‘Mr Tan was let go by a prestigious MNC company located in Science Park
some years ago. Until today, in his late 40s, Mr Tan cannot secure any
permanent job. He tried to find a job in his industry but was consider
too old. He went to try other sector to be a property or insurance agent
and did not meet any success.
Mr Tan shared his struggles. He is paying off his debt and had to cut
down extensively on their family lifestyle. Gone are yearly holidays and
meals in restaurants. He sold off his car to pay off some of the debt
and started taking taxi course. This is the ONLY protected industry in
Singapore from FT invasion.’
Please read the story of Mr Tan in TRE under the title ‘FT converts to S’pore pink IC but ostracizes S’poreans
How long would Sinkies be willing to bear and endure such discrimination
by foreigners in their own country? When would Sinkies put an end to
their pathetic plight and suffering from unemployment in the hands of
foreigners? It seems that the story of Mr Tan is a familiar one and many
affected Sinkies suffering from the same fate simply swallowed their
pain and misfortune and turned to taxi driving which some jokers claimed
was a good alternative, that they could become their own boss. And
foreigners happily kept coming in to replace Sinkies one by one with
impunity. This is a crime against the citizens.
Boh cheng hu!
About 60 years ago, the colonial govt was running the island as their
prized possession and fed themselves handsomely while throwing a few
crumbs to a small group of local elite. A group of young men was driven
enough to want to take over the running of the country from the colonial
govt for the good of the people. They could not stomach the disinterest
of the colonial govt while they took care of their self interest and
the excesses of the elite. They fought valiantly to wrestle the island
from the British and eventually founded a new nation. They saw a bad
situation and turned it around.
Today we are seeing quite a number of citizens being forced out of their
comfort zone by foreigners into a corner with no jobs. And the
foreigners exploited their haplessness to the fullest, to replace them
in good jobs by bringing in more foreigners with impunity. This
unhealthy state of being is becoming intolerable to many citizens, even
those looking from the sideline.
Would this pathetic situation be good enough to spawn a few good men to
stand up for the good of the people, to take back the country and run it
for the good of the people before the country is taken over by the
foreigners? Would there be people driven enough to want to change this
despicable fate of the PMEs?
Ask yourself, when would you be next to be replaced by foreigners?
Kopi Level - Green
2/26/2014
Consider local contractors for MRT projects
Chin Kee Thou wrote in the Today forum pleading to the authority to
consider local contractors in the award of contracts. We have been in
the train business for about 40 years and there should be enough
expertise to do it ourselves. Why continue to award contracts to
foreigners, to be forever hoping for the transfer of know how to our
local boys. China opened up for less than 40 years and they are building
bullet trains on their own and many other things without the need for
foreign talents. Or shall we wait to recruit train experts from the
recently commissioned Mumbai LRT to run our trains as they would then be
deemed as foreign talents and better than our no talent locals even
after so many years of running our train system?
Actually I am crossing over, or bought over by this craze for foreign talents. I think I am getting the disease. We really need more foreign talents or we will sink. Let’s have more of them. We have foreign talents in DBS and the bank is getting better and better. No bluff. And our stock exchange is so vibrant, the best in the world.
And we have quite a number of foreigners in the stats boards. Ok, let’s open up the ministries to foreign talents, and to make it more palatable, any position that is equivalent to the premier admin service the employee shall be given the pink IC to be seen as one of us. We can start by replacing our permanent secretaries, deputy secretaries and assistant secretaries with foreign talents.
I think all our senior civil servants will love the chance to work with foreigners as their bosses, more oomphs and creativity. They have been the ones pushing for this policy and they would not oppose it for sure. Let’s start with SPH, MHA and Mindef.
What do you think?
Actually I am crossing over, or bought over by this craze for foreign talents. I think I am getting the disease. We really need more foreign talents or we will sink. Let’s have more of them. We have foreign talents in DBS and the bank is getting better and better. No bluff. And our stock exchange is so vibrant, the best in the world.
And we have quite a number of foreigners in the stats boards. Ok, let’s open up the ministries to foreign talents, and to make it more palatable, any position that is equivalent to the premier admin service the employee shall be given the pink IC to be seen as one of us. We can start by replacing our permanent secretaries, deputy secretaries and assistant secretaries with foreign talents.
I think all our senior civil servants will love the chance to work with foreigners as their bosses, more oomphs and creativity. They have been the ones pushing for this policy and they would not oppose it for sure. Let’s start with SPH, MHA and Mindef.
What do you think?
Salma Khalik kpkb about medical insurance
Following closely behind Han Fook Kwang’s unhappiness about the free
hand given to medical insurers to change their premiums and terms of
coverage, Salma Khalik has written another piece to highlight the
‘abuses’ or liberties given to insurers at the expense and interests of
the insured. Not only can insurers raise premiums, but could stop
insuring someone with serious conditions, change the coverage or not
even paying for what they deemed should not be covered under the
insurance plans. And the insured is stuck with an insurer and changing
to another insurer would be difficult or not possible. Salma is yelling
at the MAS to do something for the good of the insured.
