[COLOR="_______"]Friends and Fellow Peasants
I have been watching population, inflation, home prices and rentals spiral out of control.
You well-informed people should know the facts. It’s all in the news, even in the State Media which has biased coverage in favor of PAP.
Home prices are shooting up with no end in sight. During the last quarter alone, private housing prices went up by 15.8% and HDB resale by 3.6%.
We are now approaching HK in unaffordability.
Many HK people live in cages because they cannot even afford to rent rooms. Landlords typically rent out many cages per room.
We are now reading every day that ‘Mickey Mouse Apartments are Good Investments because people rush to rent them’ or ‘Shoe Box Apartments are popular and snapped up quickly’.
Today it is Mickey Mouse and Shoe Box apartments of 248sf. Tomorrow it will be cages. Do you want to live like Hong Kongers?
Affordable housing is a basic right. The UN is investigating New York for lack of affordable housing. See this link:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/special-rapportuer/
Singapore is experiencing a shocking rate of population growth unprecedented in human recorded history. Normally population growth of over 1% is considered fast. In Singapore, so-called locals increased by 11% last year thanks to a massive influx of new PRs and citizens.
These are not lowly paid construction workers who live in trailers and go home after their work assignments are finished. These are people who compete with us for housing.
And we are not a vast, empty wilderness. We are a small island with no natural resources. We even have to import sand to build these new Shoeboxes in the Sky.
London has 8 million people on 1755 square km.
Tokyo has 12 million on 2187 square km.
Shanghai has 20 million on 7037 square km.
Our country is more crowded than the most crowded cities in the most crowded countries in the world. And unlike these other countries, we have no rural hinterland. Everyone is crowded into our official land area.
Our population density is even higher than Hong Kong which has 7 million on 1054 square km. Although some of Hong Kong’s land is unusable because it is steep, we have even more unusable land reserved for water catchment, reservoirs, military training and dozens of golf courses for PAP and cronies.
In 1997, there was a housing bubble caused by the belief that 100,000 Hong Kongers would flood to our island as a result of the handover. This led to a round of speculation that ended by 1998. But now our housing problem is not a short term one. It is a long term problem.
PAP has an economic strategy that relies on cheap labour, competing with India and China directly.
PAP will price according to market.
PAP will do nothing to stop the population growth.
PAP will not try to hold down housing prices.
PAP blames citizens for everything, rather than takes responsibility.
PAP likes new citizens, is willing to do all it can to attract more, and will help these new citizens in every way.
All these factors guarantee that our population will surge into the indefinite future.
We will be lucky if PAP even stops at its current target of 6.5m.
As some may remember, PAP’s target was 3.2m in the 1980s. It became 3.5m, then 4m in the 1990s. With PAP determined to match China and India in low-wage labour, 6.5m will not be sufficient. We will need at least 14m like Mumbai, Lagos, Dhaka or Jakarta.
UBS recently released its 2009 report comparing purchasing power by city. As the report shows, Singapore fell from slightly over 50% of New York in 2006 to 38.2% of NY by 2009. In just 3 years, we have lost a quarter of our purchasing power in comparison with NY.
During this 3 years, our population surged from 4.48m to 4.99m. Most of the growth came in the last year, from 4.68m to 4.99m.
PAP increased the population fastest when the world economy was the weakest. Obviously attempting to hold down wages.
If you increase the population without increasing GNP just as quickly, per capita GNP will fall. African countries keep getting poorer because they keep increasing their population.
Our living standards will be akin to Mumbai, Lagos, Dhaka and Jakarta at the rate PAP is going!
We must vote out the PAP.
All opposition parties must get together, coordinate, and contest every single seat. There must be no walkovers.
Not more than 1 party should contest each seat.
We must support any and all candidates not linked to PAP-OldFart.
This is no time to engage in petty name calling. I understand that some brainwashed Singaporeans regard Chee Soon Juan as worse than Hitler, Stalin and Satan combined. But if you don’t throw PAP out of power, you’ll live in a cage soon anyway.
So-called pragmatic people insist on having a ‘proven opposition’ or ‘experienced candidate’ first. I believe that is being penny wise and pound foolish, or at least losing sight of the big picture.
If we do not vote PAP out the next election, this is the end.
The number of new citizens has increased by hundreds of thousands. These are economic refugees from China, Philippines and India who are grateful to PAP for giving them an easy stepping stone out of their countries. They will vote PAP forever.
PAP has shown it is capable of upping the new citizen population by half a million every election. It will keep doing this to stay in power.
If we don’t force PAP out ASAP, be prepared to live in a cage one day.
