Serious PM LHL & Ministers To Speak on Post- Covid-19 Future on TV from June 7 to 20

[Kee Chew]

David Marshall once famously said on TV : " why do they need so much money ? - eat them ?? "

 

[bobby]

Really looks like a TV programme advertisement for the month.

Why can't they just come out and address the press in public and take questions on the spot?

 

[knnb40]

Just another pre-election campaign talk-cock to get votes for pappies. More interesting and meaningful to tell sinkies about creating jobs for locals and getting rid of foreign shits from competing with locals in the job market.

What is the point of talk-cock about anti-Covid achievement and post-Covid plans and agenda?

divert Singaporean's attention from foreign shits competing with locals on usd-1500 to usd-4500
built inferior to common Singaporean as if we are still a fishing village and we are villager so that Singaporean will vote them coming GE.
get mandate from Singaporean to allow MPs world highest salary
get mandate from Singaporean for gst to go beyond 7%

 

[sweetiepie]

Really looks like a TV programme advertisement for the month.

Why can't they just come out and address the press in public and take questions on the spot?

KNN they will never let this happen KNN even in parliament questions to be asked must be submitted for approval beforehand and can be leejected KNN that's why my uncle only can beat ceo to puppy but not pap KNN

 

[myfoot123]

Really looks like a TV programme advertisement for the month.

Why can't they just come out and address the press in public and take questions on the spot?

Because they are made of PAPER they can't handle fire from the public.

 

[batman1]

We are ready for the coming GE. VOTE for the Opposition !!!

 

[LaoTze]

 

[Kee Chew]

As a society we need an update and deepening of our approach towards Total Defence.

Singapore spends about 30% of budget on defence, security and diplomacy (ST 18/2/2019) and a huge portion of the land on this little island for used by SAF training and facilities.

A million of the population have been through military training. In the last 60 years we did not engage in any military conflict. However, over the last 20 years, we have to fight a pathogenic war every few years – SARS, Bird Flu, MERS and now Covid-19.

It is almost a given that Covid 19 won’t be the last of the pathogenic warfare for us. And we are being more vulnerable as a very connected city.

The Covid 19 crisis shows up Singapore’s preparedness in few major areas and the circuit breaker allow us to see where we are plunging towards darkness:

Trip #1. We crow about being a top ranked and technologically advanced global city state but took 4 months to set up a line to produce masks locally.

When we could not import enough masks, we were reduced to diverting the attention on the shortage of mask by laughing at a neighbour and blaming the sheep here for not producing enough cotton.

After going through the pathogenic wars in the last 20 years, why is the importance of self sufficiency in mask production not in our planning parameter? Was it because mask production is such a low cost and low tech manufacturing that it is neglected?

Trip #2. Many of our HDB flats have bomb shelter built in them. The crisis awareness in Singapore is always heightened.

When supply chain was disrupted severely especially for food from our immediate neighbours, it was no wonder enterprising Singaporean would turn their bomb shelters into storage for food, groceries and essentials – just to beat the anticipated inflationary pressure if not the better use of the expensive space.

We probably pay about $400 per sq foot for those spaces. But I digressed. My point is that we have a population of more than 5 million people and we can only produce less than 5% of our food needs.

Production of food is matter of priority of land use. Yes, we have a 3030 vision but in retrospect is it 10 years too late? Can community space and the community (especially an aging one) be mobilized to accelerate the vision? Vegetables take weeks to grow, not years you know.

Trip #3. Political symbolism and the ghosts of our forefathers were invoked regularly to rally the people but these are hollow exhortations if we are not to learn the right lessons from our history.

One lesson from my father's life: He would have been quite happy living under British administration if not for the immense inequality and the disparate opportunities in the society then.

After all, he escaped from a society in famine, where opportunity for one even reasonably educated but without any land title was zilch. Britain brought rule of laws which allow enterprise to flourish.

But colonialism relied on extreme exploitation and opportunities were very unequal for the cronies, English educated and migrants. After he decided to settle down here, he joined the call of Merdeka! for a more equal share of the wealth he played a part in generating. The new government appeared to deliver on its promises.

Specifically, he saw that land were consolidated to build affordable HDB flats for the population.

Land was provided at very low cost to build factories which attracted many multinational corporations bringing jobs. Hawker centres and markets were built and provided at low cost, allowing those that could not fit into the manufacturing sector opportunities to start a small business.

These enterprises, in return provide cheap decent and nutritious meals for the population. My father got a stall in a hawker centre.

