Swiss standard of living in singapore .
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Singapore was portray one of modern apartment blocks with all sorts of amenities, aircon HDB flats...HDB carparks filled with many luxury cars...clean streets and smiling faces..dozens of golf courses filled with blissfull golfers...aplenty country clubs and town clubs.. BUT beneath all that lies the unconceal-able truth..
What it is about is the unseen, unheard, poor in Singapore whose
utilities have been cut off, whose children can hardly afford text books.. The number of such people have in fact increase as unemployment which was unheard off in the 80s became common in the recent years..
Go around any kopi-tiam, you will see many old folks selling packets of tissue and collecting empty soft-drink cans as their main source of income.. Go to Jalan Besar, China town and you will see the Living wretched old man lives by scrapping and sleeving off old electrical wires of appliances to sell the copper as scrap,cutting out old carton boxes to sell etc...
Most of these peasant are the " living dead" they go through life in motion and most don't complain ...they have accepted their fate in life.. It is people like us who have social conscience that are demanding that the govt do more to help the needy.. I agree that you don't give them a fish but teach them how to fish.. But its becoming hard for them to even afford that fish rod that could eventually help them save their lifes... -
This comes from my econs lecturer, who is forever laffing at gahmen
In the 90s, they mooted the idea of making sg having the swiss standard of living, one of them being to be number one in terms of GDP
sg was ranked 9th at that time
after the recession, sg was ranked 12th or 13th..and nobody mention swiss standard again......
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Povery has always existed in society, through 1000 years ago and 1000 years later, the fact is poor people is gonna stay and poor people will stay...
Ahem.
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Hmmm....Swiss cost of living you mean, caramon?
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Originally posted by Kaczynski:
caramon is right, its swiss standard...lau goh had this idea few years back..
Hmmm....Swiss [b]cost of living you mean, caramon?[/b] -
Ya, I know...But then haiz...Originally posted by laurence82:caramon is right, its swiss standard...lau goh had this idea few years back..
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The fact being, singapore our land of opportunity, is engaging in "reverse" gear instead of going forward.. Yes there's bound to have poor people everywhere.. BUT, the increasing poverty in singapore is alarming when the promise of being swiss standard of living in singapore remains a myth..Originally posted by Cheena_Bhai:Povery has always existed in society, through 1000 years ago and 1000 years later, the fact is poor people is gonna stay and poor people will stay...
Ahem.
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Even the social studies textbooks got into the act. Unfortunately I don't have any Swiss mates so I don't know THE FULL TRUTH.
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Yes, some people are poor, it's their destiny...
Originally posted by Cheena_Bhai:Povery has always existed in society, through 1000 years ago and 1000 years later, the fact is poor people is gonna stay and poor people will stay...
Ahem.
Case closed..Next Pleased... -
as i have said many times.....
can we have something new pls.....
and if u wan everyone to be equal, step 1, pls sign up Premier Membership
go help me ask the rest to sign up too. -
Most of the old folks have put retirement on hold.. even government is encouraging people to work pass their retirement if they can still contribute.. Are we moving towards swiss standard of living? I doubt so.. a land of opportunity should be when one's life are getting better and better.. instead it has been going in " reverse " gear for many peasants in singapore..
As one pointed out, its their destiny.. I feel the correct way to say it should be singaporeans are destiny to work for life under current dictatorship...