Medical insurance has always been a commercial transaction with the insurers thinking only of profit as their main objective. And the insured would be at their mercy, to be made to pay for their profits all the way. And this can become a scam to the consumers. And this is something that is not addressed in the proposed Medishield Life Scheme.
To be serious, for the interests of the the people, the Medishield Life must not be farmed out to any private insurers. It must be managed as a govt service like the CPF, ‘for the good of the people’. I know some of you are sneering. Nevermind that this is a truism that is found wanting. The profit motive of the Medishield Life must be taken out from the equation. And to ensure that this will be the case, all the excess revenue from premiums should be ploughed back to lower the premiums of the insured in the scheme.
This is a govt initiated compulsory national scheme and must be managed with morality and social responsibility as the key principles, not profit. No one should be allowed to covet the revenue churned out by this Medishield Life Scheme and to lay their hands on the surpluses for whatever devious schemes they have in mind in the future. Any surpluses must go back to the people in the Scheme.
In a small way this could ease the buffet syndrome and cut down on excessive consumption of medical services if the insured know that by not over consuming they could end up paying less, paying just enough.
And it should remove totally the desire by anyone to think there is money there for harvest. Oh, there are so much money in the Scheme, let’s make it more affordable, or the money can be put to better use. Take your hands off the money!
Don’t touch the money in this compulsory Scheme. It is the people’s money, forced to pay ‘for their own good’ and it must stay that way. If the govt is serious in its intent ‘for the good of the people’, keep this out of private insurers or any insurers. This must be a non profit making govt scheme, with govt regulated terms and conditions and coverage for all with no exceptions and exclusion clauses.
Not that I have agree to a compulsory scheme, but it is not going to be otherwise, so everyone must make the govt know that the surpluses in the Scheme must be retained in the Scheme for the benefits of the people in the Scheme.
Kopi Level - Green
Medical insurance has always been a commercial transaction with the insurers thinking only of profit as their main objective. And the insured would be at their mercy, to be made to pay for their profits all the way. And this can become a scam to the consumers. And this is something that is not addressed in the proposed Medishield Life Scheme.
To be serious, for the interests of the the people, the Medishield Life must not be farmed out to any private insurers. It must be managed as a govt service like the CPF, ‘for the good of the people’. I know some of you are sneering. Nevermind that this is a truism that is found wanting. The profit motive of the Medishield Life must be taken out from the equation. And to ensure that this will be the case, all the excess revenue from premiums should be ploughed back to lower the premiums of the insured in the scheme.
This is a govt initiated compulsory national scheme and must be managed with morality and social responsibility as the key principles, not profit. No one should be allowed to covet the revenue churned out by this Medishield Life Scheme and to lay their hands on the surpluses for whatever devious schemes they have in mind in the future. Any surpluses must go back to the people in the Scheme.
In a small way this could ease the buffet syndrome and cut down on excessive consumption of medical services if the insured know that by not over consuming they could end up paying less, paying just enough.
And it should remove totally the desire by anyone to think there is money there for harvest. Oh, there are so much money in the Scheme, let’s make it more affordable, or the money can be put to better use. Take your hands off the money!
Don’t touch the money in this compulsory Scheme. It is the people’s money, forced to pay ‘for their own good’ and it must stay that way. If the govt is serious in its intent ‘for the good of the people’, keep this out of private insurers or any insurers. This must be a non profit making govt scheme, with govt regulated terms and conditions and coverage for all with no exceptions and exclusion clauses.
Not that I have agree to a compulsory scheme, but it is not going to be otherwise, so everyone must make the govt know that the surpluses in the Scheme must be retained in the Scheme for the benefits of the people in the Scheme.
Kopi Level - Green
Jin Soh Lee apologises to Desmond Quek
Singaporean commuters are feeling so guilty for causing the frequent
breakdowns of MRT trains that a Jin Soh Lee felt obliged to say sorry to
SMRT CEO Desmond Quek for making him work so hard to solve the
breakdown problems. Another Singaporean, Boh How Seow suggested that
Sinkies should stagger their time to board the trains to prevent
overloading so that the trains will feel lighter and no need to crawl at
a snail pace. He will be going on a diet to reduce his weight to have
ease the load on the trains.
And another Singaporean, Jin Kay Khian, suggested that more electronic boards be installed at MRT stations to inform the commuters on the capacity of arriving trains and how many spaces are available, like signs for carparks. He credited this suggestion to an MRT station that have installed ‘traffic lights’ to regulate the flow of commuters. With such advance information, the commuters can decide which train to take or not to take. It will help to ease the load on the trains too.
I think MRT should follow other organizations to call for feedbacks from the public on how to improve its services, on how to maintain the trains so that there will be no more break downs. Conducting a COI will be good as there are many experts among the commuters to offer specialist advice for free. The aunties and uncles and Boh Tak Cheh will have a lot of clever ideas to offer.
What do you think?
