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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Video on the Income Gap...
This video about the income gap was released late last year and has gone viral. It shows how bad the income gap is in the USA by taking the ratio of the wealth and income of the top and comparing it with the bottom.
If you find it shocking how bad the income gap in USA has become, you should be aware that there is only one developed country worse than the USA when you measure income gap as a ratio of the income of those on top vs those at the bottom. That country is Singapore.
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Income gap is bad in USA and worse in Singapore.
Is USA still peaceful and prosperous? Was Obama re-elected as President?
Is Singapore still peaceful and prosperous? Was PAP re-elected as government?
In fact Singapore is more peaceful than USA because, unlike USA, Sinkies follow law and do not have illegal street protests.
And PM Lee, even though much less powerful, earn more than 3 times than Obama.
- 14/3/13 19:20
Most important is there must be peace, stability and prosperity.
Singapore is peaceful. (No street protests or riots)
Singapore is stable. (PAP has 93% seats in Parliament)
Singapore is prosperous. (Everybody has a car, especially smaller cars)
- 14/3/13 19:26
The chart in the video looks a lot worst than the chart you presented below the video. Which is correct?
- 14/3/13 19:47
- Lucky Tan said...
Anon 19:47,
The chart shows income while the video shows wealth accumulated. ..if my income is double someone after a decade the wealth I accumulate can be 10 times what he can accumulate. ..so the wealth gap is much bigger than income gap.. .
- 14/3/13 20:16
Any gap, whether income, wealth or whatever, is relative.
Suppose I have a net wealth of only $1 million.
But many others have net wealth of $10 million or even $100 million.
So of course the wealth gap is very wide lah.
But with only $1 million, I am also not that poor lah. It is just that there are too many rich fellas around so the gap is wide.
That's why 43% still vote PAP because some although relatively poor, but are not that poor.
- 14/3/13 20:34
I will rather be poor in Sinkieland than being poor in Timbuktu.
- 14/3/13 20:36
Not surprising.
In the recent budget talk and news releases, if you follow the breakdown carefully, the following have been revealed, in drips and pieces..based on 2010. I imagine the 2011 /2012 figures to be higher.
Bottom 20% contributes 4% GST
Bottom <$100k contributes 11% PIT
Above >$1million contributes 20% PIT
Top 1.5% earner contributes 38% PIT
Top 11% earner contributes 80% (total tax taking)
I am surprised no one picked those figures out (not even KJ)! Any surprise this country has already become the playground for the rich and wealthy to flaunt hedonistic lifestyle and hide their stash?
Who have they been trying to please, really?
Casinos, Pangaea Club, F1 races, Sentosa Island.
The only things that are still hidden from the public eyes are the high class Prostitution rings, Drugs, Money Laundering that ordinary citizens can't lay their sights on or access to.
This lack of funding for our elderly and workers is, and remains, an absolute scandal. This govt shovel off hundred millions per day, every day from this group of selfish elites and yet do so little for the slipping middle class.
Our nation is now awash in the effluvia of decade of neglect, inertia, under-funding, poorly led, and corrupted education, which manifestly reveals itself in social and political entropy.
- 14/3/13 20:38
Anybody in Sinkieland who are poor or earn less than $4K per month will be taken care of by PAP.
And some no need to pay income tax some more.
So of course, some or even many will be grateful and vote for PAP.
- 14/3/13 20:41
'I will rather be poor in Sinkieland than being poor in Timbuktu.'
I will rather be middle class in anywhere in the world than in spore. Spore middle class is the worst off compare to any countries. They have skimed off wealth from the bottom class and now they are skimming off welath from the middle class. Very soon they will skim off wealth from the upper class. Only the super upper class which is themselves will be immuned.
- 14/3/13 20:51
They will make HDB more and more difficult to rent out. People who are now staying in condo and renting out their hdb will find it increasingly difficult to do that. THey will have to stay in hdb and rent out their condo. They will also slowly raised property taxes to a level never seen before. There are many ways to screw the people without even touching gst. Beware of one party rules.
- 14/3/13 20:54
Smart Low Thia Khiang of WP already said majority voters are scared they accidentally vote PAP out of power because opposition is not ready.
And I think PAP being smart, also knows.
And smart Sinkies know that it is better and easier to make more money than to join opposition.
Therefore the opposition is not ready.
So you see, it is a vicious cycle.
- 14/3/13 20:57
My worst nightmare about GE 2016.
Singaporeans accidentally voting PAP into government again for another 5 years.
- 14/3/13 21:23
Recently, PAP appeared; this has to be highlighted many times to indicate appear only, to be slowly tightening the inflow of foreigners by raising the foreign levies. This is just only a piece of show staged by the PAP. In reality, PAP are doing everything they can to help the businesses to gain more profit by the following explanation.
After the PAP announcement in the budget, the business communities ganged together to complain to the PAP how high the foreign levies they have to pay which would impact on the business profit.
However, businessmen and businesswomen are secretly paying themselves high director fees, high salaries, high bonuses, high benefit-in-kinds and high dividends to themselves.
Businessmen and businesswomen are thinking to themselves that they must be cunning to present two faces -
one face to show that foreign levies would impact on the survival of the businesses, thereby having the case to pressure the PAP to help the businesses to lower the business cost and
another face to secretly show their selfish and greedy nature to keep as much as possible of the profit for themselves.
As expected, PAP submit to the pressure of the business communities.
Today, PAP announced that when the number of foreigners hired by the companies reach the higher tier level, that is at the level up to the quota level, the companies need not pay the higher tier foreign levies. The companies can continue to pay the lower foreign levies at the lower foreign tier, thereby saving the companies lot of money.
To have this happening, the companies have to show that the hired foreigners are skilled based on questionable standard of measurement claimed by the businesses.
Effectively, the PAP have made a group of foreigners on work permit to be cheaper to be hired.
