PM Lee asked us not to eat branded bread

t_a_s SG

Well, the cost of living has gone up in Singapore, PM Lee asked us to reduce by eating cheaper bread and rice. While the million dollar ministers can afford abalone and shark fin this CNY, we the people especially the lower income group can't afford abalone,bak kwa,shark fin, so we have no choice but to listen to our PM and Lim Hng Kiang to eat cheaper food such as, ikan kembong, salted egg, peanut, kangkong, cheap rice from India, tapioca, potato leaves, this new year we suffer a lot, cost of CNY goods have increased, shoppers in China Town see more than buy. All in all, it is a bad year.

InnoHippo SG

ok .... be obedient and dont complain so much

qlqq9 SG

ok .... be obedient and dont complain so much

Lee Hsien Loong your father ah that you must be obedient to him?

qlqq9 SG

He has to be a good example by cutting down his own pay during this trying time to deserve respect for people to listen to him

Lin Yu SG

but...bread is bread and rice is rice leh

HyperFocal SG

... eventually one day, it might be "grass is grass..you are lucky to still have grass to eat.." ...

t_a_s SG

what he means there are gardenia bread, sunshine bread, bonjor bread, ntuc bread, hi 5 bread, so to save cost, u choose the cheapest one, may be ntuc bread or sunshine which taste less nice than gardenia

TCH05 SG

What PM is saying is that dont buy on brands, just buy the products. That way, it will help you cut down on unnecessary expenses

mistyblue SG

talk is cheap.... when these people do not have to suffer as the people have to.

qlqq9 SG

talk is cheap.... when these people do not have to suffer as the people have to.

Talk is even cheaper from a no substance, hopeless, substandard PM

TCH05 SG

talk is cheap.... when these people do not have to suffer as the people have to.

How difficult it is to buy NTUC brand products instead of premire ones? I bet if you do a A/B testing on them, you wont be able to tell the difference between the 2.

TCH05 SG

Talk is even cheaper from a no substance, hopeless, substandard PM

you can consider joining a opposition party and challenge him for a one to one debate on policy.

Talking here is even cheaper because you are faceless.

mistyblue SG

How difficult it is to buy NTUC brand products instead of premire ones? I bet if you do a A/B testing on them, you wont be able to tell the difference between the 2.

I can tell the difference between gardenia and the other brands. I am sure lots of people can. But then maybe already a lot of people downgraded until cannot downgrade liao - then what. There is a limit to telling the genernal population to downgrade because the "leader" himself is also setting an example and trying hard to turn the situation around and trying to limit the amount of hardship on his people, vs one who just say empty words, enjoying his 3 million dollar salary and most likely will keep increasing and then increase the GST, the ERP and other forms of tax and telling the people that they cannot depend on the govt, there will be no welfare and 2% increase in GST is for the poor (irony isn't it) and we got to tighten the belts again and swallow yet another bitter pill and never expect to see our hard earn money again.

qlqq9 SG

you can consider joining a opposition party and challenge him for a one to one debate on policy.

Talking here is even cheaper because you are faceless.

Oh yeah, then tell it to the rest of them. Goon.

qlqq9 SG

That nut will tell you to meet lee hsien loong face to face to talk about policy. They place themselves in the pedestal and all of us gotta suffer, cut cost because we need to feed them and let them get millions and millions of pay.

qlqq9 SG

you can consider joining a opposition party and challenge him for a one to one debate on policy.

Talking here is even cheaper because you are faceless.

You heart must be aching as many speak negatively of lee hsien loong. U need to see a doctor for it.

charlize SG

If we eat cheaper bread, that means we pay less GST.

But paying more GST means helping the poor more.

So how?

HyperFocal SG

... from "Tighten your belts...", to "Byte the bullet...", to "Take the Bitter Pill..", and now "Don't Eat Branded Bread..."...

... do you see the trend of frugality under this FAP regime?

... sure, the people will have no choice but to live Frugal Lives, while THEY, bump up their salaries for PROVIDING frugal existence to the people...

... what a world class "leadership"...

... do you recall any good times under this regime?

fishbuff SG

come on, people.

that is a pretty dumb statement that LHL is making. he pretend to "care" but it fails miserably. i was right in not casting the vote for him while i was staying in amk.

dumbdumb! SG

If we eat cheaper bread, that means we pay less GST.

But paying more GST means helping the poor more.

So how?

shrugs. help yourself first before helping the poor.

i thought GST was helping the govt. hmm