[Post Election] Nicole Seah's Letter to Singaporeans
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08 08 am 07 05 2011 - i had made my voted
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I have done my part in the "liberation" for my country........ Pls do ur part guys~~~~~ Now me can relax liao mon go do my own "liberation" in motherland...... :P
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5 years ago, I gave a sympathy vote to the opposition party,so that they will not lose the deposit money. And hoping that they'll be back again in 5 years time.
Today my family will give them our votes with our hearts.
Vote For Change
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I am voting for change ...
1) Immigration policies - too many foreigners taking aways our jobs.Too many scholarships given to foreign students study in our poly and universities. If its the PAP's plan to significantly increase the ruling political party supporters by given new citizenships to these group of people, then i think its a letdown to the nation.
2) Health care - I'll want more health care subsidies for our own people.The rising health care cost is a major concern for lower and middle class citizens.
3) Listen to The voice of the people - Don't just come to us for only 10 days in 5 years and make us wait 10 days to see you for just less than 5 minutes.
4) Let Grow Together - The nation's economy grows, the international status of the country grows. Bring us along, don't let the weak, poor, needy and ordindary citizens be left behind.
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Originally posted by Donsan:
I am voting for change ...
1) Immigration policies - too many foreigners taking aways our jobs.Too many scholarships given to foreign students study in our poly and universities. If its the PAP's plan to significantly increase the ruling political party supporters by given new citizenships to these group of people, then i think its a letdown to the nation.
2) Health care - I'll want more health care subsidies for our own people.The rising health care cost is a major concern for lower and middle class citizens.
3) Listen to The voice of the people - Don't just come to us for only 10 days in 5 years and make us wait 10 days to see you for just less than 5 minutes.
4) Let Grow Together - The nation's economy grows, the international status of the country grows. Bring us along, don't let the weak, poor, needy and ordindary citizens be left behind.
This is Donsan Four Point Manifesto. Powerful leh.
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I cant stand the most is tat our local food handle by PRC.....phui.
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I will be glad . To be involve . To be part of a history .
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cut and paste from a comment from TR
Msg below is being circulated in the internet. Somehow this was not brought up as an issue in the election campaign by any of the opposition parties. If not mistaken, $9.6 billions have been put aside for this purpose and approved by Parliament then. Singaporeans seem to have poor memory and that is why the MIW have cleverly crafted this act to ensure that they and their families are well taken care of even they are being kicked out of Parliament. Hopefully the act will be repealed one day when the fat cats are ousted out.
DO MINISTERS RECEIVE 50% OF THEIR LAST-DRAWN PAY FOR LIFE?
You friend is wrong about 50%. It is actually as high as 2/3rds. The Parliamentary Pensions Act provides that “office holders” (which means “Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Speaker, Senior Minister, Minister, Senior Minister of State, Minister of State, Mayor, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Parliamentary Secretary or Political Secretary”). If you closed your eyes and threw a stone in Parliament House during a Parliamentary sitting – assuming if, and it is a big if, that everyone attends (which is never the case. Parliamentary sittings are lucky if 50% of MPs attend!) you will hit at least 1 or perhaps 2 with the stone ricocheting PAP chaps entitled to pensions.
Anyhow, back to your question. The Act has a formula for payment of the amount of pension. You start with a numerator of 8 (meaning 8 years of service as office holder) and add 1 for every year of service after that. You divide this number by a fixed denominator of 27, and you stop when the number hits 2/3rds, which means that anyone who has 18 years service will hi! t maximum pension. The amount that is due to him FOR LIFE is found at section 4:
4(2) The annual amount of pension payable to an office-holding Member shall be —
(a) in respect of every completed year of reckonable service in any office, or where he has served in
more than one office in each office, at the rate of one-twenty-seventh (1/27) of his annual salary in that
office; and(b) in respect of any remaining uncompleted year of reckonable service in any office, or where he has
served in more than one office in each office, at the rate of one-three-hundred and twenty-fourth (1/324)
part of his annual salary for each completed month of reckonable service in that office.