The impact of the new PAP policies is to cause hiring of Singaporeans fresh ITE and polytechnic graduates to be more expensive relative to these business self-proclaim skilled but cheaper foreigners.
It is very worry how is the Singaporeans ITE and polytechnics graduates able to get good jobs in Singapore when these jobs are taken over by the cheaper foreigners.
This clearly show that PAP are close friends of businesses and PAP will do anything, including sacrificing ordinary Singaporean, just to support businesses, even to the extent of supporting lousy businesses, which ought to be close down in Singapore.
- 14/3/13 21:27
Not happy? Vote opposition.
Do not keep voting pap and expect things to be different lah.
'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' Albert Einstein
- 14/3/13 21:59
With so much revenues from Casinos, Rental incomes, COE, ERP, GST, Properties, Levies & $260 billions, Singapore got to raise it games, Singapore can't go back to the past depend on cheaper and cheaper foreign workers. Singapore need to develop more and more scheme to lower its income gaps?
It is not how many millionaire you have, it how you take care of the old and the poor?
Reduce the income gaps, minimum wages and inequalities? Behind all these hype many old people got to eke out a living collecting cans and cardboards?
Singapore need to reclaim back its title of been the best workers in the world, and add more been the most innovative and productive etc?
All these need lots of widely acclaim international consultants from Sweden and Denmark?
Sweden to guide our country to implement a system how to raise the local workers to highly in innovations, inventions and patents creations and the Danish consultant to develop our designers teams?
Engage world wide recognised consultants in developing our tourism industries, to be the best in the world, adding more tourist spots and raising the yield, consistently improve and find new offerings to excite the guests and continue to upgrade and train the tourist staff? Aim to have at least 23 millions high yielding tourists to come to our shore?
- 14/3/13 23:06
PAP will continue to do what they think is best.
As long as majority voters think PAP, although not that good, is the best available.
And smart businessmen and businesswomen will secretly paying themselves high director fees, high salaries, high bonuses, high benefit-in-kinds and high dividends to themselves to make more money.
And ordinary Sinkies, not being smart to make more money, will also not smart to be able to form a better party than the PAP.
And so they are not ready to replace PAP.
This is what smart Low Thia Khiang realise and tell daft Sinkies who still do not know and who keep saying "vote opposition".
- 15/3/13 00:19
How to vote opposition when opposition is not ready?
Might as well vote me since I am also not ready.
- 15/3/13 00:23
Bodoh Babi
- 15/3/13 00:30
@Anon 00.19 As long as we have people who bleat - But what's the point of voting opposition, since they say they're not ready to be the government - we will NEVER have opposition members who are ready to be the govt!!
If you were a salesman in an MNC, do you think you can run the MNC? From your comment, 200% sure you can't.
One reason we don't have opposition people prepared to run the govt, is because so many idiot Sporeans DIDN'T GIVE THEM THEIR VOTE in the past. If more oppn pple had been voted in, in 2006, 2001 etc, you'd have a large team not just willing, but also very able and experienced after running town councils and more!!
Pity so many Sporeans can't see this. This is why Kuan Yew calls Sporeans 'daft'.
So if you want your opposition to perform well, vote them in.
How much worse can they perform than all the generals, scholars and heads of govt agencies, now in the cabinet. These people have been so mollycoddled in the past and are performing so Badly!!
Opposition members don't enter govt on the coat-tails of ministers. They are savvy street fighters. This is what this country needs. This is what helped the old guard perform so well, though they had no experience.
- 15/3/13 02:41
"How to vote opposition when opposition is not ready?"
Opposition not ready, never mind.
As long as Singaporeans are ready to vote Opposition.
- 15/3/13 03:06
Income gap in Singapore?
I don't care.
Because I'm a PAPig.
You die, it's your business.
I die, it's a gun carriage funeral for me.
Paid by the Singapore taxpayers.
- 15/3/13 03:13
Why WDA never offer training programme for Ministers ah?
- 15/3/13 03:19
Guys, beware of those idiotic "PAP Internet Brigade" a.k.a "PAP IB"
As usual, they are trying very hard to fool the 60% daft, again. It's no longer difficult to identify those idiots.
PS - "You will know them by their comments".
- 15/3/13 03:38
Another good video:
- 15/3/13 05:48
- Lye Khuen Way said...
Just want to add to a comments above about how much worst can the opposition performed as compared to the many so called " brilliant, talented" scholars, generals, admirals and doctors from the PAP .
Indeed, any worse ?
Unless, the Civil Service touted as independent, efficient and beyond reproach is not what they tell us to be, no?
- 15/3/13 06:18
Bailout scheme or hangout scheme?
- 15/3/13 06:21
Do you feel funny about this statement, You don't give me cheap workers, We are going leave, leaving many jobless?
- 15/3/13 06:26
Should we benchmark the standard of Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Swiss & Sweden ministers performance against our ministers performances, in terms of raising the standard local lower rung workers, ministers' wages, workers productivity and innovations, birth rate, standard of living, free tertiary educations & other indicators etc., with the comparable populations, wages gaps, adapt and tweaks their social programs to ours?
- 15/3/13 06:52
Sudden influx of foreigner immigrants worried many, will they take aways the locals and their childrens job?
From 2 millions populations to 5.3 millions now aiming for 6.9 millions, with many indirect taxes, or was it due to pay the ministers' pay which is around ten times the ministers' pay of Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland & Finland etc? Why don't use better method to run the economy, as more foreign workers came the birthrate kept dropping? Due to heavy competitions of jobs?
- 15/3/13 08:59
Lucky, the chart dated from 2009, there must be a more updated version, which could be much worse as there were some major upheavals in 2010-2012 But nonetheless, how does the man and woman on the street get to understand the meaning of all these? I only fear the truth is always masked, and even when revealed, the great majority are too afraid to think of the consequences - we need someone to make a soap opera for the uncles and aunties about income inquality nefarious effects - all that the bottom 30% understand comes from thengyfrom the TV box. Alas!
