We achieved

[Roh96]

Swiss standard of living? I don't know. But I know we have reached Swiss cost of living.

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Swiss standard of living? I don't know. But I know we have reached Swiss cost of living.

 

Every Swiss eat cheese....

 

Me don't like cheese ......

 

Once a while might eat cheese-pye ... oops ..

[Porker]

Achieved Swiss "double standards" of living

 

Swiss can vote down executive salary while we can only accept increase in executive salary Jesus

[Benarsenal]

There are a lot of questions I like to ask Old Man (LKY), but this looks unlikely, so maybe current ministars can answer instead.

 

Jobs

1) What kind of jobs do they envision Singaporeans getting, in future?

2) If, presumably, the answer is 'good jobs', then define 'good jobs'

3) If 'good jobs' means those corporate nonsense (banking/financial/sales etc) you see in Shenton Way, then the question that follows is, who will thus do all the other jobs (retail, service etc)?

4) If answer to Q2 is 'all jobs are good jobs', then how do you reconcile to Singaporeans that retail/service sector is worth going into? This sector is currently extremely short-staffed due to reputation for low pay and poor conditions, together with crackdown on foreign workers by limiting employment passes, so the gaps cannot be easily filled by foreigners. What is the Government doing about this? Are they gonna let this sector collapse because they cannot hire people? It looks to be heading that way.

 

Housing

1) What is the functional purpose of public housing? To provide every Singaporean with a house, or as a growth asset for you to monetise? If you think about it, both contradict each other in the long term. No other country offers public housing with which a citizen can make money off.

2) If it's the former, then why is the average HDB flat priced out of reach from the average Singaporean (200k is a lot of money you know), to the point that they must clear their hard-earned CPF (meant for retirement) to purchase one?

3) Also, the Government doesn't seem very encouraging about HDB resale market (perhaps a problem of emphasising on the asset portion of HDB). Let's face it, eventually we will run out of land to build new HDBs, so after that how? Why cannot buy cheap resale?

4) This is more towards education and society, but slightly related to housing also. What kind of family nucleus does Government want the average Singaporean to be? Couple with kids? Couple with kids with grandparents? Currently there's no clear policy on which is preferred or desired, which makes things very difficult for people to plan. If they want multi-generational families then policies should be made to reflect that (allowance for extra season parking, bigger discount on utilities). If they want the former, then same thing (allow singles to buy flats before getting hitched, allow couples to buy resale cheaply to have a ready flat to move out into). Now everything is half-hearted and unclear.

 

Transport

1) Yes, Singapore is small and not everyone can drive, so what is the long-term policy regarding cars? Simply price it out so that only rich can drive? Or make it equitable so that only those that really need it gets a car? Currently all it says is "we allow X number of cars on the road, richest get to buy and drive".

2) So thus, it again rears the question, what do we want to curb: ownership or usage? Current policies have ping-ponged back and forth between the two.

 

 

That's all for now.