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SDP
PROUDLY PRESENTS
A
NATION CHEATED
A
Report on Poverty and Labour in Singapore 2007
Without the PAP,
Lee Kuan Yew swears, our women folk would end up as domestic
help in distant lands. So be thankful. In fact, be more than
thankful. Be worshipful that we have national leaders who have
brought us riches – and continue to do so.
Bunkum,
many of you say. We may be grateful but we don’t have to
be talked down to in such a manner even if it is by the Minister
Mentor.
Maybe the MM was too blunt, the PAP admits, but
at least the citizens are grateful, at least they should be, for
all that the party has done for Singapore.
Bunkum, A
Nation Cheated says. This latest SDP report written by Dr
Chee Soon Juan punctures the propaganda that Singapore is
well-served by the PAP.
Available in electronic format,
this 72-page Report on poverty and labour in Singapore traces
developments over the last 10 years since the Asian crisis in
1997, and provides evidence – hard, irrefutable evidence –
that Singapore is ailing from failed PAP policies.
Unlike
other emerging markets Singapore does not have an
entrepreneurial class that can compete globally, continuing
instead to rely on MNCs and inept GLCs. The emergence of a
permanent underclass is a result of such an economic
arrangement.
Experts, and there have been many of them,
have repeatedly warned that without urgent reforms of the
political and economic systems, Singapore's economic situation
will continue to deteriorate.
To be absolutely sure, the
unprecedented level of poverty seen in this country is not the
unintended by-product of globalization, as the PAP would have us
believe. It is a creation from Lee’s eugenicist
views:
"Free education and subsidised housing lead
to a situation where the less economically productive people in
the community are reproducing themselves at rates higher than
the rest. This will increase the total population of less
productive people. We must... take the first tentative steps
towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a
large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally
anaemic."
One of his faithful ministers, the late S
Rajaratnam, darkly promised: "We want to teach people the
government is not a rich uncle. You get what you pay for. We are
moving in the direction of making people pay for everything."
Such attitude has produced a society with individuals
like TT Durai with his avarice, Mrs Goh Chok Tong with her
"peanuts" comment, Wee Shu Min with her repugnant
diatribe against Derek Wee (and her father’s defence of
her comments), and Lee Hsien Loong with his petulance that he
and his ministers should not be expected to make "unnecessary
financial sacrifices."
A Nation Cheated
pieces together an unmistakable picture of PAP's failure. It
tells the real story of how our enormous reserves have been
accumulated through forced savings under the CPF scheme as well
as through the sale of HDB flats. The slew of taxes and fees
designed to maximise the extraction of funds from the people is
another avenue.
More recently, however, economic growth
has been sustained from illicit money laundered from foreigners.
The explosive influx of migrants has also contributed much to
the fattening of state coffers.
The question is: Is this
kind of growth sustainable and how much damage is it inflicting
on our society?
Perhaps the ultimate indicator of the
failure of the PAP is that in the half-a-century of
uninterrupted rule, it has failed to create a nation where
Singaporeans are proud to be identified with. A 2007 survey of
young Singaporeans revealed that more than half wanted to
emigrate. A shocking 37 percent said they were not patriotic to
this country.
For Singaporeans, this Report is a must
read. It informs, it rebukes, it persuades. It is a call for us
to awake from our fearful slumber.
For the foreign
observer, it is an opportunity to be disabused of the notion
that the Singapore Way is a model.
The sin is not in
being ignorant, but in choosing to remain so.
So
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Cheated today!
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