that's why so many singles now in Singapore! too expensive, so stay single and take care of yourself!! foreigners are taking up jobs in Singapore while Singaporeans are struggling !!!
Many Singaporeans are singles because the men prefer to marry women from neighbouring countries. They are cheaper to maintain and additionally they are good taking care of their Singapore husband. Singaporean women can then choose to marry foreigners who come here to work and would be happy to get a PR or become citizen of the country.
@@westwoodlythe other side of the coin not mentioned is many women in sg have too much considerations due to the 5Cs because of the sg policies making them want this and that like they want their man to buy car which is world most insanely expensive and thus least valuable for money. They want condos whose prices jacked up by foreigners, some are money launderers. They want eat atas foods prices skyrocket due to rentals. So they are into marriage with a crooked mind or incorrect thinking. So they either cannot find a partner they are satisfied with or they land in divorces due to unsatisfied needs of the 5Cs
@@antonette2113 no wonder more divorce cases than in LKY Era for lack of a better word. People are pressed or feel urgent or compelled to queue for the overpriced Public Housing. The marriage is not based on true love. But true love for flat and resale windfall. Opportunistic and Profiteer mentality. Furthermore, people have slowly realized the only true love is self love and the perceived love is temporal
@@westwoodly Singapore has many women who because of financial stability or ability has naturally evolved from a traditional female becoming a man in terms of abilities and independence. Men cannot find satisfaction when women no longer behave like traditional women. Just a neutral opinion. I could be wrong but I am also not saying this is right or wrong, good or bad.
If you believe that the influx of foreigners is merely to fill labor gaps, you are mistaken. The deeper strategy is to dilute the local population, reducing the influence of anti-PAP voters. At the same time, the government systematically increases its loyal base by extending kindness, support, and privileges intended for native-born citizens to these new arrivals. This tactic subtly shifts the demographic balance in favor of those who will uphold the current power structure. That’s what happening in Europe now. They have an inorganic immigration crisis that destroy their culture and economy.
The GST should not have been raised. But in raising it, there is no checks on suppliers’ profiteering from this hike. As far as productivity is concerned, most local SME bosses do NOT practice care and respect for their staff. I have heard of many cases where workers are treated poorly with little benefits but the bosses are driving big cars. These bosses then turn around to complain about high costs to the Government who in turn give them grants. And these grants are partly funded by the workers in terms of income tax and consumption taxes. Even old people who buy bread pays the GST for these types of grants. The government, through GLCs are also the largest landlords who charge sky high rentals, sometimes indiscriminately. Who cares about productivity with such rent-seeking mindsets and culture, direct from the top?
The reality is BE YOUR OWN BOSS then you can enjoy what ur bosses enjoy. There is nothing to complain about. You make it choice to work instead of doing business
@@数易 The thing in Singapore is that feedback is always treated as complaint. May you always be happy on this sunny island and may you get what you wish for and wish for what you get.
@@oyu7505 which gov does not work hard? Even toilet cleaners work hard but they are paid Peanuts. Even security guards risk their lives guarding a bank. But paid not world record. Answer me a simple question: Is there gerrymandering?
@@oyu7505 this is a common misperception about working hard. Every one works hard and the rich naturally are disillusioned that it's because they work hard that got them the wealth and those who earn less are so because they work less hard. Understand? Again, is there Gerrymandering? Y/No?
Malaysians from JB are the biggest competitors here, most of them are linguistically more competitive than locals as typically they know many languages include: English, Chinese, Malay, Chinese dialects... that's why companies prefer hiring Malaysians over local citizens.
There is a quota for hiring Malaysian or foreign workers so that workers remain mainly Singaporeans. Of course, bosses want to hire the best workers; so be the best worker yourself. The many Malaysian workers didn't expect to be treated as bumiputras. They work hard.
Inflation ! Cost of living really toooo much toooo high! Bto flats pricing are raising more n more too! Medicals,transport n now even HAWKER FOOD are ALL shooting up too! Rentals are forever KILLING miserable profits. This is all tooooo much la!
