Excellent moves by our beloved PAP

last SG · 2005-09-30T23:15:51+00:00

we need to play around with the employment statisitic. so, old folks have to join the workforce.

caramon. SG

Its amazing how quickly the PAP realised it can make improvements. After introducing the CPF investment scheme in 1992, the PAP has discovered that unit trust has been charging investors too high a management fee crippling their returns.

It came out a brilliant solution from the PAP for retirement with annuities. When you die, you don't have to worry about your children fighting over your CPF remainder because an annuity ends when you die. What a beautiful idea, you come to this earth with no money and leave no money when you die.

The Singapore government also sets a fine example in serving Foreign Talents. Around the world they have "Contact Singapore" offices to help these foreign talents find jobs in Singapore and they also help them to settle in well. In 1996, the Singapore govt also realise some of these FTs would be taken aback by the high housing prices in Singapore. Therefore, they provided enormous help to these foreign nationals on accomodations.

I think Singaporeans should be proud when they serve their National Service. They are protecting not just their fellow Singaporeans but the large number of FTs and PRs that reside here.

I'm beginning to appreciate the beauty of the PAP's thinking. Its absolutely brilliant! Singaporeans should consider themselves lucky to have such great leaders to guide them.

redstone SG

How many examples of a third world city, in 40 years time become a world class city, even exceeding some European or American cities?

caramon. SG

How true.. Whenever I went to the states, I was shock to see so many old folks strolling in the park. Don't they need to work? Or rather, are they consider useless and not wanted by their society?

In singapore, elderly have many job opportunities :

1. As a cleaner in kopitiam or food court.

2. Self employment as a taxi driver.

3. As a dish washer.

We should be thankful that in Singapore even old folks can find jobs.

In America, old folks are jobless and sitting around doing nothing. It is obvious the American government is unable to solve the structural unemployment problem and are unable to redesign jobs for older workers. These old folks in America must be suffering without an income and spending so much time in the park when they should be working.

Finnz SG

Oh of course, yes i'm eternally grateful to singapore becoz i still need to slog my guts when i should be retiring and literally sit around and doing nothing.

Please take a step back and look at what the fuck you're writing, you dun make sense, you oxymoron, you wrtite as if PAP pays you a million bucks for every sentence.

What a retard, i pity you, you mindless walking zombie cause you're obviously brain-dead, which comes to the question if you ever had a brain in the first place which i doubt so.

Lord Kang SG

I think the old folks in those western countries are cover by those welfare funds or something..Every month the government will give them a small sum of money to cover their expenses..

SMAPLionHeart SG

how much PAP pay you

le cruz SG

hey there, take it easy and have a second read of the post you are criticizing. This time pay more attention to the tone and intention of the writer.

LinYu SG

Let be fair. my understanding of annuities is like this

assume you buy $50,000.00, when you reach 65yrs old, they will start paying you $500.00 per month. If you live pass 101 months than you gain $500 until you die. If you live for 50 months then they will reimburse the other half to your children.

Am I right, insurance agent?
Smile

casshern SG

obviously some readers here do not have the intellience to understand the deeper meaning behind the author’s words

dibilo SG

Laughing it has sarcasm written all over it.. i actually find it so amusing i voted this article a 'yes'

Mr Fugue SG

not all are borned with the same intelligence as you and me.............. Embarassed

it's destined. Cool

Mr Fugue SG

one more excellent move, making us believe that providing $$$ for charities is entirely our responsibility.

eg; NKF.

need I say more?? Embarassed

Mr Fugue SG

read beyond the lines!!
your mom borned you a brain, USE IT!!!

caramon. SG

We singaporean should be thankful to our elite government for redesigning of jobs. The employment rate in Singapore subbornly stays at historically high levels and I thought the government might be at its wits end. But that is not so!!

I work at a small company in Kallang Basin, needless to say most of the workers are from China including the programmers. Many of them cannot speak English so I have to double up as TRANSLATOR which secures my job as the employer is not good at Mandarin.

During break time, like a good host, I always treat them some of our local delights available at the canteen. *Remember, my job as a translator depends on them..

While I was chatting with one of the Chinese PRC software programmers, he told me he has applied for Singaporean citizenship and will most likely get it. He said he receive much encouragement to be a Singaporean. WOW! I thought this must be a stroke of GENIUS by the PAP government :

1. By converting mainland Chinese to Singaporean, it would mean our unemployment will go down since there is one additional citizen with a job. Now I fully understand what the Singapore minister means when he said 'bringing foreigners to singapore will help to create jobs for Singaporeans'. Jobs are created for Singaporeans because the foreigner becomes a Singaporean!!! If that is not genius, what is?

2. The conversion of Chinese to Singaporeans will also quickly help solve the problem of Singaporeans unwilling to take up the responsibility of having kids.

From this episode, I can say some of the brilliance of our govt cannot be so easily appreciated...

Mr Fugue SG

caramon. Master of Hidden Meanings and Sacarsm Cool

Mr Fugue SG

to caramon:

Mr Soh SG

If they think in that way, then they shall be prepared to face the foreigners' different mentality and thinking as well......

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Just wondering, how high is your IQ? To write such a sacarstic piece and fooling lots of people to think that you are supporting PAP.

mistyblue SG

The health minister recently realised that the local tax payers had been paying subsidies for all the employers and foreign nationals medical bills.

Local house policies is anti sg. Its well known. My office "FT" laffs so hard everytime they read the HDB rules. And they added that they now understand why all of us Sg people don't feel we belong to sg and want to migrate out. The indian/prc "FT" were using Sg as a stepping stone to Aus so as to retire there. But while they are here, these people make extremely full use of the subsidies...

ultimately I wonder with all that taxes paying "FT" to stick around here, did it make us any $$$ or did it drive sg into worse positions than before... There will never be a real answer cause there's always a lot of cover up..

LiveMatrix SG

I found caramon's observations shallow and incomplete.
Talking about 'FTs creating jobs' is a serious distraction from the original purpose of attracting the FTs. We must realise that FTs pay tax too, even though our low income tax design for them only allow them to contribute a symbolic amount to our various multi-millions projects. And just by making themselves(FTS) available to be employ at a much lower rate than local, they help our companies save huge amount of money, which then allow our companies to commit into more multi-millions projects. Which then allow them to employed more FTS, and the circle goes ...
As a native, you might now feel left out of this circle. Don't worry!!! You are not!
Take our upcoming casino as example: while on average there will be 1000 jobs created for each casino build, our government said the figure could be 35000!!! If that figure is true, minus the large numbers of Chinese, Indians, Philipinos, Caucasian etc. so call competitive FTS, and minus some positions reserve for some people's people, you still could expect to find some left over vacancies available for us. You see? Jobs created!!!
And don't be shallow to think that the benefits eventually only goes to these companies. These companies sub their contracts to their affiliated companies, and these affiliated will then re-sub the contracts to their affiliated companies, and so on... You see, many people do benefits.
Seriously speaking, the existence of FTs also help in improving the Employer-labour harmonious relationship. Excluding some of the FTs who are given very good benefits, most of the rest generally have lower expectation in terms of pay and fringe benefits, as in the first place, they have 'no choice but to except' whatever their employer provide. This condition helps to alightened the natives into easy acceptance of the 'no choice but to accept' realty which, without them(FTs), might creat unneccessary labour discontent. Which then affect the competitiveness of our economy, thus affecting the profitability of the 'companies'....
got to go...