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An Article by Ann Maria

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Article by Ann Maria

I think it'll be difficult to change because the problem lays deep.
When the ministers think it's perfectly fine to tell the Citizens to
tighten their belts and sacrifice to contribute to GDP growth, then
reward themselves for this growth, the problem is deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

When these ministers think welfare is a dirty word, yet see no harm in
keeping their pensions of 2/3s their highest drawn salary even after
raising their pay to the multi-millions and taking astronomical
bonuses,
mooting the whole argument that "we sacrifice for the country, so the
country looks after us" (side note: isn't that true for us all too?).

Now let's just look at this simple example here - pensions. For the
rest of us, pensions gave way to CPF. This CPF payout date too has
been raised how
many times now? From 55 to what is it now? 65?

Yet do you know our dear ministers still get their pensions from 55
onwards, on TOP of their pay?

They see no harm nor wrong in this now, do they?

They see no wrong in holding back our CPF, giving us a lower interest
rate than inflation. They see no wrong wiping out this CPF too with
over-priced government housing. They will argue "market prices"
ignoring the fact that they control the influx of people here, control
legislation for foreign
ownership, own more than 80% of the land and therefore ARE the market.

They see no wrong that HDB is government housing built on stateland
that they acquired, using the land acquisition act, cheaply (I read
$1.00 per square foot in some cases) for the purpose of housing the
Citizens. Now they lease it back to us at hundreds per sqft x 20 (for
a twenty storey
block)... yet the title deed never changes hands. It's a lease, on
which we also have to pay property tax on.

They see no problem that our retirement fund is being funneled into
their reserves and we can't even dream of retiring.

See my point yet? The government sees no wrong turning the Citizens
into cash cows for their "reserves", which they also tell us is huge,
therefore they are a great government worth more than the millions
they take for themselves.

The problem is so extremely deep when a government sees no problem
using the blood and lives of its Citizens to paint a beautiful picture
which they will then use to improve their own bank balances with.

How do you make changes to that, except to remove them all and replace them?

This current government does everything they can to ensure this system
of checks and balances isn't there, they have no transparency nor
accountability, they build the corruption into their system and keep
harping about how good and clean they are.

Honestly though, I think on many levels, they actually believe that
they are clean and good and honest. That they are making us sacrifice,
made themselves multi-millionaires and are working towards making
themselves billionaires "for our good"... Maybe they do believe that
on many levels.

That in fact though is the danger with the current government and why
they can not change.

They do not see anything wrong with what they are doing, they just
need to, "Communicate it better to us".
 
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