HDB prices have reached insane levels and yet HDB declares that it is making a loss for every new unit. Worse, the floor areas are getting smaller and smaller. Is there any wonder mental illness cases are on the rise in Singapore?? I suggest that before LW makes anymore statements, let him be subject to the following for 12 months first, in order to let him see and feel first hand what life really is. 1) Cut his salary to just $2000 a month 2) Disallow him to get any loans from any party 3) Take away his car, get him to travel by bus and MRT 4) Make him stay in a 3-room HDB flat, and pay $300 in monthly mortgage. 5) Make him pay for his own household bills 6) Freeze all other incomes, including those of his wife 7) Assign 1 poor aged parent, and 1 young child to support. Then see, how he feels. After this 1 year hands-on intensive life experience, he will probably become a better PM.
Would you prefer your own HDB flat to be of less value - or valued more? Would you prefer people saying you are living in "cheap" HDB flat? Nevermind, even if you are not thinking of selling it before 99 lease is up?
Why cut to 2,000 dollars? The average salary in SG is 5,783, and the median is 5,197. We are doing better than you think. Additionally, the point on HDB making a loss, that's literally what HDBs are---government-subsidised housing. HDB prices are rising NOT because HDB increases prices to make profit... It's much more complicated than what you think.
HDB prices are at insane prices because of the greedy sellers, please be clear about this! All prices of HDB start off about the same at affordable 6 fig prices. Years later, those owner who feel their flats are located in prime locations or overlooking nice views etc will want to sell them at a premium. For younger people who wanna just blame others for their housing problems, start with your own parents. If the generation before you do not ask for million dollar prices for their HDBs, you too won't be paying million dollars for such resale flats. It's a free market, if you want to assign blame, blame the fellow greedy Singaporean instead! Be objective, not every issue is the fault of the govt!
Price is like that because they added land value into the sale price to make it look like they loose money. Land is allocated to them not bidded in open market with estate developers. Remove LV from the price and you see that they are never in the reds.
Vote Only If; 1. Your Quality of Life has been improved over the last 5 years 2. Good Paying Jobs prospective are good and secured for you. 3. You have more money to spend. 4. Your Children Future is secured and protected. 5. You can afford the expensive hospital or are provided with Real FREE Medical Benefits. 6. You can easily afford the 99 years leasehold Public Housing without burning away more than half your lifetime [and your wife] of saving. Vote Wisely.
Apologists and IB will try to confused people by asking them to compare with Malaysia or Ethiopia. But this is a trick and unfair and unjust comparison. To CORNER them, make the debate clear upfront that the only fair and accurate way to measure Singapore leader performance is to compare how SG was with how SG is now since 5 years ago. So the strategy is to confront them to not weasel their way out of failures and fiasco by comparing with lousy countries where leaders lowly paid. Tell them to compare SG with SG as the only fair apple-to-apple comparison. This will corner them as they have no where to weasel out. Five years ago: 1. Costs were low 2. Life was not as stressful. 3. No adultery by leaders 4. No $3B record filth money laundering in sg. 5. No awareness of the perceived short jail term for the $3B. 6. No SimplyGo fiasco. 7. No ERP2 fiasco. 8. No gst hike and hike. 9. No Extreme inflation of daily necessities A. No record $1M++ Public housing. I can go on and on. Even if won't VTO, let's help create more Opposition seats in parliament just to get even a bit
The next you know is MORE GST and other Tax Hikes and Hikes by the PAP for PAP yet another "Increase Spending Expenditures" to build MORE infrastructures to bring in MORE foreigners to displace More Singaporeans from Good Paying Jobs. Example will you allow your money to be used to Displace your own childrens from Good Paying Jobs? Over the many years of building and tax hikes, have they delivered on their promises? Are you better off today? If NOT, why continue to build and build and pay and pay for others to displace YOU while benefitting the rich to secure their wealth and assets? If you are not better off today then it is Time to Rethink.
The cost of living problem in SG has existed since 2010s and people are expecting LW to solve this problem under his leadership. I say good luck to the people who believe in him.
Wow I’m not a follower of him and never read too much into all these stuffs. Didn’t expect such well spoken man and every single statements he made with plain logic. Completely made sense. He is basically helping us majority of Singaporeans to speak up.
@user-st9sg5ud6q Running a restaurant business, CSJ easily earns a million. U shd ask him to reduce his earnings to help the poor or at least reduce the food prices to help the community. As for u, do u donate to the poor？
Not all govt people are slacking, only those on the top, they like to slack and blame the bottom people who are always working hard e.g ICA or SPF junior officers.... those on the top are the ones who need to be sacked or cut away big portion of salary.
Better still, they should work for honour and prestige - not money. In other words, work for free like US President Donald Trump who was reportedly paid only US$1.00. Honour is something money cannot buy. (Their wife can support them financially) : )
I observed now that the hdb estates playground, parks are flooded with rowdy foreign children screaming and running like monkeys. The Punggol Park children playground is occupied by foreign children playing cricket games and endangering children at the playground. Even the open space usually occupied by sr citizens doing qi gong exercise has to give way to these foreign children playing cricket games. I am an elderly man passing by and on one occasion was nearly hit by the cricket ball.
"Ah Kong" has always been telling you nothing is for free in Singapore - not even the air you breathe. Which would you prefer - stress because you are rich, or stress because you are poor. Stress you work harder. No stress you relek
The PM’s attitude to the escalating HDB price issue is to accept and allow HDB prices to continue to rise, i.e. do not regulate and just let the market take its course. Instead, the PAP’s solution is to continually increase the subsidy and grant to cosmetically make HDB prices appear affordable. This is not addressing the root of the problem but to throw more (gimmicky) grants and subsidies at buyers. Singaporeans will eventually regret when they sell their flats down the road because the government will crawl back the grants and subsidies given to you at the point of purchase. Surely, this is NOT confronting and addressing the root causes of escalating HDB prices, which are supply side issues; the decision by HDB to stop providing a “valuation price” that formed the basis on which buyers and sellers ultimately agree on a cash over/under valuation transacted price; and stem the influx of foreigners which drive rental prices (including HDB rental prices) up. I do NOT think LKY ever conceived the HDB flat as a mean to obtaining passive rental income.
Maybe one shld stay, not just visit HK, China and most other countries. They have zero PUBLIC housing. Their govt sells land to Pte developers and wash their hands clean. Go look at what they're getting? We're blessed with public housing. Most citizens in other countries couldn't get married becos no house. Does that happens here? So don't be a "frog in the well".
It just seems that no matter what, the government cares more about itself, ensuring it doesnt lose out. Lots of tapes here and there, for all the little moves.
Yes foreigners live in pte housing,native Singaporeans and their descendants gradually get pushed out to HDBs. Native Singaporeans think of going to cheaper countries with less pressures?; I think the government will say it’s ok, we just import more PRs, foreigners and give them citizenship( In fact that’s already been the policy for years now).Indranee Rajah recently just hinted on that; if our TFR remains dismal and just study her demeanour when she said that, it says to me she’s not really concerned. The government is not motivated enough to take prompt, robust measures to bump up the TFR.
Chee SJ seemed to have the magic wand that could solve all the challenges and problems that Singapore and Singaporeans face with a wave of his hand. Singapore would then no need for the thousands of Malaysian crossing into Singapore to do jobs, Singaporeans will be doing all the constructions of housing and roads and mrt lines. How fortunate Singapore would be to have such a Prime Minister who see all these serious problems can be solved with ready made easy solutions. Now, where can I buy cheap chickens to cook my chicken rice?
Sorry you can only buy the expensive chicken currently because the person in power doesnt have the magic wand you claim , perhaps you can realise the cheap chicken after you allow him to have the power to use his wand i supposed. For now , stick to your expensive chicken and stfu 😂
@@yeohockthiam9310 Ok, make it simpler for you. The two prime ministers have never shied away from saying the challenges are tough given the small size of the country and dependence on external circumstances. What they can do is to mitigate the effects with whatever means they can. Eggs, chicken and rice will still have to be imported - and cost more. Chee SJ on the other hand seems to claim he has a magic wand which he would draw out from his pocket to solve the challenges facing the country. Simply, he is suggesting that Singapore can prosper without depending on foreign workers, bringing cost of living down by growing own rice and vegetables - or raid the national reserves. Any kids can say that.
Easy answer, tens of thousands of businesses and residents will move to JB come 2027 when the MRT line is extended to JB. No more congested causeway. Get a bicycle, park at Bukit Chagar station vicinity and commute to Singapore. I see a tsunami coming....most SMEs will migrate as rentals, wages, overheads are much cheaper in JB. Once we can commute without the hassle of the causeway, the equation will change drastically. Singaporeans unfortunately will lose out even more...no need to bring in Malaysians...hire them in JB at wages much lower than in Singapore (as rentals for housing is also much cheaper, food and transportation, etc. are all cheaper). Yes, cost will drop but so will jobs...far fewer jobs. For Singaoreans...start your own business in JB. If you are waiting to be hired in 2027...good luck.
