Salma Khalik wrote an article on the bed crunch and wondering how this
super efficient forward looking govt with the best talents paid out of
this world salary could let the shortage of beds in public hospitals
reached this chronic stage. And Professor Pauline Straughan concurred
that this is now at crisis level.
Come on, don’t panic. There is nothing of this sort. Where got crisis?
If got crisis the people will be protesting in the streets. No?
If there is a crisis the govt will be calling for a board of inquiry or
setting up a committee to investigate why it has happened. And the
Minister has said that more beds will be added to the tune of 3,700 beds
by 2020. What is the problem? These extra beds should definitely be
enough even with the population growing to 6.9m in 2030 right? Hope by
then the situation is going to be the same and they claimed they did not
know the population will go up to 6.9m. Salma, please don’t ask why
not now.
No need to fear. The bed situation is in good hands. It is all in the
plan, all the new hospitals and beds will be in place when we have 6.9m
people. It is in the White Paper, including the number of nurses needed.
Did the paper mention anything about the number of doctors? Nothing is
left to chance when we have all the planners planning ahead of the
problems. We don’t pay them so much for nothing you know.
Did Salma say that the hospitals are cutting corners, early discharge,
two day surgery becomes day surgery, homecares also increased instead of
keeping patients longer in the hospitals? They need to erect ERP when
the holiday season arrives next year.
These are only temporary measures to create more beds for those who need
them today. Let me see, 17,000 bed days annually were created by such
measures. Good for the hospitals or else the bed crunch would really be a
crisis.
Relac lah, take it easy man, no one is dying because of this temporary
bed crunch. In the long run all the problems will be solved. Now don’t
ask embarrassing questions like who have caused this bed crunch to
become a crisis. There is no crisis. Period. If there is, a new minister
would be moved in to take over and to clear the shortages just like the
housing crisis. No change in minister means no crisis.
PS. Kopi level - Green
Thank you.
1/15/2014
America, we are your friends. Please tell NYT
The NYT is publishing unfavourable reports on the recent riot in Little
India. The paper is claiming that our govt is ill treating the foreign
workers, abusing them, poor pay and poor living environment. How can
that be, many of the dormitories are nicer than the homes of poor
Sinkies. And some dormitories are like country clubs with recreation
facilities that the foreign workers can never ever dream of in the
little shanty huts in their villages.
Come on NYT, we are giving the foreign workers a life they can never have and an opportunity to be rich, to feed and uplift their families from poverty. And the riot is not due to exploitation or abuses. It is due to alcohol.
Our Ambassador has been trying very hard to explain and tell the true story that you have distorted. We agree that you have the right to your own news and opinion. At least allow us the right to reply. This is a sacred right that we offer to anyone or newspaper in our city. At least you should reciprocate. At least you must remember that we are your best friend, your most reliable friend to help you with your pivot to Asia, provide you with military base facilities here. If you don’t know, our people are angry that we are part of this military arrangement.
We even want to buy your crap futuristic aircraft that is not up to specs and willing to pay your country billions of dollars for something that is so inferior and will be rejected by other thinking countries. At a few hundred millions a piece, my God, you think we are that stupid?
Please, let our Ambassador put in his reply to give a balance view of the Little India Riot. We are your friend, don’t forget that. You scratch our back we scratch yours. And the last thing we can expect from a good friend is for you to print misinformation to hurt our reputation.
PS. Kopi level - Yellow
Come on NYT, we are giving the foreign workers a life they can never have and an opportunity to be rich, to feed and uplift their families from poverty. And the riot is not due to exploitation or abuses. It is due to alcohol.
Our Ambassador has been trying very hard to explain and tell the true story that you have distorted. We agree that you have the right to your own news and opinion. At least allow us the right to reply. This is a sacred right that we offer to anyone or newspaper in our city. At least you should reciprocate. At least you must remember that we are your best friend, your most reliable friend to help you with your pivot to Asia, provide you with military base facilities here. If you don’t know, our people are angry that we are part of this military arrangement.
We even want to buy your crap futuristic aircraft that is not up to specs and willing to pay your country billions of dollars for something that is so inferior and will be rejected by other thinking countries. At a few hundred millions a piece, my God, you think we are that stupid?
Please, let our Ambassador put in his reply to give a balance view of the Little India Riot. We are your friend, don’t forget that. You scratch our back we scratch yours. And the last thing we can expect from a good friend is for you to print misinformation to hurt our reputation.
PS. Kopi level - Yellow
A daft understanding of Democracy
What is happening in Thailand must have annoyed the daft here. How can
the Thais protest against a popularly elected govt? How can they demand
that the democratically elected govt steps down and be replaced? This is
not democracy.
