Workers Party MPs’ appeal for fund – A mini referendum

‘Low Thia Khiang, Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh revealed in their blog, entitled In Good Faith, that they have raised SGD $477,653, as of 10pm yesterday evening – just over 24 hours since the trio appealed to the public for help to fight the multi-million dollar lawsuits they are facing in court
On Wednesday, the opposition party leaders revealed in their blog that they have “depleted our personal resources,” having already paid $600,000 from their own pockets to their legal team as the trial progresses.’ Posted in theindependent

The 3 senior WP MPs are facing charges in court for dunno what and facing bankruptcy to the tune of $30m. The legal fees so far came to $600,000, paid out of their pockets and from friends, not from party fund. Defending one's honour in court is no cheap stuff and one who cannot pay would likely have to accept defeat and a guilty condemnation even before going to court, or unable to proceed for short of fund.
 
The WP MPs have made a public appeal and the money came fast and furious, nearing half a million within 24 hours. The latest count after two days is more than $900,000 from more than 5,200 donors and counting. What does this mean?
 
The charges, based on the amount they were accused of mishandling or mismanagement or dishonesty is a staggering $30m. For those who willingly donated to the appeal is as good as saying that they believe that they were doing it in good faith, the WP's defence in court, or else they would not be forking out the money if otherwise. For those who could not afford to support the 3 MPs financially, they have good words to share and to keep their spirits high.
 
From the political perspective, this is like a mini referendum for the people of Hougang and Aljunied to cast their vote of confidence for their MPs. Two days have passed and more than 5000 have voted with their pockets. The two constituencies have more than 100,000 voters. If the 51% that voted for the WP were to contribute $10 each, 3 plates of char kway teow, that would bring in another $510,000 to the fund. But it is not so much the money that counts. It is the people showing their faith and confidence in their MPs, an affirmation of their trust and support for them.
 
How much would the WP be able to raise and how many people would donate is still too early to tell. The picture would be clearer in a week or two.

PS. Please do not make comments about the proceedings in court. 

Those who wish to contribute to the WP MPs to aid with legal costs, may do so using the following channels:

PayNow to +65 9852 5901 (Sylvia Lim’s public line)
Internet fund transfer to UOB account no. 396 309 388 6
Cheque made payable to any one of the three WP MPs: Lim Swee Lian Sylvia, Low Thia Khiang, or Pritam Singh
Alternatively, contributors may reach them through post at “My Mail Box 882560 Singapore 919191,” or arrange to meet them in person by contacting them at ingoodfaithsg@gmail.com.

The third round of CECA improvement talks went by in darkness

There were some reports in the media of the third round of talks to improve the terms of the CECA for greater cooperation and ‘mutual benefits’ or win win for both India and Singapore. How did it go and what were the great changes made to benefit Singaporeans were still not spoken or reveal in the media. Hope this is not going to be another state secret that Singaporeans need not know, it is good for Singaporeans and that’s matter.
 
What were the pretentious thinkers or pseudo thinkers thinking and decided to do in such a massive agreement between a giant and a dwarf, a third world country and a first world country, a country with 1.3b people and a rock with 5m people? The inequalities and incompatibilities between the two countries are so enormous and stark that anything thought equal and fair, equitable, would not be fair.
 
It is so easy to say we open up to India and Indians coming here and India likewise opens up for Singapore and Singaporeans to go to India look superficiality so equal and fair. Is it? Can Singapore afford to open up to allow 1,300,000,000 Indians to come here so that 5,000,000 Singaporeans can go to India? Can the pretentious unthinking thinkers say an open door policy between the two incompatible countries is fair and equitable?
 
How many Singaporeans would want to go to India to be paid in rupees compare to how many Indians would like to come to Singapore to be paid in Sing dollars? How many Singaporeans would like to live happily thereafter in India after having lived in HDB flats with basic necessities like clean water and flushed toilets within the flat as against shitting in the bushes or on the road sides and with no potable waters?
How many companies from India would be coming here and how many Singapore companies would be going to India? Is 1:1 fair, 1:100 fair, 1:1,000 or 1:1m fair and acceptable?
 
What about the hundreds of thousands of Indian universities and colleges and their millions of graduates coming here versus the less than 50 universities and colleges, actually less than 20 and their graduates flooding the job markets of both countries? Fair, good, insane or madness?
 
