Originally posted by robertteh:
No welfarism for the people or lowering of fees of essential government services like transportation or medicare - no way as it will lead us down the slippery slope of no return and that is what our leaders say.
Welfarism for the MPs, Ministers and elites in various GLCs for bill collector jobs - this is okay, this is different from welfare when we pay the 2-term ministers and MPs to stay at home to receive S$1,000,000,000.00 in lifelong pensions for the next 25-35 years at taxpayers' expense, that is peanuts considering that these elites are helping citizens to lower costs of living and reaching Swiss standard of living or creating more jobs for the locals.
So who is practising welfarism. Is lifelong pensions for MPs and ministers welfarism?
One would have thought that the losses on Shin Corp or Souzhou is some kind of welfare for foreigners like Thaksin or the mainland Chinese.
People have asked for part of the MPs' and Ministers' pension to be put into endowment fund to ease the high costs of living of people or upgrade business competitiveness.
These people's view to put the surpluses of the people to good use were considered welfarism I suppose as so far there is no reply from the post 65s MPs or the younger Ministers.
I don't think these a s s holes will sacrifice their luxuries for the peasants. 
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