Swiss Standard of Living
This newscutting has been on my desktop for a long time. Wonder if we have reached the Swiss standard of living today.
We are still waiting for our Swiss standard of living. But our leaders are enjoying living better than the Swiss.
Teo Soh Lung
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Swiss Standard of living already $urp$$ed by $wi$$ $tandard of PRICE$?
But quality of life dropped?
How daft those 70 pct as LKY said at Charlie Rose!
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A tale of two cities SG is not. I think it is a tale of two generations. An older generation in their 50s and above who had a relatively good run during the golden years. And a younger generation who had it rough especially those born after the 90s. These are the ones who enjoyed nothing of the confidence and euphoria that their parents felt growing up.
They are the ones more likely to support the oppositions. The MIW understand this but are not too worried because the locally born natives are small due to the falling TFR. To balance the negative impact from the natives, the MIW had brought in new citizens who tend to vote for the ruling party out of gratitude and a sense of pride and confidence in their new country. This is nothing new but a UMNO-era strategy pursued by our neighbour, Malaysia.
SG do have Swiss standards of living but it only last for half (or at best 1) generation. After that it is the SQUEEZE standard whereby you get squeezed for education, jobs, housing, cars and everything else.
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PAP ESM Goh promised Swiss Standard of Living means everyone will
Own swiss watch Rolex, swiss car Monteverdi, swiss bank account over 1 mil euros, own swiss landed property, eat best swiss chocolate everyday? Etc.
Still has not happen yet?
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I understand that his son will soon be enjoying “Swiss Standard of Living” in Changi Resort, dunno true or not.
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Swiss has many standards, one of them is Swiss Cheese which is full of holes and made by worms. Perhaps that is what he meant. Our choices are full of holes and our lunch eaten by FT.
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That will never happen. Wait and see. They will whitewash him whiter than white. Make him pure and wholesome. After the one-sided Parti case, will the AGC dare to persecute such a virtuous man?
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There never was swiss standard living in Singapore in the first place. It’s mainly a third world place with a first world facade
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You forgot to mention the black and white bungalows some of them are living in.
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One other BIG PROMIZ of Goh Chok Tong he DEFRAUDED Singaporeans was HE told us we would share and participate to ENJOY the prosperity and wealth of SG via his Political Administration’s potential list on SGX of profitable entities like CAAS, PSA, LTA, JTC and so on.
After so many DONKEY Years – This PAP Administration FAILED to follow UP TO KEEP Goh’s NATIONAL promises. Instead it looks like THEY KEEP TIGHTENING the purse strings to make SG more and more dependent on them just to survive day by day. I guess this is THE WAY they STARVE and CONTROL Singapore to KEEP their power and ENJOY ownself reward ownself Million Dollars Salaries.
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Back then, the State was still busy printing propaganda on cheap recycled paper.
That’s THE BIG STORY.
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Wait and see.
One slap. One jail. Fair and square.
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@Harder Truths
I used to hear rumors that there are 2 camps in the party, one headed by ESM, so it is entirely possible that the cleanse has begun and the LEEder will spare no efforts to “take good care” of those pests who may hinder Horny’s succession.
Picture this, if own blood brother and sister can be “taken good care of”, the rest are all “peanuts”, would you think so?
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” But our leaders are enjoying living better than the Swiss”
So who is responsible for the leaders to have a better life than other Singaporeans? As long as the majority of Singaporeans and Chinese vote for PAP, they(leaders) will enjoy a beautiful life for a long time to come.
MAKE THE CHANGE!
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Swiss standard of living is for millionisters past and present. Many of them stayed in cabinet past their expiry dates in order to collect millions$$$$ to retire well !!! Even Woody once said d millionisters pays are mediocre and should be increased !! So greedy and never thought of the lower end or rung of the population who are struggling to bring food on the dining tables !!
A country’s wealth should be shared with all levels of the society. How loopsided our society is right now !!
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PAP ESM Goh’s son could probably attest that such a high standard of living was full of holes, just like Swiss cheese.
And he found such a loophole for false trading.
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A little snippet of life in singapore.
Those who love char kway teow, with seehum, at hawker centers, food court or kopidiam would probably share my experiences.
So far, the serving I get can hardly see the seehum because they are so tiny, if any.
Across the causeway, the char kway teow is not only cheaper but seehum you can see from a mile(you get what I mean).
