Did He Pay With His Heart?

Was his heart hijacked in the $8 Surgery?

I understand that a CABG (coronary artery bypass graft) is a procedure where a blood vessel is taken from the chest, leg or arm and used to bypass a narrowed or blocked coronary artery to increase the blood flow to a person's heart muscle. Hence, preventing a heart attack.

Remember the ex-Health Minister who is the current Minister of National Development of Singapore who made famous his claim of only paying $8 for for his CABG surgery and first class hospital stay? Did the surgical team do more than a CABG? Could they have added a heart transplant as well? Could they have taken away his caring compassionate heart and replaced it with something heartless? A mechanical pump?

Based on his performance after the CABG surgery, I feel something a amiss. He now "Kong Wei Bo Liong Sim" = "Speaks without heart, without conscience, without compassion"

What does it take for a man to use selected statistics to pull wool over the eyes of its citizens? I am referring to Khaw Boon Wan's latest claim: "National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said on Wednesday night that HDB flats have been the same size for the past 15 years, and are not shrinking, contrary to popular belief." [Link] I believe the popular belief will find this claim hard to believe!

Silly as it may seem, since they lost part of their salary after the Ministerial Salary COI (which Mercer earned $860,000.00?), ministers in Singapore have been coming up with claims that are pretty wild. I still cannot get over the hype, the extravagant publicity of

• A family with an income of $1,000 can afford to purchase a HDB flat 
• Neither do I believe that the poor, who pays GST ends up richer with GST Rebates. However, I do believe the rich gets richer since the Estate Duty Act was abolished. 

So when the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Manpower Tharman Shanmugaratnam sang the song of "take further steps in the next five years to build an inclusive society" [Link], I had to check my heart rate and get my *GTN ready! For how many more years do we have to bear the crap of such motherhood statement? Or is it motherfook statement? Remember the "Staying Together Moving Ahead' bull? [Link]

Since the promise made in 2006, we have fragmented more than we have been inclusive. The divide is is more than between

• the poor (the average folks) and the rich (especially the ministers & their elite kakies) 
• the PAP government and the citizens
• the locals and the immigrants
• the conmen (as in those who try to pull wool over the eyes of innocent) and the conned

It is not healthy for Singapore.

The divide is causing many to sing

If only, our leaders can treat us as humans and not digits for GDP growth.
If only, they can treat us with respect instead of contempt.
If only, they have the courage to admit
that they are profiteering from the sale of HDB flats
instead of saying it is a "subsidy"
If only . . .

Do not miss this 4-minute that reflects much on what we are going through.
"We have lost the way. . . 
Greed has poisoned men's souls . . . 
We think too much, we feel too little . . . 
More than cleverness, we need kindness, gentleness . . . 
System that makes man torture and imprison innocent people . . . 
Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you; enslave you; who regiment your lives; tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you; tire you; treat you like cattle; who use you as cannon fodder. 
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, 
machine men with machine minds and machine hearts . . . 
They lied. They did not fulfill their promise . . . "

Still breathing,
feedmetothefish

*GTN = Glyceryl trinitrate is to relieve chest pain associated with angina and heart attack.

PS: My sincere thanks to my anonymous commentator for highlighting this "Great Dictator" video for all to share.