The drumming to build smart cities in India continues unabated. India,
with all its talents, needs Singapore to build smart cities for them?
India is only interested in flying to Mars, building more nuclear
submarines to be the next super power. It has no time to want to build
good housing and toilets for its people. But, just like going to Mars,
it wants to leapfrog the process to build smart cities beside the
streets of shits everywhere. Who is going to live in the smart cities by
the way when all over are poverty and illiterates that did not even
have the privilege of shitting in a proper shit hole?
As a commercial project, I think it is a good idea for our businesses to
make their assessments and do the sums before putting the money in such
grandiose schemes. But we should be very careful when putting public
money into such schemes. We must have learnt a lesson or two in Suzhou
to not want to throw our people’s money into a bottomless pit to please
some foreign govts and make some people happy that they have initiated
some grand projects using OPM without hurting their own pockets.
What is it that India lacks that we can provide that it doesn’t have?
Money, plenty of money, but whose money? My money or your money? I would
encourage the businessmen to do what they think is profitable and to
risk their own money if things go wrong against their judgement. But
please, don’t use public money to invest in something to look like
Orchard Road in a shit hole. It is more responsible to return the money
to the people who needed the money to live and to clear their financial
troubles, to live a day better and not be insulted by people asking them
whether they want to eat in hawker centre, food court or restaurant.
Any hero or philanthropist who wants to go and build smart cities for
India, please use your own money. Please do not use the people’s blood
and sweat money to paste on your face. I also want to build good homes
for the whole world with OPM of course.
Kopi Level - Green
I'm voting Opposition to help keep our CPF money safe here in Singapore for Singaporeans.
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ReplyDeleteBuilding HAPPY City Not SMART City!
what is the definition of a SMART
city....
anyone can call their city, the
SMART city....
what so great about building
SMART city.....
it is building of HAPPY city that
people really need....
building HAPPY city should be the
ONLY way going forward.....
cheers.....
Thnak you anon 8:48
ReplyDeleteIf can have casinos in Sinkieland, why cannot have Smart City in India, u tell me lah?
ReplyDeleteAnd why would PAP want to care about Sinkies who needed the money to live and to clear their financial troubles, to live a day better, etc when at least 60% Sinkies are already happy enough to vote PAP every election?
@ 848:
ReplyDeleteIf you can't be happy in Singapore, not only aren't you smart enough to live, but I see no hope for you ;)
Singapore has the world's smartest gangsters running the show.
The objective of an organised criminal organization is to make as much money as possible and defend their monopolies by force, but not apply too much force so that their victims shut down completely. Smart gangsters are masters at the Art of Manipulation.
Singapore PAikia Inc levies low taxes, but yet they manage to score huge amounts of money.
How ah? Must be very smart.
Got multiple streams of income?
Singapore low taxes? you can count or not?
ReplyDeleteIf you put take your average frog in the well and put it in a pot of water to a slow boil, it won't even complain because it will be too late before it realised it's been boiled alive. Ouch.
ReplyDeleteTan Kin Lian: A graduate from a university in India told me that 80% of the class gets a First class Honors degree!
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They can't con the world except the Americans and Sinkies. And daft Sinkies got so impressed by their first class and no class.
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ReplyDelete>> Singapore low taxes?
OK, my bad. Relatively LOW taxes -- compared to EU, Aust, etc.
I'll take the Singapore system any day over those corporate and social welfare "western democratic" cuntrees.
They tax you, and give to wasters of oxygen, who then turn around and complain that you didn't give them "enough".
This kind of building smart cities in india will bankrupt singapore. Anyone wanna bet?
ReplyDeleteSingapore's govt debt is 109% of GDP. In second to second numbers it is this much, and growing about SGD 300 per second
ReplyDeleteHowever, the current Singapore govt doesn't borrow to spend, it borrows to invest. Thanks to the workers paying into CPF, it has essentially on-going positive cash flow.
Due to the increase in global population, plus a list of on-going challenges like climate change, energy uncertainty and the big one: water security, developing a smart city is a logical and rational choice. How else could a small island like Singapore support a rapidly growing population and maintain a vibrant economy, whilst ensuring precious resources required for humans to not only survive, but PROSPER (who the fuck wants to be poor?) are not WASTED?
Singapore's population will increase, at least at the rate global population is increasing. Therefore to expect Singapore's population to DOUBLE, is not an unreasonable assumption.
Smart city? Hell yeah! (there's no other option)