Putting our old folks in Johor

last SG · 2009-02-13T14:50:42+00:00

Mr Brown makes it damn funnyhttp://www.mrbrownshow.com/2009/02/16/the-mrbrown-show-send-ah-kong/

eagle SG

Saw this in CNA forums

Anyone got any news report?

Putting our old folks in Johor

http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2009/02/putting-our-old-folks-in-johor.html

So this is life in Singapore, you spend your entire life working for money and when you're old the govt encourages your children to put you in a nursing home in Johor to save money. One might think it is worthwhile for the govt to set aside some land at low cost for such nursing homes so that Singaporeans can stay near their children when they are old. But this is economically not optimal for the PAP govt putting aside land which can be sold off to developers to build million$ condominiums for the rich or develop another money making XYZ hub. Setting aside land for nursing homes for the old who have contributed so much to the country is a no-no. Lets put them in Johor where it is cheaper so that we can eke out an extra 0.4% growth with the land.

I wonder at which point Singaporeans will in large numbers reject this notion of Singapore Inc - a nation set up for the main purpose of making money and pursuing GDP growth at all cost. We have land for golf courses...ah golf the favorite game of our elites and no land for our old. Tell me how can one not be disgusted with Khaw Boon Wan's idea - I thought we have burnt this idea once and for all during the last elections along with means testing. But these ideas are like zombies they cannot be killed as long as the PAP is in power - they will find ways and means to revive them with the help of Straits Times.

Tell me why...tell me why we can have so much land for golf yet we have to send our old folks to Johor???! Our old have to be sent to another country and separated from their families so that some of our elites can play this game of hitting a ball into a hole when they are not taking french cooking lessons.

JerryYan SG

think this is life

we just gotto accept it

AndrewPKYap SG

They intend to take from the people as much into their own coffers, as much as possible through their hidden taxes using the price mechanism and their GLCs and Temasek.

Dr Chee Soon Juan protested the high costs, they arrested him instead of addressing the issue.

Their solution? Ask the old folks to convert to Islam and put them in Johor.

ChoCoChips SG

He said: 'It is mind-boggling. The cost of land and construction cost is so low that my cost of putting up just a polyclinic (in Singapore) is probably more than his cost of putting up a 200-bed nursing home (in Johor Baru).
'The monthly cost of keeping a resident in a private nursing home in Singapore, you can stretch it easily to pay at least 2-1/2 months of nursing home care in Johor Baru.'

everything oso cost cost cost

sigh.

Man!x SG

Their solution? Ask the old folks to convert to Islam and put them in Johor.

They didnt say that. Blatant Lie.

charlize SG

"What will you defend?"

Stevenson101 SG

Well i definitely hope euthanasia is available before that happens

redDUST SG

seriously, if this becomes a norm, singapore failed as a person/society/nation.

i can envisage this being a common excuse, "sorry ma, i lost my passport. i can't come visit anytime soon."

must everything be ROI based?

charlize SG

Like what the blogger mentioned, can build golf courses but cannot reserve some land to build nursing homes for the elderly.

Haiz.

This is "get out of my elite uncaring face" at its worst.

Atobe SG

Imagine what can be built with the US$51 Billion that was lost by Temasek.

Can we believe that this PAP Government know what is the best use for the huge amount of Reserve that has been accumulated ?

They hold tight the purse strings to prevent any form of welfare for Singaporeans but will pay themselves handsomely on the pretext of preventing themselves from being corrupted in public office.

After sucking all from Singaporeans, they will insist that Singaporeans participate in charity projects and offer to contribute a dollar for every dollar paid up by Singaporeans - as nothing comes free from them.

They demand high standards from Singaporeans but themselves.

In their hearts - are they Singaporeans themselves ?

Extract SG

Den is it right to say we shall wait and see lee hsien loong in the nursing home in years to come?? PAP? didnt the govt always taught us the value of fillal piety? now what? contradiction?

limpper SG

the idea itself is ok, but i don think i will do it

Poh Ah Pak SG

What about Lee Kuan Yew?

Is he going to Johor too?

eagle SG

Den is it right to say we shall wait and see lee hsien loong in the nursing home in years to come?? PAP? didnt the govt always taught us the value of fillal piety? now what? contradiction?

u might be wrong

After being PM, he still has the path of SM and MM to go

dumbdumb! SG

What about Lee Kuan Yew?

Is he going to Johor too?

more likely go batam.

Fantagf SG

think this is life

we just gotto accept it

u can have the choice to accept it. Others may not accept it. So don't generalise. your ger may do that to you, ha ha ha.

Fantagf SG

This is the consequence of the people voting for a heartless, self centred, self serving, money making orientated bloody PAP.

Why don't they also suggest to put mrs lee kuan yew in johor for medical care???

Extract SG

Actually is true... the idea itself is right, but given case by case basis, we might disagree with what they are doing now, but it is for the better of some families, you see some elderlies sleeping around the corner of street, homeless? IM SURE singapore govt would provide them a free shelter in JB when it is built... however putting yourself in the elderly's shoe, what will it feel like living at a foreign land for the rest of your life... THAT IS PAINFUL(and seriously it's not Paris not Rome neitehr spain) I belief the govt will go throught alot of thinkings before making further decision, BUT whatever decision they gonna make, should be backed up with many many good reasons...

redDUST SG

the health minister now seems to have backtrack on this and insists it is merely some loose talk on his part and shouldn't be taken seriously.

seems like the mm needs to do a better job at gagging his running dogs.

Poh Ah Pak SG

FUCK LEE KUAN YEW.

FUCK PAP.

MONEY MINDED FUCKERS.

Treat people as tools to make money, old then send them to Johor, take their CPF money.

Welcome foreigners to come and make money.

This type of bastard government I won't support.

Go to hell lah Lee Kuan Yew.

You think I will go and vote for you?

You might as well go and eat shit.

You can jolly well take your fucking propaganda and go fuck off.

You think you spread a bit of fucking propaganda can come and brainwash me?

Don't EVEN DREAM.

You are nothing but dog shit to me Lee Kuan Yew.

Only dog shit.

Ashamed to have you in power for 50 years.

FUCK YOU LAH MOTHER FUCKER COCKSUCKER.