Inflation in Singapore on the rise: Your views; Discuss.

[ac]

=snuffleupagus


In short, you advocate leaving all decisions up to someone else. Bear in mind, i've also stated the skewed representation in parliament, so who represents the other 33.4%? Also in your statements, the implied message is everyone should shut up if they aren't in the industry and consequently noone should comment on music if they don't do music. Similarly no comments on guitar skills unless you play guitar. How about the guy who listens to a lot of music but can only play the kazoo. And of course that rather large cheesecake of no commenting on forums if we're not professional commentators? Well sir then you've missed the point of citizenship, which is the right to tell it as you smell it ..... unless of course we're in some kind of dictatorship.

And everyone really needs to reflect why there's a reluctance to adopt a critical mind in looking at the party in power. So definitely no democracy is perfect, and not everyone can be happy 100% of the time, and absolute power corrupts really really - nowhere did i say there was a utopia. Everyplace is saddled with pros and cons, but i know if you accept everything without thinking then we're really going to be saddled with pros and cons.

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Sidenote, about 1000 and growing number of approved capable people do think the pros and cons of someplace else are better than this place.

 

[snuffleupagus]

Also in your statements, the implied message is everyone should shut up if they aren't in the industry and consequently noone should comment on music if they don't do music. Similarly no comments on guitar skills unless you play guitar. How about the guy who listens to a lot of music but can only play the kazoo. .

Dear ac, I'm sure everyone will agree that music and politics are 2 very different things. Its like comparing apples to a rusty nail. And no, i did not imply that we should shut up, I said that we could bitch about it here in this forum too. But just bear in mind the bigger picture thats all. If I'm a patient I do not think that I can tell my doctor how to operate on me and criticise his ways even though I may believe that I have googled adequately on the subject.

And of course that rather large cheesecake of no commenting on forums if we're not professional commentators? Well sir then you've missed the point of citizenship, which is the right to tell it as you smell it ..... unless of course we're in some kind of dictatorship..

Yes totally agree, refer to above before this paragraph. I say whistle blow by all means.

And everyone really needs to reflect why there's a reluctance to adopt a critical mind in looking at the party in power. So definitely no democracy is perfect, and not everyone can be happy 100% of the time, and absolute power corrupts really really - nowhere did i say there was a utopia. ...

To tell you the truth, I used to think alot, i used to think that things could be better, really. However I realise that there is a reason for the need for qualified arguments in every field and industry. I am sure with the track record of our political experience, we can safely say that there are more pros than cons.

Maybe right now, the adoption of the critical mind in looking at the party in power is only pursued by armchair critics?Maybe they should do more to convince the society that things could be better. Oh, yeah they are just exercising their rights as citizens thats it. Perhaps maybe one day , the gahmen will tap into the valuable insights from these pools of ingenious infrastructure-savvy, economical thinktanks/ financial-gods and hopefully roll out a red carpet and invite them to parliament.

Everyplace is saddled with pros and cons, but i know if you accept everything without thinking then we're really going to be saddled with pros and cons...

Yes, we all should not accept everything without thinking. I agree with that completely. Problem is, thinking by itself is subjective to the individual, different people will have different ideals and motivations and experiences. Some may be fine with what is going on and can accept everything, and for some others, vice versa. We both clearly subscribe to different schools of thought. No harm no foul here.

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Sidenote, about 1000 and growing number of approved capable people do think the pros and cons of someplace else are better than this place.

Speaking of which, (sidenote), what are your views on the current inflation policy adopted by our gahmen?

 

[ac]

Dear ac, I'm sure everyone will agree that music and politics are 2 very different things. Its like comparing apples to a rusty nail. And no, i did not imply that we should shut up, I said that we could bitch about it here in this forum too. But just bear in mind the bigger picture thats all. If I'm a patient I do not think that I can tell my doctor how to operate on me and criticise his ways even though I may believe that I have googled adequately on the subject.

Maybe right now, the adoption of the critical mind in looking at the party in power is only pursued by armchair critics?Maybe they should do more to convince the society that things could be better. Oh, yeah they are just exercising their rights as citizens thats it. Perhaps maybe one day , the gahmen will tap into the valuable insights from these pools of ingenious infrastructure-savvy, economical thinktanks/ financial-gods and hopefully roll out a red carpet and invite them to parliament.

I'm sorry you do imply that unless someone is an expert in a particular field, we should shut ourselves up. That being said, i don't see a course in being an elected minister do you?

And you miss out on the point of having adequate representation of the electorate, which might not have been much of an issue in the past, but unfortunately will not hold sway in the day and age of the internet.

I was drawn to this thread mostly by empirshow's thinking that there's no pension in singapore. The rest are just replies to the other replies.

Personally i view the current inflation as being mostly globally induced in nature. The rising prices on the other hand, besides being pushed by oil, also is due to the greedy nature of businesses which when faced with such glowing reports of our economy doing well, property prices, etc, simply find it a convenient way of justifying increases. That immigration was used as a triple pronged approach to solve brain drain, gain a foothold in foreign mind share, and battle inflation, seems like a good idea, but leads to other social costs. At the same time vast resources expended by our sovereign wealth funds, leads to further inflation as more money gets let loose into the system. Money by the way, that is indirectly ours, perhaps a majority of which is due to rising HDB prices fueled by the way cpf is used as loans for public housing ( which is leased ). In effect those loans are like the sub prime loans, where the credit worthiness isn't really scrutinised, but has some plus side of enabling the lender access to wealth as long as they don't call back those debts i.e. when you're 65.

Which is why it really grates when there's inordinate public spending or failed ventures by our leading lights. I'm happy if that money was spent for the greater good, but that minsterial pay thing is a real goat biter.

your turn ....

 

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Maybe you guys will want to think about the "virtual" value of CPF. What if Singapore is hit by a very bad recession and the government is unable to sustain the blows of an economic recession?

Just a thought since you guys were talking about money running around the government's hands.

And seriously, inflation is caused by a chain of events... We cannot do much of it and we can only try to cope with it. I mean, if other governments of other parts of the world can't help much, what more about Singapore?