In a speech made in Parliament yesterday on the Job Credit Scheme, PAP MP Madam Ho Geok Choo whose speech writer was TOC Chief Editor Choo Zheng Xi, used the following analogy to describe needy Singaporeans dependent on perpetual handouts from the government:
“By all means give help to the needy but we must ensure that we don’t in the process make being needy a new growth industry and acceptable career. What remains a constant is that while it’s New Age to have a bleeding heart but as relevant is what MM (Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew) once said: ‘we have to be careful not to bleed to death.” (Read full article here)
Are our government coffers really ”bleeding to death” as a result of social welfare programmes to help Singaporeans ?
To put things in perspective, the PAP government has been most stingy in doling out aid to Singaporeans. Only about 3,000 Singaporeans, most of whom are over 70 years of age qualify for the Public Assistance (PA) scheme which pays a miserable $330 a month for their living expenses.
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“By all means give help to the needy but we must ensure that we don’t in the process make being needy a new growth industry and acceptable career. What remains a constant is that while it’s New Age to have a bleeding heart but as relevant is what MM (Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew) once said: ‘we have to be careful not to bleed to death.” (Read full article here)
Are our government coffers really ”bleeding to death” as a result of social welfare programmes to help Singaporeans ?
To put things in perspective, the PAP government has been most stingy in doling out aid to Singaporeans. Only about 3,000 Singaporeans, most of whom are over 70 years of age qualify for the Public Assistance (PA) scheme which pays a miserable $330 a month for their living expenses.
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.com/?p=4825
