MM Lee attends final cabinet meeting

To the newly elected members in parliament, please understand that the people in the oppostiion ward are also people of singapore.They should be treated fairly , in all ways.

Extracted from international bestseller "Confucius from the Heart" by Chinese writer, Yu Dan :

Asked by his student what conditions were necessary for a country to be at peace, with a strong government, Confucius' reply was very simple. There were only three :
enough arms, enough food, trust of the common people.

Citing three too many, Confucius was asked which he would remove first if he had to do without one of these three.

Confucius said :"Give up arms".

Asked again which he would give up if he had to get rid of another, Confucius said :"Give up food".

Confucius continued ; "Death has always been with us since the begining of time, but when there is no trust, the common people have nothing to stand on".

Minister, I agree with Madison. You told everyone you paid just $8 for your heart surgery when my two stents costs me $26,000. I am sure in 8 years, I have to go to a by-pass like you went through. So how do you do it for just $8???? I have Medisave, Medishield also. Dont escape the question by running to National Development.

When I worked in UK, they had such a labour law which protects their citizens. Jobs will go to them first, if they can't be filled, it will then go to EU people, lastly, international foreigners. At first I thought it was unfair to have such a law because I am a foreigner there so I am 3rd in line to secure a job. But when I am back home now, I wish so much that we have such a law protecting us. Unfortunately, we do not. You said job offer is base on individual capabilities not first come first serve for Singaporean. May I ask you, your individual capabilities, does it mean the capabilities to receive the lowest wages? We Singaporean are not choosy in jobs like what you want the newspaper to report. We have a family to feed. Sometime, the wages they offer can barely feed a family. But of course for the FT, this is a piece of cake. Due to the exchange rate, most of them send $ back home to let their loves one buy land, build houses etc. I am a Singaporean but sad to say, in a few years time, they are even richer than me. They have houses and lands fully paid for. Here, I am still struggling with my housing loan and worry about my job given away to the FT as they can afford to accept low wages which I cannot. Hey, you people sitting in the cabinet, can you sympathized with us commoners? Maybe You should have at least 40% of your parliament seats filled up by the FT. Like a true reflection of what is going on in Singapore. Replace your ministers with FT as well. Employ them base on capabilities. I beg you to at least try to come down to our level and understand our problems.

is this a new chapter to singapore history or just a new version of singapore history.

KBW, you still have not explain to the citizens how we can pay for $8.00 heart surgery?

PM Lee,

Global food supply and price is reaching critical level world wide. Even top economy like US and China is now facing crisis in their farming and food industry

Is about time you start looking into not just the cost of transportation, but also cost of food price.

We are a red dot that must depend on other countries import of food. It is time we start looking into self sufficiency in food supply and high tech farming in bigger scale.

Like our new world ener---- water, Singapore can be self sufficient in food.
WE dont have to be at mercy of depending on neighouring countries who has political mood swing for water and food.

Maybe some fund that go to support minister high pay can be transfer to this project !
This project just need dedicated, intelligent engineers and scientists to work on it.
High pay minister is not necessary for it to take off !

Pls consider

For all Ministers.

If you are a gentleman or lady, SCRAPPED THE PENSION AND REPLACE WITH CPF, NO DOUBLE STANDARD ALLOWED. NO SPECIAL PREVILEGES ALLOWED.

SCRAP GRC AND FIGHT LIKE A GENTLEMAN. ONE TO ONE ON ALL WARDS, WE VOTERS BE HAPPY TO DO THE UNPLEASANT TASK OF TERMINATING UNPOPULARS MPs. Especially Vivian and Khaw.

Scrap GST too. You are bleeding us dry.

No increase in bus and MRT fares..

Reduce PUBLIC HOUSING PRICE.

SEE YOU IN 2016 elections, you job review and appraisal.

Take care and God bless.

To show how scandalous are our ministers’ salaries here are a few comparisons:

Any minister with a S$3.8 million salary plus an 8 month bonus gets to take home S$6.3 million.

1 This is $17,260 a day, every day for one year.

2 This is more than the basic salaries of the American President’s ENTIRE Cabinet.

2 This is 115 times more than Singapore’s per capita GDP of about S$55,000.

4 This is 1300 times more than a cleaner’s salary of $400 per month.

3 This is enough to pay the COMBINED salaries of the presidents of the USA, China, Russia, India, Brazil, The Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, France, and Cuba who governs nearly half the world’s population.

Why is Ah Hua still in the picture? She should be working in Aljunied hawker centre now right?

you are right it is a different era... last 52yrs, we all listen defencelessly.... in the next era, the best policy is listen to the people.... if not in the next or 2 election, the table may turn.... 40% PAP vs 60% WP.....

Dear PM & PAP:

(1) Singaporean to Foreigner Proportion.
Why PAP makes the NCMP numbers such that you allow only up to 9 Oppo MPs in the Parliament? Because anything more than 10% opposition is considered not manageable to you.

Yet you brought in more than 30% foreigners to Singapore. You, the Government of Singapore, can you please put yourselves in the shoes of Singaporeans???

(2) Government elected by the people, but for Other People ?!
PRs do not need to commit and burn bridges, yet can enjoy similar benefits to Singaporeans, how unfair can this get for Singaporeans? For Singaporeans, there is only one home, good or bad this is the place to stay put.

