Deflecting and diverting instead of fixing
May 11th, 2023 | 
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Three remarks by three ministers give us reason to think that they are deflecting and not providing a solution.
Yesterday, Minister S Iswaran attributed high COE prices to rising incomes and zero car growth. It came in the wake of Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong saying that BTO flat prices have moved up in tandem with incomes.
Is this the way of the future?
That runaway cost of living and higher public transport fares and higher healthcare costs can also be explained away by the same thing. That anything that goes up is because incomes go up?
What they say is not felt by the people, and the sums don’t add up.
But it doesn’t seem to make them pause and reflect on whether it’s the system and the policies that need fixing. If the system and policies need fixing, deflection and false rhetoric would not set things right.
Speaking of ministers deflecting, the one who takes the cake has got to be Minister Desmond Lee, who last week made the most curious remark that “we need to keep some land for people not yet born.”
This idea that “people not yet born” need to be prioritised seems to be a red herring.
Doesn’t it detract from the problems at hand, doesn’t it detract from the fact that utmost priority should always be given to the living?
If the living is not taken care of, “people not yet born” might not even have a future to speak of, they might even end up wishing they were born elsewhere.
The message is that if they care so much about “people not yet born,” they should focus on making housing and cost of living more affordable (the people’s yardstick, not theirs), and do more to tackle the dismal birth rate instead of merrily importing new citizens.
Taking better care of those living today is the best way to ensure that those not yet born would have a better chance in life.
Augustine Low
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Yada,yada,yada…
INCOME RISES,SO HDB PRICES UP,COE(whats that,useless right?),rise?
Income?
Who$e INCOME?
I$waRUN N LAWRENCE.
And,all the *KING’S HOR$es and puppie$?
As for MANY OLDER SINKINGPOOReans ,NO INCOME,how to have income rises?
I assure all if GOVT MINISTERS’ PAY GOES LOWER,things will likely be CHEAPERER N N N BETTERER.
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What these aristocrats are trying to say is that it is time for their income to rise also, get the drift? lol
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Augustine
Most $inkies have no proper income, no medical insurance or even savings to tide them over bad times. But their loyalty to the Regime is unquestioned. If the Regime says die they will die gladly. This is proven by 95% of the population getting vaxxed without question. Since then the jabbed gladly upsize and thank the Regime for the chance to show their loyalty by dropping like flies.
So there is no point talking to them about Regime bullshit. No one is listening to you. Only Death will solve their problems.
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Google Caldecott MRT–Look at the amount of empty land next to it.
2 big plots next to Bishan MRT
2 big plots next to Serangoon MRT.
And much more..
These are the land parcels that the papigs are not selling.
Plenty of land at very prime MRT sites.—papigs waiting for it to appreciate.
They are not saving it for the unborn!
They want you to move to Tengah.
They want you to move to Coney Island.
Papigs bullshit—only the very dumb will believe.
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When they say the incorrect stuff, they are not lying.
1. COE. Population explosion? Dare not say.
2. BTO. PAP fix the price. Dare not say.
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The MIW cannot get away from LKY’s playbook. Create an affluent country supported by a class of slaves. Ordinary Singaporeans are slaves. The rulers are LHL’s natural aristocrats. Slaves cannot escape the system. In Singapore, the system is designed to ensure you struggle to survive so you don’t have the luxury of thinking about dangerous things like freedom, free expression and self-fulfilment. Citizens do NS and spend the rest of their lives paying for a shoebox. The government literally sells the country to foreigners and locks away the money for some distant “rainy day”. This is not a criticism of government. They have no creativity nor courage to imagine any other future. Singaporeans put them there and put up with them. We truly get the government we deserve.
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Deflect, avoid, deflect, or tolak, alak………………..the mantra of the current ruling party….
If SINKIES continue this BUY-In………..who needs big pay miniSTIRS?
The ‘not yet born’ will always remain………..the LAND SHOULD REMAIN VACANT for the next 1000 years cause they ‘never be born’!
