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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Goatherd and the Wild Goats
I was really amused about this Aesop's fable:
A Goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up in a cave together with his own for the night.
The next day it snowed very hard, so that the Goatherd could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them inside the cave. He gave his own goats just enough food to keep them alive, but fed the wild goats more abundantly, hoping that by doing so, they would stay with him and join his herd.
When the snow thawed, the Goatherd led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.
One of the Wild Goats, turning about, said to him: “That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”
Moral: Don’t sacrifice old friends for new ones. (aesop-fable.com)
IMO, it it similar to PAP's immigration policy. Any other governments in this world does this to its own citizens?
A Goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up in a cave together with his own for the night.
The next day it snowed very hard, so that the Goatherd could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them inside the cave. He gave his own goats just enough food to keep them alive, but fed the wild goats more abundantly, hoping that by doing so, they would stay with him and join his herd.
When the snow thawed, the Goatherd led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.
One of the Wild Goats, turning about, said to him: “That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”
Moral: Don’t sacrifice old friends for new ones. (aesop-fable.com)
IMO, it it similar to PAP's immigration policy. Any other governments in this world does this to its own citizens?
Monday, January 28, 2013
HDB allocated 30% of BTO Flats to Parents with at least one child SINGAPORE Citizen
PAP said there will not be any policy changes after Workers' Party had won the Punggol East By-Election last Saturday. After, losing 1 seat to the Opposition Party is no big deal as they still have the Majority in Parliament.
IMO, the most troubling after the liberal PAP immigration policy will the 30% BTO Flats being allocated to Singaporeans Parents with Children. Just wondering how many people I know who are married and with children but without a flat?
This is not logical in Singapore context at all as the Chinese saying goes: “奉子成婚”, commonly know as a "Shot Gun Marriage" while in Singapore, people married because of Flats: “奉楼成婚”.
Many people in cyberspace said this benefits the New Citizens (still secretly kept their native citizenship or plotting to migrate to Australia or other Western Countries.) and when 5 years is up to meet the Minimum Occupation Period, they rented out their whole flat and move back to their country or other countries. People are complaining that the top floors of new HDB BTO flats will be occupied by Ex Indian and Ex China Singapore Citizens.
But I am sure that this policy will benefit 3-4 generation Singaporeans who had served NS but its just another PAP policy to put True Blue Singaporeans second and putting New Citizens first.
If HDB under Mr Khaw is serious about tackling this allegation that this new Parent Priority Scheme help PAP to help win votes from the New Citizens in 2016, he should increase the MOP to 10 years.
After all, HDB Flats are public housing.
IMO, the most troubling after the liberal PAP immigration policy will the 30% BTO Flats being allocated to Singaporeans Parents with Children. Just wondering how many people I know who are married and with children but without a flat?
This is not logical in Singapore context at all as the Chinese saying goes: “奉子成婚”, commonly know as a "Shot Gun Marriage" while in Singapore, people married because of Flats: “奉楼成婚”.
Many people in cyberspace said this benefits the New Citizens (still secretly kept their native citizenship or plotting to migrate to Australia or other Western Countries.) and when 5 years is up to meet the Minimum Occupation Period, they rented out their whole flat and move back to their country or other countries. People are complaining that the top floors of new HDB BTO flats will be occupied by Ex Indian and Ex China Singapore Citizens.
But I am sure that this policy will benefit 3-4 generation Singaporeans who had served NS but its just another PAP policy to put True Blue Singaporeans second and putting New Citizens first.
If HDB under Mr Khaw is serious about tackling this allegation that this new Parent Priority Scheme help PAP to help win votes from the New Citizens in 2016, he should increase the MOP to 10 years.
After all, HDB Flats are public housing.
(Source: HDB)
Thursday, January 24, 2013
PAP Pork Barrel Politics - Again & Again
The latest PAP Pork Barrel Politics in the Punggol BE were the few carefully timed release of national infrastructure development news and pro-family policies. However, I had seen through these news with scorn.
The HDB under National Development Mininster Mr Khaw had decided to allocate 30% of the BTO flats to families with children. Seem good on the surface, but alot of people in internet had seen through PAP's plot to help the new Citizens to get BTO flats before true blue Singaporeans. (It seems Dr M's tactics in Sabah had created some sort of copy cat here). How many local Singaporean families we know had children but without flats? For me, non at all.
True, there are families who had started families in their parents flats and these people are truly need the help. But looking around, alot of new Citizens from China and India had been bring their children around and alot of them had pregnant wives. These people are most likely to be gaining from the housing policy from PAP and after 5 years is up, they can sell the flats at premium prices and regain back their China or Indian Citizenships or best, many smart ones are dual citizenship holders.
