Serious Wooden on low $50k salaries, VB on how many meals you want in one day?

[Confuseous]

Singapore will assuredly become bankrupt – morally and socially – if people continue listening to the mindset of the ruling party People’s Action Party (PAP) which exploits the weak and poor in society, said the Chief of Singapore Democratic Party’s (SDP), Dr Chee Soon Juan, as he appealed to Singaporeans’ “sense of decency”.

In a video posted on Facebook on Thursday (23 April), Dr Chee remarked that the PAP has imposed a mindset that is “very exploitative, bullying, even brutish one” to society as it suppressed the wages of the workers, while the ministers are getting huge amounts of salary.

Referring to the Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who previously quoted in 2018 that at more than S$100,000 a month, the ministers are not paid enough. ESM Goh recounted how his compatriot, Edwin Tong, told that his income was reduced to S$50,000 when becoming a junior minister.

“You heard that right, S$50,000 a month and he was still lamenting about his salary. This is how far removed the ministers are from common folks like you and me,” Dr Chee said.
“The Prime Minister even tells us that if we keep talking about work-life balance, the Vietnamese, Indians and Chinese will steal our lunch. The message? Work harder, work longer, work cheaper,” he said.

Dr Chee believes such mindset had also forced the elderly to continue working after retirement age, as he referred to a statement by the Ministry of Manpower on 23 January: “The increase in the employment rate of Singapore citizens over the last decade was driven most consistently by those aged 65 and over”.

“But the minute you advocate more spending for the poor and the elderly, ministers like Vivian Balakrishnan will scold: How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?” he noted, adding that Mr Balakrishnan waxed hyperbolic when the SDP proposed minimum wage and increased social spending by saying that the SDP will set the country to bankruptcy.

Dr Chee also remarked that the PAP has made the word “compassion” a dirty word as it was hammered into the Singaporeans’ minds that if they practice compassion, the country’s economy will go bankrupt.

“I’m here to tell you quite the opposite, that if we continue listening to the PAP and exploiting the weak and poor in society, we will assuredly become bankrupt – morally and socially bankrupt – and this will tear society apart and ultimately ruin our economy,” he asserted.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...paps-mindset-that-exploits-the-weak-and-poor/

 

[hofmann]

Dr Chee speaks truth to power.

 

[millim6868]

Yes ,he speaks the truth but 70% idiots which CCS refer to still blur sotong, eventually when needles poke these 70 % then they will wake up but too late.I still don understand why many ppl blind,why we need all these foreigners it makes our life getting expensive n worse ,like how come PR buy hdb ,they push up the price,then citizens r the one suffering n governmemt enrich themselves.Look at dormitory case who benifit n enrich themselves ,whike now many locsls lost job ,lock up at home ,all these cause n created by who? Whose money the country r using for this pandemic, who r the one thst enrich themselves ,hope these 70% idiots wake up. I still prefer opposition at least they are down to earth n the thoughts are with Citizens.

 

[Confuseous]

Yes ,he speaks the truth but 70% idiots which CCS refer to still blur sotong, eventually when needles poke these 70 % then they will wake up but too late.I still don understand why many ppl blind,why we need all these foreigners it makes our life getting expensive n worse ,like how come PR buy hdb ,they push up the price,then citizens r the one suffering n governmemt enrich themselves.Look at dormitory case who benifit n enrich themselves ,whike now many locsls lost job ,lock up at home ,all these cause n created by who? Whose money the country r using for this pandemic, who r the one thst enrich themselves ,hope these 70% idiots wake up. I still prefer opposition at least they are down to earth n the thoughts are with Citizens.

I know a PR who bought HDB, and then now living in condo.
HDB flat now rented out to Myannmar students.