Lucky Tan: White Paper Passed : Roadmap to an unwanted destination....

[Confuseous]

If you take your time to read the speeches by PAP MPs and ministers during the White Paper debate, you will find the one clear ideological belief that stands out is that we need faster economic growth to achieve a better quality of life for Singaporeans. The PAP believes we need to have this growth for the lives of Singaporeans to improve. For this reason, the proposal by the Workers' Party to freeze foreign workers at today's level, aim for slower growth of 1% and allow the economy and businesses to restructure, was attacked by PAP MPs.

If you examine the economic growth of the last 10 years achieved through population expansion, you find that most of the benefits goes to a small concentrated number at the top while those at the bottom suffered from the negative effects of this growth. If you examine the economic data of the last 3 years, you see the negative effects seeping into the middle class [Link] which is now under pressure. If we continue along the same path of growth by importing labor, we will not achieve the outcome of better lives for Singaporeans.

Through its thick ideological lens, the PAP has failed to see the real problems faced by our society. If they wanted to improve our lives why did they not have a White Paper on how to narrow the income gap, a White Paper on keeping medical care cost affordable or a White Paper on how to care for our seniors and ensure they can retire gracefully.

- http://singaporemind.blogspot.sg/2013/02/white-ppaper-passed-roadmap-to-unwanted.html

 

[TracyTan866]

If you take your time to read the speeches by PAP MPs and ministers during the White Paper debate, you will find the one clear ideological belief that stands out is that we need faster economic growth to achieve a better quality of life for Singaporeans. The PAP believes we need to have this growth for the lives of Singaporeans to improve. For this reason, the proposal by the Workers' Party to freeze foreign workers at today's level, aim for slower growth of 1% and allow the economy and businesses to restructure, was attacked by PAP MPs.

If you examine the economic growth of the last 10 years achieved through population expansion, you find that most of the benefits goes to a small concentrated number at the top while those at the bottom suffered from the negative effects of this growth. If you examine the economic data of the last 3 years, you see the negative effects seeping into the middle class [Link] which is now under pressure. If we continue along the same path of growth by importing labor, we will not achieve the outcome of better lives for Singaporeans.

Through its thick ideological lens, the PAP has failed to see the real problems faced by our society. If they wanted to improve our lives why did they not have a White Paper on how to narrow the income gap, a White Paper on keeping medical care cost affordable or a White Paper on how to care for our seniors and ensure they can retire gracefully.

- http://singaporemind.blogspot.sg/2013/02/white-ppaper-passed-roadmap-to-unwanted.html

Good article and great analysis, Lucky!!

When will the PAP wake up and realise that relying on cheap foreigners to achieve higher GDP will not result in better lives for Singaporeans?

 

[Wildfire]

Aiyo, Lucky ...

Pls give the PM time to "study the lessons learnt from the White Paper debate" lah!

Now you want so many white papers, you want them to die or what?

So long never do white paper, all forget how to do one already lah!

Never mind lah ... white paper, black paper, toilet paper, they will still go
ahead and increase the population because their KPI is tied to GDP!

 

[tonychat]

Your govt has no respect for you ball-less sinkie shits.