A strong rebuttal against PM Lee's assertion that income gap is unimportant

[SNAblog]

http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-gap-is-not-important-pm-lee.html

Income Gap is not important : PM Lee

Singapore has the biggest income gap among developed nations. Instead of treating this serious problem with priority, our PM trivialises it by saying it is not important:

"What's important is not the absolute gap between the top and the bottom, but whether those at the bottom are being helped to move up. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made this point at a dialogue yesterday with contributors to the Government feedback" - Straits Times Article, A lot done to help needy : PM
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A lot done to help the needy? Bottom helped to move up? We not only have the biggest income gap, the PAP govt is also doing the least for poor people among all developed countries by any measure - social safety nets, unemployment benefits, welfare, etc. So PM Lee's govt failed to live up to his own assertion that what is important is helping the poor - since Singapore's inequality is the highest, help for the poor should also be the highest but it is actually lowest among all developed countries. This is something like his justification for GST - GST is to help the poor (by taxing them?)....saying one thing and doing another. His policy to import cheaper foreign labor in large numbers is a major factor in depressing the wages of the lower income. Singapore has no minimum wage, independent unions and during his leadership, we saw retrenchment benefits & healthcare benefits for lower echelons in the civil service disappear. He increased his ministers' pay which was already the highest in the world to new record levels. It is obvious that he cares little about the large income gap and will not be adopting policies to bring about greater equality in our society.

"'Supposing the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, comes to live in Singapore. The Gini coefficient will get worse. But I think Singapore will be better off. Even for the lower income Singaporeans, it will be better,"
- PM Lee
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Carlos Slim? If Carlos Slim comes to Singapore, every good thing he does will cause the Gini to fall and every negative thing he does for ordinary Singaporeans will cause the Gini rise. If he comes to Singapore and gives a large part of his wealth to the poor here, the Gini Index will fall instantly. If he comes here with 100,000 low cost workers from Mexico hiring no Singaporean in his business it will depresses the wages of our workers, the Gini Index will shoot up. If Carlos Slim comes here with 10,000 rich relatives and start snapping up property using his billions, that will drive up the cost of living for ordinary Singaporeans and cause wealth of richest Singaporeans with multiple properties to go up, thereby increasing the Gini. PM Lee does not even understand his own example....

 

[makapaaa]

No point reasoning with this moronic Familee TRAITOR. Focus on bringing this AH GUA to JUSTICE + Confiscate his Familee's ill-gotten wealth!

 

[myfoot123]

He is simply echoing his mistake for not doing enough when such initiative was raised by him many years ago in the national day rally. I wonder how long is he going to use the same rhetoric until we see mold in his words. I am simply tired of it - more talks no action.

 

[vamjok]

he is saying its ok that he is not doing his job. i know who to vote now

 

[SneeringTree]

Sickening how Singapore has degraded into this state.

Fuck lah. "Moving up" is not an absolute indicator, it makes no sense to say that poorer households are earning "more" if the gap between rich and poor does not narrow.

Anyone who still votes for this dud of a PM in a dud of a party deserves to be charged with treason.

 

[garlic]

Our PM was never voted in... He was shooed in..

 

[Ash007]

Singapore has the biggest income gap among developed nations. Instead of treating this serious problem with priority, our PM trivialises it by saying it is not important:
"What's important is not the absolute gap between the top and the bottom, but whether those at the bottom are being helped to move up. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made this point at a dialogue yesterday with contributors to the Government feedback" - Straits Times Article, A lot done to help needy : PM

Yes, just don't compare with the developed nations and its no longer a problem. Singapore is not a developed nation.

 

[cooleo]

he is saying its ok that he is not doing his job. i know who to vote now

Ass Loong tell u not to vote for opposition hor, otherwise he need to spend time thinking of ways to FIX opposition, which leave him with no time to do other things.

 

[exSINgaporean]

" If he comes here with 100,000 low cost workers from Mexico hiring no Singaporean in his business it will depresses the wages of our workers, the Gini Index will shoot up. If Carlos Slim comes here with 10,000 rich relatives and start snapping up property using his billions, that will drive up the cost of living for ordinary Singaporeans and cause wealth of richest Singaporeans with multiple properties to go up, thereby increasing the Gini. PM Lee does not even understand his own example..."

If this writer was in the hall listening to Al Kua Lee speaking and raise his hand to rebuttal him this way, sissy could quickly call: "Daddy, daddy, where the fuck are you?" Or his lawyer would call out: "OBJECTION!"

I am glad there are suck logical Singaporeans but hopefully such people have the "quick" thinking mind and able to compose it and articulate at the very moment and of course provided they are allowed to speak like us in Canada.

 

[Ash007]

Ass Loong tell u not to vote for opposition hor, otherwise he need to spend time thinking of ways to FIX opposition, which leave him with no time to do other things.

Eh, what other things he doing ah? Like choosing what pink to wear? ekekkeke

 

[Baroko]

He is simply plain.....ANAL.

 

[Frankiestine]

The only thing up that this faggot PM wants to see is his salary....

 

[nickers9]

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Income Gap is not important : PM Lee


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Carlos Slim? If Carlos Slim comes to Singapore, every good thing he does will cause the Gini to fall and every negative thing he does for ordinary Singaporeans will cause the Gini rise. If he comes to Singapore and gives a large part of his wealth to the poor here, the Gini Index will fall instantly. If he comes here with 100,000 low cost workers from Mexico hiring no Singaporean in his business it will depresses the wages of our workers, the Gini Index will shoot up. If Carlos Slim comes here with 10,000 rich relatives and start snapping up property using his billions, that will drive up the cost of living for ordinary Singaporeans and cause wealth of richest Singaporeans with multiple properties to go up, thereby increasing the Gini. PM Lee does not even understand his own example....

Aiyo! I am talking cock lah! Can you give me a break?

Do you know everyday I come to my office is to sleep only lah. Do you know I am so bore in my office? I cannot hanky panky as my tiger - Ho Ching is at home watching me, so no choice I got to find some entertainment to amuse myself. So I need to come out once in a blue moon to talk some cock if not my 66.6% voters will kick me out in the next erection lah. Ok???