Extract from
Singabloodypore :
Focus on Khaw Boon Wan (non-NKF)
In a little-known
CNA report, Minister Khaw announced that the
Government has shortlisted several locations for retirement
villages in Batam and Johore Bahru. That's right, and at least one
will be built. The opposition needs to question Minister Khaw to
reveal more details on this.
Khaw says that in the past, "the Singapore market was... too small
for retirement villages to be commercially viable".
That overseas retirement villages are now viable indicates that
Singapore's cost of living has become unaffordable for the old,
that Singapore becomes unlivable for retirees.
It also means that the CPF system has failed: despite a high rate
of enforced savings, retirees still cannot survive.
It also means that the rate of poverty in the old will rise, and
the Whiteshirts have no real solution.
It also means abalone porridge was a hypocritical election
ploy.
The opposition needs to frame the retirement village as a failure
of social security and a cost of living issue.
As Minister Khaw makes a big deal out of being a devout Buddhist
who cannot lie, who will refuse to answer questions if he feels
he'll make a lie, further frame the issue: Is the
retirement village idea not an immoral thing - both in itself, and
the implication that social security in Singapore has fallen
apart?
The man who said "If you do wrong things, tell lies, defame people,
create trouble, incite hatred...then I think you have wasted your
life and I worry about your afterlife" and "In my religion, one of
the biggest sins is to tell lies. The next life, you'll become a
cockroach or something" needs to be reminded that ill-treating the
old and failing to care for the old is even more immoral.
The opposition should get the
message out before the first session of Parliament
begins.
The silver lining in SDP losing the Sembawang contest is this: it's
more embarrassing and damaging for the Whiteshirts to be forced to
reshuffle Mr Khaw out of his Ministry.