A 1 percent Indian labour/worker/professionals landing in Singapore is 13m versus a 1 percent Singaporeans or 35,000 Singaporeans, if the Singaporeans really think they could earn a decent living and given decent jobs that made the move palatable or good, make any sense?
 
Can Singapore absorb the 13m Indians coming into the island without upsetting the social fabric and sensitive racial balance in the island? Would Singapore become another third world country instead if this is to happen? What about the quality of our life, our public services, professional services, our infrastructure, our lifestyle, would they be better or worse?
 
How good is the CECA for Singapore? It is definitely good to India without question. Would the upgraded CECA lift Singapore to the next level of economic development and improve the quality of life of Singaporeans or sink Singapore into a third world sink hole?
 
What were agreed in the third CECA that benefit or hurt Singaporean’s interest? Do Singaporeans have a right to know?
 
For sure, the visible impact of this silly and indiscriminate open door policy are as follows: Our employment/job market is now controlled and manipulated by foreigners to the detriment of Singaporean job seekers. The IT industry is dominated and controlled by foreigners. The banking and finance industry likewise is controlled and dominated by foreigners. To a great extent the academia and research agencies and mouth pieces of many such agencies are dominated by foreigners.
 
Where have all the Singaporeans gone? What have happened to them?

Johore royalty - A people’s sultan

In todayonline it was reported that the Johore Crown Prince Tunku Ismail Ibrahim announced that the royal family would be building really affordable housing for the rakyat. This one the pricing is really affordable, not those you know smell like a rat type. A three-bedroom, two-bathroom landed house would be priced below RM200,000 (S$66,270) and as low as RM70,000. The royal family is replying to the cries by the rakyat that property prices are skyrocketing and becoming unaffordable. If you still wonder what is a caring and people’s sultan of govt, look no further. This is it, no trickery, no fake news, no ‘blufferlogy’. This is how sincere the royal family is about caring for its people, no lip service like understanding their plight. They just do it, with their own money, NOT OPM.
 
‘ “The project will be under the auspices of the Sultan Ibrahim Foundation — an effort by the Johor Royal Family to ease the burden of the people,” the Johor crown prince said in a statement on his official Facebook page.
 
He said the housing project is non-profit and will include amenities like a multi-purpose hall, a park, shops and a motel that will also be built and funded by himself and his father, the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar.’ Today Paper
 
The Johore royal family would be donating 60.7 hectares of their own land to build 1,000 houses in every district across the state. How about that? Can anyone beat that? No bullshit! This kind of leadership would command the respect of the rakyat without saying further. And the cheap housing would be offered to all races with allocation also for the non bumi minorities.
 
Next time you hear any politician talking about caring for the people, use this as a yardstick to measure his sincerity to help the people, to care for the people.
 
PS. Do not believe in anyone saying he is going to help you and then take/use your money ‘to help you’.

Traitors Must Face Demnation One Day

It was during the Japanese occupation. A traitor by the name of Lau Kiam , a Japanese spy was always secretly giving detrimental information to the Japanese on his fellow countrymen. He frequently praised the Japanese and behaved arrogantly towards his own countrymen. He put many of his countrymen to grave dangers. Many suffered badly from torture by the Japanese and quite a huge number died a terrible death because of Lau Kiam's treachery.

However, after the Japanese surrender Lau Kiam disguised himself and went into hiding to escape retribution. The people lost no time in hunting him down and brought him to justice. Eventually he was caught and brought to face his fellow villagers. He was charged with treason and summarily killed by hanging after many days of rigid interrogation. All this happened before the British returned to reoccupy Malaya as its colony. It happened in the town of Muar in Johore.

Now we have in Singapore and ASEAN similar type of traitors trying not only to betray Singapore but all of ASEAN. They write damaging articles against an ASEAN neighbour and servilely plead to the Evil Empire to constrain and contain this neighbouring country which posts no danger to Singapore and ASEAN. They want America to maintain its military bases in Singapore and the Far East. One of them  a dishonourable journalist in a Singapore mass media openly and arrogantly tell the savage Americans not to stop patrolling its navies in the South China Sea and the East China Sea so as to balance and constrain the rise and peaceful development of this Asian country.

This treacherous traitor happen to be a disgraceful and dishonourable descendant of a Chinese. He and his fellow traitors want America to set ASEAN and its big neighbour aflame in a senseless fight and killing in an unnecessary war that will only benefit no one else but the evil Americans.

