If NTUC can afford to spend mega-millions to build the spanking
new super skyscraper that will be called NTUC Towers, that only
benefit the Million-Dollar Salaried NTUC Officials, why isn't the
same amount being spent to help the unemployed, destitutes,
homeless, aged, and others ?
That amount of money spent could have been used to lower health
care costs, medical expenses, kidney dialysis, homes for the aged,
and hospices for the homeless aged.
Is there a need for another ivory tower to house another
"Minister", and this time a "Minister without any Portfolio", and
the other million dollar salaried NTUC Officials ?
The large amount of money accumulated from the various trading
activities of the NTUC - (in supermarkets, insurance, pharmacy,
health care, taxi service, automobile workshops, country clubs,
housing developments, and other activities missed out here;
undertaker services??) - was supposed to have benefitted the
working class.
These activities end up accumulating profits from its
multi-facetted activities, which end up in a spanking new sky
scraper, instead of being returned to the various NTUC members with
higher dividends paid out.
In the current difficult times, (when everyone has been asked to
tighten their belts, wages are reduced, workers retrenched and
asked to be retrained while more unemployed get into the growing
pool of unemployed, and with the PM warning of worst to be
expected), it is difficult to understand how such a project will
end up benefitting the average person on the street, let alone an
ordinary NTUC Member.