He could then increase his income by selling new dishes or better offering (learning new skills and upgrading come after basic was taken care of).

The thing to learn is that with the consolidation of the land, the new government was able to control rent and the use of land. Rent control should be prioritized over skills upgrading.

Trip #4. Recently, ravings about supplementary budgets also bring to light the priorities and efficiency of the country’s budget. Typically, we maintained a 4 years surplus budget and then a fifth year deficit or sometimes timed with general election cycle. Budgetary surplus only mean that the people are overtaxed and we are often overtaxed beyond 10 billion a year. Going with the member of parliament of Macpherson MP's logic, each of us overpaid the government by $2000 a year.

Another way of looking at these surpluses is that the government have grossly under-spent on the well being and services of the people. This crisis brings about a focus of our healthcare landscape. Singapore has 2.3 per thousand hospital beds compare to OECD average of 3.8.

Compare against Korea of 12 per thousand and Japan of 13 per thousand. Besides 10% of wages is withheld every month as a form of "health insurance" here, that is about 17.2 billion a year (wages is about 43% of our GDP). Is under capacity in our healthcare, the reason why we were unable to ramp up testing? The living conditions of the foreign workers dormitories is a microcosm the priority of our society?

 

[laksaboy]

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As a society we need an update and deepening of our approach towards Total Defence.

Singapore spends about 30% of budget on defence, security and diplomacy (ST 18/2/2019) and a huge portion of the land on this little island for used by SAF training and facilities.

A million of the population have been through military training. In the last 60 years we did not engage in any military conflict. However, over the last 20 years, we have to fight a pathogenic war every few years – SARS, Bird Flu, MERS and now Covid-19.

It is almost a given that Covid 19 won’t be the last of the pathogenic warfare for us. And we are being more vulnerable as a very connected city.

The Covid 19 crisis shows up Singapore’s preparedness in few major areas and the circuit breaker allow us to see where we are plunging towards darkness:

Trip #1. We crow about being a top ranked and technologically advanced global city state but took 4 months to set up a line to produce masks locally.

When we could not import enough masks, we were reduced to diverting the attention on the shortage of mask by laughing at a neighbour and blaming the sheep here for not producing enough cotton.

After going through the pathogenic wars in the last 20 years, why is the importance of self sufficiency in mask production not in our planning parameter? Was it because mask production is such a low cost and low tech manufacturing that it is neglected?

Trip #2. Many of our HDB flats have bomb shelter built in them. The crisis awareness in Singapore is always heightened.

When supply chain was disrupted severely especially for food from our immediate neighbours, it was no wonder enterprising Singaporean would turn their bomb shelters into storage for food, groceries and essentials – just to beat the anticipated inflationary pressure if not the better use of the expensive space.

We probably pay about $400 per sq foot for those spaces. But I digressed. My point is that we have a population of more than 5 million people and we can only produce less than 5% of our food needs.

Production of food is matter of priority of land use. Yes, we have a 3030 vision but in retrospect is it 10 years too late? Can community space and the community (especially an aging one) be mobilized to accelerate the vision? Vegetables take weeks to grow, not years you know.

Trip #3. Political symbolism and the ghosts of our forefathers were invoked regularly to rally the people but these are hollow exhortations if we are not to learn the right lessons from our history.

One lesson from my father's life: He would have been quite happy living under British administration if not for the immense inequality and the disparate opportunities in the society then.

After all, he escaped from a society in famine, where opportunity for one even reasonably educated but without any land title was zilch. Britain brought rule of laws which allow enterprise to flourish.

But colonialism relied on extreme exploitation and opportunities were very unequal for the cronies, English educated and migrants. After he decided to settle down here, he joined the call of Merdeka! for a more equal share of the wealth he played a part in generating. The new government appeared to deliver on its promises.

Specifically, he saw that land were consolidated to build affordable HDB flats for the population.

Land was provided at very low cost to build factories which attracted many multinational corporations bringing jobs. Hawker centres and markets were built and provided at low cost, allowing those that could not fit into the manufacturing sector opportunities to start a small business.

These enterprises, in return provide cheap decent and nutritious meals for the population. My father got a stall in a hawker centre.

He could then increase his income by selling new dishes or better offering (learning new skills and upgrading come after basic was taken care of).

The thing to learn is that with the consolidation of the land, the new government was able to control rent and the use of land. Rent control should be prioritized over skills upgrading.

