Singapore Is Now Officially The First Country On Earth To Have Eradicated Poverty!

[clinton666]

Paul Volcker said this in an interview to Straits times:”I wander around the city and I wonder where the poor people are”

Paul Volcker who is also the economic adviser to President Barack Obama was commenting on Singapore's remarkable progress.

Singapore is now officially the first country in this world to have eradicated poverty. Vote the PAP for More Good Years!!

 

[GoldenDragon]

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Paul Volcker said this in an interview to Straits times:”I wander around the city and I wonder where the poor people are”

Paul Volcker who is also the economic adviser to President Barack Obama was commenting on Singapore's remarkable progress.

Singapore is now officially the first country in this world to have eradicated poverty. Vote the PAP for More Good Years!!

If Paul Volcker was fine dining at Goodwood Park, visited MBS or RWS, makaned at the Istana, went anywhere else under escort etc, how to see poor people?

If he is keen, he should come to S'pore incognito and visit places where we have the 1 room 1 hall or better still, no room no hall flats. Try Whampoa, Redhill, Chin Swee Rd, Redhill, Toa Payoh etc. Visit the badly managed homes of the aged.

This chap shocked me. Economic advisor to Obama some more. Maybe he was trying to be courteous to the hosts after being well entertained.

 

[saratogas]

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He should take a visit to Little India & Chinatown...

 

[clinton666]

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If Paul Volcker was fine dining at Goodwood Park, visited MBS or RWS, makaned at the Istana, went anywhere else under escort etc, how to see poor people?

If he is keen, he should come to S'pore incognito and visit places where we have the 1 room 1 hall or better still, no room no hall flats. Try Whampoa, Redhill, Chin Swee Rd, Redhill, Toa Payoh etc. Visit the badly managed homes of the aged.

This chap shocked me. Economic advisor to Obama some more. Maybe he was trying to be courteous to the hosts after being well entertained.

You moronic dumbass:oIo:

Poor people will not even be living in Apartments
They will be living in slums or on the streets and poor people will have no food to eat and die of hunger.

Has anyone died of hunger or lack of shelter in Singapore?
You views are absolutely retarded:oIo:

The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than US $1.25 (PPP) per day, and moderate poverty as less than $2 a day. It estimates that "in 2001, 1.1 billion people had consumption levels below $1 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day."[123]

 

[red amoeba]

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wah ha ha...the biggest joke...

no wonder US economy is in dire straits. With Paul at the adviser...

he wanna see the poor? no need to come down here...give me his email address...we can send him photos....or videos.

 

[†††††]

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he will have 100% change of opinion if someone brings him to Sungei road at jalan besar

 

[po2wq]

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yeah! ... no mor poor ppl in sg! ...

gst shud b lowered immediately as there is no poor any mor dat nids help! ...

 

[Char_Azn]

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Try Whampoa, Redhill, Chin Swee Rd, Redhill, Toa Payoh etc. Visit the badly managed homes of the aged.

Dude, I can't speak for the other places but have U even visited Redhill? I live there. What badly managed homes for the aged? The one room flats(the ones just in front of Redhill Market). The flats for the poor was just renovated not long ago. Got lift to every floor and the paint work still looks pretty new. Even the old apartments behind those(the ones along Bukit Merah Central) are in pretty good shape. And no U don't see pple living/begging on the streets or old broken down flats/apartment around here. I think U need to come visit the place and take a walk before U post your comment.

 

[clinton666]

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wah ha ha...the biggest joke...

no wonder US economy is in dire straits. With Paul at the adviser...

he wanna see the poor? no need to come down here...give me his email address...we can send him photos....or videos.

You spastic maggot:oIo:

I want to see them too:oIo:

 

[red amoeba]

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Dude, I can't speak for the other places but have U even visited Redhill? I live there. What badly managed homes for the aged? The one room flats(the ones just in front of Redhill Market). The flats for the poor was just renovated not long ago. Got lift to every floor and the paint work still looks pretty new. Even the old apartments behind those(the ones along Bukit Merah Central) are in pretty good shape. And no U don't see pple living/begging on the streets or old broken down flats/apartment around here. I think U need to come visit the place and take a walk before U post your comment.

