Do we remain focused on the employed but not on citizens
who have put in a life's worth of productive labour?
'Those who hold regular jobs - and they are in the majority -
can understand and cope with inflation and rising living costs
('Cost of living: 'We're doing what we can''; yesterday). Employers
will adjust pay to some extent, workers will cut corners.
But what about the elderly, sick and the weak, who have no
pension, and would have spent most of their CPF savings on their
housing; those who are ill with little cash and hefty medical bills
that are increasing daily; and now must bear with rising prices of
essentials?
Do we remain focused largely on the concerns of the gainfully
employed but not on citizens who have put in a life's worth of
productive labour, but now suffer from many ailments and cannot go
on dipping into their very limited funds?'
-MR B.C. GHOSH: