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Are the G8 aunties and uncles washing toilets, mobbing floors, cleaning tables at food outlets ????
At G8 countries, only the young men and yound ladies are doing these manual jobs because of the low wages.
The G8 seniors don't do manual jobs for dire wages.
G8 seniors travel and enjoy their retirements.
Japanese senior retired farmers are tourists to Singapore.
G8 senior retirees are tourists to Singpore.
they are 1st World RETIREES with 1st World RETIREMENT
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Mr Lee questioned the Worker’s Party motives behind concepts like the First World Parliament and policies which, he said, could downgrade Singapore into a Third World Country.
ALL G8 countries have 1st World Parliament ? ? ? ?
Are the G8 Third World Countires ? ? ? ?
If sO, WHY do they G9 tO G20 want to join the G8 Third World Countries ? ? ? ?
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sIngaporeans are pragmatic
they want MONEY in their POCKET:
- 1st World EMPLOYMENT
- 1st World WAGES and SALAIRES
- 1st World BANK INTEREST RATES
- 1st World PENSION
- 1st World FREE MEDICAL
- 1st Worl FREEHOLD HOUSING
- 1st World FOOD on their plates
nOt the UPgraded Lifts
nOt the changing of leaking pipes and floors/ceilings
nOt the PARKS
nOt the CYCLING TRACKS
they are subsequent cOrrectIOns of what was nOt dOne well ? ? ? ?
mIs-dIrected fOcUs ? ? ? ?
Isolator ( Date: 29-Apr-2011 17:37) Posted:
Honestly, Singapore Makeover has made Singapore to become a country which only have external beauty, but no inner.... Everything so fake and unrealistic.... Although I have profit from such grow, but it is such a pain to see a homeland transforming into a HOTEL/ Resort........ Where is my roots now? I was so confuse.... lol
I really admired those opposition candidates who have stand up to fight for democracy even when most odds are against them.. Their breakthru is the hope for future generation of Singapore... |
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Mr Lim also refuted allegations by the Worker’s Party that the PAP uses scare tactics.
He added: " The WP says this is typical PAP crisis discourse — that means we’re doing nothing but trying to scare people. But we are not. As a responsible party, it’s our duty to point out the likely consequences of the overly rosy picture that the Workers’ Party paints of voting in a large number Opposition into the Singapore Parliament.
*GOD takes CARE of every CRISIS*
nOt anybOdy else ? ? ? ?
" And the reality is this — if people are all standing in very different positions, it’ll be very difficult to agree on what matters most to Singapore. There’ll be no consensus, no strong mandate.
*If everyone is paid S$18,000 per month, there would be 100% FULL CONSENSUS*
" It’ll be difficult [nOt ImpOssIble ? ? ? ?] to come together as a society to take action to secure our long term future despite short—term pain. Then this beautiful city of ours will surely suffer — for when a house is divided, the country cannot go forward."
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By Channel NewsAsia, Updated: 02/05/2011
GE: PAP candidates accuse WP of not caring for voters’ welfare
GE: PAP candidates accuse WP of not caring for voters’ welfare
Raymond Lim
SINGAPORE : Transport Minister and PAP candidate for East Coast GRC, Raymond Lim, has accused the Workers’ Party (WP) of not looking out for the welfare of its voters.
He said, at the Bedok Stadium on Sunday, that the opposition party is asking voters to vote them in, not to secure the future of the residents but to secure the Worker’s Party’s own future.
Mr Lim said that by calling for more alternative voices in Parliament, the Worker’s Party would create a divisive Parliament that would stop the country from moving forward.
#WHAT IS TRIPARTISM ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS DIVERSITIES ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS MULTI-CULTURE ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS MULTI-RACIAL ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS MULTI-RELIGION ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS MULTI-LINGUAL ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS CREATIVITY ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS INNOVATION ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS OUT-OF-BOX THINKING ? ? ? ?
WHAT IS DIVERSIFICATION ? ? ? ?#
Speaking in Mandarin, Mr Lee said WP’s proposal for minimum wage would lead to complacency and a drop in productivity.
#SUPER SALARY LET TO SUPER COMPLACENCY and SUPER UNPRODUCTIVITY ? ? ? ?#
TERMINATE ALL SUPER SCALE POSITIONS ? ? ? ?
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are yOU In the
SAME BOAT Or shIp ? ? ? ?
Salute ( Date: 01-May-2011 20:49) Posted:
| that's why the young party member said that we are pampered, like to complain. and are getting more than $250,000 a year. If I had that money, I won't complain but just get to work. In 4 yrs, one can buy a condo already. |
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风 雨 同 舟 ?？ ?？
‘It’s such a coincidence’
Opposition figures question timing of NWC’s recommendations to up salaries
One thing that troubles me very greatly is how high the ministers’ salaries are. The average person is only earning about S$2,500 a month.
This is something that the minister would earn in about five hours.
With such million-dollar salaries, how will the ministers share the same dreams as our people?
WP chairman Sylvia Lim
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By Channel NewsAsia, Updated: 29/04/2011
GE: Nicole Seah eyes the foreigner issue
NSP candidate Nicole Seah being garlanded by her mother at Thursday night's rally. (Photo by DON WONG - TODAY)
SINGAPORE: The influx of foreign workers was a common thread at the National Solidarity Party’s (NSP) rally in Geylang East on Thursday night.
Speaking on the issue was the party’s star attraction, Ms Nicole Seah, who said Singapore’s population had increased by 26 per cent over the last decade, attributing the growth to the Republic opening its doors to foreigners.
The squeeze, she added, was felt most on the public transport system.
Reminiscing about her primary school days when she saw mostly Singaporeans on the train, the 24—year—old quipped: " Now, every time I take the train, it feels like I’m in a different country. It is like taking a holiday, I don’t even need to bring my passport."
The Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) candidate also touched on jobs and the Goods and Services Tax (GST), reiterating that NSP will fight for Singaporeans to have priority in employment and for the GST to be reduced to 5 per cent if her party was voted into Parliament.
Speaking at the rally earlier, Tampines GRC candidate Gilbert Goh also zoomed in on the issue of foreign workers.
He asked if his listeners felt their lives have improved from five years ago, if they have better salaries and if they were affected by the sight of more foreigners on the MRT trains.
Mr Goh said he had spoken to some 500 Singaporeans during his walkabouts and met some who were jobless for as long as three years " because jobs were going to foreigners" .
" One in three jobs (here) is performed by a foreigner," he said.
Mr Ivan Yeo, the NSP’s team leader in Marine Parade, hit out at the People’s Action Party’s (PAP) " buddy" system for the GRC.
The PAP anchor, for the GRC, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong had recently announced that members of his team will be paired with each other and do cross—wards Meet—The—People Sessions at each other’s wards so as to gain experience and receive guidance from the more experienced MPs.
Addressing the crowd in Mandarin, Mr Yeo said: " After so much of the country’s resources have been invested in them ... of course we hope they can serve us independently.
" The NSP does not believe in the buddy system." Mr Yeo also referred to comments SM Goh had made about the NSP team leaving everything to Ms Seah. Mr Yeo said, contrary to SM Goh’s impression, the NSP is strategically placing Ms Seah as a spokesperson to target the youth in Singapore. —
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words: xinmsn News photos: Bob Lee, Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:59:42 GMT
Day out with Nicole Seah
We follow the NSP's youngest candidate in a day of campaigning.
The National Solidarity Party's Nicole Seah, the youngest candidate running for this election has sure generated lots of buzz online since she was introduced as a candidate last week.
She is now Singapore's second most popular politician on Facebook, only falling behind MM Lee Kuan Yew. At current count, she has over 33,000 likes on her Facebook page.
The 24-year-old advertising executive will be contesting in Marine Parade GRC. The NSP team of Cheo Chai Chen, Abdul Salim Harun, Ng Chung Hon, Yeo Tiong Boon and Nicole will be going up against the PAP team of SM Goh Chok Tong, Seah Kian Peng, Fatimah Lateef, Tan Chuan-Jin and Tin Pei Ling.
Dubbed the Internet darling by the media, Nicole has impressed netizens with her well thought and comprehensive responses to questions posted by the media.
Our photographer on the ground, Bob Lee, trails Nicole as she went on her campaign trail today, starting from Paya Lebar MRT where she distributed flyers. The last stop for the afternoon is at Nicole's 5-room flat in Tampines where she lives with her parents and two brothers.
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O V E R H E A R D :
Current high SGD FX is unreal ? ? ? ?
The RATE SPIKE may be like SMOKE ? ? ? ?
And will be CLEARED after the ELECTION ? ? ? ?
Let's SEE what is the OUTCOME after the ELECTION ? ? ? ?
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now that USD has fallen so drastically
are we getting cheaper prices in US goods ? ? ? ?
nO ? ? ? ?
iphone ? ipad ? SONY notebook ? APPLE notebook ? HP notebook ? ET CETERA
ALL US goods are more expensive in Singapore than in the US ? ? ? ?
Because local importers NEVER adjust the FX rates downward when they fall ? ? ? ?
They only adjust the FX rates UPWARD when they sOar ? ? ? ?
WHAT is the use of high SGX FX rates ? ? ? ?
nO REAL BENEFIT ? ? ? ?
Rather have hIgh interest rates like the AUD
becasue everyone the high interest goes into your pocket and you can touch them and spend them.
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G S T
Grassroot Stamp Duty
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O V E R H E A R D :
Singapore has 85% citizens living in subsidized HDB flats.
With only a minute 15% living in UNsubsidized private property,
it is by classification a 3rd WORLD NEEDY NATION ? ? ? ?
Isolator ( Date: 29-Apr-2011 17:00) Posted:
| Give the ministers NEEDY Voucher instead of such high pay... See whether they feel insulted or not.... lol |
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ENLIGHTENMENT
EXCELLENT INNOVATION
Since ministers and MPs are citizens's servants,
they shOUld be paId
SERVANT ALLOWANCE
in the form of SERVANT VOUCHERS
approved by the CITIZENS COUNCIL ? ? ? ?
# # # #
minister [ˈ mɪ nɪ stə ]
n
1. (Christianity / Protestantism) (esp in Presbyterian and some Nonconformist Churches) a member of the clergy
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person appointed to head a government department
3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any diplomatic agent accredited to a foreign government or head of state
5. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Also called (in full) minister resident a diplomat ranking after an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
6. a person who attends to the needs of others, esp in religious matters
7. a person who acts as the agent or servant of a person or thing
Isolator ( Date: 29-Apr-2011 17:00) Posted:
| Give the ministers NEEDY Voucher instead of such high pay... See whether they feel insulted or not.... lol |
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SGX’s CFO Seck quits
Christopher Howells
christopherh@mediacorp.com.sg
SINGAPORE — The long-standing chief financial officer of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), Mr Seck Wai Kwong, will be leaving for a new role with State Street Bank & Trust Co, the bourse said yesterday.
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O V E R H E A R D :
Receiving NEEDY VOUCHERS ? ? ? ?
is SOCIAL STIGMA ? ? ? ?
is HUMAN DISDIGNITY ? ? ? ?
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Needy will get vouchers
for transport, food, groceries: Amy Khor
Ong Dai Lin
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Singaporeans do not need “more expensive rents and housing, and longer and longer waits for Build-To-Order flats,” said Ms Ho Soak Harn, a West Coast GRC candidate.
“We know that, as a society, we have to rebuild the middle class, to provide mechanisms in place to work hard, earn a decent salary, to save for a home and retirement, and afford to pay the PUB utilities and conservancy bills each month, and still have a little left over.”
She cited an example of insecurity felt by a 10-year-old girl in Block 41, Teban Gardens, whose lorry driver father had to stop working due to cancer. The family had borrowed money from friends and did not know what to do when the money ran out, said Ms Ho.
The Ang Mo Kio GRC candidates spoke out against the term “suicide squad” being used to describe their contest against Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s team.
