NSP was scoring a lot of same side goalsBarnsley wrote:Actual Votes ........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Singapore
The Workers Party number of votes actually went up.....
The NSP is the one that got smashed....
there may be some cases of cheating or misappropriated spending but not all will squander their cash when they hold that amount of moneyearthfriendly wrote: "Most people in the working class has never held 100-200k in their hands before, what do you think would happen when they hold that amount of money?"
The Lehman brothers sub prime crash, and the number of retirees who lost 100k and above comes to mind ... having been given the Cpf movies and promptly taken advantage by financial advisors who taunted the gullible with high returnssundaymorningstaple wrote:If historical evidence is anything to go by, looking at the anectdotal evidence from the years when they could withdraw at 55, 50% of the CPF, a huge percentage blew it on cars, vacations and the stock market. Add to that the Ah Peks getting their money and losing it to gold digging foreign females seeing easy touches.
I SO wish I had made this my user name.sundaymorningstaple wrote: gold digging foreign female
Why not? It is your username after all, you can do whatever you want to it.triste wrote:I SO wish I had made this my user name.sundaymorningstaple wrote: gold digging foreign female
calugaruvaxile wrote:dude, you sound like an aparatchik from my youth. and you really don't understand. this is not about "us". believe it or not, i got out of sg with 100% of my cpf. you (if you're a local) won't. think about it.TMD wrote:
You know, your very first sentence prove exactly what I had already alluded to about that "them vs us" attitude. History has shown it doesn't lead any society or country to any good for the longer term.
Perhaps, it is with the hindsight of 2011 GE and last decade, the incumbent government is sitting up and paying more attention to the voters. What I gathered so far is the PAP is indeed responding.
Mr Tharman, the finance minister, himself was quoted: "A successful economy by itself will not give us an inclusive and fair society." Now this may sound like a election talk, but at least it seems he and his comrades understand both Singaporean and the nature of today's world.
what tharman said is that in his model of an economy, you're screwed. and you vote for him. you're so clever! and how does this quote that your beloved understands the world? you're just a propagandleiter.
still, you elude the main problem: singapore does not make its own money. it just take a cut of the business made on its territory. if you can't read this, let me know. i'll write it in larger, red and bold fonts. this means, you're as good as a hotel. good rates, friendly staff, nice amenities, i'll stay. any of the contrary, i won't. in the 80s to 2ks, sg attracted business like this. it had low rates, good amenities and friendly staff. a very good deal, compared to its neighbors. nowadays it's amenities are not really great (transportation sucks, believe me), the rates are high, and the staff is lazy, nosy and pricey. that's why companies flee, that's why your govt is spending billions in incentives (but it's not telling you).
your govt is promising you one thing, while promising the companies exactly the opposite. that's why the whole construction is falling apart. and you really think you know how the world works. HA HA HA. you don't even understand your town.
in any ways, i'm glad you used the right word to describe the pap: "the comrades". here we agree: you live in a communist country and you work a state-planned economy.
I like the underlined part. I guess this is exactly what SG gov says (and any other gov) if it comes to justifying some less popular actions.calugaruvaxile wrote:speaking about liberty: i have the liberty of exposing anything i don't like, about any government in this world - or any situation on the globe (like the eu refugee crisis) as long as i don't incite to violence, rebellion or anything dangerous to any individual and/or to society. sadly, this is a concept that a true-blue singaporean cannot grasp.
You certainly know how to give some of us a laugh. You tricked the system? What you did was not a trick. Every person who ever got PR knows that you can get it all back when you give up PR. As well, every Singaporean who immigrates (if they feel the need to do so) can also do what you have done after they give up their SC. Not a problem. But the way I see it, it sounds like you jumped out of the pot and into the fire. You gave up Singapore PR to go to Houston or Dallas where you have to pay US SS taxes? Not counting the IRS. Fat chance of getting back all those SS taxes. Sounds like you were the one who was tricked.calugaruvaxile wrote:tmd, correction! i tricked the system which was trying to steal MY money! something that you can't do. you're condemned to have your money stolen.
speaking about liberty: i have the liberty of exposing anything i don't like, about any government in this world - or any situation on the globe (like the eu refugee crisis) as long as i don't incite to violence, rebellion or anything dangerous to any individual and/or to society. sadly, this is a concept that a true-blue singaporean cannot grasp.
try to stay in sg till you die and you'll find outx9200 wrote:Is it true calugaruvaxile, you gave up your PR, withdrew your CPF and this was the tricking of the system? Ehem. I didn't get this tricking part when I read your post and was too lazy to check the whole thread.
How the system tried to steal your money?
with 70% approval rate, i believe all the actions of the sg gov't are very popular!x9200 wrote: I like the underlined part. I guess this is exactly what SG gov says (and any other gov) if it comes to justifying some less popular actions.
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