Fish wrote in his blog about the flaunting of injustice in
broad daylight, in an article ‘Forget justice in Singapore.’
Fish is angry when things get fishy.
I would like to calm the Fish down a bit, take a deep breath
of water and try to look at things from a different perspective, then
everything will be right, nothing fishy, the fishy smell will be gone. Fish
should try looking into the fishbowl instead of out of the fishbowl. Sure
different one.
Fish main gripe was about raising GST to help the poor. He
sincerely, honestly, did not believe that it was so. Let me explain. The poor
are in much much better off position here. Look, they can easily buy a flat
with $1000 pm income. And they are the most blessed poor in the world, the envy
of the world.
Look at the real poor. The real poor are those that did not
have enough to spend. It is not how much you earn, but how much is your expense
account. I can empathise with those earning $50k pm and finding life very
tough, and their quality of life being affected if they earn a bit less. The
GST hike is to help these higher income poor. They have big expense account and
need the money to live decently. For the
low income poor, a $50 increase in their income could mean a choice of eating
in a hawker centre, foodcourt or even restaurant. Of course it is cheapo restaurant
lah. For the high income poor, you can’t help them with $50, not enough even
for tips. They really need help.
As for estate duties, it is to help the poor definitely. In
every funeral wake, the normal comment about the chap lying in the coffin is ‘poor
bugger’. See, the bugger is poor and any help will do. And abolishing estate
duties is definitely to help the poor buggers. When does the rich come in?
Where got help the rich buggers?
In the Woffles and Charlie Lim case, or the principle and
the odd job labourer case, justice have been done, fair and fair. Law Minister Shamugam already explained the
rationale. It is all about the time spread, like HDB flats have not shrunk in
size over the last 15 years. Perfectly accurate statement of facts.
No miscarriage of justice lah. Sorry lah Fish. Can you see
my point? What the Fish?