Many want to leave sg eventually if they cannot find a job at old age or just realise they deserve a better life than the stress of sg. We hope malaysia will adopt some Singaporeans. Many Companies have or are shifting to malaysia
Without foreign workers , in Singapore , apply for HDB flat will be like Hong Kong, wait for 10 to 20 years or forever. And the market price of HDB flats will be much higher than current price.
I have 2 suggestions to tackle the cost of living. 1) Lower the rents of hawker stalls and HDB shops. It's within the government's control. (But is it willing to do so?) As for coffee shop stalls and shopping mall shops, it can "encourage" the owners to lower the rents. How? Well, it's through their well-used Carrot and Stick method. Carrot - give tax incentives, subsidies etc. Stick - I don't know, cos I haven't thought about it. 2) Reduce the ministers' salaries. By 40%, at least. The PM will still get $120 000 a month. He will still be very, very rich. That also goes for the ministers, ministers of state, etc etc. These 2 methods are within their grasp. No need to blame the Ukraine war, the China - US tension, and so on.
The best improvement Hussain Bolt, the fastest sprinter, is if he Compares himself with himself yesterday. If he compares with lousier runners , he will never break record. So, when policies fail, someone will say, at least better than other countries. You can corner them by saying it's not proper comparison to compare different countries because almost every parameter is different. SG today must be compared with SG 4 years ago or something like that. SG leaders are paid uniquely different than all the other "mediocre" leaders. Who has the cheek to compare with lowly paid leaders when they are paid extremely handsomely?
ha ha, vote them out and vote who in to make improvement ? Talk is cheap , man. We all had to rememberd we are not a big nation with resources. Two or Three terms with a Joker like Donald Trump as leader , can will still survive? For us, wrong leaders for two terms will drove us back to where we are . For me, I had tasted life in the 50s, 60s and 70s and I am sure our future generation do not want to taste the life I had been through.
@@SK-2175 you are talking cork because vote against does not mean you can vote them out. Voting is our right provided by the Constitution. So even lawyers cannot do anything about it
For my own opinion 1) if you do not wish foreigner to take over singapore you will need to pay higher salary to support Singaporeans worker but employer will suffer 2) many Singaporeans will not accept dirty or hard work that is why employer need foreigner to take over the job 3) there is no choice because everything is increase and cost of living also increase if the gov does not increase singapore will fall behind like other country with example malaysia with low exchange rate With this option singaporean only can choose either suffer now for batter generation or fall behind and suffer later with high living cost for your generation
@@LeeKamFu I do agree with some comments that narrated the outcome of the condition. I do hope the manager of the country should have the potentials of navigating and lead us to a better perspective despite encountering all dangers in a stormy sea of disasters. A captain of a sea should know how to make the wisest decision.
Instead of bashing the government, why not come up with some positive solutions to halt the depopulation in Singapore if you are so against foreigners? The legitimate question is : what are we gonna do about the thinning of our population?
LW had said earning a high salary contributes to a higher cost of living. Ok. How much amount do LW think is high? Next, for example, if he says $5000 is considered high, now let check how many Singaporean are earning a $5K salary and how many foreigners are earning a $5K salary. And also, what is the population of foreigners in Singapore? They are approximately 1.4 million or more foreigners working in Singapore since 2022. Do they contribute to the high cost of living. And who influx them into Singapore?
First of all this is a domestic difficulty of having your local labour force. The young and school leavers with diploma, degree would want to secure a job in the field of their studies...Question...are they willing to go into contructions, municipality, service industry...??? Your aspiration to be a high income fully develope nation with cost will get no one thinking about having lower end jobs.