- 15/3/13 09:29
/// How to vote opposition when opposition is not ready? ///
15/3/13 00:23
And you think PAP is ready to govern today?
- 15/3/13 10:15
There is a news report today regarding SMRT's plan to replace about 120km of power cables on the Circle Line. The new cables are suppose to withstand exposure to water and prevent power outages that can lead to train disruptions.
Replacement works have started since Jan 2013 and targetted to complete by end of 2013.
The Circle Line came into operations on
May 2009 - Stage 3
Apr 2010 - Stage 1 & 2
Oct 2011 - Stage 4 & 5
This means that most of the existing cables were in operation for less than 4.5 years.
Easily one of the most costly engineering decision on an inappropriate specification.
Anyone know whether the wastage will be paid by tax payers, commuters or SMRT (ie indirectly by commuters)?
- 15/3/13 10:51
/// Anyone know whether the wastage will be paid by tax payers, commuters or SMRT (ie indirectly by commuters)? ///
I know who will not be paying.
The former SMRT CEO.
Foreign talent screw up.
Singaporeans pay.
- 15/3/13 10:58
We understand you need cheaper, better & faster workers, so that you can make more profits and levies, to pay more hangouts, and your 1000 percents the pay of the equivalents ministers pay of Norway, Denmark Finland, Switzerland etc, and other indirect taxes to pay 10 times level of their salaries, but we too need a better, cheaper more efficient govt, so that we don't need to pay so much indirect taxes, worry our and our children jobs lost to the cheaper third world foreign workers?
- 15/3/13 10:58
"Anyone know whether the wastage will be paid by tax payers, commuters or SMRT (ie indirectly by commuters)?"
Anon 15/3/13 10:51
Ex MRT CEO has already paid the price by resigning.
PAP has paid the price by losing a GRC and 2 by elections.
What more do you want? Vote PAP out? Ask best alternative WP ready to take over or not.
If WP not ready, how to vote PAP out?
WP taking over is as good as me taking over because I am also not ready.
- 15/3/13 11:20
Question is: can you build a nation unmotivated by money or driven by it? Or not relying on extreme rewards to fight corruption?
- 15/3/13 11:23
I am not even ready to be CEO of the company I am working, or be my own boss, so how to be ready to be PM of Singapore?
- 15/3/13 11:26
/// If WP not ready, how to vote PAP out? ///
15/3/13 11:20
WP not ready, never mind.
Singaporeans are ready to vote PAP out.
Does anybody seriously think this PAP cabinet is ready to govern?
- 15/3/13 11:51
Money talks. Can you make it go dumb?
- 15/3/13 11:51
But daft Sinkies still like to be ass fucked leh. That's why keep voting PAP.
- 15/3/13 12:03
All these various indirect taxes of Rental, COE, ERP, GST, Levies etc, which were indirect taxes, increase the companies cost of doing business, so they need to look for cheaper foreign workers?
- 15/3/13 12:18
/// Money talks. Can you make it go dumb? ///
15/3/13 11:51
PAP already taxed away all my money.
How to talk?
Only the Opposition can talk for me now.
- 15/3/13 12:27
The old man is too realistic to the point of indulging in the illusion of unrealistic success.
- 15/3/13 12:43
The government's policies set a strong foundation for quality growth and an inclusive society, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who also emphasised that a healthy economy is necessary to create jobs.
- 15/3/13 12:53
Income inequality is a natural outcome in capitalism, so it is no surprise. Income inequality by itself doesn't mean our govt is doing a bad job. For example, if we manage to grow a Steve job in Singapore, wouldn't the inequality be greater and does it means the govt is doing a bad job? No. In fact it is doing a great job of promoting entrepreneurs.
The question is whether there are sufficient wealth redistribution so that our poor are relatively well off compare to global standards, and have opportunities in education and mobility.
How does our bottom 20% compare to US's.
- 15/3/13 12:57
Dream on. You can grow a Steven Lim though or many Steven Lims.
Even if you mange a Steve Job, it won't save you
- 15/3/13 13:22
/// The government's policies set a strong foundation for quality growth and an inclusive society, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who also emphasised that a healthy economy is necessary to create jobs.///
15/3/13 12:53
You sniffing glue or what?
What is PM Lee's definition of;
"quality growth"
"inclusive society"
"healthy economy"
"create jobs" for who?
Foreigners or Singaporeans?
What type of jobs?
- casino jobs?
- toilet cleaner jobs?
- 15/3/13 13:35
Huat Ah
- 15/3/13 15:11
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- 15/3/13 16:35
'Income inequality is a natural outcome in capitalism' -
Agreed. But capitalism and democracy does not gel. Capitalism leans towards building empires for a selected priviledged few and destroying environment. Democracratic leaders should try their best to reduce the gap to an acceptable level.
- 15/3/13 16:36
Capitalism is plutocracy not democracy. I think the PM and his party has failed the people. They should step down. We pledge to build a democratic society not a plutocratic society.
- 15/3/13 16:45
'Income inequality is a natural outcome in capitalism'
Really kah?
'Income inequality is ALSO a natural outcome in cronyism' -
- 15/3/13 16:51
Oh boy, everything that has happened here in the last decades have been copied wholesale from the US. The latest US melting pot immigration model came in minus the social safety nets and welfare benefits or anything that benefits us. They did not copy their civic pay model or follow the property agent's model of 1% commission on the GDP as quoted.
- 15/3/13 17:15
- Isabella said...
There is nothing that engenders discontent than feeling that certain privileges that are available to the rich are never going to be available to you. When I was growing up, my family's income rose 5x in 20 years - it was the nature of development and growth from 3rd world to 1st. Now there is no where to go, but we are pretending there is somewhere. It is an illusion.
