<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=heading>Latest comments</TD></TR><TR><TD id=messageDisplayRegion width="100%"><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>The ESC is a very disappointing document. The ideas are stale. "Nuclear energy for Singapore" is rubbish. Tanjong Pagar waterfront will only benefit the rich. Chok Tong has openly opposed the idea of slowing down foreign workers intake. I don't see much hope for Singapore this decade. The PAP has run out of ideas.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: ageless at Sat Feb 06 11:04:25 SGT 2010
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We are living in a sweatshop!
Beam me up, Scotty!
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: pappy at Sat Feb 06 10:56:11 SGT 2010
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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset" class=alt2>Originally Posted by
tanden76
Some facts, not conjectures:
1. "Ridiculously priced pigeon holes": that may indeed be the case. However, considering a sizeable proportion of people who live in HDB flats do not even have to fork out extra cash payments to cover the monthly mortgage, I'd say that is pretty good in both relative and absolute terms
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Some S'poreans don't have to fork out cash payments for their monthly mortgages because they are paying with their CPF retirement savings. This has artificially supported the high valuation for HDB flats despite our stagnant income.
Thus instead of having set aside cash or in diversified liquid investments for your retirement, you are left with an overpriced HDB flat but cash poor for your retirement.
All your eggs are in one basket. Your retirement money is locked up in a property that is difficult to monetise, and which could be in a protracted market cycle when you need to realise cash.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: pappy at Sat Feb 06 10:44:25 SGT 2010
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For one to be in the higher office that one must first be a servant. Mr. Chiam See Tong has displayed the virtues of serving his people like a servant in his constituency which I don't see much of this virtues in the PAP ministers. In fact whenever my MP visited my estate, the cleaners had cleansed my estate so clean that estate shines like a palace one or two days before her visit. And when the MP arrives for her visit, she was welcomed like a Queen.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: prispoh50 at Sat Feb 06 10:36:29 SGT 2010
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For sure I agree with Rambutanboy.
Take note of one common sign now in the ruling authority. A Liar will never tell you the truth, the liar will twist and turn words to make u believe what they said.
We have been fooled all along. Time to get every true blue Singaporean to wake up before we are being marginalize again and again.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: xmenintown at Sat Feb 06 10:30:05 SGT 2010
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