My Late Grandmother Once Said This To Me >>>> *Please Treasure & Cherish, Singapore's Founding Father. After He Is Gone, Singapore Will Never Be The Same & It Will Definitely Become An Unlivable Country, For Most Singaporeans To Live In, Eventually* . . . My Goodness, Whatever She Said, Has Turned Out To Be The Truth & Nothing But The TRUTH!!!!! It's Really Absolutely DEVASTATING When Singaporeans, Like Me, Keep Getting Asked This Extraordinarily IRRITATING QUESTION, Day After Day >>>>>>>>> *WHERE ARE YOU FROM*???? The Local Identity Has Been Destroyed & It Has Been Destroyed By Absolute Greed, Sheer Selfishness & Utter Irresponsibility!!! I Used To Look Forward To National Day . . . . Very Sadly . . . & Very Unfortunately . . . *I NO LONGER DO BECAUSE ENOUGH IS TRULY, TRULY ENOUGH*
for those who have been happily benefitting from the PAP priviledge (ministers, mayors, businessmen) say gd bye to that soon... time to pack up and start finding somewhere else to leech.
"'...for me, the past three decades. I'm wise not to give birth to a family here. Otherwise, my family will be the future victims of slavery.!!!"'☝️🙄😬🤨
Singapore needs more wise people like you not to have babies. The island is already so crowded. Go somewhere to be a foreign talent and take jobs from the local people - and become a slave driver there.
@@westwoodly"'Hmmm...???!!!"'🙄🤔 It's only during the 70s, 80s but not the 90s'...!!! Especially when the late LKY opens SGP to the rest of the world and "sold" us all out...!!!😳🙄😬🤨
Looking for local construction workers. You get the opportunity to suntan a lot, work out with heavy loads, work with heavy equipment for long hours and get to live your life at the edge (on high rise building) for a pay of $1500 or less. Work 6 full days a week. We are looking for locals who are selfless enough to forgo their aspiration to get high paying and comfortable jobs and willing to put SG first to make the change. Let make our construction sector less dependent on foreign talent.
I dont see any articles of singaporean complaining or protesting construction job taken away from them leh , tell you what, even malaysian also avoid construction job and all done by bangala , so now you want other people son do construction job and give up better prospect job for your measly pay , why not start from your own son , knn talk so much jiao wei ....
@@nicklove3047 according to the video isn’t it about cutting down on influx of foreigners workers meh? Construction sector have a very big bulk of foreigners. Isn’t it logical to think that by directly replacing them with locals will improve the situation no? How about f&b and retails also a lot of foreigners too? Which I think potentially cover more than 60% pool of foreigners work force in sg.
@@jameschan1585 which part of the video did Dr Chee championed to kick away these foreign construction workers or cleaners you talking about ? And where is the massive protest or articles from singaporean who are after these jobs you highlighted, with that said, arent foreign workers still holding these roles and who is protesting ? Lastly, are you willing to let your son work as a construction worker for someone company assuming he can do a more comfortable office job ?
@@nicklove3047 influx of foreigners labour? So construction labour are not included ah? I didn’t mention anything about what protest you are talking about. Which part I say it?
@@jameschan1585 you have not answered my question when did Dr Chee championed to remove these foreign labourers in the video? Isnt there no protesting or complaining these jobs taken away from them isnt it or you could prove otherwise? Lastly, are you willing to let your son be a cleaner or construction worker to support your cause to cut down influx of foreign labourer instead?
In some ways foreigners also keeps costs lower. Labour for example. Foreigners would accept a lower pay to carry out labour work and if they weren’t doing it, Singaporeans would have more jobs, yes? That’s true but that Singaporean would want a much higher pay and therefore increasing operation costs. All costs would eventually make its way down to consumers and inflation would rise. On your next trip out, take a look around and imagine if all labour workers were Singaporeans and try to work out the % of operational costs increase.
Dr Chee should leave such problems to the Government and concentrate his effort to bring back his protege Amos Yee from US jail by pushing the UN Human Rights dept...hahahaha
Do not think productivity increase will solve employing less foreigners. In fact Productivity can only be achieved via automation or Workers being pushed harder and harder . Automation not only reduce the dependent of foreign workers but also mean retrechmentof local workers and even engineers. Pushing workers harder and harder will stress them more and more and we all know the consequences of both scenarios . So , we need to manage it and come to a balanced solution which is easier said than done. I am an Industrial Engineer over my whole life career for 45 years and I know a bit about productivity and its issue. Not so easy Dr Chee.
The moment they have preference to hire foreigners (Cheap but good enough) they will freeze headcount and eventually, remote the entire technical / production department to the target (usually india) and left with just product managers in Singapore. Retraining workers are useless... career switch to a business management role is something more practical. All technical skilled jobs will be lost eventually sadly. No matter how highly skilled you are (Phd or even professionally), there is no future if the entire department is removed away haha...
