Town Council took unemployed man to court for S&C arrears
September 30th, 2009 | 
Author: From our Correspondent
Jalan Besar Town Council had took an unemployed man to court for arrears S&C arrears of $432!
In a letter written to the Straits Times Forum, Mr Lim Beo Thiam, a 52 year old who has been unemployed for 18 months and lost part of a leg through diabetes relates his unhappy experience with his Town Council. (read letter here)
He claimed that this is the first time he did not pay the S&C charges due to financial difficulties and he was taken to court by Jalan Besar Town Council.
His new debts now ballooned to more than $1,000 which included court penalties and late payment charges.
“When I tried to settle subsequent S&C charges to avoid a fresh spiral of hefty penalties for non-payment, I was rejected. The town council ruled that I had to settle the old debt before I could pay the new charges. Naturally, this led to more penalties as my fresh S&C arrears spiked. So, I am now some $3,000 in debt to my town council,” he added.
Mr Lim wrote that he has appealed to his Member of Parliament for help many times but the final reply invariably remained unchanged: pay up.
He lampooned the Town Councils for hoarding extra revenue collected instead of helping needy residents like himself:
“Town councils shouldn’t be surprised if residents like myself, who face tough times, wonder why we aren’t being helped via the excess revenue collected; revenue which is instead ploughed into loss-making investments. Shouldn’t any excess revenue be refunded to residents via rebates? If town councils are keen to invest, set up a fund offering soft loans to residents to tide them over tough times and pay service and conservancy charges.”
His letter attracted a fresh barrage of criticisms at the government with many netizens expressing their support and sympathy for him.
Wrote between777:
“seems the govt is pushing the buck and trying to get town councils to make more money as it focuses even on getting town councils to recover arrears – which in these times, there are a fair number who cant barely afford to pay – but yet this is on the agenda – whereas Investments by town councils are NOT graded – and this is especially impt bec the town councils LOST some nearly $20 million in the lehman fiasco! And the govt can spent $100 million just to host a 3-day APEC Summit! which is more to a ego trip – as in all honesty such APEC or even ASEAN have all along been making alot of talk but never walk their talk – and in fact even within ASEAN there are many issues yet to be even worked on and the many barriers to free trade within the group.”
Added anlibeth2000:
“Having a report card to monitor the town council’s performance is a good ideal but collecting of the outstanding arrears is otherwise. Whoever owes the town council are likely to be the poor of the poor. Fancy writing off 16 millions in lost of investment and here they are squeezing your poor citizen till the last drop of blood. Not only that , if for any reason you happen to owe them they will impose penalties, late payment charges, court charges, so that they are quite similar to the loan shark charges.
12 months outstanding of $36 x 12 = $432. Penalties $561 plus $50 legal fees. Total to claim $1043. If these don’t work they will get a court action to seize your household items until you have nowhere to run. Yes I had personally experienced it. Forget about seeking your MP’s help because they are of the same office. (N/B The MP take charges of the town council) After auctioning your item that will not be enough they will start the proceduring all over again. One would have been better off if they borrowed from a loan shark to pay them off. However the SPF had cleared a lot from their business and seeking a loan shark is not easy nowaday.”
iamgoondu wants the Town Councils to accout for the fees collected and sent:
This situation becomes even more unthinkable when the People realize the huge reserves that the town councils have amassed, enough to write off large investment losses. It means that the town councils have collected too much S&C fees. Where is the promise by the MND to address accountability in the aftermath of the investment fiasco now? The People are not so forgetful.
I challenge the town councils to provide more complete statistics on this matter. Maybe then, the PAP government shall be less quick to proclaim the job credit scheme a success when it is obviously NOT and faces squarely the root issue, i.e. the structural unemployment problem which has escalated over the years.”
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As more Singaporeans lose their jobs to foreigners, this incident will be a common thing in the future. Time for CHANGE is now. If Japan and Malaysia can change, I don’t see why Singaporeans can’t vote for CHANGE.
“Singaporeans can’t vote for CHANGE”
Sorri whoever out there – Singaporeans don’t change to be India, Blanga, Pakistant, Cambodia or wat you have in mind.
We no stupid, lah.
