tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post6095338004955831071..comments2024-03-28T17:31:22.152+08:00Comments on My Singapore News: 10m population snippets Chua Chin Leng aka redbeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11743716923635835397noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-50465042687513494082014-08-08T13:30:36.271+08:002014-08-08T13:30:36.271+08:00Millionaire ministers, we pay you to think and fin...Millionaire ministers, we pay you to think and find solutions, not to ask the masses that are not paid questions and expecting answers. <br /><br />If you are not deserving of the millions, cannot find the answers, please don't take the money. Are you worth every cent paid to you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-8233970394381928402014-08-08T09:46:33.879+08:002014-08-08T09:46:33.879+08:00/// Anonymous said...
TCJ asked what will happen t.../// Anonymous said...<br />TCJ asked what will happen to Singapore if population dropped to 4m. What a dumb question. Yes, we are on your side for population growth BUT we want a sustainable growth and be selective. So, do not threaten us with rather silly scenario.<br />August 08, 2014 8:08 am ///<br /><br />I thought it was Chan Kee Chiu, not TCJ who said that. That paper general is rehashing Thehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02941744057903049051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-36114883997920454512014-08-08T08:22:09.385+08:002014-08-08T08:22:09.385+08:00Experiments carried out by social scientists have ...Experiments carried out by social scientists have shown that the friction and space crunch are unbearable when more and more living creatures are being squeezed into a limited and very cramped living and breathing space.<br /><br />At far less than 1/4 of our density, Hitler complained of suffocation and launched WWII to reach the Eastern vast land for breathing space.<br /><br />Sinkieland can Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-87727476397444089042014-08-08T08:08:56.663+08:002014-08-08T08:08:56.663+08:00TCJ asked what will happen to Singapore if populat...TCJ asked what will happen to Singapore if population dropped to 4m. What a dumb question. Yes, we are on your side for population growth BUT we want a sustainable growth and be selective. So, do not threaten us with rather silly scenario.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-88323341382368784822014-08-08T02:51:09.147+08:002014-08-08T02:51:09.147+08:00Rb, the move towards 10m can mean two things:
1)...Rb, the move towards 10m can mean two things:<br /><br />1) Continued depressed wages for sinkies till 2030 and beyond due to massive cheap foreign labour influx;<br /><br />2) continued sky high property prices and cost of living due to the heightened demand for housing and basic necessities from the massive foreigners yearly relentless infux. With very limited land and no domestic food sourcesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-24110587973214534812014-08-08T01:06:52.402+08:002014-08-08T01:06:52.402+08:00Rb, many would like to join YEW and drink free kop...Rb, many would like to join YEW and drink free kopi at HLP CC cafeteria this Sat but many would rather avoid the "limelight" in such occasion.<br /><br />A kopi chit chat session near MBFC or RP during weekdays or in the heartlands or Chinatown or city areas during weekends would be likely be a better setting for many.<br /><br />What say YEW, RB?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-58764822904971636722014-08-08T00:57:23.157+08:002014-08-08T00:57:23.157+08:00Actually is it possible to lease a piece of land f...Actually is it possible to lease a piece of land for 999 years from a 3rd world cuntry to expand sinkieland's population and secure its future economic growth?<br /><br />In turn, we can adapt our SuZhou experience by developing the host cuntry economy in a mutual win win?<br /><br />Time to think BIG and outside Sinkieland rather than FOREVER restricted to this snort-size less than 1k sq km Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-5881659159233903662014-08-07T18:59:16.685+08:002014-08-07T18:59:16.685+08:00This GDP numbers is just a fallacy to some extent....This GDP numbers is just a fallacy to some extent.<br /><br />When YEW built, it adds up to the GDP.<br /><br />When YEW tear down, the cost of destruction of the building is added to GDP numbers when nothing is actually built, created or produced and actually a whole building was destroyed.<br /><br />Even then, the value of the destroyed building is NOT subtracted from past GDP numbers.<br /><Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-34388902199184902662014-08-07T18:48:04.686+08:002014-08-07T18:48:04.686+08:00When YEW have population growing at 2% and above e...When YEW have population growing at 2% and above each year, inflation at 2.5% and higher each year, nominal GDP growth at 2 to 3 % , actually it is a negative real growth GDP per capita since 2011.