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Why bother with calculations? Topsage wrote if one dies at 80+, nothing is left to his estate. Heh, the money ($155K) bought something (the annuity) without your permission. It's gone. You die the next day, the estate gets nothing. I hope I'm very much mistaken.

Something is better than nothing. What makes you think they need this roundabout way to assign funds to GIC and Temasek? Would you be happier if the funds were to be given to them and they promise to use them for healthcare purposes only?

How does the Pioneer Generation Package create golden eggs, cheap funds? Sure or not? Seems to me it is spend spend spend for the sake of those citizens (& PRs) over 65 y o.

What is Medishield Incurred Loss Ratio? When I read it, I simply dismissed it as some hocus pocus. You seem to understand it. Can show how to calculate?

Yes. Especially when it is new and for existing people, the elderly in particular. Mark my words, euthanasia is round the corner. Maybe not here, but we can always go elsewhere.

Thank you but no thanks. Having to apply for it is very different from having a choice. << You can apply to withdraw your CPF savings on medical grounds if you i. are suffering from an illness which renders you permanently unfit from ever continuing in any employment; or ii. have a...

The most damning aspect is NO CHOICE. How would the minimum sum impact on a person with stage 4 cancer at the age of 62? Why on earth would this person choose to put aside money till age 85 or 90?

Handouts, as you have shown, is a way to manage the problem of those in need. Great, SDP has joined the club. Do you realize that minimum wage is merely another way to skin this cat. A rather indiscriminate way which may or may not solve the problem. But I can promise you that everything will...

Hey bro, not sure of 30K at all. That's why the big if. The point is a new angle. If we factor in labour and service charges, the difference won't be so great. But the way it's put, the message was heartlanders should restrict their aspirations befitting of poor church mice. Cheese and better...

And yet there is another angle to this. Items might be expensive, but service here is not so. Eg a 150K Nissan probably might cost only 30K in UK, but the maintenance servicing might be 10 times what is here. So if 1K per year here, probably needs 10K there. Total in 10 years is 160K here and...

Really can't understand how Tharman could be so dismissive to brand it as not relevant to our locals. If we only need to take bread and butter items, why do we build the durian, the sports hub, etc. If we do so, our people's lives must be as miserable as bread and butter types.

There is no choice. The greying society has to be fed. They are paid highly to find a solution. If they know only to raise taxes, we should cut their pay or sack them. The whole world thinks Tharman has the solution and gave him an award. If he simply raise taxes, he should resign, get sack or...

So are they all. All written by paid staff. OK, he memorized them. Which other minister do that besides PM. It is an impressive quality. During my time (maybe now also), no local lecturers, professor or otherwise lectures without a script, but most invited speakers (they must have impressive...

Yes, quite likely. He can give speeches without a script.

Gathering support from foreign govt to whack your own country is a no no. He better give some shit to what some of us thinks.

Re: NCMP Lina Chiam hands out free masks to Potong Pasir residents. What about Sitoh? It's out of proportion, no doubt. Beyond that, is it the cheap doll or the fervent desire to be able to please his kids at home? Those kids dont want diamonds, but wants the doll.

Competition is good. Especially if it benefits the needy. Who cares whether it is early or late, first, second or last, agenda or no agenda. It would be a sad day if politicians do not need to win the hearts and minds of the electorate.

Please, no national movement. Reminds me of the Nazis. But when are they starting kindergartens?

Good point last 2 posts. I thought nobody will say that. For whatever it's worth, the video notwithstanding, I am one who prefers to be able to do something about dirty environments rather than scream in parliament. Heh heh, that video is not a commandment.

you like widows?