Ah, performance at the expense of Citizens, how nice, typical Sinkapore.
my dad kena the same thing too, he was jobless and couldnt pay. end up go to court. are the TOWN council that so hard up for money? they should look at it on a case by case basis.
what i wish to see from the Town Councils is how wisely they spent our money and not how well they collect conservancy fees . They should provide monthly or yearly itemised items spent or invested . i am very sure this will give residents a means to judge how well fees collected by their Town Councils are prudently manage.
to admin:
Pls check. something wrong with your website address.
http://temasekreview.com leads to a old page
i had to do a google search to come to this pg.
anyway http://www.temasekreview.com doesn’t work either
Hi cy,
Thanks for your feedback. We just move to a new server and the DNS is probably still propagating.
Please email us at temasekreview@gmail.com if you encountered any more problems.
Erm……why am I being led to this Blog archive?
And Town Council these days must enjoy slapping themselves. They must’ve figured there’d be unhappy people everywhere, so they must entertain themselves by making the less fortunate more unfortunate. Must be fun for the MPs since they either ‘Don’t care’ or are busy with ‘Super Mortal’ duties.
Whoa, everything just changed back suddenly. That was interesting.
Talk about casting stones into the well after one has fallen into it…
However, I am quite sure they will twist it into “helping” the fallen one i.e. the stones/rocks cast will raise the water level to allow the guy to float to the top…
Sorry if any of the stones/rocks hit the poor fallen guy – collateral damage happens – let’s move on
But seriously, where is the heartware? Everything has become like a transaction and everyone is just another statistic
THEY THROW 10million BUCKS ON PARTY TO WELCOME NEW CITIZENS.
BUT BRING UNEMPLOYED NATIVES SINGAPOREAN PERSON [DUE TO A DISABILITY] TO COURT JUST COS OF A FEW HUNDRED BUCKS SnC ERRORS.
UNIQUELY FIRST CLASS COUNTRY, SINGAPORE
MPs NO COMPASSION NOWADAYS.
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http://happyangelclub.wordpress.com/
Are the SW CDC/Boon Lay MP & grassroots perform their duties for their needy citizens?
On September 08, 2009 , I wrote an email (subject:
A handicap case for your attention) to Boon Lay MP Ms Ho Gek Choo.
No any response from her.
On September 13, 2009 :
Subject: urgent! -mail from Jane-Fw: A handicap case for your attention
Dear MP Ms Ho Gek Choo,
Sorry, this is Jane again.
As I have not received your reply of the below email. Thus I resend it to you again.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks and Regards
Jane Lim
On September 22, 2009 I wrote email to SWCDC Manager (Social Assistance).
No any response yet.
====================================================
Dear All,
Below are the link of the videos of the above said family :
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3F2618277EC5651&page=6
Happy Angel – Needy Need Help – Mr Ang KH (1) 21-09-2009
Happy Angel – Needy Need Help – Mr Ang KH (2) 21-09-2009
Happy Angel – Needy Need Help – Mr Ang KH (3) 21-09-2009
Happy Angel – Needy Need Help – Mr Ang KH (4) 21-09-2009
Happy Angel – Needy Need Help – Mr Ang KH (5) 21-09-2009
Well, this is your caring compassionate society that you voted for.
In life, you get what you vote for. So think twice next time!
good lah, at this rate, they will kick themselves out in no time.
One must not blame the Town Councils for going after peanuts. Afterall, Sinkaporeans voted for Monkeys and it is normal for them to go after Peanuts, agree not?
Hey guys
Here’s another heartbreaking personal story i came across on a ST blog comments board:
http://blogs.straitstimes.com/2009/9/22/what-does-boomz-really-mean
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My name is Salim. I am a electrician in my early forties, married with three school-going children. I tied the knot with my beloved Fariah at the age of 27. My wife used to work as a clerk in a statutory board but is now my minister for domestic affairs.
We live in a four-room flat which we bought some years ago in the south part of Singapore. I am servicing my flat installments through my CPF.
Two of our older children are in secondary school while the youngest is in primary four. I travel to my work place by motor bike to escape the hassle of travelling by feeder bus and the MRT.
I am often told, not too subtly by government and union leaders, that I should consider myself fortunate because I am still gainfully employed. Although my monthly income is about $2,000 my take home amount is less than $1,700.
Besides putting food on the table I also have to take care of other expenses, which include my children’s school expenses, utilities, transportation, etc. Occasionally we have to cope with the unexpected such as when the children fall sick.
At the end of each month we can barely make ends meet.