No other government has obligation to look after Singaporeans, yet the very government that Singaporeans elected to look after us became more interested to seduce replacement citizens who cannot help but feel and behave exactly as how our government sees them – superior to native Singaporeans.

We native Singaporeans demand that our elected government distinguishes clearly between Singaporeans and PRs. In the areas of:
* JOBS (monitored at individual company’s level),
* HOUSING (especially HDB),
* EDUCATION (please look at the true picture at individual institutions, schools and kindergartens),
* HEALTHCARE, and
* ALL aspects of LIVELIHOOD.
Those PRs willing to commit, let them be Singaporeans. Those stepping on both boats, they are Other Governments’ obligations.

Singaporeans are grateful to MM precisely because his government improved Singaporeans’ standard of living. Up until 5-8 years back.

For so long we have put our trust in you all fiercely and blindly, have been badly burnt and deeply hurt, but are still willing to hope for a New Era forward. Please sort out your MISSION and Policies as ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPOREANS.

Can PAP please give us a breakdown on the number of FTs and how many more are on the way. We will never be able to solve the problems if PAP keep allowing FTs to come in.

Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong should be responsible as the huge influx of FTs indirectly causes the HDB and transportation problems. He should be accountable and be responsible for causing all these.

Dear 22 ministers at the round table,

Please act fast and ask MOM/WDA to help unemployed find jobs, impose quota for the $2500 Employment Pass EP1 Category. More and more foreigners are seeking jobs in Singapore while they are on Tourist Visiting Pass.

May be can ask Mr Ong YK to start a brand new GLC and employ all the unemployed Singaporeans. Otherwise, HDB will be very busy repo our flats very soon and we will dry up the Medifund when we get old. The IRs seem no impact to help the unemployment leh. :(

Can work out with HDB to introduce jobs to unemployed other than repo their flats? These unemployed don't mind working part-time or flexi-time in HDB to offset the loan. Btw, please reduce the interest charged for HDB loan since HDB is not a commercial bank. Many of us are paying HDB more than 100k in interest alone.

Thanks.

Closing of a Old Chapter? New one opens? Hope the new ones are not more toxic. Many babyboomers has very high respect for MM Lee Kuan Yew as they have moved up the ladder with his dedicated support. For the new A Team, lets hope that they use their intelligence the correct way and have some degree of humanity. They will be highly respected if they can generate more revenue for Singapore from OUTSIDE instead of from WITHIN as has been the case of some members of the past Cabinet. Cutting the size of HDB flats smaller while increasing the prices has been the hallmark of MBT. Cutting the Healthcare budget and hence cutting corners resulting in losing many good healthcare professionals and causing the healthcare quality to be compromised are the hallmark of KHAW BOON WAN. To think that he is any better than MAH BOH TAN is wishful thinking. Lets see what the new heads of MOH and MND can do what their predecessors refused to do.

Notice their new positions?
GIC
MAS...
all money related...
how much reserves do we really have?
how can they keep it a secret from the rest of the people?
this are the people's money and the people have the right to know.
i am reminded of how Chiang Kai Sek took the then ROC's gold with him when he fled the mainland...secretly.
if the singapore president is not even allowed to know the quantum of reserves, how can he protect the country's money?
do these people really think that singaporeans are really daft?

Dear Ministers,

40% of Singaporeans have elected an alternative party as our representatives into Parliament for the next five years.

Now that you are willing to keep an open mind to what policies need to be changed, please remember to keep to your promises and listen to their voices (or rather our voices) and don't simply treat them as noises !!!

Have you noticed a deliberate mismatch of Talent to Job in our Uniquely Unique Singapore Government?

Vivian Balakrishnan EYE SURGEON: first posted to HDB Ministry of National Development, now to Environment. Should have gone to Ministry of Health.

Dr Amy Khor is not a medical doctor. She is PhD doctorate in LAND MANAGEMENT from University of Reading. Now Minister in Ministry of Health. Should have gone to URA and Ministry of National Development.

Dr Ng Eng Hen: Medical Doctor. Now Ministry of Defence, in charge of killing people, instead of healing them.

Ministry of Defence: not a single Military man.

Grace Fu: Accountant. Now sent to Min of Env, maybe calculate water bills.

The rest mostly Engineers.

MPs on the ground are Specialist Doctors. They should have be General Practitioners. So many Eye Surgeons like Lam Pin Min for what? Like Vivian Balakrishnan one eye surgeon not enough. One to check left eye, the other to check right eye. Orthopaedic surgeon? Best MPs were GPs: Tan Cheng Bock, Lee Siew Choh, and some other detainees from long ago.

So many doctors in Parliament, they get Gan Kim Yong to do Health. Assisted by a LAND MANAGEMENT PhD.

Only Law seems logical, because cannot gasak buta in Law.

Why are we giving these unqualified Ministers millions of dollars to do on the job training in Ministries they have no background in?

PM Lee,

Don't actually see your rationale of re-shuffling your ministry. Cabinet ministers should have credibility and the appropriate background. The way ministers move around the ministries is like musical chair. Please make reference of how government is run in other countries. You have to identify people who have knowledge of the specific area so they are spearhead appropriate policies, or make judgement to implement new ideas. Otherwise, it is change for the sake of changing, and the blind leading the blind.

All the best for singapore!!

Honestly, we owe a debt of gratitude to the 40% who voted for the opposition for the changes that are taking place.

If the 40% lacked the courage to vote for change, it will just be business as usual.

Once again, thank you to the 40%!