Singapore Government Giving Too Much Money To The Useless Needy

[clinton666]

In Singapore, if you are willing to work hard and work smart, you shouldn't be begging and harrowing the Govt. for money. $3,000,000,000 is way too much money for this group of lazy, uneducated and boorish group of needy morons.

MM Lee says Singapore has shock absorbers to buffer setbacks
By Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 13 August 2008 2227 hrs

SINGAPORE: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has provided some assurance as the country faces a bumpier road ahead with slower growth and soaring inflation.

Speaking to his constituents at the Tanjong Pagar National Day celebration dinner, Mr Lee said Singapore has some shock absorbers to buffer the setbacks. For the needy, the government has put aside over S$3 billion this year in various support schemes.
He added that Singapore could grow 5 to 6 per cent or even 7 to 8 per cent if there is no long-term recession in the United States or EU, but should the giants go into a recession, then growth may be at 3 to 5 per cent.

Mr Lee said Singapore has massive investments with long-term implementation periods. When the integrated resorts are completed, there will be demand for workers, softening the impact of retrenchments.

"We have an economy which is diversified. We have a workforce that we have upgraded year by year, better educated, better able to earn more because we are connected with the world and our incomes can rise because of our higher skills and higher technology," said Mr Lee.

He said work-permit foreign workers will take the brunt of any lay-offs, saving many Singaporeans their jobs. And due to the fact that the country has been increasing its investments with China and India, the impact of the slowdown in the US and EU will be buffered.

Mr Lee also noted that the government is taking care of the lower income. "We have succeeded so far in housing, in health, in education, in job facilities.

"We will do our best to re-train people who are being retrenched to upgrade their skills. But we must face facts, this gap is going to remain for five, ten or more years."

In the region, the minister mentor pointed to the political flux in Malaysia and Thailand, and said that money politics is at the heart of problems in many Asian countries. The good thing for Singapore, he said, is that there is no money politics.

He also highlighted Singapore's political stability, saying the frequent chop and change in governments and policies have caused instability in countries like Thailand and Taiwan.


- CNA/so

[chinkangkor]

Be thankful that these poor and desperate have not resorted to rob and steal yet, otherwise you may end up as one of their victims.

[clinton666]

Be thankful that these poor and desperate have not resorted to rob and steal yet, otherwise you may end up as one of their victims.

These retards are not resorting to stealing and robbing due to our First Class Police Force.

[congo9]

Be thankful that these poor and desperate have not resorted to rob and steal yet, otherwise you may end up as one of their victims.

Good one dude , this man just want to write something just to please his MASTER. May be his KPI is base on writing nonsense !

[Cestbon]

When a person desperate have nothing to eat and shelter. Then he/she sure will steal/rob better than starve to dead. Even if caught still good for them have 3 meal food daily and shelter and medical take care by goverment.
Sometimes for those have no money with lots of debt and sickness is better stay in prison. All problem will be solve with gov paying all the bill included medical. The prison cannot canning a person that is unhealthy even if he rape 10 girls.

[The_Latest_H]

Well, I will put it in this way: if the poor and needy are not take care of, especially the elderly ones who are forced to work when they are already in their late 60s and in ill health- and of those of say single mums, or kids who have single parents due to personal tragedy- then it becomes a national security threat in the long run.

I would sum my argument up in one quote by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1944: "People who are hungry, people who are out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

And let's face it, even as Singapore is under a dictatorship now, we have people who are hungry and out of a job as we speak. In the end, what President Roosevelt implied was that when people go hungry and jobless, in the long run, will be angry enough to resort to drastic measures to re-address the balance. And that's when chaos start.

And that was how imperial dynasties started to crumble after a few hundred years. After all, absolute power corrupts absolutely.