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Our life expectancy has been steadily rising, from 65 in 1960, and it is now almost 85. Under the old minimum sum scheme, monthly payouts simply stopped once the balance has been exhausted. Since the payouts were calculated to pay out over 20 years from age 60, that means retirees over age 80...

Unfortunately the sad fact of the matter is that when returned all the CPF money, most Singaporeans will end up screwing themselves by mismanaging that money more than CPF supposedly screws us. Let's leave aside the people that will simply blow all the money within a few years overindulging...

Just curious, what do you think is a better alternative to a life annuity?

If you start your CPF Life after the age of 55, you are no longer eligible for the L-Bonus. The 2009 plan assumes a 55 year old citizen and includes the L-Bonus. If you change the birthdate for the current calculator to 1959 so that you are eligible for the L-Bonus, then you will get a payout...

There's really nothing interesting that has happened since the Punggol East BE. I'm sure he will appear again in 2016

It's not exactly an original argument, it's been used for many years already. Even Mr Low Thia Khiang himself has used it in parliament back as far as 2008 when Mas Selamat escaped. "Sir, does the Prime Minister agree that this is not a question of a witch-hunt as to who should be directly...

Opposition needs more quality, not quantity.

The voters have spoken and said that WP is the opposition party they want to see in parliament.

Debates have been quiet because the last Parliamentary seating was in Nov 12, long before MCE and the Little India incident. If you check the transcripts for the last seating on Nov 11-12, you will see that the WP members participated heavily in the debates and asked a lot of questions. If you...

Re: TWC2, Maruah, Workfair more concerned about migrant workers' than national intere The article author is just attacking a straw man. We can do use the same dirty fallacy by saying that the author thinks that migrant workers should be treated like slaves.

That's why it's only worthwhile for WP to go in is if they get the blessing and the endorsement of the SPP. Meaning CST and the SPP grassroots would be very visibly and actively campaigning on behalf of the WP and asking for his former constituents to vote for the WP candidate. Personally, I...

IMO the best thing that SPP can do would be to invite WP to contest in Potong Pasir and to endorse the WP candidate. Lina Chiam, sadly, has no chance. Speaking of which, anyone knows if the Chiam See Tong Welcome to Potong Pasir sign is still up?

I doubt that SPP will have the manpower to compete in Bishan-TPY GRC, having lost most of the candidates that competed in GE2011 to the DPP. I've got a feeling that DPP will be targeting Bishan-TPY, and WP may just step in to force a 3CF

We can be certain that WP will be expanding and looking to compete in more than just the 23 seats from GE2011, but I think they will still mainly stick to the East Side, possibly taking over Pasir Ris GRC and Tampinese GRC. If they are really aggressive they may even go into Bishan Toa Payoh...

Doesn't this forum have an admin that can move threads to the correct section?

I'm fairly sure NSP will respond the way WP has responded to all of GMS's rants... By completely ignoring him. Which is the right thing to do. Outside of this forum and maybe a couple of other niche forums, hardly anyone knows who GMS is. Why respond and draw attention to him in the media?

Lee Li Lian has taken her place :P

At least Nicole Seah was willing to admit in public that she fucked up in PE2011, unlike the other idiot that was backing Tan Kin Lian.

It's not 2016 yet...

From the Straits Times article http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/blogger-withdraws-stat-board-challenge-20131009 It sounds like Ms Han Hui Hui was the one that withdrew from the challenge. A 21-year-old blogger, accused of defaming the Council of Private Education (CPE)...