Retire for what? Special tribute to Charlize

last SG · 2010-09-23T13:48:39+00:00

I mean as a retiree, of course we cannot compete with the young guns, they full of energy and can work long long hours, retirees ca actually take on much le...

Genie99a SG

You might think that I collected these headlines over a period of time but they are from today's New Paper. Yes, this is the amount of "encouragement" from just one single newspaper in one day telling you that you're better off not retiring - you'll be 'understimulated', idling, wasting your time and so on if you retire. For your own good, you shouldn't retire.....

The truth is the govt is selling the "never retire" idea not so that you can have a happier life but to solve other problems. A large segment of the population work for low wages and will never be able to retire at a proper age and have to keep working until they are very old. The PAP govt has been extending the CPF withdrawal age forcing Singaporeans to work until an advanced age and locking up bigger sums by raising the minimum sum and through schemes like CPF Life. As a principle, the PAP wants ordinary Singaporeans shoulder all retirement responsibility themselves without govt help. In a socio-enomomic system that has the highest income gap among developed countries, many workers don't even make enough to keep up with the rising cost of living let alone save for retirement. Unless the system changes, many will not have enough savings and CPF to ever retire. Today, we see many aged cleaners, tissue paper sellers and old folks who struggle to get by collect aluminium cans from bins, the sad thing is we see it so often and have gotten used to it. Many don't think about it until someone from China or Phillipines points it out to us..........a scene often repeated is one in which a tourist from China sit at one of our hawker centers to savor our local delights only to get a shock when a frail aged Singaporean comes by to clean the table - something he never expects to see in a first world country. He looks at his Singaporean friend for an answer but get this "what's the big deal" look. Many Singaporeans have no choice, under the PAP leadership, but to accept that some among us have to work until the day they die. This something considered inhumane in other countries but is a policy goal of the PAP govt and the state controlled media goes all out to get us to accept it by telling us that it is a "waste to retire", "retirement is idling"...and promote MM Lee's notion that retirement means death[Link]. The old folks that are working today were part of an obedient workforce that created the Singapore economic "miracle" in the 70s and 80s when Singapore's economy grew rapidly and the workforce ranked number 1 in the world for more than 2 decades. Today some members of this highly productive number 1 workforce have to continue working in their seventies as the PAP govt takes credit for Singapore's economic success by paying its people in govt the highest salaries in the world and forgets the workforce that made all the sacrifices - a workforce that never went on strike, accepted long hours, worked the 3 shift, took reduced benefits and CPF reductions to keep Singapore competitive.

A few weeks ago, I met a friend who retired after a successful career. He now spends his time with his wife who was retrenched a year ago. The couple have 2 children and are looking forward to having grand children. He told me that retirement is the best part of his life which was "quite stressful" when he was climbing the corporate ladder. He told me he finds those articles that criticise retirement by calling retirees "time wasters", "idlers" and "useless" very insulting because he feels they are directed at him asking him to give up the best part of his life. The real tragedy is so many Singaporeans who have worked hard all their lives are forced to continue working when they are aged employed in menial jobs for very low pay. The PAP govt is trying its best to deliver this "work until you die" future to ordinary Singaporeans by asking you to be "better, faster, cheaper"...... and "work forever"....

http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2010/09/never-retire-message-gets-louder.html

Charlize will like this as the blogger Lucky Tan is definitely an advocate of Cheaper Better Faster

Kind Regards

Genie

angel7030 SG

PAP did not ask you to work until you die, it simply said, "you should not retire" not retiring meaning you can do what you like, like take care of grandchildrens, go drink coffee with frens or PRC gals, or visit my pubs etc etc...you got to get the meaning correct, in court, if you insist singaporean work until die, that is wrong. And it is alway good to be cheaper, better and faster in whatever you do, by doing it cheaper, you gain, by doing it better, your quality increase, by doing it faster, you collect money faster.

But i understand, as alway, when govt said something, it can be interpreted in many ways.

Asromanista2001 SG

more horse dung from LKY.................so he can draw 3m salary until he die lor..............

aiyah, the old fart..................early die , faster good lah...............

angel7030 SG

fast to cook, good to eat..////...maggie mee!

PedoBear SG

But i understand, as alway, when govt said something, it can be interpreted in many ways.

i beg to differ

LKY did say work until you die as he also wants to be a minister until he dies (to all the gestapos, i am not cursing LKY, infact i hope he lives to be a million years old)

Asromanista2001 SG

another one that's being brainwashed...............

LKY SHOULD HAVE DIED............................yesterday..................

PedoBear SG

another one that's being brainwashed...............

LKY SHOULD HAVE DIED............................yesterday..................

is this directed at me?

my comments about the gestapo is just so that they will leave me alone

for some reason, i ended up in isa's monitored list.

hell, i only like chewren, i dont like politics

so screw off isa

likeyou SG

I also prefer to work even when I am retired.

Work to keep you mentally fit and healthy.

Work to keep you away from dimental and illness.

Work to keep you connected with the younger gen pples.

Work to also give you some pocket money to spend with.

Isnt it good for retire pple to work.

What I mean work doesnt ask the retiree to work long hours.

Instead, work as a part timers and less stressful tasks.

Ultimately, it will keep you fit and alert and full of energy.

PedoBear SG

I also prefer to work even when I am retired.

Work to keep you mentally fit and healthy.

Work to keep you away from dimental and illness.

Work to keep you connected with the younger gen pples.

Work to also give you some pocket money to spend with.

Isnt it good for retire pple to work.

What I mean work doesnt ask the retiree to work long hours.

Instead, work as a part timers and less stressful tasks.

Ultimately, it will keep you fit and alert and full of energy.

how to be full of energy after a long day of hard work sia

angel7030 SG

how to be full of energy after a long day of hard work sia

drink red bull lah...i see many old uncles after working still go kopitiam enjoy drinking with beer gals etc etc

PedoBear SG

drink red bull lah...i see many old uncles after working still go kopitiam enjoy drinking with beer gals etc etc

red bull gives you wings

but

red bull also gives you kidney failure

angel7030 SG

red bull gives you wings

but

red bull also gives you kidney failure

drink no sugar one lah, at least you can stay active, aiya, kidney fail, fail lor,..in the end everything also fail, dun blame it on red bull, but of course dun drink too much lah, one week twice can liao...last time i examine, i drink brand essence of chicken, also very good, but go take examine feel very hot....and sexy..

PedoBear SG

can you post a pictur of you being hot and sexy?

need something to help me self-release

the younger the better

angel7030 SG

are you locked up?? try the golf hole, it may help

PedoBear SG

are you locked up?? try the golf hole, it may help

sorry i dont understand your question

angel7030 SG

I thot u said you need self release, kind of like you are handcuffed and cannot do it, if you are near a golf course, try the holes, it might help you to release,

PedoBear SG

ahhhhh.... i see what you are getting at now.

1 - i am not near a golf course

2 - i am not lock up, just tied up with a rope

3 - if you post your pic, i plan to print a copy

4 - self-release by using your picture printout to paper cut the rope

5 - escape

6 - ???

7 - profit

angel7030 SG

exclusively for you

charlize SG

Cheaper, better, faster.

Repeat after me a few hundred times and you will soon accept the idea.

hasene SG

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Wow! YOu revealing the evil in you! wahahhha, pimpy!