Life in Singapore is becoming more and more expensive. It is really tough to raise a family. My wife and I also make it a point to keep in touch with our elderly parents and chip in whatever we can to make their retirement less painful. We pray very hard that we never have to be hospitalized because we cannot afford the expenses.
I am nonetheless supposed to be “fortunate”. The frightening thing is that there are other ordinary workers who earn even less but have financial obligations no less daunting than mine.
But are we not supposed to be living in the First World and enjoying the Swiss standard of living? Every now and then we are told that Singapore is number one in something or other. Our port is the world’s busiest, SIA is the number one airline, our so-called sovereign fund is among the biggest in the world etc, etc.
I used to feel proud of these achievements. But over the last couple of years I have begun to have second thoughts.
I ask myself what have these achievements got to do with me?
The fact that Changi is number one really has nothing to do with me. The fact that our reserves amount to a few hundred billions has done nothing for the average Singaporean like me. We are still ourselves and still toiling away day in and day out for an income that is not commensurate with the amount of work we put in.
On the other hand, our ministers are the most highly paid in the world as their salaries are pegged to the country’s top earners.
Worse, we now have to compete with foreign workers who threaten our livelihood. We also have the largest number of foreign immigrants percentage wise. No ordinary worker – at least the people I know – feels secure with his or her job. Any talk of increased wages will inevitably be countered by the threat of being retrenched.
The temptation for employers to hire cheaper foreign labour is too attractive to resist. There is absolutely no job security for us.
Should we lose our jobs we are expected to downgrade. This is what I don’t understand, we are supposed to be No. 1 in this and that but we constantly face the propsect of having to downgrade.
Worse many have to resort to begging and queueing for free food. This is our country. We have served our country in many ways. Our parents too have done their share in making Singapore what it is today. Surely we deserve better. But alas this is the real situation that exists in Singapore today.
A Government leader tried to make us believe that I as a Malay enjoy special privileges under the constitution. In fact we Malays have not received any special treatment. We identify ourselves with Singaporeans of other races and share the same hardship as all other citizens.
Unfortunately, our loyalty to Singapore has always been questioned to the extent that we have been deprived of many opportunities to serve our nation. But despite this we will join our fellow Singaporeans and put our shoulders to the wheel to build a better nation for all.
We see little hope for a better life in Singapore unless there is a drastic change in the way this country is being run. What good can our country’s multi-billion reserves do for ordinary people like us? We are beginning to feel that the Singapore of today is only meant for the rich and powerful – many of whom are not Singaporeans.Ordinary Singaporeans like myself exist only to serve their interests.
We truly long for change.
Ordinary Singaporeans deserve to be treated better in our own country.
People owe $432 to TC were dragged to court and fined heavily. TC lost millions of people monies and still want us to feel grateful. Is this the kind of PAP we want to vote? I leave everyone to think about it. Power are the people, power does not belong to PAP and kangaroo court.
The real debate should be this:
Is it fair for the residents who pay on time and promptly to subsidise people who could not afford to or claims that they could not afford it? Think about it before answering.
Haha @ Wed, 30th Sep 2009 11:55 am
“Sorri whoever out there – Singaporeans don’t change to be India, Blanga, Pakistant, Cambodia or wat you have in mind.”
Sorri small minded laughing gasbag, we change to become Japan and USA. CHANGE WE CAN!
hello on Wed, 30th Sep 2009 9:00 pm
I can attest that $1700.00 is not enough for a family of 5 with 3 school-going children. It is almost subsistence level with no additional amounts for luxuries like travels, cinemas, tuition etc. This family has to watch every single cent spent and although considered having a reasonable income, which is average for most Singaporeans, neans foregoing many simple luxuries. Life really sucks when 10 years ago, one can still have something extra to spend like a day’s outing at the zoo or Sentosa, but for this family and most Singapore families today this is out of the question. There is no doubt that take-home pay has been outstripped by the high cost of living. Either the wife has to work or the family has to find other ways to get additional income. I wish life can be more generous for all Singaporeans after independence but all the hype about Singapore’s successes are not translated into giving average Singaporeans a good life.
amteel,
Do you really think you are subsidising those who can’t afford
to pay? Is the percentage of the people who can’t afford to pay so much higher than those who can?
And don’t you think on average we are actually paying too high the S & C charges that the TC can afford to acumulate more that S$1 bil (or is it S$2 bil) in reserves , and can afford
to write off those millions in lost investments like nobody’s
business ?