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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...

 

[Narong Wongwan]

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Dude, I can't speak for the other places but have U even visited Redhill? I live there. What badly managed homes for the aged? The one room flats(the ones just in front of Redhill Market). The flats for the poor was just renovated not long ago. Got lift to every floor and the paint work still looks pretty new. Even the old apartments behind those(the ones along Bukit Merah Central) are in pretty good shape. And no U don't see pple living/begging on the streets or old broken down flats/apartment around here. I think U need to come visit the place and take a walk before U post your comment.

No need to go down personally to see.
Recently there was a documentary on it in chinese channel. The conditions inside the flats were terrible!
Or can see programes like Renovaid.
THERE ARE indeed very poor people in singapore.

 

[Whats4]

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Paul Volcker said this in an interview to Straits times:”I wander around the city and I wonder where the poor people are”

Paul Volcker who is also the economic adviser to President Barack Obama was commenting on Singapore's remarkable progress.

Singapore is now officially the first country in this world to have eradicated poverty. Vote the PAP for More Good Years!!

looks gd on the outside but rotten on the inside. :oIo::oIo::oIo:

 

[no_faith]

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he judge by the surface of the issue?

 

[Char_Azn]

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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.

 

[Char_Azn]

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No need to go down personally to see.
Recently there was a documentary on it in chinese channel. The conditions inside the flats were terrible!
Or can see programes like Renovaid.
THERE ARE indeed very poor people in singapore.

Those programs take the worst example they can find and U assume everyone living around there is like that???

There are numerous programs from the US where pple do house cleaning and renovation, does that mean all their neigbours around the area are living in pigsty like them?

 

[no_faith]

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are there poor ppl in sg?
1 answer, yes or no? short n simple.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

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Those programs take the worst example they can find and U assume everyone living around there is like that???

There are numerous programs from the US where pple do house cleaning and renovation, does that mean all their neigbours around the area are living in pigsty like them?

the issue is whether poverty is eradicated.
Looking at these people, whether they are in the minority or not proves that there is poverty.

 

[streetsmart73]

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looks gd on the outside but rotten on the inside. :oIo::oIo::oIo:

hi there


1. bro, both dogs are barking aloud man!
2. want to see poverty in sheepishland, just wander in the wee hours in some underpasses, bus stops or shelters.
3. plenty to see.
4. or visit chinatown where old folks with some distorted back pushing carts of discarded things or picking up empty drink cans.

 

[loudhailer]

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If Paul Volcker was fine dining at Goodwood Park, visited MBS or RWS, makaned at the Istana, went anywhere else under escort etc, how to see poor people?

If he is keen, he should come to S'pore incognito and visit places where we have the 1 room 1 hall or better still, no room no hall flats. Try Whampoa, Redhill, Chin Swee Rd, Redhill, Toa Payoh etc. Visit the badly managed homes of the aged.

This chap shocked me. Economic advisor to Obama some more. Maybe he was trying to be courteous to the hosts after being well entertained.

Do you even know what you are talking about? Mr Volcker was Chairman of the Fed before Greenspan. You really think he is as shallow as you make him out to be? The SDP, maybe, not Volcker.

 

[Ramseth]

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If Paul Volcker was fine dining at Goodwood Park, visited MBS or RWS, makaned at the Istana, went anywhere else under escort etc, how to see poor people?

If he is keen, he should come to S'pore incognito and visit places where we have the 1 room 1 hall or better still, no room no hall flats. Try Whampoa, Redhill, Chin Swee Rd, Redhill, Toa Payoh etc. Visit the badly managed homes of the aged.

This chap shocked me. Economic advisor to Obama some more. Maybe he was trying to be courteous to the hosts after being well entertained.

Is this the chap who advised Obama not to worry, just run the printing press?