Ironic that TS started a topic to bait pro and anti PAP camps,
but got embroiled in it, now we know which side TS stands.
Don't forget, there are still those who are neither pro or
anti PAP.
TS is generalising that all beggars out there make $8,000 a
month, obviously he is trying to sway the facts to put the PAP in a
better light.
No, the tread was not started to bait the Pro and Anti PAP. It
was just sharing a report that was released on that particular day
along with a satire comment on the partisan nature of the posters
in this forum (e.g, if you don't join me in saying something bad
about PAP then you must be Pro PAP kind of partisan or
vice-versa).
Most people around here already knew which side I am on. You
might have just found out because you joined in 09 and I was more
active in the earlier years.
I am not generalizing that beggars make
$8000 a month, I am saying that I don't like political
opportunist to hijack the poor as a form of political chips. If you
want to make a video for them, use it to inform the public so that
we can help them as a society, not simply to exaggerate the problem
so as to nit pick your political opponents.
<quote> Spare a
thought for the poor, the people who participate in this forum
obviously has a computer, a job, a house and a lot of spare time.
The poor won't have such luxuries at all. </quote>
I emphasized that the poor that we see on the street are not the
only poor, nor are they the most serious case. So what I'm saying
is not just to "spare a thought for the poor", do something for
them!
There is a difference in speaking up for the poor and making use
of the poor.
You guys want to mud sling each other? Go ahead! Want to address
poverty as an issue? Sure, by all means. But use figures and
statistics rather than pictures and videos.