@@Magurosenbei I do not agree at all that all Technical skilled jobs will be lost eventually. Hello, technical skills encompass a very wide area than you think - Product design , Quality system , Automation , project management and Business Development . In my technical career spanning 45 years and in Product Design, Quality , Toolings , Project management and Business Development functions . And all these are skills in the above areas not taught at University particularly post graduate like masters or PhD . Perhaps some in the bachelor programme but the bulk is via actual practice in industry . Honestly, I do not think India had skilled Engineers in most of the areas I wrote . Not even China, where I worked from 2006 to 2019. We still need to send Engineers and Managers to manage these functions in our overseas factory. There are still a lot of Singaporeans highly skill in these areas and these will not be managed remotely like what you wrote. That is the reason why Singapore still train many technicians and Craftmen in their Poly and Techical institute , not Doctors or PhD . I am very sure that Singapre is not only left with Product Managers only.
Mr Dude... For foreigners issue, cannot LW cannot do anything. Remember before LHL passed the baton to LW, LHL already highlighted the importance of hiring foreigners into SG. So foreigners issue LW really cannot touch already. So sorry Mr Dude!
Dr Chee can only criticize... Old man, don't be too bitter and envious/jealous over other people successes... The reason people don't elect you as leader is because you yourself are incompetent, you can only criticize but provide no sound solution.
Looks like mindless complaints and quoting our PAP leaders words out of context again, IMDA and MHA should seriously investigate this and issue POFMA against the culprits. Our Singapore Government led by our PAP leaders have NEVER failed to deliver on their commitments to our nation, what's the problem with our PM drawing 200k salary??? Elon Musk received Billions !!!
The same old nonsense. Cut ministers salary and all the problems will go away. Ask your own boss to cut your salary because it's far too high compared to neighbouring countries.
@@westwoodlyneighbour came here to get paid.. If his boss cut his pay and at same level put it $1000.. Who have plenty of money? Don't forget neighbour getting times 3.45 🤭
We lived in Singapore for 17 plus years. Wow, that was a big eye opener. Singaporeans are so obedient and eager to please the government. With the shockingly high prices, there would be riots on the streets in other countries. But not in Singapore. The country reminds me of an ant colony.
Without the ants, there will be no colony. Without the bees, there will be no honey. You want to be so disobedient, it's your choice. Carry a placard "I want to be a dissident" outside the Istana Gate.
Why have you stayed for 17years? You stayed while the going was good to your advantage and now when cost of living is up, you are throwing shades? Well, thank goodness it’s only 17 yrs. Time and system has filtered you out.
@@cymei60 It is for mutual benefit. We were so happy when we hopped on the plane and left. For one thing, it would be less hot and humid at home. The kids were so happy that we were leaving, they couldn't sleep and when I went to their room at 3am to get them ready for an early Delta flight, they were all dressed up ready to go.
Cant blame the corporates. They must balance foreign and local talent. HR Planning on a macro level is difficult to do. In some industries thete are ample Locals. In others there are so many foreigners. If Dr. Chee was PM he will also pay himself 200k a month justifying this by what came before.
Its a fair trade, anyone want a low cost of living like taiwan must prepare for low salary job market. Most singaporean are well off with high pay job, and will sell their house for as high price as they can. Hence, pap will be untouched…its easy way out to give out money to tackle cost of living but too bad more will fall thru the crack as economy progress
Singapore has limited space, with continuous influx of outsiders to live and work, Singapore will not be able to absorb any more people, let alone space for new roads and buildings
Restaurants have to provide something tangible in return for your money but you obviously decide who to part your money with - you are in control. But could you decide how much you would like to pay for your house loan, utilities bills, town council fees, salaries for the politicians in power, school fees, coe and car prices? And could you even decide who are the right politicians to be voted in to fight for your rights? Answer is as clear as day and night so you need not answer to the questions posed to you.
@@choonhockong8215 Hard work and determination are virtues to emulate. Chee should also be a principled politician - absorb the GST in his restaurants so that the prices can be lowered. The heartlanders will appreciate that and enjoy what he has to offer.
