacturers or the oil companies, there must be legislations, by international bodies, by the governments, WTO/IMF meeting is one of the opportunities where many such and similar issues and concerns are brought up. These CSO activists do not travel all over the world demonstrate and vandalising as a norm, and accommodating them as a host is only an identification with their cause. There is really no need to put up fences barbed wire, deploy Gurkas, tanks ....... -
Honda Civic 1.6 costs 70,500Originally posted by oxford mushroom:Fact is, most Singaporeans are not interested enough in environmental issues to consider switching to hybrid cars, even with the tax incentive.
Bottomline is: majority of Singaporeans are more motivated by financial considerations than any human rights or environmental issues.
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If you want them to drive hybrid cars, you have to drastically increase taxes on ordinary cars.
Honda Civic Hybrid costs 79.500
Toyota Corolla 1.6 costs 54,988
Toyota Pirus costs 84,888
As you have said, Singaporean are motivated by financial considerations. Who would want to buy hybrid cars that are significantly more expensive than normal cars? It's not a matter of being 'green' or not. Most would want to use hybrid cars to save costs on petrol if they are priced quite close to normal cars. -
All this about going green is just another TKSS session.
Look, ultimately it is the world's politicians who are making money from oil and the use of petrol for cars, why would they want to accelerate the move to hybrid cars???
In the end, I think money instead of environment is of greater concern to all the powers that be in this world - not just us here in SG!
Just look at ciggarettes; they're said to be bad for health, but instead of banning imports altogether, they increased the prices ridiculously! As such, Who's making money??