He and many of the American lackeys and running dogs who work as strategic research writers as well as lecturers in many of Singapore institutes of higher studies in the universities and in the institutes of international political and strategic studies post grave danger to Singapore and ASEAN countries. They crave for America to interfere in Asian affairs as if they do not know that imperial America is a rogue country that has been creating savage brutal wars of conquests for the last two hundred and thirty-two years leaving trails of destruction and deaths and ending in American annexation of many lands and countries like the many native American Indian states, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and many others.

These shameless treacherous traitors to Asians must definitely be recruited by CIA on its payrole as American agents to subvert  and destabilise Asia to facilitate the Evil Empire's wars of hegemony over all Asia . If they persist in their treason and evil doings they must eventually and similarly  meet with the fate of  Lau Kiam.

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Wednesday, 24th October, 2018

CPF - Another Singapore miracle

'When netizen Rahayu Bte Mazlan went to the Central Provident Fund (CPF) board to collect her late mother’s CPF money, she found that it did not receive any interest, even though her mother had passed away 31 years ago. According to her, it took them 31 years to review her mother’s account, and therefore after the review, the money did not accrue any interest.

Rahayu’s post was shared on Facebook page All Singapore Stuff. In her post, she shared a letter from the CPF Board and wrote, “My mum passed away in 1987. She nominated me as her beneficiary. Last wed, I received a letter from CPF that there is money in her CPF after CPF review”.
However, after going to CPF Board, Rahayu was advised differently. She wrote, “I went to CPF yesterday. I said that since they had kept my late mum’s money, they should pay interest. They say that that her case was after review so no interest. What I don’t understand is that why after 31 yrs then they review? What is going on with our CPF?”'

I read the above posted in social media. Can't remember which blog posted it. Apologies. Below are quotes from the ST.

'Thirty-one years after Rahayu Mazlan received payouts from the Central Provident Fund (CPF) following the death of her mother, the outstanding balance - under $2 - finally found its way to her.
The 51-year-old housewife had received a letter dated Oct 4 from the CPF Board stating that as part of its "regular reviews", it had found some leftover savings in her late mother's account since the last withdrawal in 1987.
CPF has asked her to submit a completed form and necessary documents by Nov 5 to claim it.

In response to The Sunday Times' queries, a CPF Board spokesman yesterday said that all of the deceased's CPF monies were disbursed within two months in 1987 - except for a "small residual amount" which had been retained for a specific housing-related transaction. "This amount continued to attract interest until it was deducted several months later for the transaction. The interest accrued - which amounted to less than $2 - remained unclaimed," the spokesman added.'

The facts, some money was left in Rahayu's mother's CPF account to settle a specific housing related transaction. This amount continued to receive interest which the ST article quoting CPF, for up to 7 years only. Reading from the above ST quote, the interest accrued was less than $2. Take it as that for 7 years. Not sure if this is correct. So Rahayu is claiming the interest for the subsequent 24 years, ie 31-7=24. I think, just my opinion, if CPF members are charged interest from borrowing their own savings to pay for properties and the number of years to pay for this interest, regardless of whether the person is 100 years old or 200 years old, there is no limit as to how many years a person has to pay interest on borrowing his CPF savings, then why when money kept in CPF would not enjoy interest after 7 years? Is there a discrepancy and is this fair?

Many people would say nevermind, so little money, a few dollars only. But to some it is a matter of principle. You deserve to be paid, then you should be paid, the amount is immaterial.

Why I said this is a miracle? In many countries, whatever is left in a savings account like this case would likely be forgotten or lost in the files. Only in super efficient and clean Singapore would the CPF ask a person to make a claim for $2. The MRT fare to CPF would cost more than that. Again it is not only a matter of principle but a matter of right. The money belong to Rahayu and she should make a claim for it. So she is also claiming for the extra years interest not paid.

A $2 claim after 31 years is a record and a miracle. How many people lost all their savings in their bank accounts because they forgot the $200 in their savings, thought very safe in the banks but all kena eaten up by the $2 monthly fee the banks charged them for having too little money in the account?  Got money in the bank account ended no money left and account closed by the banks. This is like cheating the small people on the street.

Here we have the CPF asking a person to claim for $2 after 31 years, no extra charges, no monthly fee for having too little money in the CPF. Now was that lucky? The CPF does not cheat small people of small money.