Trip #4. Recently, ravings about supplementary budgets also bring to light the priorities and efficiency of the country’s budget. Typically, we maintained a 4 years surplus budget and then a fifth year deficit or sometimes timed with general election cycle. Budgetary surplus only mean that the people are overtaxed and we are often overtaxed beyond 10 billion a year. Going with the member of parliament of Macpherson MP's logic, each of us overpaid the government by $2000 a year.

Another way of looking at these surpluses is that the government have grossly under-spent on the well being and services of the people. This crisis brings about a focus of our healthcare landscape. Singapore has 2.3 per thousand hospital beds compare to OECD average of 3.8.

Compare against Korea of 12 per thousand and Japan of 13 per thousand. Besides 10% of wages is withheld every month as a form of "health insurance" here, that is about 17.2 billion a year (wages is about 43% of our GDP). Is under capacity in our healthcare, the reason why we were unable to ramp up testing? The living conditions of the foreign workers dormitories is a microcosm the priority of our society?

How much does Temasek have invested in China?

 

[jw5]

It should be "How much has Temasek invested in China?"

How much does Temasek have invested in China?

 

[Kee Chew]

9 June 2020 , Tues

 

[Kee Chew]

 

[LaoTze]

PAP RIGGED THE ENTIRE SYSTEM TO BE AGAINST SINGAPOREANS

AND YOU RIGHT

SINGAPOREANS ALLOWED THE FUCKING PAP TO DO ALL KINDS OF SHIT THINGS SUCH AS LETTING CECAs IN WITH FUCKED UP PAPERS FROM UPTRON ACL AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC UNIVERSITY

AND GAVE LUNCHES AND DINNERS OF SINGAPOREANS TO THOSE PUKING CECAs AND FOREIGN TALENTS

VOTE OUT THE FUCKING PAP MAGGOTS



WE ALL NOW PRAYING AND PRAYING AND PRAYING

NEXT CLUSTERS WILL BE CENTERED WITH PAP MAGGOTS AND MAGGOTESS

AND ANOTHER CLUSTERS WITH THE ROTTEN PEOPLES ASSOCIATION AND RC MEMBERS
AND YET ANOTHER CLUSTERS WITH PAPER GENERALS LINKED OR UNLINKED TOTALLY IRRELEVANT TO US ALL

AS LONG AS THOSE MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS KENNA WUHANED

EVEN BETTER WILL BE THEY ALL HUM KAR CHANG





LET THEM GATHER
MORE KENNA WUHANDED THE MORE LIKELY THAT GET BACK TO MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS IN WHITE AND THEIR ENTIRE FAMILIES
AND THEIR KANGAROOS AND PAPER GENERALS AND CRONIES AND BROWN NOSERS
ALL HUM KAR CHAN

MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS AND THEIR CRONIES AND PAPER GENERALS AND SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL ALSO DIE
MAY THEY ALL DIE BEFORE US , OR WITH US
AND STINKAPORE WILL BECOME SINGAPORE ONCE AGAIN


SPREAD WIDELY
UNTIL IT GET TO THE MAIDS AND SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND STAFF OF MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS IN WHITE
UNTIL ALL THOSE OLD MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS KENA WUHANDED
AND TOGETHER WITH YOUNG MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS AND ALL IN THE FUCKING PA AND KANGAROOS AND POODLES
WUHAN WILL DELIVER US ALL FROM THE FUCKING MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS IN WHITE FINALLY
MAGGOTS MAGGOTESS KANGAROOS CANNOT FIX WUHAN THE WAY THEY CAN FIX ELECTED PRESIDENT AND OTHER SHIT THINGS THAT THEY CAN FIX
WUHAN WILL FIX THEM INSTEAD

 

[Kee Chew]

 

[cowbellc]

can’t really comprehend what or who he’s trying to smoke.
The Govt is the 1 who embrace globalization and open market when most of us true blue Singaporean has time and again speak out against FT policy and CECA. They are the 1 who tell us to accept Global changes and expect external competition.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-markets-globalisation-teo-chee-hean-12826998

 

[Kee Chew]

me hear a lot of doom and gloom. Sad.

 

[cowbellc]

me hear a lot of doom and gloom. Sad.

Yes. Future is quite gloom given the economic climate changes
A sober remind is that even WP or SDP take over and form Govt it's not gonna change much to ordinary citizens life.

 

[Kee Chew]

at the rate things are going.

SG will be " Kodak " in no time.

 

[Kee Chew]

Remember Kodak ?

 

[Kee Chew]