tke a look at this.. posted fr another forum
I draw 1700 dollars a month with no increment for the last 3 years.
My
mum draws 500 dollars a month. We have long
> working hours, and rarely get to see each other. After CPF 20%
cut and
other taxes, we can barely make it through
> the end of the month.
>
> Yet we have a rude shock when we both found out we are the
third highest
paid workers in the world. Our PAP
> Government has just told us that we draw higher salaries than
even
Australia and USA! Our unemployment problem is
> due to the Singapore Citizen's fault. Our Salaries are just
too high!!
>
> Well, just a few years ago, the PAP government says they were
going to
resume CPF to 40%. Now, the tune has
> changed. We are paid too high. Cut CPF. At the same time the
signal is
being sent that salaries should not be paid
> too high. Remember? China and India much cheaper. Yes! But
does the cost
of a car or a house the same as the cost
> in Singapore??
>
> Next year, GST increases to 5% and everybody pays. This they
keep mum.
Our ministers and MPs are the highest paid
> in the whole world. They get millions a year. Each
constituency have 3 or
4 MPs. PAP is a big party. Singapore is
> very small island! Do we need so many MPs? So many civil
servants are
redundant, overpaid and highly inefficient.
>
> Here we have a government who thinks they know best and never
consults
the citizen of any decision that's made. In
> these times of difficulties we have a $650 million Esplanade
splurge.
>
> Plus:
>
> We have a transport minister whose main priority isn't
transport
efficiency but profits.
>
> We have the first driverless system that cost the citizen's
transport
extra and breaks down frequently since its
> 1st use. We were told the fully automated system was developed
to keep
running cost down. Yet we're required to pay
> a lot more for it. And it comes free value-added random
breakdown feature
to 'attract' passengers!
>
> We have a government who on one hand splurge on the Esplanade
but scrimp
on HDB upgrades on the other. Who won't
> learn after repeated mistakes of bankrupt contractors delaying
the
upgrading project time and again? It is only
> after flare ups do they take attention to the issue. Have they
gone so
fat in the middle that they have gone thick
> in the head??
>
> PAP is entirely faultless, so they claimed.
>
> I see now an increasingly bleak future for Singapore. The
government has
a death gripe on the enterprises here and
> practices pseudo-deregulations and privatizations. They have
no
directions. Despite top scholarly decisions made,
> Singapore's economy is going down, down, down. And now, to top
it all,
they have resorted to pointing fingers
> shifting blames. The lowest of the low. Our salaries are
higher than the
US (what a joke) Now we can all look
> forward to work till the end of our lives trying to pay up
mortgage and
have an absolutely zero quality of life.
>
> I can barely survive on my own, much less talk about getting
married and
having children. I guess that option is
> reserved for the PRs and the expats. I am in a country where
Singaporeans
and its government look down on its own
> Singaporean citizens. Where they give all the key roles and
development
to Angmoh expats and PRs.
>
> Seems to me as the day goes by that the quitters are winners
and losers
are stayers.
>
> Ask yourself today, do you want a better quality of life? Will
and can
Singapore gives you a better quality of
> life?
>
> Make a decision today. You'll feel better after you know where
to go. For
those who want a better quality of life?
> Make plans. The PAP has shortchanged you and makes you slave
to their
system till the end of your days. Only you
> can change your life.
>
> Emigrate when the time is right.
>
>
> What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
> what we have done for others and the world remains and is
immortal.