The democracy in Sin City is one that the elected govt can do anything it wants. The citizens are not supposed to question, to oppose or to disagree. The govt can simply take a vote in Parliament, and the majority votes carry the issue. Once it is passed in Parliament that’s it. The elected govt is elected by the people to run the country for them anyway it likes as long as it claims it is for the good of the people or country. I choose to separate people or country as the good of the country is not necessary good for the citizens. A country can prosper with all the citizens being replaced by foreigners, and it is good for the country but very bad for the citizens.
The govt has all the right and approval and consent of the people to increase the population to 6.9m. The daft agree this is so because it has been passed in Parliament. That is how democracy works here. By the same logic, if the govt decides to sell the country away, it is the right of the govt to do so. They are elected by the people man, notwithstanding that many were walkovers, so they have the people’s consent to do as they pleased. No one, no citizens, can object to what the govt is doing, no protest or civil disobedience.
How many daft Sinkies out there interpret democracy this way? How many daft Sinkies believe that the elected govt has unlimited power to do as it pleases? How many daft Sinkies think that the govt can suka suka pass laws to lock your life savings away and force you to buy their insurance schemes? Forced purchase, forced consumption!
A democracy is meant to be of the people, ie representatives comes from the people,… by the people ie elected by the people, … for the people, ie to serve the interest and good of the people, and not to serve the vested interests of a political party or their cronies or the interests of foreigners or foreign countries.
To all the daft Sinkies, kee chiu please if you believe that an elected govt has unlimited power to do as it pleases.
Remember what is happening in Bangkok.
The democracy in Sin City is one that the elected govt can do anything it wants. The citizens are not supposed to question, to oppose or to disagree. The govt can simply take a vote in Parliament, and the majority votes carry the issue. Once it is passed in Parliament that’s it. The elected govt is elected by the people to run the country for them anyway it likes as long as it claims it is for the good of the people or country. I choose to separate people or country as the good of the country is not necessary good for the citizens. A country can prosper with all the citizens being replaced by foreigners, and it is good for the country but very bad for the citizens.
The govt has all the right and approval and consent of the people to increase the population to 6.9m. The daft agree this is so because it has been passed in Parliament. That is how democracy works here. By the same logic, if the govt decides to sell the country away, it is the right of the govt to do so. They are elected by the people man, notwithstanding that many were walkovers, so they have the people’s consent to do as they pleased. No one, no citizens, can object to what the govt is doing, no protest or civil disobedience.
How many daft Sinkies out there interpret democracy this way? How many daft Sinkies believe that the elected govt has unlimited power to do as it pleases? How many daft Sinkies think that the govt can suka suka pass laws to lock your life savings away and force you to buy their insurance schemes? Forced purchase, forced consumption!
A democracy is meant to be of the people, ie representatives comes from the people,… by the people ie elected by the people, … for the people, ie to serve the interest and good of the people, and not to serve the vested interests of a political party or their cronies or the interests of foreigners or foreign countries.
To all the daft Sinkies, kee chiu please if you believe that an elected govt has unlimited power to do as it pleases.
Remember what is happening in Bangkok.
1/14/2014
Fake certificates widespread in India
TRE reported an article from AFP that job applicants in India are so
desperate that they have resorted to all kinds of sophisticated scams to
get a job. This is the first 3 para of the article in TRE,
‘AFP published a news report [Link] on 12 Jan highlighting widespread use of fake CVs flooding the Indian job market.
In fact, the scam is so sophisticated that even when companies attempt to call the previous companies listed by the errant job applicant who said he had worked there before, there will be people answering calls and giving illustrious testimony about the person.
The scam was uncovered when an IT company in New Delhi was puzzled that 30 of the job applicants had listed the same employer which they said they had worked in….’
Singapore is so lucky that all the Indian job applicants coming here used genuine certificates and CVs. I am confident, 101%, that all those in employed here are worth every cent they are paid. I have not heard of a single case of false CVs from India been discovered here. I swear.
With our first world talents and the sophisticated technology and smart people in charge, if there are any cheats, they would have been caught. The fact that practically none is caught is testimony to the good credit of our regulators and the authenticity of all the India graduates working here.
We shall celebrate this clean record and bring in more talents from India that used only genuine certificates and CVs. Maybe the Indians know that we are an honest and clean society, so only the honest and qualified Indians would want to come here.
Well done Sinkies, for having the top and genuine talents from India working here. Only the frauds and cheats remained in India or elsewhere. We have an excellent and dependable system and talents to fall back on. I really feel very good, very safe that we are in good hands. It is a good feeling to know that we are not cheated by 3rd World cheats.
The MOM must be credited for the clean record.
‘AFP published a news report [Link] on 12 Jan highlighting widespread use of fake CVs flooding the Indian job market.
