1/28/2015

Sinkie – The Naked Man


Singaporeans have been increasing been stripped of their clothing and many are as good as walking around naked, or in the Emperor’s new clothe. For the poor or those needing govt subsidies or financial assistance, they are familiar with being stripped naked to a stranger who wanted to know everything ‘under’ their clothing before granting them the privilege of govt grants or subsidies. The Mean Testing in hospitals and similar schemes many ministries are infamous for asking very embarrassing and personal questions of the applicants. They would want you to strip to your underwear or turn out your pockets to make sure they are empty.
 

Mean Testing is meant only to the poor and desperados, so humiliating them is acceptable. We have something that makes Mean Testing looked very tame and friendly. The new powers given to the Medishield Life Scheme to put everyone under the microscope is like a futuristic nightmare comes true. There is nothing left that is called personal and private. Your body and private parts are not private anymore. Your money and your bank accounts are no longer private and out of bound to the govt.
 

The bill that is waiting to be passed allows the authority to look into your medical files, to review your medical conditions at will. The bills allow the authority to dip into your bank accounts, to take from your pay cheques, to imprison you for not paying a forced so called ‘National Medical Insurance Scheme’ to provide the people with a national health coverage. Who is providing to who? No, the people are legislated by law to provide themselves with a national health insurance scheme with their own money and cannot say No. And for the privilege of being a member of this compulsory scheme that would not declare its mission as Non Profit Making, you have authorized the authority to strip you naked if needed to, to prove that you deserve some mercy to be spare the jail for not paying the compulsory premium from cradle to the grave.
 

This would be a good theme to celebrate in SG50, The Naked Man. What used to belong to a Sinkie, his body and money, are no longer private and personal, accessible to the authority, to see and to touch and to take, perfectly legal when the bill is passed.
 

1984, George Orwell anyone?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Singaporeans have been increasing been stripped of their clothing and many are as good as walking around naked, or in the Emperor’s new clothe."
RB

Even if above is true literally, I still agree with kaki kang WP Teochew Ah Hia that majority (aka 60%) Sinkies will still be very scared to accidentally vote PAP out because WP is not ready to be govt.

So if I were PM Lee, I think it is still OK for PAP to strip Sinkies naked, even literally, if that can help Sinkieland GDP and reserves to grow!!! Hahahahahaha.

Anonymous said...


yes, our country is well
governed.....

yes, we are one of the rich
nations.....

but, just look around us.....

there are still many many people
struggling in this tiny city
state.....

many many of them in the rat race
cannot catch-up......

many many of them were left far
behind.....

many many of them had given
up.......

we are moving tooooooooo fast.....

we have to slow down slow down....

we MUST move forward as a nation....

that is the only SUSTAINABLE way
going forward......

cheers......

Anonymous said...

Now the PAP government will know where all the rich Singaporeans keep their money.
I wonder if rich Singaporeans have woken up yet?

Anonymous said...

Looks like all sinkies will have to resort to seeing only private clinics when sick and keeping all their savings under their beds.

patriot said...

Haha....

How come me has the Feeling that Sinkies like to be stripped, rubbed and molested?

No joke to say I love what Matilah Singapura loves to say 'the Sheeples deserve the Government they have chosen'. MS loves the Benign Dictator just as much, he declared unreservedly.

patriot