Re: Singapore Is Now Officially The First Country On Earth To Have Eradicated Poverty
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bro...i oso stayed at Redhill...i am familiar with these 2 blocks of flats u r talking about....
oh yes...the flats are refurbished...do u noe they are slated for demolition actually? There was supposed to be a garden in their place. Then after a while, they were refurbished....why?
Further down across where Zi Ran is, are blocks of one-room / rental flats....yes, they are all painted and looked new...but what about those living inside? They are poor !
This is MM's GRC..u think they will allow it to look shabby? Look at the number of old folks, pushing overladen carts of cardboard...at Redhill hawker centre, you see an old woman fighting aggressively to collect aluminum cans, at the same hawker centre - a 90 year old woman is working as a dish collector.
these are the poor....yes, they don't beg on the streets becos MCYS will come around to collect them...
I wonder...in Japan or in US, the old folks are happily retired and enjoying their last years of their lives...here...sorry man...unless ur children can afford to maintain you - not 100 or 200 a month....for this amount, you still need to go out and get some work...
U assume everyone in the US and Japan live happily retired after they work. U go visit a park in Japan at night and U see a lot of homeless pple sleeping there. Same goes for the US. Just in case you have never worked in Japan. Most pple cannot afford to retire either. A number of my colleagues still work part time after they retired. BTW studies showed that U are more likely to work in Japan after the retirement age(officially, 60) then anywhere else in the developed world.
And no I eat at Redhill market and ABC market almost on a daily basis, have never seen old woman fighting to collect aluminium cans. Even those are not very common during lunch/dinner times. And no I have no idea why they wasn't demolished, I thought they were going to but in the end it worked out fine.
The government renovate the outside of the apartments and upgrade the lifts. I don't think there is any government in the world that can help every single poor person in their country to renovate their flats. It's near impossible to find one outside of SG that bothers to renovate/upgrade their apartments to begin with. I may be wrong on this but so far of all the countries and cities I've visited, haven't seen one that does it.
Living here for so many years(26 to be exact) I have a lot of friends living in your so called "poorer apartments". Most of them living in those apartments are not as "poor" as U would like to think. They have decent, can afford to raise a family and no I still don't see any of them begging on the streets. I seriously doubt U have visited any of those flats recently. Go there on a Sunday afternoon, chances are U can hear Karaoke singing coming from those apartments, not that bad for "really poor pple who can barely afford to buy food"
I'm not saying there are no poor pple in Redhill. And I'm not saying there are no poor pple in SG like the other joker. However to say that the poor in Redhill are living in really poor condition? I seriously advise pple to come to Redhill and take a walk and draw your own conclusions.
