PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by alwaysdisturbed @ Fri, 30 May 2008 01:25:42 +0800

alwaysdisturbed — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:25:42 +0800

Originally posted by january:

Well, hongkong is becoming a smoke city with its haze problems.... good luck...

its already so hazy here.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by january @ Fri, 30 May 2008 01:13:29 +0800

january — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:13:29 +0800

u all many are just conspiracies theorists.... all bersek liao.... keep illusionizing how govt is slowly sucking our blood like horror movie...

i think you all better be hollywood scriptwriters better.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by january @ Fri, 30 May 2008 01:11:31 +0800

january — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:11:31 +0800

Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:

i'm going to perfect my cantonese.

Well, hongkong is becoming a smoke city with its haze problems.... good luck...

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by maurizio13 @ Thu, 29 May 2008 08:35:29 +0800

maurizio13 — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:35:29 +0800

Originally posted by charlize:

Hanor.

The moment the economy turns better, they reward themselves with huge salary increases for themselves.

But sharing the fruits of the success by giving Singaporeans a few hundred dollars each, they start complaining saying that Singaporeans expect too much. And by the way, they were the ones who started this giving of money or restructuring shares or what nots to Singaporeans.

Haiz.

I summarize to one word for you, it's called Hypocrites.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by dragg @ Thu, 29 May 2008 07:25:11 +0800

dragg — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:25:11 +0800

Originally posted by cyberr1981:

Next month, we're getting our $200 "bonus" from the "surpluses"

Wonder how much money hongkiees are getting?

they have welfare.

$200 from "bonus" but give back more over the years.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by Watch It! @ Thu, 29 May 2008 05:59:13 +0800

Watch It! — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:59:13 +0800

What if? There is always more than meets the eye. However in a Tardis, small on the outside, enormous on the inside.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by kangyk @ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:49:13 +0800

kangyk — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:49:13 +0800

we should have a balance force and say in the policies making. it is not good for one-sided policy whereas there is always bias in the decision. the people will suffer in the end due to all the one sided policies. henceforth, the recent Malaysia election has caught the main policies holder off guard to the long and steamed up feeling from the common people.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by charlize @ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:14:42 +0800

charlize — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:14:42 +0800

Originally posted by adetet:

And in the same breath, the PM also said that he is scared when he hears talks of the government giving out hongbaos. Funny, when they decided to give themselves such a ridiculously exorbitant pay increase, they were not scared! We have to save, we have to make sacrifices, we have to accept that we are now second class citizens as the government favours foreigners over citizens.

Hanor.

The moment the economy turns better, they reward themselves with huge salary increases for themselves.

But sharing the fruits of the success by giving Singaporeans a few hundred dollars each, they start complaining saying that Singaporeans expect too much. And by the way, they were the ones who started this giving of money or restructuring shares or what nots to Singaporeans.

Haiz.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by adetet @ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:19 +0800

adetet — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:19 +0800

And in the same breath, the PM also said that he is scared when he hears talks of the government giving out hongbaos. Funny, when they decided to give themselves such a ridiculously exorbitant pay increase, they were not scared! We have to save, we have to make sacrifices, we have to accept that we are now second class citizens as the government favours foreigners over citizens.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by alwaysdisturbed @ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:17:01 +0800

alwaysdisturbed — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:17:01 +0800

Originally posted by maurizio13:

Their utilities offset for every household alone is HKD1,800.

i'm going to perfect my cantonese.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by maurizio13 @ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:57:56 +0800

maurizio13 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:57:56 +0800

Originally posted by cyberr1981:

Next month, we're getting our $200 "bonus" from the "surpluses"

Wonder how much money hongkiees are getting?

Their utilities offset for every household alone is HKD1,800.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by googoomuck @ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:39:54 +0800

googoomuck — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:39:54 +0800

Trouble? Tell LHL to shape up or ship out !

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by cyberr1981 @ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:58:56 +0800

cyberr1981 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:58:56 +0800

Next month, we're getting our $200 "bonus" from the "surpluses"

Wonder how much money hongkiees are getting?

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by Atobe @ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:30:22 +0800

Atobe — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:30:22 +0800

Is PM LHL justifying the reasons to take more of our money in the foreseeable future, or is he justifying his reasons not to spend away the huge amount of monies that he has taken consistently since he stepped into office ?

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by eagle @ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:20:58 +0800

eagle — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:20:58 +0800

He is already prepared for failure.

Again, question is, are our reserves really that insufficient for an efficient government to bring Singapore out of a bad period?

And again, the deja vu of the NKF reserves saga.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by qlqq9 @ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:18:24 +0800

qlqq9 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:18:24 +0800

What trouble? No worries, we will gradually vote the PAP out.

PM Lee: "If we don't save, growth stops we be in trouble" replied by robertteh @ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:31:48 +0800

robertteh — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:31:48 +0800

This has been the PAP governing philosophy for the past 40 plus years - come up with some fear-driven conceptual assumption that welfare will kill us, no free lunch to allow government to keep taxing and over-charging and under-providing services in order to save or hoard monies to be thrown away on Shin Corp or UBS and then give some excuses.

This kind of governing system is the most dangerous not taxing less and allowing private sector to grow which is the surer way to create jobs and vibrancy and competitiveness.

MM Lee has been talking like this to give him all the power because people cannot see through this kind of fallacies in his assumption to tax more and spend less all the time to hoard monies.

How is the private sector economy going to grow and stay competitive if by this kind of assumption many businesses can no longer grow and have to close down. Does he really understand economy with this kind of fallacy or assumption that saving or hoarding monies into government surpluses means more investments or more jobs?

What he forgets or fails to prove is that precisely because of this kind of narrow-minded assumption people and businesses are being over-taxed with profiteering schemes of all kinds by all government departments and GLCs resulting in rising business costs and our economy today has largely lost its economic competitiveness to compete with the outside world.

The earlier the government changes its policy of double charging on lands and infrastructure as HDB/SLA are doing the earlier will the people and private sector become competitive once again and we will create more jobs lost previously due to such wrong assumption in running of a country being adopted by his father for years without check and balance.

If we want to compete with the like of Korea or HK we will have to lower government over-taxing and cost-recovering charging so that monies will go back to the private sector with more opportunities to make monies for all and more motivation of all citizens to work for the good of all.

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