Ty Mr Chee for ur concern on us.Look at Changi Airport...so many homeless Singaporean. HDB price are unacceptable. If 10yrs ago till now, the house went 50% more...our pay shld be the same.
How to not let them weasel their way out of a failure, fiasco or flaw : The best improvement Hussain Bolt, the fastest sprinter, is if he Compares himself with himself yesterday. If he compares with lousier runners , he will never break record. So, when policies fail, someone will say, at least better than other countries. You can corner them by saying it's not proper comparison to compare different countries because almost every parameter is different. SG today must be compared with SG 4 years ago or something like that. SG leaders are paid uniquely different than all the other "mediocre" leaders. Who has the cheek to compare with lowly paid leaders when they are paid extremely handsomely? So, SimplyGo, ERP2, "Affordable" public housing which has past $1m etc. Corner them by telling them not to compare with other country but compare apple with apple. This will corner them and they will be in trouble.
What will "PM Dr Chee" do to fight inflation, manpower/ageing issues, etc etc "problems he see now in SG under PAP" ? Criticism without workable (proven ?) alternatives are easy to utter (just join in some usual 'coffee shops talk groups'), and quite useless. Pls also give 'examples and analysis' to strengthen 'his solutions as PM' (e.g. which countries' policies etc have proven to work, and SG can learn/adopt too )
A hawker stall at bedok Centre sell for $480K to $500k , it is crazy expensive, the stall was from $25 rental to maybe now $230 for first owner and if subsequently sold to second owner, the rental is $950 and maybe more .
I am a born and bred Singaporean who served my NS and pay my dues. I disagree with your statement. The comment of "reducing the influx of foreigners" is too wide and ambiguous. Do you have your stats? What 'level' of foreigners? We need foreign labour for construction, shipping and F&B. without these 'influx', Singapore cannot function as we don't have sufficient manpower locally. I do know of many foreign MNCs who was coaxed by our EDB to invest in Singapore and created many jobs for our locals. But in return, they needed a certain number of EPs to bring in their core team. Do we tell them No? Or see the silver lining that by getting in these foreigners (they pay taxes), many other jobs will be created? There are also another segment of foreigners who bring new knowledge, skills, expertise that will improve our industry, and up our status internationally. We say we selectively bring in these talents. Our birth rates is not sufficient to replenish our work force. We all know of peers who will not marry, or not have children (or have more than 1 kid) regardless of how much the govt dishes out. These are dynamics / mentality of our population that are many dimensional which cannot be solved that easily. Do we let the population age and let our workforce reduce over time? I say we bring in foreigners of similar culture and embed them in our society. bigger & better industries + bigger workforce = higher GDP We can only do these if we have good and appropriate immigration policies. I applaud your tenancity in Singapore politics. But I suggest you shift your sole focus from 'bringing down the government', to actions that better our society and community at large. Thank you.
@darrenlow4358 The population growth is too much lah. And the stress is too much too. I prefer life under LKY. So what if are a developing country? Lack of babies? Why? Stressful and costly to have baby
What if productivity growth is no longer enough? Can we be two times, three times more productive than our regional counterparts to justify the cost of business here? Productivity cannot be the only yardstick we go by in the future. Telling us to think out of the box, but this single word has been the sticking point for the last 30 years.
Year after year, we hear the challenges Govt face in changing world, its complexities etc that threaten our existence, growth, quality of life as a City state.. Yet annually Govt do well and more than others.. So why are we one of the most unhappy people? If we dont know why and Govt can understand it, bcos its taking care of us? Govt is afraid of really sharing the fruits of our labour and yet put every generation with the fear factor of "do well to success of Govt policies"(so thst u are taken care of) This clarion call is repeated when each PM come on board, abeit LKY, 6:37 who was leading us into Independence.. LW had better heed the feedback, roadblocks, etc of its policies before 'the camel's back is broken'
Apart from complaining with faux gravitas what are your actual recommendations to better Singapore? We do not need a rabble rousing demagogue, especially in such globally uncertain times. The question is how can we do better together, and not what someone is doing wrong or how right you were all along. Prove your merit by suggesting action steps, not just complaining in a way that suggests personal vendetta rather than an actual heart for the nation as a whole.
Just food alone, the increase is over 20% if you use a 5 year chart instead of a YOY. Don't believe me, do your own research. Other countries within the region did experience inflation but not as insanely high. Something must be very wrong now 😢