- 15/3/13 17:25
We will all one day earn as much as PM. They have already laid THE FOUNDATION for that to happen. It is all good.
- 15/3/13 17:49
In the old days of kings and queens, the same happen where 1% royalty owns most wealth. Then a revolution happens and redistribute wealth equally. After 50 years, the wealth again flow to the 1%. Then another revolution.
In modern days, the kings are the corporate owners. Even if you split the wealth evenly now, in 50 years, the same thing will happen.
It is just a natural evolutionary tendency for wealth to concentrate at the hands of a few.
And this cycle will go on and on till the end of human time.
- 15/3/13 19:04
Then you are not thinking out of the box
We pay idiots much money to think like idiots, naturally, but if you think like them when you are not paid as much, you are really the bigger idiot
- 15/3/13 19:49
Ten times the eqivalents pay can be the lowest taxes?
- 15/3/13 20:41
Singapore probably has one of the highest indirect taxes?
- 15/3/13 20:47
Huge Flight of the Rich after French Tax Hikes.
- 15/3/13 21:06
I guess no choice but we just have to wait for the French to follow the indonesians, indians, chinese mainlanders and americans tycoons here. So when the prices of the undervalued hdb catches up to $1M and $2M, 80% of our population will become millionaires while the rest, billionaires. By then the annual gst collections will more than justify the minsters salaries. Dun need expensive old futurist to predict that.
- 15/3/13 21:54
And meanwhile, I think you see much less money spent on the things that the middle class and the poor need. That's why have this, you know, full bore attack on entitlements, right? Why is the plutocracy so enthusiastic about cutting entitlement spending? Because they don't need it. But they're very worried about their tax dollars funding it. — Moyers & Company.
Meritocracy, my foot. This is plutocracy.
- 15/3/13 22:07
15/3/13 21:54 - those french do not need to move very far, just need to move to other europeans countries. the move will create lots of jobs and businesses for the middle person. wealthy french cannot stand the lack of liberty and hence creativity here.
- 15/3/13 22:09
'How does our bottom 20% compare to US's.' - worst off, they have houses and cars. locals only have flats and crowded, stinky, flirty public transport.
- 15/3/13 22:14
The Economist article
///Huge Flight of the Rich after French Tax Hikes.///
@ 15/3/13 21:06
You guys should actually read the article.
It's a sarcastic headline and the article reports that only 2 rich French person is confirmed to be leaving ... for London.
And the article reports many other sources which proves that high taxes do not deter the rich.
e.g. rich Americans do not relocate to a lower tax American State.
- 15/3/13 22:35
seek truth from facts, said my secret admirer.
- 15/3/13 23:00
John Paulson, the New York hedge- fund manager said to have considered a move to Puerto Rico, said he won't set up a permanent residence on the island.
u think he will come to singapore instead? his buddies are all screaming in smoking red ferraris on our turfs.
- 15/3/13 23:08
Huat Ah!
- 16/3/13 00:10
What they don't tell in Harvard Business School?
(Singapore workers well paid, at least they got $eight hunddred, you see third foreign workers only $500 or $600?)
- 16/3/13 03:47
The staggering reserves of $260 billions and the year of depressing pays?
- 16/3/13 05:21
Sorry I need to pass some votes to them?
- 16/3/13 05:40
We having this buddy buddy system lor, passing some votes to my buddies lor, hope you don't mind lor, thank you ah?
- 16/3/13 06:02
55% of employed Sinkies no need to pay income tax because their income less than $22K per annum.
That means only 45% of Sinkies pay income tax.
And no wonder lah, at least 43% diehard Sinkies still voted PAP even in a by election, despite how bad Lucky Tan described PAP.
- 16/3/13 09:16
43% earn at least $4K per month or have networth of at least $1 million, the minimum money levels in order to be happy and satisfied to live in high cost Singapore.
- 16/3/13 09:19
Of course in Singapore to have good life, you must Pay and Pay (PAP).
But in order to have no problem and be happy with PAP, you must have lots and lots of money.
That's why rich foreigners come here to PAP to be happy.
Smart Sinkies who are rich are also happy.
And I repeat, smart and rich. No such thing as smart but not rich in Singapore.
- 16/3/13 09:24
You can be rich but not smart. Because you are born wealthy or have inheritance.
But if you are smart, you will be rich due to being smart. For sure.
If you are not rich, you are not smart. You will suffer and unhappy in Singapore even if PAP help you.
You want to be happy and rich, you have to be smart to help yourself. Or else you will still be poor and unhappy even if you vote opposition or go to Hong Lim Park to protest.
- 16/3/13 09:35
"Looking ahead to the next 10 years, Mr Tharman said the yuan would potentially play a transformational role in Asian finance and Singapore could make use of its strengths as a wholesale funding centre to increase liquidity and circulation of the Chinese currency in Asia."
All races must learn to eat and serve pork. The pork market is huge. Richly huge. Drool!
- 16/3/13 10:29
Huat Ah!
- 16/3/13 10:31
The Indian is showing a good example of prostration
- 16/3/13 10:48
Not too difficult to figure how the rich thinks. Or smell rather ha
- 16/3/13 10:50
"No such thing as smart but not rich in Singapore."
16/3/13 09:24
You must be very poor and stupid since you are working for PAP's Internet Brigade.
If you are smart, you will already too busy making money to be posting here.
If you are rich, you will be busy rubbing shoulders with the rich foreign talents. Will also be too busy to come here & post.
- 16/3/13 10:58
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- 16/3/13 11:02
smell like pigs is it? LoL
- 16/3/13 11:12
Be smart and make money.
And got time, got mood, then blog, post and go Hong Lim Park rally.
Or just make money will do if got no mood and no time.
Don't just blog and post but got no money.
- 16/3/13 12:07
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- 16/3/13 12:15
Since the removal of the Estate Duty tax in 2008, more and more of the rich are coming here to live it up and die. We have become their "happy hunting ground", to borrow a native American expression. So the Income Gap or Wealth Disparity here keeps widening.