And another Singaporean, Jin Kay Khian, suggested that more electronic boards be installed at MRT stations to inform the commuters on the capacity of arriving trains and how many spaces are available, like signs for carparks. He credited this suggestion to an MRT station that have installed ‘traffic lights’ to regulate the flow of commuters. With such advance information, the commuters can decide which train to take or not to take. It will help to ease the load on the trains too.
I think MRT should follow other organizations to call for feedbacks from the public on how to improve its services, on how to maintain the trains so that there will be no more break downs. Conducting a COI will be good as there are many experts among the commuters to offer specialist advice for free. The aunties and uncles and Boh Tak Cheh will have a lot of clever ideas to offer.
What do you think?
Usman Harun – What was the drumming all about?
Out of the blue Singapore was caught in a verbal spat with Indonesia
over the naming of a frigate after two terrorists that exploded a bomb
in the heart of the city in the 1963. Were there any signs that
something is brewing that the public do not know? Was the cancelling of
the contract to buy natural gas a precursor to this spat? There was also
an announcement by Indonesia not selling granite to us after the gas
contract was terminated. Subsequent to the blow up of the frigate naming
it was reported that the Indonesians were planning to erect statues in
honour of the two terrorists they regarded as heroes in Batam, literally
right at our door step. What else did the public were not privy to that
drew the ministers to make their firm objections to the frigate naming?
Did they know something more sinister than the public?
The sequence of events with publicity in the media, in the TV networks, revealed that a lot of work and resources had been involved in putting up the media reports and TV programmes on the issue. To the public it seemed to come out of the blue but to the govt it was a coordinated event to make a very strong point to the Indonesians with the risk of heightening tension between the two states. And if not managed carefully, if both sides were less restrained, we would have a crisis at hand.
Fortunately the event has now quiet down and relations are at even heel, I hope, after the ‘storm in the tea cup’. This prompted some to comment that it was an exercise to drum up the spirit of nationalism among the Sinkies that has ebbed. The people seem to be taking the relative peace and security for granted and a dose of nationalism with an external factor could be good for the soul of the nation.
Assuming that this is a possible reason, it makes sense for the leaders to come out one by one to talk tough and for the media to keep splashing spreads of articles on the subject daily. There was a hype to arouse the sense of belonging, a national identity and a need to stand up for the country.
If this is the objective of the exercise, the response from the people was muted. Not many took heed of the call to rise to the occasion. There was an absence of a public outcry to support the leaders’ call. There was not much anger or excitement towards a possible external aggressive intent. It was a non event.
Why didn’t the people answer the call of the leaders to speak as one voice against an external event? Is it another case of complacency, that the people did not see anything unto it, that the naming of the frigate was uncalled for but so what? Or was it that the leaders were not forceful enough to rally the people behind them? If the intent was to gel the people as one with the leaders, it did not happen. The people were not aroused, or was it a case of the leaders not inspiring the people to rise to the occasion, to take the cue and follow them? Was it a test of leadership? Or was it a gauge on how apathetic the daft Sinkies are?
There was no spontaneous outcry like what happened to Anton Casey. It was just like a rehash of a past event, a lesson in history. Period. The people did not feel the spurs on their hide to feel anything.
What do you think?
The sequence of events with publicity in the media, in the TV networks, revealed that a lot of work and resources had been involved in putting up the media reports and TV programmes on the issue. To the public it seemed to come out of the blue but to the govt it was a coordinated event to make a very strong point to the Indonesians with the risk of heightening tension between the two states. And if not managed carefully, if both sides were less restrained, we would have a crisis at hand.
Fortunately the event has now quiet down and relations are at even heel, I hope, after the ‘storm in the tea cup’. This prompted some to comment that it was an exercise to drum up the spirit of nationalism among the Sinkies that has ebbed. The people seem to be taking the relative peace and security for granted and a dose of nationalism with an external factor could be good for the soul of the nation.
Assuming that this is a possible reason, it makes sense for the leaders to come out one by one to talk tough and for the media to keep splashing spreads of articles on the subject daily. There was a hype to arouse the sense of belonging, a national identity and a need to stand up for the country.
If this is the objective of the exercise, the response from the people was muted. Not many took heed of the call to rise to the occasion. There was an absence of a public outcry to support the leaders’ call. There was not much anger or excitement towards a possible external aggressive intent. It was a non event.
Why didn’t the people answer the call of the leaders to speak as one voice against an external event? Is it another case of complacency, that the people did not see anything unto it, that the naming of the frigate was uncalled for but so what? Or was it that the leaders were not forceful enough to rally the people behind them? If the intent was to gel the people as one with the leaders, it did not happen. The people were not aroused, or was it a case of the leaders not inspiring the people to rise to the occasion, to take the cue and follow them? Was it a test of leadership? Or was it a gauge on how apathetic the daft Sinkies are?
There was no spontaneous outcry like what happened to Anton Casey. It was just like a rehash of a past event, a lesson in history. Period. The people did not feel the spurs on their hide to feel anything.
What do you think?
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