PM's speech confirms govt's disconnect with population

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

PM Lee’s National Day message confirms the PAP is out of touch with our issues and prefers more wayangs and tweaks as ‘solutions’.

PM Lee: “We are working together to improve our lives, build a better home, and hand to our children a better Singapore than what we inherited”.
At the current rate of immigration, more locals will lose their jobs to foreigners and end up as taxi drivers and security guards despite having years of relevant experience. Will their lives be improved? Does PM Lee consider unaffordable public housing and healthcare as well as congested roads and regular train breakdowns a “better Singapore”? How is it better for our children when tertiary education is provided free for thousands of foreigners when an equal number of Singaporeans are forced to study overseas and pay for their own expenses?

PM Lee: “The Pioneer Generation Package is our way of saying ‘thank you’.
The PGP is all about “scoring political points without resolving real issues”. In every other country, the government doesn’t need to publicise its basic responsibility to elderly citizens. But in our unique little red dot, our mainstream media regularly remind the public of the belated care showered on elderly citizens by the PAP. The PGP is merely a wayang.

PM Lee: “We are improving our social safety nets, most recently with MediShield Life”.
The PAP is actually improving its profit making nets because each time citizens are being helped, more money comes out from our own pockets. The opaque Medishield Life has been pre calculated for citizens to cross subsidise other citizens’ healthcare needs. Like the revenue generating COE, ERP, HDB, etc, Medishield Life is PAP’s latest pot of gold.

The responsibility of the state then becomes a burden to citizens.

Medishield Life is a national healthcare insurance plan with much higher insurance premiums. It is one of the ways of tapping into our Medisave accounts before we are six feet under. The insurance premiums are recycled within the government.

Medishield premiums have been steadily increasing at a faster rate every year. (table below) In 2013, premiums surged to almost $400 million while claims rose by only $129 million.

PM Lee: “For most of you, your HDB flat and CPF savings are key ways to fund your retirement….. to grow a valuable nest egg for old age….an asset which appreciates as Singapore prospers…more convenient for retirees to get cash out of your flats”.
There are dangerous and flawed assumptions. It is conditional upon Singapore’s prosperity which is an unknown. Our HDB flats, which we don’t even own them, will depreciate as they age and has ZERO value at the end of their 99-year lease.

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