Mr Khaw yesterday also announced HDB is building 200,000 new flats by 2016. So people have to start making love and producing babies so that the 30% allocated for families will have priority over fiance fiancee scheme or other schemes. Come on! Local couples already so reluctant to have children, who will benefit most? New Citizens.
We had already suffered from high HDB resales prices and the ever increasing BTO prices from flawed HDB policies where they allowed people with private properties to buy resales HDB flats and to allow developers to exploit us by selling us flats at high prices citing high material and labor costs.
Workers' Party Mr Low Thia Khiang yesterday at WP's rally said that the debate of the Singapore Population White Paper had been delayed until the next Parliament sitting. PAP had deliberately delay so that their pork barrels will be sweet to ears. I tried to access the Singapore Population White Paper but ....
The link is broken even though the website says otherwise:
Today, there are good news from the PAP government that the Ministry of Social and Family Development had increased subsidies for Child and Infant Care to $200 - $540 for parents with income below $7000. Previous days we had policy change that fathers were also entitled 5 days of paternity leaves plus other baby bonus goodies. The most recent news today was the LTA plan to spend $330 millions to build more covered walkways by 2018. (LTA to spend S$300m to build more covered walkways)
I just came from the PAP rally at Punggol and PM Lee was there to sell PAP's wares to the people. One speech from him was that he believed that our newer generations will be better than our current generations. I really doubted that because how can our young people will be better off starting with such high prices for BTO flats? They started young to be milked by PAP policies and they will not and even my generation may not be possible to be retired at all until we dropped dead.
Dr Koh, the son of Punggol (should be son of Seng Kang) said he is his own man. But I see that this GE is really the barometer of PAP's performance in post GE 2011. If the result on Saturday is PAP wining of Punggol East, then the effort of the MPs such as DPM Teo and other MPs such as Teo Ser Luck and DeSouza doing the door to door for Dr Koh had not been wasted.
But despite having 4 corner fights in Punggol East and if ever (God Permits) Workers' Party had won, the people of Punggol East had sent a very strong message to PAP:
"Your Policies SUCKS Big Time!!!"
The HDB under National Development Mininster Mr Khaw had decided to allocate 30% of the BTO flats to families with children. Seem good on the surface, but alot of people in internet had seen through PAP's plot to help the new Citizens to get BTO flats before true blue Singaporeans. (It seems Dr M's tactics in Sabah had created some sort of copy cat here). How many local Singaporean families we know had children but without flats? For me, non at all.
True, there are families who had started families in their parents flats and these people are truly need the help. But looking around, alot of new Citizens from China and India had been bring their children around and alot of them had pregnant wives. These people are most likely to be gaining from the housing policy from PAP and after 5 years is up, they can sell the flats at premium prices and regain back their China or Indian Citizenships or best, many smart ones are dual citizenship holders.
Mr Khaw yesterday also announced HDB is building 200,000 new flats by 2016. So people have to start making love and producing babies so that the 30% allocated for families will have priority over fiance fiancee scheme or other schemes. Come on! Local couples already so reluctant to have children, who will benefit most? New Citizens.
We had already suffered from high HDB resales prices and the ever increasing BTO prices from flawed HDB policies where they allowed people with private properties to buy resales HDB flats and to allow developers to exploit us by selling us flats at high prices citing high material and labor costs.
Workers' Party Mr Low Thia Khiang yesterday at WP's rally said that the debate of the Singapore Population White Paper had been delayed until the next Parliament sitting. PAP had deliberately delay so that their pork barrels will be sweet to ears. I tried to access the Singapore Population White Paper but ....
The link is broken even though the website says otherwise:
Today, there are good news from the PAP government that the Ministry of Social and Family Development had increased subsidies for Child and Infant Care to $200 - $540 for parents with income below $7000. Previous days we had policy change that fathers were also entitled 5 days of paternity leaves plus other baby bonus goodies. The most recent news today was the LTA plan to spend $330 millions to build more covered walkways by 2018. (LTA to spend S$300m to build more covered walkways)
I just came from the PAP rally at Punggol and PM Lee was there to sell PAP's wares to the people. One speech from him was that he believed that our newer generations will be better than our current generations. I really doubted that because how can our young people will be better off starting with such high prices for BTO flats? They started young to be milked by PAP policies and they will not and even my generation may not be possible to be retired at all until we dropped dead.
Dr Koh, the son of Punggol (should be son of Seng Kang) said he is his own man. But I see that this GE is really the barometer of PAP's performance in post GE 2011. If the result on Saturday is PAP wining of Punggol East, then the effort of the MPs such as DPM Teo and other MPs such as Teo Ser Luck and DeSouza doing the door to door for Dr Koh had not been wasted.
But despite having 4 corner fights in Punggol East and if ever (God Permits) Workers' Party had won, the people of Punggol East had sent a very strong message to PAP:
"Your Policies SUCKS Big Time!!!"
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