Frankly I wouldn’t mine if part of my payment goes to help those are truly hardship cases. We humans call it empathy and
compassion.
And govt spending S$90 mil on F1 and S$100 mil on APEC meeting is to feed our poor and not to boost its own ego?
Many times I wonder what do we elect govt this for?
Can you also think before answering?
amteel -
I would rather err on the side of being too generous to my follow Singaporeans, than to let the geniunely poor suffer.
We can call this a gracious society.
“The real debate should be this:
Is it fair for the residents who pay on time and promptly to subsidise people who could not afford to or claims that they could not afford it? Think about it before answering.”
man, why’s wrong with subsidizing people who genuinely can’t afford to pay for s&c?????????
i’ll gladly pay for them rather than to pay for the (french cooking) fat cats in the civil service.
PAP doesn’t care about the people.
As a Singaporean that pays the S&C charges, I do not mind paying for those that are in serious need of help.
Given the choice between feeding money to the fat cat minister so that he can take his entire family to france for a cooking lesson and have his colleague call me a lesser mortal and between helping a family of 4 tide over this nonsense, I believe the choice is obvious enough.
Correction hor. I DID NOT vote for this current government hor!
Since I came of age to vote, I never got the chance to due to the constant withdrawing of GRC line hor!
The place I stay has been in different GRC with each election. I wonder what GRC it is going to be in this year.
From the looks of it, I do not foresee myself voting again even if the elections were to come early.
So don’t keep putting a blanket assumption that we voted for the current government. I for one didn’t get the chance to VOTE!
To Odie,
What is the use S’pore is number one in many fields, and we the people suffer due to high cost of living.We don’t want the govt to give us freebies ( if there is any ), but we want the govt to lower down the cost ! This is the least thing we can demand as a citizen.
CHEAPER FOR TOWN COUNCIL TO WAIVE THE FEW 100 BUCKS, THEN TO PAY THOUSANDS OF BUCKS FOR LEGAL FEES TO SUE.
Nowadays they sucking up to new foreign immigrant citizens n ignboring the less wel-off native Singaporeans
Unemployed, due to disability n town concil bring him to court for not able to pay SnC.
WAKE UP, MAN, THAT MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
NO COMPASSION AT ALL.
bruders,
I think most of us will have no issue if some of that reserves is used to help those who truly cannot pay. When there is an earthquake or tragedy in other countries, Singaporeans have demonstrated that they care and are generous with donations.
Why wasnt this poor guy accorded some generosity? as a society, are we devoid of empathy?
ssstirrer,
Cos we r graded as “LESSER MORTALS”.
Singapore starting to have ‘caste’ system.
Sorry, BUT if u r graded as “LESSER MORTALS”, u r ‘untouchable’.
That’s why the elite MPs in that two town council don’t help them.
Remember folks…
the town council collect S&C charges until almost a billion…
so much kept in kitty box from the citizens…
so invest…don’t know is the investment for the citizens staying in the town or for some other wacko or self-servcing reason….well, the town coucil claim they only lose 16 million…so did any heads roll for this….
seems a disable and jobless man should have his head roll becos he can’t pay his S&C fees…but blowing 16 million away…other heads did not roll…it is an honest mistake or we were mis-informed or due to the world econonmy/US sub-prime etc etc…i don’t see anybody foot the bill for the 16 million losses…
it seems….citizens of singapore will in the end foot the bill for the losses…via increase S&C charges…the 12.5% increase in utilities bills etc etc…
so i ask you who feel the jobless and disabled man do not deserve help….so those who loss the 16 million should get away scot free then? And should not also be accountable?
Is this justice? or Is this law? or rule?
So it is okay to have 1 rule for myself, other rules for others…
please put your citical thinking caps on…and put some heart and humanity into it.
We are better people, don’t let other people make us become just like them cold, selfish, ruthless and heartless too…
We are better. Never go to their level.
How can it be true that our Town Council is so heartless to take a disabled and unemployed man to court over some S&C arrears ? You mean they didn’t even bother to check whether this man have any financial problems ?
I thought one of our Ministers ever promised that NOBODY in Singapore will ever be left behind because there are so many measures put in place to help any unfortunate person ?
Was it Vivian or PM Lee who said that, can anybody recall ?
THE MP IN CHARGE OF JALAN BESAR TOWN COUNCIL SHOULD EXPLAIN TO THE PUBLIC ON WHY THE TOWN COUNCIL BROUGHT AN UNEMPLOYED/HANDICAP MAN TO COURT OVER 432 BUCKS.