It’s just a rhetoric………….just like the person who says ‘WHY MUST DO’!
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Ask the housing chief and housing head to come out and show the numbers.
Once upon a time, some Indian chief said that the villagers can get a house with an income of $1000.
THESE DAYS at 30 years mortgage payments with interest rate 3%, a $250k unit needs the lessee to cough out $969 per month, leaving him $31 to support the family every month. Ask the finance and housing arms to show the calculations.
Once idiot chiefs and heads, forever idiot chiefs and heads.
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The problem with all these clowns is that they are looking at statistical data exclusively when making these statements, NOT THE FEELING OF THE PEOPLE ABOUT BTO PRICES NOR THE COE PRICING. To them, the data shows that median income has gone up so therefore, by extension, BTO and COE also shot up. That’s it, end of story as far as these idiots are concerned.
These ministers will never ever dare say anything about bringing down prices since it’s not what their boss wants. Who wants to offend the boss and be in the boss’s bad books right? Mun Wai isn’t part of them so he just gives it to them straight every chance he gets, he appeals to those who love challenging PAP and asking difficult questions as well as arguing with them. The only difference is that he is an NCMP and they aren’t.
So just keep all this in mind when the next election is announced. For sure PAP will once again ask us to trust them blah blah, their track record yadda yadda and they will looks after us ha ha ha.
You know what to do ah.
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PAP is not just fooling Singaporeans but treating Singaporeans as fools.
And PAP no longer tries to be subtle about it.
But there’re enough fools who believe PAP’s bxxsxx & will always vote for PAP.
After the next GE victory, PAP will accelerate taking in & giving out even more citizenship to further enhance their power base.
Soon, PAP majority support will come from new citizens.
It’s a very sad day for true Singaporeans.
It’s not will this happen but how soon.
Those who are happy & laughing now may not laugh anymore.
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“Taking better care of those living today is the best way to ensure that those not yet born would have a better chance in life.”
Agreed.Make more sense.
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@ Is this the way of the future?
Or You prefer the current China property future ?
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“Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under the water with a torch to seek for a drowning man
Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,
Gathers then disperses.
Only tillers of the soil live by their right. The rest just form into their queues and consume the bread of dependency.”
- Thiruvalluvar the Sage
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Papigs little game of [email protected] babyBonus–they think they can social engineer everything.
Remember Graduate-Mother Scheme?
Now it is Land-for-the Unborn.
We already have one of the lowest fertility rate in the world.
Papigs —solve the problem right in front of you—do not obfuscate.
Papigs have created most of these problems.
Sinkies that do NS are indeed a dying breed.
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Let’s get one thing clear .. crystal
The future Singaporeans did not elect this current
government , so all this talk of caring for them is pure
bull.
Just stop all such nonsense !
If you cannot perform please leave !
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New Citizens with high paying jobs are the fresh suckers waiting to be ripped off.
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@agreed
“US military doctors confirm in testimony before US Senate that in the first 10 months of 2021 compared to the five year average from 2016-2020, there were increases among vaccinated US military personnel of miscarriages by 279%, of female infertility by 471%, of male infertility of 344%, and birth defects by 156%. As most children conceived after the mothers’ vaccination had not yet been born, the final figure of birth defects will be far higher.”
Err… what “not yet born”?
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Now you understand why they put a simpleton in charge of public housing.
Any adverse feedback arising from his ludicrous public remarks would be limited.
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I am not sure if those “people not yet born” will be called Singaporeans anymore!
Take of the present Singaporeans first, those “people not yet born ” will be taken care of eventually.
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He is such a person whom Jeremy Clarkson would unequivocally call out as a “Blithering Idiot”.
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More like “we need to keep some land for people not yet IMPORTED.”
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“Too large a proportion of recent “mathematical economics” are mere concoctions; they are as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest upon – which leads the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in his maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols…. It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”
John Maynard Keynes
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The Devil also said, “We need to keep some land for sinners not yet dead.”
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