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[TD="class: msgtxt"]IT IS RIDICULOUS HOW OUT OF TOUCH THE PAP IS
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11 Sep 2014 - 7:12pm
To see how much the PAP is disconnected with the masses, one only need to refer to what LHL and GCT has said recently in the past month. It was exceedingly hilarious to learn that LHL actually thinks that public anger has declined in the past 2 years while GCT would actually think that the electorate would be willing to put their trust with the PAP.
At present, it would strongly appear that the top three concerns facing Singaporeans at the moment seem to be the foreigner influx, high costs of living, as well as the CPF system. Taken in totality, they signify a drop in quality of living for the average man because of the direct and indirect consequences.
In my view, giving the SDP a mandate to some seats in parliament will bring about high quality debate on these areas.
The PAP has proposed a population of 6.9 million by 2030, resulting in Singaporeans potentially having to give up rich heritage such as Bukit Brown as well as live in underground cities. With economic productivity on the decline, one cannot imagine what hell would break loose if this is implemented especially since the way in which the PAP has handled population increase has been decidedly disastrous.
Despite an increase in population by more than 1 million in the past decade, public services such as hospital beds, supply of public housing and maintenance expenditures on track network has been either stagnant of have failed to keep pace with the population increase. Our standard of living has been continually on the decline as per many international comparisons.
This is where the SDP comes in useful, where they have proposed a shock therapy to force businesses to improve with a population target of a more reasonably 5.3 million. Not only will productivity increase due to automation and innovative process, the lack of a foreigner influx would mean that there are less competition for scarce resources to make costs of living cheaper and reversing the effects of the PAP.
Furthermore, the SDP has also proposed that the CPF be operated as an independent fund, where long-run investment scheme has shown an average high rate of returns. Our interest rates in all likelihood will be substantially higher at the current 2.5% with manageable risks – Malaysia and India have both operated in such a system where they pay in excess of 6% on the national pension fund.
On the issue of high costs of living, our poor and middle-class have found themselves struggling due to high property prices as well as the by-effects in business costs. By subscribing to SDP’s proposal of having to control public housing prices for the poor without allowing profits from resale on the free market, a housing bubble like prices could be quelled.
As Mah Bow Tan has said publicly in a separate incident “everything has got to do with the elections”. The choice and end effects are clear – by voting in a radical alternative with workable ideas, this may very well push us for a better standard of living in Singapore with much less nonsense from the PAP.
Jiang Haiwei
TRS Contributor
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[TD="class: msgtxt"]IT IS RIDICULOUS HOW OUT OF TOUCH THE PAP IS
Post date:
11 Sep 2014 - 7:12pm
To see how much the PAP is disconnected with the masses, one only need to refer to what LHL and GCT has said recently in the past month. It was exceedingly hilarious to learn that LHL actually thinks that public anger has declined in the past 2 years while GCT would actually think that the electorate would be willing to put their trust with the PAP.
At present, it would strongly appear that the top three concerns facing Singaporeans at the moment seem to be the foreigner influx, high costs of living, as well as the CPF system. Taken in totality, they signify a drop in quality of living for the average man because of the direct and indirect consequences.
In my view, giving the SDP a mandate to some seats in parliament will bring about high quality debate on these areas.
The PAP has proposed a population of 6.9 million by 2030, resulting in Singaporeans potentially having to give up rich heritage such as Bukit Brown as well as live in underground cities. With economic productivity on the decline, one cannot imagine what hell would break loose if this is implemented especially since the way in which the PAP has handled population increase has been decidedly disastrous.
Despite an increase in population by more than 1 million in the past decade, public services such as hospital beds, supply of public housing and maintenance expenditures on track network has been either stagnant of have failed to keep pace with the population increase. Our standard of living has been continually on the decline as per many international comparisons.
This is where the SDP comes in useful, where they have proposed a shock therapy to force businesses to improve with a population target of a more reasonably 5.3 million. Not only will productivity increase due to automation and innovative process, the lack of a foreigner influx would mean that there are less competition for scarce resources to make costs of living cheaper and reversing the effects of the PAP.
Furthermore, the SDP has also proposed that the CPF be operated as an independent fund, where long-run investment scheme has shown an average high rate of returns. Our interest rates in all likelihood will be substantially higher at the current 2.5% with manageable risks – Malaysia and India have both operated in such a system where they pay in excess of 6% on the national pension fund.
On the issue of high costs of living, our poor and middle-class have found themselves struggling due to high property prices as well as the by-effects in business costs. By subscribing to SDP’s proposal of having to control public housing prices for the poor without allowing profits from resale on the free market, a housing bubble like prices could be quelled.
As Mah Bow Tan has said publicly in a separate incident “everything has got to do with the elections”. The choice and end effects are clear – by voting in a radical alternative with workable ideas, this may very well push us for a better standard of living in Singapore with much less nonsense from the PAP.
Jiang Haiwei
TRS Contributor
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