What's the Meaning of Affordability, Subsidy and Productivity in Singapore?

The wool that's been pulled over my eyes lately are these words:

1. Productivity
   
2. Affordability
3. Subsidy
   

There is so much buzzing on "productivity" that I keep getting "Teamy Bee" Ministers and PAP MPs swarming in my ears! Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport said before the current parliamentary budget debate, "It is about what you design, what you innovate. You invest in your staff, you invest in automation systems. So it is a whole range," she said. "I think we are at the point where we have to make serious investments, and the best way is for the government to guide them, to give that big push."

They have been investing in themselves and being productive for themselves for a few years now. Apart from the mercenary and obscene salary increase for all ministers, they have invested much in Prime Minister's office.

The cost of running the place is fantastic! With 1 MENTOR (Lee Kuan Yew - for the money?), 2 SENIORs (Goh Chok Tong & Jayakumar - for the show?) and 3 Lim-ministers (to get ready, now, go cat go?) - Boon Heng, Swee Say and Hwee Hua! They must be so happy singing and dancing to Elvis Presley's "Blue Suede Shoes" [Link]


Or do they prefer to sing, "Upturn The Downturn" [link]. I hope you won't puke from watching this.

And yes, Temasek Holdings is very productive too. It's CEO, PM's wife, Ho Ching is getting an advisor, Hsieh Fu Hua, ex-honcho of SGX to help her do her job. I wonder how much he's paid. Funny. Is this the answer to Lim Swee Say's "Cheaper, Better, Faster?" Or is "CBF" only meant for low wage Singaporeans and not for Temasek and other elites?

Productivity - "Ultimately, it is to add value, to create value." said Mrs Lim.

For who? That's what Singaporeans are asking.

Not unlike "productivity", the "affordability" of HDB flats is as fantastic! I'm just so sick and tired of the PAP's nauseating repetition of current HDB flats being "affordable" and "subsidised". Damn! Affordable for who? Subsidised by who?? The Malboro man who keeps showing off his different spectacle frames??? Just what value has been added to new HDB flats to make them so costly now?

I think the word "subsidy" has been bastardised by some when they refer to HDB flats.

After watching and listening to Low Thia Khiang's and Inderjeet Singh's parliamentary speech on the 2010 Budget which makes sense to me, I'm as usual tickled by the various bootlicking MP's who die die must defend their bosses and party without any thought for their personal credibility and integrity.

Ain't it funny that it's always Money. PAP. . . . . . . . Pay and Pay!

• For productivity, increase foreign workers levy
• To pacify Singaporeans, increase hospital charges and school fees of PR's?

Or is it an incentive for PR's to become citizens so that they can vote without being daft?

In PAP's genius scheme of things, somebody always gets punished and someone else gets richer and more powerful. Who can forget the last increase of GST to help the poor? Surprisingly, it was the ministers who got helped instead with their million dollars salary.

Now I understand why some say they would rather vote for pigs and monkeys than PAP.

Holy Productivity, Affordability and Subsidy! I pray that a day will come when ministers and MPs will be sensitive to the sensitivities of Singaporeans and respect Singaporeans (regardless of race, language, religion, financial status and party affiliation) as humans and not productive digits with spurs stuck on their hides.

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