Singapore used to lament that it did not have any natural
resources and it has only its people to rely on. over years it has
milked its population whichever way it wanted and built up a
reserves of more than US$100 billions. The theme is always 'Money
Not Enough'!For most Singaporeans they just lament to pay and
pay.
Lately Indonesia has banned the export of sand to Singapore and
Thailand has cancelled some of its govt to govt link with
Singapore. Singapore should sit back and reflect what has actually
gone wrong. Has Temasek gone through the proper channel to take
over the sensitive national asset from Tatsin?Has the Chinook
helicopter from SAF blown up too much dust during its last tsunami
rescue operation and caused some red eye problem? Dr Mahatair was
not happy because Singapore wanted to charge them market rate for
the urgent loan he needed to fight off the currency speculators
during the last Asian currency crisis,he still bear the grudge
against Singapore until today.
For the sake of survival, do we need to go to that extend to stay
alive?More poor Singaporeans are heading for the MRT tracks to end
their lives. Is the govt doing the right thing to just keep taxing
its people in good time and even in bad time. they claimed that
economy is doing well but consumers' spendings are drastically
down, what has gone wrong with the flexi-wages and the effects of
globalisation. Are they taking more care of the SMEs than its own
poor citizen?