The Reality
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"Nearly 300,000 Singaporean workers earn $1,200 or less in gross monthly income. Half of them, or one in 10 workers, earn even less - $900. They are the group most vulnerable to retrenchments and fallout from economic restructuring. Many already struggle to make ends meet and have little or nothing for their medical and retirement needs."
- Straits Times, July 1, 2005
"Monthly incomes for households in the bottom 20 per cent fell 3.2 per cent a year, from $933 in 1998 to $795 in 2003."
- Straits Times citing the household expenditure survey, Jun 18, 2005
"...the spiraling numbers of applications for the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund to help needy children. The number needing help tripled from 3,735 in 2001 to 10,419 in 2003. According to CDC figures, those needing financial aid swelled from 14,300 to 22,500 in 2002, and 31,570 in 2003."
- Straits Times, Jan 29, 2005 -
...all these stats... and our gov is blind to them all....!!!
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the poor and low income r invisible to them
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...lets see HOW INVISIBLE the numbers shall be to THEM, in the next bluddy GE!!!Originally posted by meltz:the poor and low income r invisible to them
DON'T OWE THEM - the VOTES!!!! -
Because they are the nobodies that gahmen is going to be left behind.
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One thing for sure 'nobodies' can't be just swept under the carpet. This will still stick up like sore thumbs. I remembered once MM Lee remarked about no beggars on the streets of Singapore... then, suddenly, we had vagabond pictures being located, snapped and posted! Ok, the police will appear... but like the Chinese saying... you can't wrapped fire with paper.
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i think he was misquoted.. he probably meant no vagabonds in his neighbourhood..Originally posted by eyebuzz:One thing for sure 'nobodies' can't be just swept under the carpet. This will still stick up like sore thumbs. I remembered once MM Lee remarked about no beggars on the streets of Singapore... then, suddenly, we had vagabond pictures being located, snapped and posted! Ok, the police will appear... but like the Chinese saying... you can't wrapped fire with paper.
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you meant he is MM for TP GRC?