- 16/3/13 12:29
Pigs will be pigs. When you are born and raised in a pig farm, your identity will be like pigs, you will live like and behave like pigs and your future is one big pot of roasted pig
- 16/3/13 14:02
// Don't just blog and post but got no money. ///
16/3/13 12:07
Why not.
This is a chance to fark the PAPigs.
Revenge for the misery.
Vote out the PAPigs.
Then everybody got a fair chance to KEEP the money we earn.
- 16/3/13 19:06
Singapore is PRIMARILY a showcase for the elites and only home to those who agreed to play by THEIR rules.
You know what is a showcase?
- 16/3/13 21:26
Yes acute mental sickness I suspect
- 16/3/13 22:50
Yes, showcase of idiots. Otherwise, how we become such a state of dissonant affairs?
- 16/3/13 23:19
Idiots and Fucking hypocrites some more LOL
- 17/3/13 00:25
The number of tourists alone more times than our population before when we had the swiss standards of living of space and leisure. Can guess why our places are caving in one by one? More people now but where are our benefits actually?
- 17/3/13 02:28
Xeno$probic i different from overcrowding?
- 17/3/13 09:20
The PAPigs have made;
Singapore into
- 17/3/13 09:31
"Don't just blog and post but got no money."
Anon 16/3/13 12:07
Of course lah. No money, where got mood to blog and post?
Blog and post cannot vote PAP out or give you money, or rather enough money thru adverts, tio bo?
- 17/3/13 10:01
"No money, where got mood to blog and post?"
Everybody blogging here must be very rich.
And rich people are pro-PAP.
So everybody here must be very pro-PAP.
Sure hate to see what anti-people really think about PAP then.
- 17/3/13 11:44
Money Money Money, PAP has the money and honey. All is well and will end well when you have Money Money Money, PAP has the money and honey.
- 17/3/13 12:20
Many chilling 2 bottles of champagne for Lee Kuan Yew, seem like many bottles are being chilled for many of his khakis as well. And a biggest bottle is prepared for PAP.
When will the poppppingggs start?
Can it happen before 2016 ?
- 17/3/13 12:46
As long as next best alternative WP is not ready, pop 100 bottles of champagne also no use.
Because 60% Sinkies will still prefer PAP, with or without Lee Kuan Yew.
Anyway, if you are smart, you will make money, doesn't matter under PAP , WP or what not government. And continue with your blog and posts if you like.
- 17/3/13 13:08
Will Singaporean be like that when they and their children lost their jobs to cheaper foreigners?
- 17/3/13 13:09
I only pop champagne after I make lots of money.
- 17/3/13 13:11
Useless sinkies will die if go to war....without the robust foreigners carrying their school bags..they wil stand screaming at their cellphone for their parents to take time off from work to solve the extra weight on their back...but the parents...weak like spiders about to fuck another spider..will write to MPs instead....and their MPs will just ignore and talk his favorite cock subject in parliament....and collect their fat paycheques and then head to thaiand over the weekend to eat wet sushi in 6 stars hotel ...just to recharge from all the cock session in parliament
- 17/3/13 14:27
I pop champagne everytime I fark the PAP Internet Brigade here in this blog.
No need to wait until "up the lorry".
Mini stroke also I pop the champagne.
- 17/3/13 14:30
Huat Ah. 2016 Huat Huat Huat
- 17/3/13 15:30
Cancer also I pop champagne.
- 17/3/13 17:54
6 stars hotel got cameras to catch famous people, no stars safer.
- 17/3/13 21:04
- 17/3/13 22:13
""Useless sinkies will die if go to war....without the robust foreigners carrying their school bags""
Funny leh, sinkies do NS & carry heavy weapons & full pack. That is why foreigners only carry the light load of school bags as they do not need to do NS or avoid doing NS, tio bor.
- 17/3/13 22:16
"but the parents...weak like spiders about to fuck another spider..will write to MPs instead....and their MPs will just ignore and talk his favorite cock subject in parliament."
nof course must write, complain and whine and continue to do so for a long long time. even they talk c**k, still must continue to complain & write letter until they cannot tahan. anyway, MPs and ministers also know how to take care of their own NS going kids. Tio bor.
it is good to have as many people like you to keep on insulting sinkies so that they will wake up.
- 17/3/13 22:23
/// The government's policies set a strong foundation for quality growth and an inclusive society, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who also emphasised that a healthy economy is necessary to create jobs.///
Create jobs for who ? and proportionately, how many go to true blue sinkies ? most importantly, breakdown please (of the different salary scales) among sinkies, new citizens of the last five years , PRs and FTs ?
Else, nice speech & grand statement is only good to hype up the go-getting energy & positiveness of fresh graduates in their convocation ceremony.
- 17/3/13 22:42
How to reduce the ministers' pay around the New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland & Norway ministers' pay is a challenge, their pay too high is a burden to the people, which cause wide income gaps, overcrowding, too many foreigners, indirect taxes, low birth rates and lower standard of living? I think they don't mind, as a leader need to lead by example, lowering their pay to ease the income gaps, as many of the lower end pay are below poverty line for years?
- 17/3/13 22:43
Should the follow the examples of New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland & Norway ministers example and their pays so that not to burden the populations too much?
- 17/3/13 22:58
Singapore don't have resources only resources are their people?
- 17/3/13 23:00
It is difficult for a small country with no resources, to support the leaders with ten time the pays of the leaders of New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, SwitZerland & Norway?
- 17/3/13 23:04
Even the felt difficult to raise the pay of the lower end without productivity, so it likely more difficult to support their pay of ten times that of the pay of New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Swit$erland & Norway ministers?
- 17/3/13 23:08
6 stars hotel got cameras to catch famous people, no stars safer.
17/3/13 21:04
That's where you are wrong. No stars, plenty of sin people around. The more expensive, the more discrete.