WHY THE MP DID HELP HIM BUT GAVE HIM MORE PROBLEMS.
MP ARE SUPPOSE TO HELP RESIDENTS NOT GIVE THEM MORE PROB
Alan Wong,
Below explains why.
QUOTE -
Anonymous on Thu, 1st Oct 2009 5:48 pm
ssstirrer,
Cos we r graded as “LESSER MORTALS”.
Singapore starting to have ‘caste’ system.
Sorry, BUT if u r graded as “LESSER MORTALS”, u r ‘untouchable’.
That’s why the elite MPs in that two town council don’t help them
Alan Wong,
It’s at below website.
http://app.mcys.gov.sg/web/corp_press_story.asp?szMod=corp&szSubMod=press&qid=993
NOW U KNOW who’s toking cock.
Alan,
National Day Rally 2007 speech
http://news.asiaone.com/News/NDP+Rally+2007/NDP+Rally+2007.html
My earlier postiong should read as –
Anonymous on Thu, 1st Oct 2009 8:52 pm
THE MP IN CHARGE OF JALAN BESAR TOWN COUNCIL SHOULD EXPLAIN TO THE PUBLIC ON WHY THE TOWN COUNCIL BROUGHT AN UNEMPLOYED/HANDICAP MAN TO COURT OVER 432 BUCKS.
WHY THE MP DID NOT HELP HIM BUT GAVE HIM MORE PROBLEMS.
MP ARE SUPPOSE TO HELP RESIDENTS NOT GIVE THEM MORE PROB
His bigbig photo above the caption,
“No one will be left behind”
Very sad story.
Donno know what to say really about this heartless Government.
Treat Foreigners better than Singaporeans.
Hold welcome party for them, spend $ 10 mil of our money to integrate them, give PR / Citizenship freely to them.
… but sue a jobless Singaporean and add on to his debt / problems for just a few hundred dollars.
How to respect ??
Want to write about them, even the strongest words not enough.
So, please excuse me while I :
pui pui pui
Pui And Pui
- – -
pui pui pui
EXTRACTED FROM Straits Times Forum
http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_436041.html
Posted by: convince_me at Wed Sep 30 21:40:07 SGT 2009
First we are complacent, then a PAP MP called us lesser mortal and now Grace Fu is telling us not to be too “nit-picking”.
Truly, we Singaporeans are ugly and screwed people, in the eye of our highly talented elite PAP MPs.
No wonder that the PAP Govt is going full steam ahead trying to kill off all natural Singapore borned citizens and replaced us with foreign borned converted Singapore residents!
We’re asking for accountability on investment by Town Council and the PAP MPs trying to screw us with chasing back on S&CC arrears.
So Singaporeans, please stop “nit-picking” or we PAP MPs will fix you all up nice and easy, so implied Grace Fu!
How To Respect ??,
the 10million spent on the new citizen is not for integration purpose lah…….the PAP vote buying strategy has already started.
This time round, PAP is throwing the goodies on the new citizens instead of the original Singaporeans. The reason is simply because the number of new citizens now staying all over the island is enough for PAP to win in all constituencies.
PAP *PUI*
PAP people are ugly too.
Look at Grace foo. There is no grace at all.
Look at Hen. His bright shirt is to hide his black heart.
//ssstirrer
When the minister donate our monies to foreign countries, they look good and it is not their monies.
When the minister donate monies to s’poreans who are poor, they don’t receive any benefits or good will. In addition, other might follow suit.
there is no incentive.
And we gave them the no incentive to treat us well.
We are partly to be blamed to believe they are good people.
The fact is
they are not.
//Haha
Open your ears when you are in the MRT, there are MANY people who speak in a language you are not familar with.
India, Blanga, Pakistant, Cambodia or wat you have in mind, have come to change your surrounding.
All these are the work of your Ministers.
You don’t change your ministers, they change the people around you to make your life shitty.
Really smart of them. And get a lot of monies out of it without you realising.
What if one of them R*pe you or your relative by these people, who needs monies from the govt to civilize them,… don’t count on me to pity you.
You deserve every bit of it.
yeah, GCT’s promise of the gracious society and swiss living standard is talking cock.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/NDP+Rally+2007/NDP+Rally+2007.html
“No one will be left behind”
BUT ‘LESSER MORTAL’ OF ‘LESSER MORTALS’ SINGAPOREANs WILL BE LEFT ASIDE TO DIE.
