Me and gf are in our late 20s now, total income combined
near $10,000/mth. We still dun wan babies.....look at today's home
page.
1 year old queue for kindergarten liao...stress ah. Die of
education stress ah.
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"Two Straits Time forum letters raise the non-monetary
aspects of the issue. For example, in the letter entitled “Tackle
the problem, not the symptoms” published on 20 Aug, Mr Thomas Ling
wondered aloud if the Government was “barking up the wrong tree
regarding the issue of our falling population”.
He said: “Our pursuit of economic excellence and rewards in
the past 40 years has resulted in a new breed of young Singaporeans
who hold different values about life”.
I agree with him. Nowadays, Singaporeans are more
individualistic and materialistic, no thanks in part to the rapidly
increasing cost of living, over-crowding, the decrease in personal
space, and the fast paced of life. And this is a global phenomenon,
prevalent in the developed world. Look at Japan, for
instance.
Thomas Ling said: “While much of the blame has been pinned
on our ‘Stop At Two’ policy in the 70s, the truth has to do with
changing lifestyles rather than the success of that
policy.”
My take is that the ‘Stop At Two’ policy was shortsighted.
It was not just a successful policy, but one that overshot its
intended target. As a result, the decline in Singapore’s birth rate
has been artificially accelerated over the years, and now the
Government imports vast numbers of foreign talents in an attempt to
make up the numbers."
By Ng E-Jay (www.sgpolitics.net)