With money, you can almost get away with anything
- 17/3/13 23:47
For 50 years,
Singaporeans got no balls to vote out PAP.
What makes you think you will have balls in 2016?
- 18/3/13 00:13
/For 50 years, What makes you think you will have balls in 2016?/
becos balls may suddenly grow in 2016. just like the balls of ALGRC suddenly grew in 2011. you may be surprise to find grow in your mouth tomorrow.
- 18/3/13 00:54
Because you people too stupid and gay khiang..mouth smelly smelly .deserve to rot
- 18/3/13 01:40
Talented, talented in using the old and uneducated?
- 18/3/13 03:16
Hope they can learn from the ministers of New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark & Finland, multi- parties systems, govern with out one-tenth of our ministers' pay? Yet is efficient?
- 18/3/13 03:34
The man with great foresight :
- 18/3/13 04:59
Can Lim Suay Suay and company ever be cheaper, better and faster like;
the ministers of New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark & Finland;
multi- parties systems;
govern with out one-tenth of our ministers' pay?
When pigs fly ... out of Singapore.
When they emigrate.
- 18/3/13 08:54
Why they need this type of pay when well develop countries like New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark & Finland can run their countries well with just ten percent of their pay? Do you know it causes difficulties to the people?
- 18/3/13 09:03
Paying these high pay is not so simple as just saying all these people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffret got much higher incomes, it affect the life of many ordinary citizens?
- 18/3/13 09:28
LKY has created a generation that doesnt talk about its problems and the States Times and Channel News Asia are complicit in this. This country is run by a Goliath machinery that always condemns people who have a different opinion or point of view. Schools dont teach to the syllabus; they teach to the test. And we celebrate every layer of it all with a dose of hypocrisy, to the point that if there is anyone who doesnt observe this "ettiquette" of not speaking of "controversial" matters that really matters to us all...we shy away from the discussion by not contributing to it. Change is taking place incrementally but by the time the singaporean core has been diluted, they will rerun the same template with a New Singaporean People. If the government can do this now, they will do the same for the children and there is no reason to stay in a place that is changing out of control to the point trains are bloated and the government is waiting out for a new normal to be arrived at. In such a place, there is no greater meaning in life except to keep the body going till one enters the grave.
- 18/3/13 10:56
The radical solution is to take 20% of the top 20% and give to the bottom 20% to help them to cope with the high cost of living here.
- 18/3/13 11:00
Anonymous said...
LKY has created a generation that doesnt talk about its problems and the States Times and Channel News Asia are complicit in this. This country is run by a Goliath machinery that always condemns people who have a different opinion or point of view. Schools dont teach to the syllabus; they teach to the test. And we celebrate every layer of it all with a dose of hypocrisy, to the point that if there is anyone who doesnt observe this "ettiquette" of not speaking of "controversial" matters that really matters to us all...we shy away from the discussion by not contributing to it. Change is taking place incrementally but by the time the singaporean core has been diluted, they will rerun the same template with a New Singaporean People. If the government can do this now, they will do the same for the children and there is no reason to stay in a place that is changing out of control to the point trains are bloated and the government is waiting out for a new normal to be arrived at. In such a place, there is no greater meaning in life except to keep the body going till one enters the grave.
18/3/13 10:56
In short, the number of people who gets to interpret the Singapore story are working for Straits Times.
You can count them with your fingers
- 18/3/13 11:10
They are not called media cocks for nothing you know
- 18/3/13 11:13
Selective hearing problem Lah. Creative people usually creative in turning against you if need be. Watch your back
- 18/3/13 11:17
It is very hard to form a better alternative to PAP which has 80 elected MPs.
That's why, after PAP, the next best alternative so far is WP, and with only 7 elected MPs.
80 vs 7 is a very big gap. As big or even bigger than the income gap, tio bo?
Like that how to catch up?
- 18/3/13 11:29
Smart people become rich by making lots of money or become elected MPs or ministers.
That's why not enough smart people want to join opposition, so opposition not ready lah.
And opposition being not ready, cannot be voted into power lah.
It is a vicious cycle which smart Low Thia Khiang knows and he find it necessary to tell those daft Sinkies who still do not know.
- 18/3/13 11:35
To just rely and hope for WP to be the Alternative is just too myopic and impractical.
There is absolutely no need to put the hope on one who had declared that it has no wish to take over the helm. There are others to choose from, no need to put the eggs in one basket and it will be foolish to put hope in only one party.
- 18/3/13 11:50
Don't have the talents but want to be number one in everything in the world. Hey, learn to talk properly first, yes you MPs and sinkies, before you walk. .. Don't even think of running ok
That's how disillusioned the leaders are. Like shameless preachers who mostly talk only and idiots gong gong listen and follow
- 18/3/13 12:02
If we want to solve social problems.
We need to elect people who have a passion and interest in solving social problems.
Such people are the really "well qualified" politicians.
Money motivated political leaders can never "see" the social problems because they are only interested in money and profits.
They will remain "deaf to all criticism" because they are looking for money & profits.
And we are looking for "justice and equality".
Like duck trying to talk to chicken.
Can a chicken represent a duck in a parliamentary democracy?
Can a Millionaire-In-White represent our views in parliament?
Can a Millionaire-In-White understand our problems & struggles?
The Population White Paper on 6.9 million.
Did your Millionaire-In-White vote according to your wishes?
- 18/3/13 12:10
WP can win seats.
The rest of the opposition cannot even win at all. Why?
So like that how to put hope in them?
Might as well put hope in an ordinary Sinkie like me.
- 18/3/13 12:10
Is it possible to be a strong party but cannot win seats?
Is it possible to be smart but not rich?
- 18/3/13 12:14
You know why local PMETs lose out to foreigners? You ever listen to how a typical singaporean talk?
