As for maids if you can't afford one you shouldn't have one. I could never afford a maid in Singapore. We had to do our own housework and make other arrangements when it came to looking after the vulnerable. If I was to fault the PAP it's that they made the hiring of maids far too easy. It has turned half of Singapore into mini tyrants.
Reality in Spore is that the husband & wife need to work to survive in Spore.
A maid becomes a necessity if you have children & older parents. Under the PAP Sporeans are on their own when it comes to child care or looking after senior citizens. Countries like Canada are very pro-family & they have all kinds of benefits if you have children e.g. tax exemptions, monetary incentives, no gst on child related goods,... Day care is accessible & affordable. Health care is cheap there. If you are poor it is even free.
I know someone who relocated from Spore to Canada & eventually brought up 7 children
He is not a muslim just someone who likes children. There is no way he could have had so many children in Spore.
This help is extended to the senior citizens. As a senior citizen you get concessions for various services e.g. bus services, cinemas, admission to university, museums,.... They don't have to worry about medical expenses because of the good healthcare system.
These benefits is extended to ALL Canadians rich & poor. You don't need to be a grass roots member, have a lobang, vote for the party in power,...
In Spore there are no free lunches even for the senior citizens who help build this nation. Unless of course you are an elite. I'm disappointed with the PAP because they have made so much from Spore & Sporeans & given back so little to the "lesser mortals". They don't even want to return the people's CPF
