I was in that post talking about those STILL EMPLOYED.

WHAT ABOUT THE UNEMPLOYED OTHER THAN THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO LEAVE THIS WORLD IN A DRAMATIC PAIN ON MRT TRACKS?

These days, I am now completely NUMB reading GDP claims and job creation statistics in Shitty Times. They make depressing read.

Such rhetorics irritates public good tastes who face realities day in day out.

You make a valid and fair observation,life’s indeed harder or even G L O O M I E R -and that is not an exaggeration-as you
would also probably read in the ST that folks jumped into the
MRT tracks in recent times…who cares???..they aren’t TALENTS!
Well,besides getting booted out of jobs-which paid peanuts,so to speak-now,with additionl revenue-generating increases like GST,they just lost their heads and decided to “go and mati”-meaning go and die-AT THE MRT!…think that’s easy..try it?!!!

Those earning millions would have to be clueless of suffering of those struggling. Political rhetorics is a lot easier than confronting the seas of hardships around citizenry.

Realities and political rhetorics is just widening. Who can blame trust for eroding?

Now we have a nobel prize winning economist telling him that it is not.

Why are we paying for a doctor a huge fee for telling us crap?

It is probably the MOST MISLEADING INDICATOR BECAUSE SINGAPORE HAS NO RESOURCES OF ITS OWN. Why? As Stiglitz says

GDP = Gross Domestic Product = income earned inside the country and

GNP = Gross National Product = income earned by those (nationals) inside the country.

Without natural resources, the earned income would be principally wages and with so much foreign participation in our labour force and increasing as we increase the influx of foreigners, the FOREIGN COMPONENT OF THE GDP COMPONENT WILL INCREASE but the GNP could be STAGNATING or even reducing as more and more Singaporean workers got displaced by cheaper foreign labour.

The distortion is worst when Government spends on support infrastructure like dormitories, hospitals, schools – they add to GDP figures and because it is built using mostly AND EVEN MORE FOREIGN labour, the enlarged GDP figures will be again bloated by its foreign component. So the end result is

foreign migration influx = gains in GDP = gain in migration influx

It is a vicious and self-perpetuating disease of inflating GDP figure so that the incummbent politicians can exploit public niavety that GDP growth of % percent because of its bullshit “wonder” governance i.e. we create so many jobs.

Of course the Government keep the truth under wrap by NOT saying exactly how many foreign workers were brought in during the last few years and most of the GDP economic pie and jobs growth benefited foreigners. SINGAPOREANS ARE QUIETLY DISPLACED AND BEST FORGOTTEN except when it time to vote again.

The Government’s main role is now creating jobs for foreigners and creating economic pie for foreigners – simply by adding more and more migrants while Singaporeans sink deeper and deeper into poverty.

If they had published the GNP figures, Singaporeans might explode at this hoax and deception to con our votes. The formulae now seems to be

more secret foreign migration = more votes for Government and logically = secure jobs for themselves at ever increasing phenomenal pay.

Singaporeans are being used, and conned.

Wake up Singaporeans from your slumber. Politicians are not there for the country, THEY ARE THERE FOR THEMSELVES.

Time To Change.

Be wise.