Hi to all,
I have been reading a lot of anti-govt posts and even some articles
posted by CSJ.
Personally, I do agree that I am beginning to be influenced by all
the anti-PAP sentiments.
I do not wish to comment abt anyone but for me, after witnessing
the stark difference in PAP's polices made before and after the
General Election; after listening to LHL's speech at National
Rally; after reading all the articles and the big hoo-haa abt AMK
MP Wee Siew Kim's daughter abt Mr Derek's Wee plight; after looking
at the ridiculous pay increase in Ministerial salary; after the
recent article in Today's abt some Sitoh guy who lost his sit to
Cham See Tong and his refusal to meet the residents after his
defeat, etc...
I am beginning to feel that Singapore is becoming more like a
corporation rather than a country. Seems to me that Money is more
important than a sense of public service. Data and data have been
published to show that the economy is doing well but not much is
being shown to highlight the plight of the poor and aged who helped
build singapore to what it is today.
Best of all, the poor is being used as an excuse to raise more
taxes under the pretence to help them. To me, raising the GST to
help the poor is a riduculous notion.
With regards to education, it is sad to say that our govt is
providing free education to bright China students and hope that
these people will continue to serve Singapore after their
university graduation. The fact is that many of these people fled
back to China after their graduation from local universities and
did not stay to contribute to Singapore. Personally, I do hear a
lot of these stories from my PRC friends in NTU. While the locals
are stranded in debts for local university education, the
foreigners like these PRC students gets to enjoy free education
sponsored by the locals taxpayer's money. I often wonder why the
government do not wish to invest in our local people.
As for the cost of living, Singapore has crept up to be the 14th
most expensive city to live in. I wonder how that news is gonna
affect the urban poor that is increasing in proportion each day.
After spending 6 mths in Shanghai, China as well as 1 and a half
month in Tucson, USA, I realised that the cost of living in these 2
cities are comparatively lower than Singapore. For Shanghai's case,
assuming that I am drawing a local salary, the proportion of my
income spent on food is lower than that in Singapore. Same case for
USA. What does that mean in the long term? For me, it means that I
can get to save more proportion of my income in the long run in
these places rather than in Singapore. No wonder there is rampant
talk about the erosion of savings in Singapore.
I do not know much details about the many govt policies made, nor
do I really care to know who my MPs are. But the one thing I am
beginning to realise is that our govt has lost their sense of
public service and sad to say, one day I may really migrate to
other countries for the sake of survival.