- 18/3/13 12:16
Even the polish ones talk like fiak lol
- 18/3/13 12:49
Should minimum wages in per hour basis?
- 18/3/13 13:04
Just watch local youtubers and international youtubers. Their millions of hits should say something?
How to make it??
- 18/3/13 13:08
People speak English you speak A level English. same meh?
- 18/3/13 13:09
Huat Ah!
- 18/3/13 13:11
Don't try to fix them, co operate with them like the New Zealand, Nordic and Switzerland co operate with each other to improve the life of ordinary citizens, try to fix them is third world countries mentalities? Don't try to live in the past now internet age, every person have access to info, gone are the days people can only get the new from MSM, last time policeman where shorts?
- 18/3/13 13:11
Why the Nordic, Swiss& New Zealand have high standard of living, low inequality, high birth rates, most jobs done by locals, they don't try to fix each others, by fixing each others we disgrace outside, calling ourself a first world country, they try to co operate with each other to improve the life of ordinary persons. This is a mature state, we are use to four fastest growing dragon, the best workforce in world, many use to admire, if they find out we try to fix each others what do they think?
With high access to internet, not like last time many have little or no educations and only access to MSM which is control by the govt?
Now most of the younger populations are educated, last time policemen wear shorts?
- 18/3/13 13:20
Policemen got X ray eyes too. Can watch you soap your didi
- 18/3/13 13:29
This extreme high pays, need high indirect taxes, CPF to maintain it?
- 18/3/13 13:54
Is it possible to be smart but not rich? UNQUOTE
18/3/13 12:14
But we know for sure.
In Singapore, you can be rich and not smart.
Just look at our Millionaires-In-White.
- 18/3/13 13:56
Smart ones let you rot
- 18/3/13 14:31
that's why Jesus is smart...he said...you hypocrites...go and die...he not even o level
- 18/3/13 14:34
- 18/3/13 14:37
As PAP, you will have 93% chance to become MP.
But as opposition, you only have 7% chance.
So smart people know who to join and also be accepted. And be richer by $15K every month.
Not smart, not accepted even if you want to join.
- 18/3/13 14:41
Must be smart to be rich.
Must be smart to win election.
Must be smart to have good life.
- 18/3/13 14:46
Must be smart to wipe mouth
- 18/3/13 15:06
- 18/3/13 15:18
Once I saw my CPF inside CPF board can't take out I felt sold rich ?
- 18/3/13 15:35
When at that time their pay is not so high did they think of so many schemes to maintain their sky high salaries, don't right?
At that time where got so many scheme like CPF lock schemes, COE schemes, ERP, GST, Levies, Casinos and invented many other schemes etc. If their pay is at the level of the Nordic, Swiss, New Zealander ministers level, which is one tenth of Singapore ministers pay, they will not have to think of inventing so many schemes to support their salaries, imported people from 2 millions populations to 5.3 million now aiming for 6.9 millions, many countries with huge tract of land do not use these type of schemes to import huge amount of people because they don't need to pay themselves sky high salaries?
- 18/3/13 16:08
Born in Sin, die in Sin. Be proud
- 18/3/13 16:28
If their pay is at the level of the Nordic, Swiss, New Zealander ministers level, which is one tenth of Singapore ministers pay, they will not have to think of inventing so many schemes to support their salaries....
This is the root of the problem, you know too many cooks spoil the soup... See..
.. ban long hair, ban chewing gums, ban rock music, ban this and that, stop at one (?), university and professional quotas.... and after that
TOTAL OPPOSITE CHANGE. Complete policy reversal .. employing foreign doctors, lawyers and dentists now!
So since there is no sure thing or permanence in today's policies, isnt it foolish then to have so many layers of highly paid officers doing and redoing all the minute details as in job overkill? Look at HDB and all the small micro details. Clever people dun need so many layers of workers and councils of advisers, other countries certainly dun need.... only kiasu kiasi people here do!
- 18/3/13 17:23
Advanced nations as they were called, people don't recognised them as advanced nations, they are likely came from a lower base, slowly they develop their local capability and long term improvement in the local productivity, which is difficult to measure, to do high values jobs and skills, they can't use the third world countries method of cheaper, better & faster foreign workers, how fast, how cheap and how better then workers can go to race against the development of of machines and robots? You can't just spend so much tax payer money to educated them, later they emigrate to other nations and causing a brain drain?
- 18/3/13 17:52
- 18/3/13 18:36
Multi- national foreign countries usually left when they have little or no money to make to cheaper countries where there is cheaper labour? Their aim is to get cheaper and cheaper labour, so what happen they left, if we don't depend on our home grown companies or SME?
- 18/3/13 19:07
The driver may like the co driver to relief him for a while. Let the co driver takes over the steering wheel at the housing, transport or education ministry. Fresh and alert, the co driver should be able to do a nice job and show his mettle. No need for him to slap the tired driver and worry about his own safety while the driver can rest and be rejuvenated.
- 19/3/13 00:09
Why not sack the tired driver (PAPig)?
And bring in 2 new drivers (WP & NSP)?
- 19/3/13 00:18
The 2 new drivers themselves said they are not ready to drive.
You dare to be passenger if they drive? Kena langgar mati then how?
I am poor but I still want to live.
- 19/3/13 00:28
Collect your salary, go the toilet, take out those notes, wipe backside
End of story
- 19/3/13 02:06
My late teacher once quoted this : "Put you eggs in many baskets as you can".
One of my classmate "Daft Sinkies", ask her : Why is that so ???
Teacher : You may lose all your eggs, if the basket drop due to greedy, corruptions, incompetent, etc.
Daft Sinkies : Then, how about putting them in two baskets ???
Teacher : If the first basket drop you lose some of your eggs. Now you're left with another incompetent basket who refused to shoulder any responsibility and would rather remain empty, be place in a showcase.
Daft Sinkies : How daft I am, of not thinking about that.