<br /><br />No?<br /><br />The mad dash for 10m is needed because even 6.9m by 2030 cannot sustain the real estate bubble created since 2009!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-36195181627871805132014-08-07T15:14:38.607+08:002014-08-07T15:14:38.607+08:00The planner/architect who proposed the 10 million ...The planner/architect who proposed the 10 million population does not have to live with the consequence of his proposal.<br />His angmo wife and son live in Kangaroo land. He is here to earn money saying the things his pay master like to hear.oldhorse42https://www.blogger.com/profile/11779719986093261335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-61938110126780669052014-08-07T14:29:04.025+08:002014-08-07T14:29:04.025+08:00OK now that we have the figures of 10 million or 2...OK now that we have the figures of 10 million or 20 million rolling in our head, when the population reaches 6.9 million we will all say " not too bad what ", still under 10 million.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-84129974852135932132014-08-07T12:14:19.161+08:002014-08-07T12:14:19.161+08:00Please look at this hyperlink...then seriously ask...Please look at this hyperlink...then seriously ask yourself...really?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink<br /><br />http://www.teoti.com/nature/112967-the-behavioral-sink.html?hpage=2<br /><br />So...still want 10m, 20m and 40m people in this finite little space called Singapore?<br /><br />We are human beings between. Not rats nor mice nor some kind of thing jus to generate Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-12526223023499224322014-08-07T11:55:15.006+08:002014-08-07T11:55:15.006+08:00Remember the Tower of Babel?Remember the Tower of Babel?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-27010061171101801622014-08-07T11:48:36.493+08:002014-08-07T11:48:36.493+08:00Why only think of 40 storey flat?Bird brain .Think...Why only think of 40 storey flat?Bird brain .Think further.<br />We can actually consider to have 40 layers of Singapore.Built strong pillars up and have another layer of land,up and up to 40 layers.,like a pyramid.Smallest Singapore on top and bigger Singapore below.Those private houses and airport to be on the top.<br />40 million population is not a problem if one can think well.<br />We can agongkianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-86988844630216126642014-08-07T11:41:55.006+08:002014-08-07T11:41:55.006+08:00This one I must up Matilah. I think 30 million als...This one I must up Matilah. I think 30 million also can.<br /><br />But I would prefer to stay at 5m and not more.<br /><br />The population growth is to boost economic growth, not economic growth to boost population growth. Can there be economic growth without population growth or not due to population growth? You mean no such things?Chua Chin Leng aka redbeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743716923635835397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-13557428619887281242014-08-07T11:37:09.021+08:002014-08-07T11:37:09.021+08:00As I've said before, with the right planning, ...As I've said before, with the right planning, 15-20 million is possible. Many of my friends who are architects, an engineers are quite confident of the numbers. They also stand to make gazillions from designing, building implementing the stuff that will be needed.<br /><br />10 mill? Bring it on lahⓂatilah $ingapura⚠️https://www.blogger.com/profile/02652498247201967379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-90814249574328962602014-08-07T11:35:22.081+08:002014-08-07T11:35:22.081+08:00If RB, like Liu Thai Ker, is trained as an archite...If RB, like Liu Thai Ker, is trained as an architect, I am sure he will agree 10 million population no problem. <br /><br />RB may even be consultant to PAP govt and design 50 or 60 storey HDB blocks for those Sinkies who cannot emigrate, and those foreigners who still want to come.<br /><br />But of course RB will not be domiciled here lah. Maybe in a Aussieland farm bungalow with cooler and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-17517386016128382782014-08-07T11:30:57.092+08:002014-08-07T11:30:57.092+08:00Those morons up there should not come up with targ...Those morons up there should not come up with target population,in the way that communist governments like to come up with 4-5 years economic planning.<br /><br />Those morons should 1st think how to grow the economy faster, what kind of new business activities the country should have which can create jobs for the locals and must not be those low-paying ones.<br /><br />You need to grow the lust for lovehttp://luv2sex.infonoreply@blogger.com