In fact, the scam is so sophisticated that even when companies attempt to call the previous companies listed by the errant job applicant who said he had worked there before, there will be people answering calls and giving illustrious testimony about the person.
The scam was uncovered when an IT company in New Delhi was puzzled that 30 of the job applicants had listed the same employer which they said they had worked in….’
Singapore is so lucky that all the Indian job applicants coming here used genuine certificates and CVs. I am confident, 101%, that all those in employed here are worth every cent they are paid. I have not heard of a single case of false CVs from India been discovered here. I swear.
With our first world talents and the sophisticated technology and smart people in charge, if there are any cheats, they would have been caught. The fact that practically none is caught is testimony to the good credit of our regulators and the authenticity of all the India graduates working here.
We shall celebrate this clean record and bring in more talents from India that used only genuine certificates and CVs. Maybe the Indians know that we are an honest and clean society, so only the honest and qualified Indians would want to come here.
Well done Sinkies, for having the top and genuine talents from India working here. Only the frauds and cheats remained in India or elsewhere. We have an excellent and dependable system and talents to fall back on. I really feel very good, very safe that we are in good hands. It is a good feeling to know that we are not cheated by 3rd World cheats.
The MOM must be credited for the clean record.
GDP increases when productivity decreases
This is the new contradiction that is keeping Singapore ticking and its
GDP growing. While Thomas Friedman is grappling with the combination of
exponential, digital and combinatorial growth in technology, high brow
stuff, our govt is approaching economic growth in another way, simple
cheap labour. Some called it KISS, ie keep it simple, stupid.
The equation is simple. One man needs a bed, 3 meals, a little extra like alcohol, a little entertainment, a little sex, clothing, transportation, communication, medical etc etc. Increase to 4 men you can add in a roof, a car, education for children, insurance, banking, leisure and all kinds of services for a family. Multiply these by 1m, by 2m, by 6.9m, what would you get on an exponential, digital and combinatorial formula? Add the tax or levy elements to this, and you have a colossal sum of money flowing and criss crossing in many ways.
You don’t need the brainy and highly intelligent talents. That is only a red herring. The consumption of goods and services by big numbers of lowly skilled and cheap labour will generate enough economic activities to keep the GDP growing. No need to think too hard, just keep adding the numbers to keep the trick alive. The population will keep the economic activities winding non stop. The additional headcounts are for growth on top of organic growth. Just keep adding and enjoy the multiplier effect of consumption without having to think too hard, to be creative, innovative or productive.
It is a simple number game. Who cares about productivity if growth can be achieved by simple addition of numbers, of people? The productivity of low skilled labour can fall or stagnate, no sweat. This can easily be overcome by quantities, not in the work they do, but the bigger picture, contribution to the overall GDP through all the other services and consumption.
No need to be too clever, no need to work so hard. Why bother with high technology, with frontier science, with KBE? Many would have forgotten what KBE meant. That is why the call not to pursue tertiary education but to be hawkers and labourers, as cogs to the matrix of growth. Low productivity but in increasing volumes would still lead to higher GDP.
It is elementary Watson. The more cogs you have, pronounce as cocks, the bigger will be the GDP.
The equation is simple. One man needs a bed, 3 meals, a little extra like alcohol, a little entertainment, a little sex, clothing, transportation, communication, medical etc etc. Increase to 4 men you can add in a roof, a car, education for children, insurance, banking, leisure and all kinds of services for a family. Multiply these by 1m, by 2m, by 6.9m, what would you get on an exponential, digital and combinatorial formula? Add the tax or levy elements to this, and you have a colossal sum of money flowing and criss crossing in many ways.
You don’t need the brainy and highly intelligent talents. That is only a red herring. The consumption of goods and services by big numbers of lowly skilled and cheap labour will generate enough economic activities to keep the GDP growing. No need to think too hard, just keep adding the numbers to keep the trick alive. The population will keep the economic activities winding non stop. The additional headcounts are for growth on top of organic growth. Just keep adding and enjoy the multiplier effect of consumption without having to think too hard, to be creative, innovative or productive.
It is a simple number game. Who cares about productivity if growth can be achieved by simple addition of numbers, of people? The productivity of low skilled labour can fall or stagnate, no sweat. This can easily be overcome by quantities, not in the work they do, but the bigger picture, contribution to the overall GDP through all the other services and consumption.
No need to be too clever, no need to work so hard. Why bother with high technology, with frontier science, with KBE? Many would have forgotten what KBE meant. That is why the call not to pursue tertiary education but to be hawkers and labourers, as cogs to the matrix of growth. Low productivity but in increasing volumes would still lead to higher GDP.
It is elementary Watson. The more cogs you have, pronounce as cocks, the bigger will be the GDP.
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