BBC should have interview ViVian.
"Hawker centre, food court or restaurant?"
Splurge $300million on YOG, he will happily do it over and over again
You are comparing poverty in a first world country with an undeveloped country. Using your basis of comparison, there is no poverty in the developed country.
Fortunately, most civilized people don't think like you.
the notions of rich and poor is relative... those million dollar ministers feel poor too... don't believe? reduce their pay by 30% and see what happens.
another is when a person doesnt have food to eat and that poverty is real and not relative
I wish it was $300 million, It was $387 million. Not to mention the lost productivity from 50,000 "volunteers" who lost work, study and leisure time due to this stupid event. Easily exceeds $450 million in actual and opportunity cost if you ask me.
She chose to have 6 children without having a clue as to how she was going to feed and cloth them. Yet despite her indiscretions, she has roof over her head, clean running water, flushing toilet, electricity and a TV set so where is the "poverty"?
This is poverty.
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If there are actually people in Singapore who think that this deadbeat mother of six should be given free money courtesy of those who actually work for a living, all I can say is that Singapore society has changed beyond recognition.
Poor Malay families with six or more children is nothing new. They existed when I was a kid. The difference was that in the old days, they were put to work. The older kids went round the neighborhood to wash cars. The younger kids sold nasi lemak and kuay lopes one basket on each arm. While the kids were at school, the mother would wash clothes for a living.
Nobody sat back and expected free money. They knew it had to be earned or starvation would set in. That's how Singapore progressed. Everyone was eager to put in an effort to make their lives better.
Now you have a family who sits down to watch a nice flat screen TV in a home with all the modern comforts filling their faces with food they didn't have to work for while a chubby looking baby making machine of a mother bleats about what she cannot afford.![]()
Those were the good old days in SG. Good kampong life. Every one struggled for a living; the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians, Eurasians, etc. When the PAP came on the scene in 1950s, things started to get better for SG and all natives were grateful to the PAP. Can the PAP now rally sinkies to back them? It is doubtful with their kind of dumb policies.
Just had lunch today in Ang Mo Kio at a hawker centre. There was a beggar about 60 years old with bad sores on his leg and obviously in bad health and shape moving from table to table asking for alms. Definitely not a foreigner and I deduce him to be a local.
I wish it was $300 million, It was $387 million. Not to mention the lost productivity from 50,000 "volunteers" who lost work, study and leisure time due to this stupid event. Easily exceeds $450 million in actual and opportunity cost if you ask me.