You are NOT LEFT BEHIND OK, You are LEFT ASIDE.
Let’s hope and pray LKY dies, rumor is that he is already very weak and needs help zipping up his pants…hahaha… he can soon join his wife…
CHANGE is coming…
Is Ms Denise Phua the MP in charge of Jalan Besar town council?
The same Denise Phua that was threathened by a ‘rag n bone’ man?
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_351577.html
The public needs the 2 elite MPs to come down from their ‘Ivory Tower’ to answer the below.
MP Ms Ho Gek Choo [Boon Lay], WHY YOU DIDN’T ANSWER EMAIL CONCERNING ONE OF YOUR NEEDY/DISABLED RESIDENT NEEDING HELP?
http://happyangelclub.wordpress.com/
MP in-charge of Jalan Besar town council, DID YOU HELP OUT ONE OF YOUR NEEDY UNEMPLOYED/HANDICAP RESIDENT, OTHER THAN BROUGHT HIM TO COURT OVER $400PLUS IN CONSERVACY ERREARS?
[Is Ms Denise Phua the MP in-charge of Jalan Besar town council?]
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_351577.html
I was reading abt MR Ang KH case at ‘REACH’ website.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3F2618277EC5651&page=6
Then I posted this Jln Besar Town Council case at the below ‘REACH’ site -
http://app.reach.gov.sg/reach/YourSay/YourDiscussionCorner/tabid/117/ptid/414/page/2/totrecs/60/threadid/2642/forumtype/posts/Default.aspx
THEY DELETED MY POSTING.
ONE TOO MANY CASE, I GUESS. THEY SCARED
I dont think they deleted your posting, they merely swept it under the carpet
Election is around the corner, cannot allow and afford anything ‘bad’ to surface, can they?
This 2 case all over internet forums, but never see our local newspapers publish about them.
MP busy doing own things, no time for residents.
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http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/09/handicapped-resident-applies-for-aid-with-mp-but-faces-difficulties/comment-page-1/#comment-108207
35) Jane on October 3rd, 2009 11.23 am http://happyangelclub.wordpress.com/
By Jane Lim- 3-10-2009
…………………When I walked around at Boon Lay, many residents feedback:
*Our MP Ms Ho Gek Choo is very busy. It is very difficult to meet her. There was one time many residents wanted to meet her to discuss on the HDB big matters, all of them waited so long and finally everyone was very angry
It is with great sadness that I read this article. I paused for awhile to sense how greedy and terribly wrong our present government has done in its policies in the last 10 years. Singapore is seriously getting too tough to survive, let alone live. The people are struggling. The citizens are becoming less kiasu and kiasi whereas the government has turned the other way. Many thinking Singaporeans are migrating to Australia, New Zealand and Canada for a more peaceful life where political apathy is NOT the norm. Where they can live at ease with greater peace of mind in their daily life. Where there are green parks and landscaper that abound. Not a mad rush to the grave. Singaporeans are now more ill at ease than ever. They witness plenty of contradictions in policy and intention. They have lost faith in the sincerity of the Singapore. They have come to realise that the Government does not care for its citizens, let alone love them. Common folks have come to witness that hypocrisy is playing out in the way the country is now managed. We need to be alert to a system and a group of self-proclaimed ambitious men who crafts ineffective policies that cause us to take “our medicine” not only early, but for a lifetime. It’s time to voice out in the next election. It’s also time to be aware how we are being programmed and conditioned by our present government.
It has come a stage in my life where I could no longer walk the Singapore soil of hypocrisy. That I know, I have this one life and I wish the best for myself and my family and friends. Unless Singaporeans are alert and aware that they are being programmed and engineered by the present government, I do not think I can breathe the Singapore air anymore. I would rather be a second class citizen in another country than a fourth class citizen in my own country. In this country, it seems to me that the present government is the first class citizens, the foreign talent is the second class citizen, the PRs are the third class citizen and I’m just a fourth class in the packing order. If you are not allowed to think, and merely keep in line to follow; isn’t that mental communism? I think life would be better in another country as people can voice out their unhappiness and somehow move things. In this country, we complain a lot as we can’t VOICE out. And we get blamed for voicing out. We are being manipulated and some of us are not even aware. I want to leave. Singapore is a pressure cooker waiting to explode.