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I have been watching population, inflation, home prices and rentals spiral out of control.
You well-informed people should know the facts. It’s all in the news, even in the State Media which has biased coverage in favor of PAP.
Home prices are shooting up with no end in sight. During the last quarter alone, private housing prices went up by 15.8% and HDB resale by 3.6%.
We are now approaching HK in unaffordability.
Many HK people live in cages because they cannot even afford to rent rooms. Landlords typically rent out many cages per room.
We are now reading every day that ‘Mickey Mouse Apartments are Good Investments because people rush to rent them’ or ‘Shoe Box Apartments are popular and snapped up quickly’.
Today it is Mickey Mouse and Shoe Box apartments of 248sf. Tomorrow it will be cages. Do you want to live like Hong Kongers?
Affordable housing is a basic right. The UN is investigating New York for lack of affordable housing. See this link:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/special-rapportuer/
Singapore is experiencing a shocking rate of population growth unprecedented in human recorded history. Normally population growth of over 1% is considered fast. In Singapore, so-called locals increased by 11% last year thanks to a massive influx of new PRs and citizens.
These are not lowly paid construction workers who live in trailers and go home after their work assignments are finished. These are people who compete with us for housing.
And we are not a vast, empty wilderness. We are a small island with no natural resources. We even have to import sand to build these new Shoeboxes in the Sky.
London has 8 million people on 1755 square km.
Tokyo has 12 million on 2187 square km.
Shanghai has 20 million on 7037 square km.
Our country is more crowded than the most crowded cities in the most crowded countries in the world. And unlike these other countries, we have no rural hinterland. Everyone is crowded into our official land area.
Our population density is even higher than Hong Kong which has 7 million on 1054 square km. Although some of Hong Kong’s land is unusable because it is steep, we have even more unusable land reserved for water catchment, reservoirs, military training and dozens of golf courses for PAP and cronies.
In 1997, there was a housing bubble caused by the belief that 100,000 Hong Kongers would flood to our island as a result of the handover. This led to a round of speculation that ended by 1998. But now our housing problem is not a short term one. It is a long term problem.
PAP has an economic strategy that relies on cheap labour, competing with India and China directly.
PAP will price according to market.
PAP will do nothing to stop the population growth.
PAP will not try to hold down housing prices.
PAP blames citizens for everything, rather than takes responsibility.
PAP likes new citizens, is willing to do all it can to attract more, and will help these new citizens in every way.
All these factors guarantee that our population will surge into the indefinite future.
We will be lucky if PAP even stops at its current target of 6.5m.
As some may remember, PAP’s target was 3.2m in the 1980s. It became 3.5m, then 4m in the 1990s. With PAP determined to match China and India in low-wage labour, 6.5m will not be sufficient. We will need at least 14m like Mumbai, Lagos, Dhaka or Jakarta.
UBS recently released its 2009 report comparing purchasing power by city. As the report shows, Singapore fell from slightly over 50% of New York in 2006 to 38.2% of NY by 2009. In just 3 years, we have lost a quarter of our purchasing power in comparison with NY.
During this 3 years, our population surged from 4.48m to 4.99m. Most of the growth came in the last year, from 4.68m to 4.99m.
PAP increased the population fastest when the world economy was the weakest. Obviously attempting to hold down wages.
If you increase the population without increasing GNP just as quickly, per capita GNP will fall. African countries keep getting poorer because they keep increasing their population.
Our living standards will be akin to Mumbai, Lagos, Dhaka and Jakarta at the rate PAP is going!
We must vote out the PAP.
All opposition parties must get together, coordinate, and contest every single seat. There must be no walkovers.
Not more than 1 party should contest each seat.
We must support any and all candidates not linked to PAP-OldFart.
This is no time to engage in petty name calling. I understand that some brainwashed Singaporeans regard Chee Soon Juan as worse than Hitler, Stalin and Satan combined. But if you don’t throw PAP out of power, you’ll live in a cage soon anyway.
So-called pragmatic people insist on having a ‘proven opposition’ or ‘experienced candidate’ first. I believe that is being penny wise and pound foolish, or at least losing sight of the big picture.
If we do not vote PAP out the next election, this is the end.
The number of new citizens has increased by hundreds of thousands. These are economic refugees from China, Philippines and India who are grateful to PAP for giving them an easy stepping stone out of their countries. They will vote PAP forever.
PAP has shown it is capable of upping the new citizen population by half a million every election. It will keep doing this to stay in power.
If we don’t force PAP out ASAP, be prepared to live in a cage one day.
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