“Actually, we go there to win over the constituency. I hope when we win, they don’t go perform hara-kiri (Japanese suicide ritual),” said Mr Osman Sulaiman, the team leader.
Team-mate Mansor Rahman said Malays in Singapore have been oppressed under the People’s Action Party (PAP).
He challenged the PAP to reveal the number of Malays in high positions in Government service, and criticised Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s failure to apologise for his remark about Malays’ difficulty in integrating in his book,
“He forgot it is because of the Malays that he is in power until this day. But he didn’t apologise, he only said he stood corrected,” said Mr Mansor in Malay. Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going.
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PAP steam rolls
policies through: SDP
Lin Yanqin
yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg
The SDP’s ‘radical’ and ‘dangerous’ agenda is to help our fellow Singaporeans, to speak on their behalf, to ask the hard questions, to do the research and take us all into the future confidently.
SDP candidate Vincent Wijeysingha
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SINGAPORE
And at the opening night of the rallies, National Solidarity Party (NSP) secretary-general Goh Meng Seng took Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong to task for certain policies that were formed during his tenure as Prime Minister.
Referring to the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) for cars and the Electronic Road Pricing system, the NSP chief said both policies were introduced during Mr Goh’s tenure as measures to control traffic congestion. The Opposition leader described them instead as a revenue mechanism that failed.
“Do we have congested traffic now? Who should be accountable then?” he asked. “They wanted to make money.”
Turning to the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which was introduced in 1994 at 3 per cent, he said: “The most famous thing they installed is the GST.
What we are suffering right now is a heritage from the past, which came from the Goh Chok Tong administration.
Do you want accountability from him?
Do you want to vote him out?” .
Some, he said, had thought the NSP staged a fight in the People’s Action Party (PAP) fortress of Marine Parade because of its young candidate Tin Pei Ling. The PAP team’s weakest link, he said, was not Ms Tin. It was Mr Goh himself, the NSP leader said.
Recalling the ’70s and ’80s, Mr Goh Meng Seng said Singapore then used to be a “good country” with jobs, cheap housing and low healthcare costs. “Old ministers like Goh Keng Swee ... were very socialist, they took care of the people,” he said.
The NSP chief accused the Senior Minister’s administration of starting to run the country like a company fixated on making profits, while pegging the chief executive’s salary to profits.
“The focus of this Government is no longer you and me. The focus of this Government is GDP growth, so that their ministers’ pay can grow,” he said.
Other speakers at last night’s rally in Geylang East Central included all five members of Marine Parade GRC, as well as their teammate in Tampines GRC Gilbert Goh.
Lawyer Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss, the NSP’s candidate in the Mountbatten Single Member Constituency — recently carved out from Marine Parade GRC — took to the podium for 15 minutes.
On the cost of living, Mrs Chong-Aruldoss read out a list of items that have become more expensive, while companies that provide citizens with essentials like utilities and transport services reported more profits every year.
Recently, she said, Members of Parliament (MPs) have been going to hawker centres and coffeeshops asking stallholders to promise not to increase prices to help Singaporeans cope with the cost of living.
For example, she noted that the PAP’s Ms Tin told the media she got the MacPherson Merchants Association to hold their prices for six months.
Mr Lim Biow Chuan, the PAP’s candidate in Mountbatten, had written to the authorities to stave off a 35-per-cent rent increase [root cause ? true culprit?] of a hawker at a market. The appeal was rejected by the National Environment Agency, which said the rent increase was in line with existing economic conditions.
Noting the contradiction, Mrs Chong-Aruldoss said: “It seems that the ruling party and the agencies that work under them are at cross purposes. On one hand, we have (candidates) talking to merchants associations to keep prices down, and MPs writing letters of appeal to reconsider price increases of stall rental.
“And, on the other hand, you see agencies wanting to raise the rental of stalls to be in line with prevailing economic conditions.
How can a shopkeeper maintain his price with such increase in rental and not pass increase to customers?”
“You have not been able to vote for the last 20 years because of the GRC system, which has denied your right to choose,” she told the crowd.
“Now you have a choice.” — He promised to raise it at the rallies when he introduced his candidates for the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) last week.
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