Another $1,100,000,000.00 Tuck Yew Joke!

Why do the poor in Singapore have to bend over backwards to serve and make the rich richer?

Before my tears dried from the sad laughter derived from the joke of our government spending $860,000.00 on Mercer to recommend the million$ salary of ministers, I'm now shocked to know that Lui Tuck Yew will be spending $1.1 billion to help SMRT & SBS buy and operate more buses.

As much a they try to dazzle us with their brilliance, they do nothing but confuse us with their crap! Just what type of public transport operators do we have in Singapore? Are they privatized or nationalized? Or have Singaporeans been paralyzed?

Ex-MM Lee said Singaporeans are 'daft'. I may be wrong but I think Singaporeans are kind. They are so good natured that their kindness has been taken as a weakness. When injustices are committed against them, they would just grin and bear!

How can management, directors and shareholders of PTOs enjoy humongous salaries, bonuses, profits and dividends year in year out when taxpayers' money of $1,100,000,000.00 are used to help them run their bus business? This is after the increases in fares that's surprisingly approved by PTC only recently! How can the government allow and support such atrocity, such bully?

I mean, hey, it's the people's money! Is it only in Singapore that the PTOs can have the cake and eat it while having a free lunch?

My heart pains when Singaporeans are told by the PAP government of how it has taken such good care of its people especially the disabled, sick and needy old. It hurts to know that it is not the government that takes care of us. It is we who take care of ourselves! Generally, most Singaporeans, though poor, would depend on themselves to make a living, to survive. If they cannot earn their keeps due to sickness or old age or worse (losing their jobs to foreigners), majority would first deplete their savings (if any), depend (borrow) from family and friends or even Ah Longs before they would submit themselves to the indignity of being interrogated and asked, "You want your 3 meals in restaurant, food court or hawker centre?" to receive the measly public assistance!

The epic failure of PTOs in not giving discount to the disabled in Singapore is so telling! To hear Lui Tuck Yew say: "Now that senior citizens have been granted their full-day concessions, the next groups that I am sympathetic to are the disabled and polytechnic students. However, I urge Members to be patient as not all of these requests can be addressed immediately or entirely within a single fare revision exercise." is to make one cringe! [Link] I perceive Tuck Yew is more sympathetic to the bosses of PTOs than to the disabled Singaporeans and the Polytechnic students!

Lest I be accused for being unreasonable in my perception, I'm just sore that many have been sleeping on their shift!  The transport and housing crisis should not and would not have happened if ministers are on the ball and work in symphony! With their first world LKY schooled talents, how can they increase the population with foreigners by 2,000,000 without correspondingly match the social, housing and transportation needs? Damned! Even a moronic angry bird would build a nest before baby bird arrives! It's hard to fathom why our million$ ministers didn't have such foresight.

Yet another sick joke:
If "For every dollar that low-income Singaporeans paid in taxes in their lifetimes, they now get back $4 in the form of government aid [Link], how much did PTO's paid in taxes to get $1.1 billion in the form of people's aid?

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