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Originally posted by Glen999:
we need to play around with the employment statisitic.
so, old folks have to join the workforce.
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Read on: The lingering question among Singaporeans was "the clearing up the slums of the 1960s and resettling squatters into low-cost government-built housing". The policy of the Garmen to resettle masses of people into HDB flats > Originally such flats were built for those purposes however, that too, became an explosive exploitation of the people who had to pay huge prices for their homes! They were built not just to re-settle homeless or landless people, but for sheer profits!. At first it seemed to be justifiable as land exploitation as in view of the general communal good, but when it comes to later acquisition was made compulsory to include all homes and shop houses on the Island, the issue had became an open question. Such strong hand tactics by implementation of acquisition laws as were never debated satisfactory or sufficiently to ease many minds of many people since the Politics was a one-way party with law making and law empowering abilities. However, land exploitation was to continue as a means to generate revenues when land prices skyrocketed, and the only beneficiaries were large landowners, banks and the biggest landowner, which is the Garmen. Conflicts between the greedy landowners and the garmen were often the undercurrent reason when animosities with the garmen were to be expected. Hong Leong was sidelined many times because it was one of the many involved in the conflict. The ordinary people lost homes, land and shop houses under the Acts and amendments of the Parliamentary legislative exploitation of the people and the land consistently since there was hardly any opposition to be a check and balance in the society. goto read about Exploitation!:
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