If you're poor in Singapore, it's no fun -PM !!!

[Nice-Gook]

In an interview in Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the annual World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that "If you're poor in Singapore, it's no fun but I think you're less badly off if you're poor in Singapore than in nearly anywhere else in the world including the United States."


Fun?

Like visiting a zoo or having an ice cream?

No fun?

Like made to eat veggies by mum or going to school?

Isn't LHL childish and in bad taste by equating poverty with fun aspect of life?.....or is he trying to underplay poverty in Singapore as no better than 1 less plate of char kuey teow--as his father would have said?

 

[Leongsam]

He's simply telling it like it is. I respect him for that.

 

[Fook Seng]

He's simply telling it like it is. I respect him for that.

The important thing is how many are poor and how many are those just above them, who might not be "no fun", but definitely not fun either.

 

[dredd]

Ah Long could learn a lot from Sylvia's speech in parliament about happiness. Equating being rich with having "fun" is a very myopic view of the world - especially bad when you are a statesman.

 

[myfoot123]

In an interview in Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the annual World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that "If you're poor in Singapore, it's no fun.

Did Singaporeans suggest to him it is fun? Besides, did he wonder why people are poor? Did he give the PAP policies a 2nd look why it has caused poverty here? I feel like slapping him to make him wake up from his stupid ideas.

 

[melzp]

In other words, he meant NO FUN FOR GOVT TAKING CARE OF POOR.
I wonder wat fun he got having so much $$? No privacy?

 

[Nice-Gook]

Thanks for your input guys and gals.What LHL said surely must be the quote of the year.Second only to his father's quote that there are no beggars in Singapore.Lee family had simply demonstrated a singularlack of how Singaporeans actually live.Far removed in the ivory towers of Istana.Lee senior could not understand a patient, however sick, had to wait his turn in que even in London.Hence he flew his wife fitted with all the ambulatory facilities in SIA back to Singapore.All the obscene salaries paid for their services only proved one thing.That they are far removed from our daily lives.

Buddha taught,empathy leads to compassion. Empathy is the result of a person's being able to put himself in the position of the other and therefore realizing the truth of the golden rule--that of doing unto others what you would have them do unto you.Can Lee imagine what it must be like to actually be hungry? .....unless he himself goes hungry. it is utterly without compassion and empathy to be able to make such irresponsible statement. Lee family indeed lack a sense of justice and fairness.

Compassion and empathy is what will save humanity. Their high salaries will not.

 

[Charlie99]

In an interview in Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the annual World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that "If you're poor in Singapore, it's no fun but I think you're less badly off if you're poor in Singapore than in nearly anywhere else in the world including the United States."


Fun?

Like visiting a zoo or having an ice cream?

No fun?

Like made to eat veggies by mum or going to school?

Isn't LHL childish and in bad taste by equating poverty with fun aspect of life?.....or is he trying to underplay poverty in Singapore as no better than 1 less plate of char kuey teow--as his father would have said?

I believe that the "poor" in Toronto, Canada, are in a better position than the poor in Singapore. Evryone is entitled to free medicare (appointments with doctors, hospitalization), whereas the poor who are on social assistance (better than the $300 + for Singaporeans) received a card for free prescription drugs.

 

[myfoot123]

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that "If you're poor in Singapore, it's no fun but I think you're less badly off if you're poor in Singapore than in nearly anywhere else in the world including the United States."

Did he compare his salary to the world, including the United States? Talk is cheap.

 

[Bigfuck]

Did he compare his salary to the world, including the United States? Talk is cheap.

He was lamenting about his salary.