The Best Rebutal To Cow Ministar. Clap Clap Clap.

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

Kudos to this writer. CCB garment people should note the last line.



'Spending one's golden years institutionalised in another country is a great blow to one's self-worth and dignity.'

MISS TAN LI FENG: 'Though the economics of the suggestion are not lost on me, there are greater social costs involved. Such a move further entrenches the idea that, once the elderly become sick and infirm, they are liabilities best chucked in a corner (read: institution), out of sight and out of mind.

There are many senior citizens who have been abandoned or are infrequently visited in homes for the elderly in Singapore. The geographical distance between Singapore and Johor Baru, coupled with clogged checkpoints, will further discourage families from paying that weekly visit, if at all, to their elderly relatives.

Spending one's golden years institutionalised in another country is a great blow to one's self-worth and dignity.

The elderly have spent their lifetime contributing to their families and the community and should be valued as any other citizen. The Government is essentially passing a value judgment on a person's worth by suggesting that resources be conserved for those who have outlived their economic productivity and utility.

Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan defended this suggestion by saying it is merely a way to open more options to middle-income families.

While families face real monetary constraints, we as a society must draw certain lines on the extent we will go for economic gain.'

 

[Nice-Gook]

Spending one's golden years institutionalised in another country is a great blow to one's self-worth and dignity.

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And in a enemy's country !

Not forgetting we spent our NS for future fights with this country.

Did Mr.Cow served NS?

 

[sex6sex6sex6]

Disagreed!

The best Rebuttal is: Go SHAFT THE FUCKING MM to a nursing home in Africa NOW!

 

[R4g3]

Sending them to old folks home is already hard enough for some people, but because of both husband and wife have to work so no choice. And you can imagine how the old folk will feel.

Now imagine you telling your old parent that you are sending them to JB, how would they feel?

I hope the person who suggest this, next time when he is old, his children will take all his money and leave him in a foreign land alone.

 

[scoobyhoo]

same as those unfilial who chased their old parents out of their home !

 

[rickws8437]

I think we have reached a stage where we will compromise all human values for the sake of saving some monies. Prehaps the minister could ask the government to allocate some megre scrap of money be used to solve this problem instead of investing some banks for long term investment of 10-20 years. I just wonder how many people will die within these 10-20 years....

 

[halsey02]

Cow Boo Wahh....ommmmmmm!, children, should start considering now, when the cow becomes old & haggard, is not of any economic or social value; by then, nursing homes prices would have gone up eight times, place that cow in a home, somewhere in Burundi. It is chearper there or the islands at the International dateline..Christmas Island..KIRIBATI..

cheaper...he suggested!, practice, what he preaches!..

 

[halsey02]

Sending them to old folks home is already hard enough for some people, but because of both husband and wife have to work so no choice. And you can imagine how the old folk will feel.

Now imagine you telling your old parent that you are sending them to JB, how would they feel?

I hope the person who suggest this, next time when he is old, his children will take all his money and leave him in a foreign land alone.

Soon peoplle in Singapore, will be Sembawang Green (ref: Soylent Green)...

 

[Conan the Barbarian]

Sending them to old folks home is already hard enough for some people, but because of both husband and wife have to work so no choice. And you can imagine how the old folk will feel.

Now imagine you telling your old parent that you are sending them to JB, how would they feel?

I hope the person who suggest this, next time when he is old, his children will take all his money and leave him in a foreign land alone.

For the poor, maybe no choice as they cannot even feed themselves. But the suggestion was for the middle class. $600 per month could be used to employ a domestic helper to help with looking after the old when both husband and wife are at work. So there is no excuse to send them to a home, be it JB or Singapore. Homes for the aged should be for those without family, or too poor to look after their elderly. It is not a convenient
way of putting old folks out of the picture.

For the poor, the government should take over and not let them join soup queues and sleep at void decks.

Afterall, were we not assured recently that no one will have to join soup queues or be homeless?

 

[Char_Azn]

This is actually PAP's scheme for us to colonize Johor. After invading and occupying most of Bintan and Batam, they are hoping to capture Johor by sending waves of our citizen there. Sending the old pple there first would create the perfect cover for our eventual invasion :P