From 6.9m to 10m

Liu Thai Ker, the first chief planner of HDB is throwing a 10m population target for a future Singapore. This is a doubling of the present population of 5.4m. As I have said earlier, I too agree that there is no problem housing 10m or even 20m people in this island and a 50m population is also a possibility.

The main question is what we want. Is this really what our future generations want to have? It will come along with a lot of conditions and consequences to the kind of lifestyle for each population size. The land size and population size will predetermine many things to come. To support the kind of population and a supposedly better quality lifestyle, you would need an economy to produce the goods and services to provide the funding.

With the present 5.4m population, the economy is looking like hitting the wall and the policy makers are at wits end to generate more income to sustain the population and life style here. So far, the only solution is increasing population to grow the economy to support an even bigger population to sustain a bigger economy in a never ending process. Does it work or will it work infinitely? I think we are hitting the end of the road very soon.

There is hope though, that there could be a breakthrough in science and technology to keep this scheme going. And yes, we need to keep casting our net very wide and pray for an exceptional genius to emerge to bring us to the next level or else….

What is the whole purpose of this game of life by growing the population in a vicious cycle? This generation has a responsibility not to create a situation that will make this island unsustainable for our future generation. We owe it to them to keep the whole eco system healthy, the economy and social system in balance and with some room for them to manouvre. An oversize population in a small island without natural resources just does not seem the right thing to do.

The future is not just about building enough homes to house the population. The hardware, the software and the heartware all needs to come together to make living possible, enjoyable and meaningful without the kind of inflation that we are going through now. And this can only get worst. Anyone out there really has the solution to a population of 7m or 10m thought out? Everyone is talking about how crazily good and exciting with 7m or 10m population. Anyone care to share how bad it can be if things did not turn out right, if there is a world crisis, be it financial, food, weather, flood and drought? With 7 or 10m, there is no room for error. It will be disastrous.

How much will a 3 rm flat cost? How much will a COE cost? How much will a plate of chicken rice cost?

A support the White Paper Rally

Now, would it be interesting for another group to organize a rally in support of the Population White Paper at Hong Lim? We can use the two events to make some comparisons, the organization, approval/permit application, speakers, turn out etc to see if the people are in support of the White Paper or against the White Paper.

I think organization and approval should be a piece of cake just like the one organized by Gilbert, no interference and everything will go on smoothly. As for speakers, very likely the pro White Paper will have more important and dignified speakers that will draw a bigger crowd. A lot of great names are flashing through my mind. The turn out would likely be at least 10,000, double or triple the protest Rally.

How about it? Would someone like to take on this initiative? It will be interesting, definitely, and we can also see the coverage given to the event in the main media and over the air.

The more I think about it the more enthuse I am over the potential of this event. I may go for the chicken rice or better still if someone will to donate some abalone porridge. And that will be nice.

Quote by M Ravi, lawyer of the downtrodden

I believe what is missing in the White Paper is all of us. We are not in the White Paper at all.   -  M Ravi in his speech at Hong Lim Park on the Population White Paper.

The ridiculous nature of things

Recently we are hearing more and more Third World people coming here to set up businesses and claiming that we don’t have talents to work for them. And the only talents good enough are their own natives. Why would these Third World people want to set up businesses here when the cost of operating their businesses back in their Third World countries would be so much cheaper, cost of living cheaper, and plenty of talents that they are bragging about?

And the funny thing, why, with their talents, that they could not turn their Third World countries into First World countries?

And why would a First World country like ours go on its knees to beg for Third World businesses and Third World talents to come here and treating them as better talents than our local talents? Or the truth is that our talents are really worst off than Third World talents? Then why are we paying our talents ‘out of this world’ salaries, and Third World talents who could not find any good jobs in their home countries coming here to be paid First World salaries and to look down on our local talents.

My view is that businesses operating here, employing more than 70% of their own kind at management level should be encouraged to leave as they are not contributing much to our economy but taking advantage of our system and infrastructure and our efficiency and location. We are so good in so many aspects as a country, as a business centre, but behaving like a cheap prostitute with no bargaining power and have to accept any customer that comes along.

Isn’t that pathetic? Even Third World so called talents are despising us as unworthy of employment. Where is our dignity?

Raymond attacks Redbean

One of the key issues raised at the May Day Protest Rally is the emergence of the Sedition Act and the persecution of bloggers. One of the speakers were unhappy that the Govt is using a sledgehammer to whack the little bloggers in cyberspace who little infringement.

In mysingaporenews blog there is a Raymond that has been harassing me almost daily making personal attacks instead of discussing the issues raised. Yesterday he went one step further by threatening report me to the police for sedition. This is what he quoted me and claimed that it was seditious.

Raymond said...

..."will Hong Lim prove that Singaporeans are a defeated people, waiting to be extinguished and to disappear, to be replaced by new migrants becoming new citizens?"

There you go with your dangerous extremist views again... Keep it up and I might just make a police report against you for sedition.

May 01, 2013 12:35 pm

Who is this Raymond and why is he so arrogant to think that he could go around threatening bloggers and feeling so confident that the police will take up his wild and lame accusation against other bloggers? Why does he think that it is his duty to police the social media and report on bloggers for indiscretion according to his interpretation? Why would he think that the police would be at his becks and calls?

This Raymond acted as if he is somebody, or maybe well connected, or he has some strong backing, to slam bloggers as he likes. It would be nice to expose his connections.

What I can safely conclude is that he cannot be linked to the Govt as the Govt cannot be seen to be indulging in such nefarious activities and using public funds. An ass like Raymond, if exposed and found connected, can be very embarrassing. Neither can he belong to any political party as it will be equally embarrassing and reflects very badly of any political party sanctioning such shameless activities in the net.

So, who is this Raymond and who is behind him? Or is he just an individual running loose, perhaps with some mental problems? I am now collating all his comments in my blog that are intimidating or harassing in nature. I am building up a case and may submit it to the police to investigate this Raymond for harassment and intimidation. I am sure his IP can be easily traced out and identified by the authority unless he is operating from some safe house that is untraceable.

These people in social media are like pests, disease. While the Govt has been talking about some control in the social media, would the Govt also be considering ridding social media of such pests, otherwise they will go on harassing bloggers with immunity.