The humble char kway teow speaks all that there is about the standard of living in singapore. A place that is good to look at from the outside but but you will have to contain your distaste of the state of affairs beneath the many layers of surfaces.
I have witness too many food joints and businesses fail over the years – glaring fruits of rots.
People may generate enough ambition, idea and even the right recipe for their businesses but after some time, take food for instance, the cook and staff will soon ruin the dinning experiences for most average folks – unless you are as wealthy or influential as the ministers.
A combination of too many infusion of careless foreign with careless and half baked local employers, professionals, cooks,staff and service workers will turn this place into a cold and souless existence. The icing on the cake is a slow death, quietly choked by increasing costs of living and demand at work places.
Only look good on the outside but on the inside, corrupted like he!!
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Good analogy and spots on! Having lived/done my ‘pedagogical stint’ in ETH Zurich in Switzerland for two years; Singaporeans should be make aware of Swiss retail prices for, not just cheese, but consumer products in general. Consumer Price Index CPI in Switzerland averaged 65.79 points from 1950 until 2023, reaching an all time high of 106.40 points in August of 2023 and a record low of 20.99 points in April of 1950. CPI in Singapore increased to 114.30 points in August from 113.31 points in July of 2023. Switzerland has a lot going for it, but much of its domestic industry (especially in foodstuffs) operates like a cartel, with high barriers to entry, downstream retail concentration, and protectionism. The fact that Swiss dairy farmers are not more productive and remain noncompetitive is very revealing. There is a reason there are large shopping malls in Germany and France just across the border from Zurich, Basel, and Geneva, and those border crossings staffed by Swiss customs agents running spot checks.
The default belief is that everything Swiss is better than anything from anywhere else. For the most part they are correct, or pretty close to it. The Swiss also make some of the world’s finest wine, but they drink almost all of it. Essentially Swiss demand for cheese cannot be met exclusively by domestic producers. On the other hand, not all great cheeses come from Switzerland. So, the importation of alternative delectable fromage is understandable. And that, taken in its entirety, the Europeans do better than any other region in the world. However one chooses to hold these distinctions, whether Swiss or not, “living well is the best revenge”. So “bullcraps” to those ‘dafts’ who believed a darned piece of wood!
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Seehum eat too much wait liver go haywire. Char Kway Teow high cholestrol high blood…..
Char kway teow cheap in Malaysia ? Then go everyday freely. Like HK residents after work always go ShenZhen or Zhu Hai in the evening to makan and enjoy.
By the time reachec home after midnight damn late. Have to sacrifice time and sleep.
Question is can you ? A lot of Hongkie can wall!
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Rather they leave out the “hum” than being insulted in this manner. Next time demand to see their “see-hum” before you buy. ha ha ha…
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@PAP mandate strong
Hey idiot, want to support pap also not like that.
Ppl here talking about can’t get to eat normal cockles; you tok abt health. Wait I hope your boss cut your salary and tell you too much $$$$ is bad for your health. See whether you can still talk c**k again!
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When you think other countries eating very good , you need to delve a little deeper and further.
http://www.xhby.net/index/201910/W020191009274298060978.png
https://m.yazhouribao.com/view/20230516075210590
https://www.foodaily.com/articles/31617
https://www.cnfood.cn/article?id=1681957516462886914
http://www.newsijie.com/sijiezixun/siguandian/2023/0721/11332724.html
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I too understood there are not just two but a number of cockroach factions. However the Civil Service is loyal to Unholy Goh and his gang. It is very unlikely the ballsless will try to challenge him directly. Or they may see another Iswaran suddenly being investigated. The Dead Despot threatened Toh Chin Chye and Rajaratnam when they opposed his heavy handed behaviour. The unfilial son is capable of such things do not doubt it. He has nothing to lose.
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You are correct. The Swiss live in the real world and have no fear of competition, knowing that they can still produce quality items.
This is the problem right here, that $inkieland is not about quality or hard work or $inkes, but bad quality and lower cost for locals and shady deals with gangsters that drive up land prices and everything else. In other words $inkeland survives because it is a gangster hub. Whether the locals live or die does not matter – they can be replaced.
We are living the life of the cheapest FT than can take our jobs coupled with the most expensive goods and services the elites enjoy.
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More like this!- thought provoking – local vs FT
The strings of the 99.9% are being pulled by the puppeteers of the 0.1%.
They set us at odds against one another, tell us why We should hate THEM, and vice versa, and while we’re busy killing each other, they rake in the dough.
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