(2A) The annual pension payable to any office-holding Member under subsection (2) shall not exceed two-thirds
of the highest annual salary of any office held by him.(3) Subject to sections 13 and 15, a pension granted under this section shall continue for the life of the person to
whom it is payable but shall not be payable in respect of any period during which he is again an office-holding
Member; at the end of that period the pension shall again be payable and shall be re-computed with the addition
of that period to the period of his former reckonable service as an office-holding Member.(4) Fo! r the purposes of subsections (2) and (2A), “annual salary”, in relation to any office, means the annual
equivalent of the highest monthly rate of salary (excluding any non-pensionable allowances) received by an
office-holding Member during any period of reckonable service as a holder of that office.Astonishing, isn’t it that the pension is payable based on the “Highest annual salary of any office held by him” and “highest monthly rate of salary”. So, it doesn’t matter that the MP was a low ranking parliamentary secretary for 17 years, and then became a multi-million $ minister for 1 year. His pension will be based on 2/3rds of his salary as a minister, as that is his highest annual salary of any office held by him. So, it also doesn’t matter that there are occasional reductions in salary during recessions, since their pension is based on their highest annual salary.
On this basis, SM / PM / MM will get 2/3rd x $3 million for the rest of their lives. I understand that if they are eligible for pension and they are still serving, they get both salary plus pension concurrently. (see section 5).
Or did I forget to tell you that pensions are exempt from income tax? This is stated in the Income Tax Act!
It gets better. The Act says that the pension can be commutated. This means that it is paid in 1 lump sum instead of monthly payments for life. The lump sum is equivalent to 175.14 months of pension, i.e. 14.6 years of pension. It doesn’t matter that the minister asks for it because he has terminal cancer and has 3 months to live. He will get 14.6 years of pension paid to him in 1 go, and it will be tax free. If MM’s pension is base! d on 2.5 million (conservative estimate), his commutated pension is $36.5 million. Can buy a GCB with it, without any bank loan!
This is a real scandal. I was horrified when Goh Chok Tong proposed recently that ministers serve 8 years only, and new ones come in. It means that the pool of multi-million dollar pension earners will get bigger and bigger! It will add to the financial burden of future generations of Singaporeans having to pay for the pensions of people who have already been paid too much during their terms of office.
Who in the private sector is entitled to pension? And yet the ministers, etc are collecting tax free pensions on top of their world’s highest salaries. Now you know why George Yeo is fighting so hard to keep his job as minister.
Incidentally, all Admin Service officers, Sr Police & Military Officers and High Court Judges are still entitled to pensions in the same manner. No one else in the Civil Service gets pensions.
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knn kelong PHUI!!!!
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Originally posted by kinwashi:
too late maybe 5yrs later...... :P -
Haha...Komade.
let sing along....follow me.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
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Blue sky with no lighting.
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The tiger: Going, going...can this happen tonight.
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/the-tiger-going-going/102288
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Originally posted by kinwashi:
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Originally posted by kinwashi:
give you 5 years to repent.
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OMG...Alujnied mountain that Tiger is dead, unconfirmed hear-say only. ha.
Hero did it at last.
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Hear-say also very Jialat. below expectation.
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On behalf of all Singapreans , i salute the people from Aljunied GRC , u guys created history !
U people show us what is courage , guts and desire for change !
Unlike those others , phui !
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(WP) Opposition has 6 seats in Parliament
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more Blue sky days ahead.
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Received SMSes , that PAP wanted a recount not once , but 3 times ?
True ?
Well , now needed to interview for a new Foreign Minister and a Lim Hwee Hua need to find a new job , in Comfort , maybe ?
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TODAYonline: Interestingly, Potong Pasir has the fewest voters of all wards in Singapore, but it's the last to be announced
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Aljunied represent the whole of Singapore , well done Aljunied .
Anyone going to Aljunied in my cab , free of charge for one week !