Teacher : That's because your parents are daft, your grandparents are daft and so were your ancestors. Bluntly said, you're the descendents of daft. And don't worry, you'll forever remain daft till the day you die. Now Shut Up and Sit Down, DAFT !!!
- 19/3/13 04:07
If and when a co-driver refuses to take over the wheel knowing very well that the driver is fatigued and dozing off. The co-driver, if he is competent and conscientious, shud relief the driver. This is to ensure the safety of the passengers as wrll as himself. Refusing to take over the driver in this case is an act of negligence far more irresponsible than the driver. And if the co-driver behaves negligently, he shud be replaced by a duty conscious and responsible one. The paxs need not have to bear with the driver and co-driver and worse putting their live to great risk.
- 19/3/13 07:53
The 2 new drivers themselves said they are not ready to drive.
You dare to be passenger if they drive? Kena langgar mati then how?
I am poor but I still want to live. UNQUOTE
19/3/13 00:28
The current driver already langgar so many times over the last 10 years.
You still think he is fit to drive?
You still alive right?
Why so scared to langgar?
You are still poor maybe because the current driver langgar so many times.
Ever thot of that?
The 2 new co-drivers (WP & NSP) may say they are not ready.
This only proves that Singaporeans must give these new drivers opportunity and experience to drive.
Otherwise, the next 20 years.
have to continue to a depend on the old driver.
A driver proven and tested to be accident prone.
10 years accident record to prove it.
- 19/3/13 09:52
I rather walk than to be driven by unreliable and dangerous drivers. They can crash themselves to pieces or fight in the cabin as much as they want.
Who cares?
- 19/3/13 10:28
You live in a country (the car).
You are stuck in the car.
Either you drive.
Let somebody else drive.
Or vote somebody competent to drive.
When you emigrate, you are just changing cars.
You are still stuck in a car.
You still have the same problems with drivers.
- 19/3/13 10:31
"The White Paper stated that enough land for an additional 700,000 homes has been set aside, and more will be added in the longer term if needed.
It projects an additional 15,000 to 25,000 new citizens each year, and an additional 30,000 new permanent residents each year. Assuming the increase of new citizens averages about 20,000 each year, this works out to an additional 50,000 new citizens and PRs in Singapore each year over the next 17 years, or 850,000 in total. Assuming there are three persons per household, they will need about 280,000 housing units.
Meanwhile the average number of marriages each year has been around 25,000, which means 425,000 new households by 2030."
Cleber thinking. No over supply of new homes. See lah, Singaporean so cleber
- 19/3/13 10:35
Hence, the combined demand of an additional 705,000 housing units would match supply by 2030.
The writer goes on to say that Singapore's residential property market already faces a near-term increase of more than 30,000 units this year and 40,000 units next year, but these 70,000 units can easily be absorbed with our demand backlog.
In fact, I believe that the supply imbalance will continue to 2030, if we go by the projections of the White Paper.
- 19/3/13 10:38
It is not the drivers or the car, stupid. It is the ROAD
- 19/3/13 10:47
Be assured.
Singaporeans are daft.
Sin leaders are not.
Daft sinkies think that
their leaders will stay
in Sin.
Oni the daft sinkies
will die in Sin.
Their smart leaders
will live in their many
ivory towers in many
parts of the World.
- 19/3/13 10:54
Huat Ah
- 19/3/13 11:05
The problem is that our incompetent PAPig Leeders do NOT want to leave Singapore.
(They can't get such high pay for screwing up such an easy job elsewhere).
If our Leeders left Singapore.
Our country's average I.Q. will definitely increase 10 points.
Our economy will improve by at least 2%
- 19/3/13 11:35
If you are on the road already paved for you, having a co driver will just ensure that their interests, and original onw of you, will be safe, including their car.
But no one is creating new roads. They are navigating existing roads. You may have to get out of the car, get on a plane if you want to soar to greener pastures.
That is not going to happen when you listen to how the influential or people in power talk
- 19/3/13 12:01
If you are on the road already paved for you, having a co driver will just ensure that their interests, and many of you, will be safe, including their car. But no one is creating new roads. They are navigating existing roads. You may have to get out of the car, get on a plane if you want to soar to greener pastures. That is not going to happen when you listen to how the influential or people in power talk
- 19/3/13 12:03
On the contrary.
A huge fortune would have been moved before the owners follow after them.
The economy cud be down by 2% with just 20 richest sinkies running abroad.
- 19/3/13 12:09
The economy cud be down by 2% with just 20 richest sinkies running abroad. UNQUOTE
19/3/13 12:09
It won't happen.
But even if it does, so what?
You think the 20 richest Singaporeans are sharing their good fortune with the rest of us right now?
Singapore economy doing well ... so what?
Are you doing well right now?
Are your children doing well right now?
- 19/3/13 12:15
Maybe the 20 richest Sinkies should transfer their wealth into Cyprus banks for safe-keeping.
Rich Sinkies know.
Only in Singapore there are poor people who will work so hard to protect the rich people.
you think so easy to find another country to protect their bank deposits?
- 19/3/13 12:19
I recommend we fly on budget airline to Thailand and eat mee siam mai hum. The dish will then become a reality
- 19/3/13 12:23
Have you makan oredi? Bathed? Washed your panties?
Uncle why are you so worried about others when you shud be worrying more about yourself?
- 19/3/13 12:24
Sound very gay leh the dish lol
- 19/3/13 12:26
Sin is the best. Many can learn the Sin ways and prosper too.
If Sin can do it, others can to. Sin is the way
- 19/3/13 12:38
Don't have to teach Sin leaders the Sin ways. They know best and is the best in Sin ways. Look at how prosperous the people are? Smart people are rich because they know the Sin ways and they are committed in the Sin ways. If you don't know the Sin ways, you are stupid.
Be smart, learn the Sin ways. Get yourself a good education, upgrade, innovate, leverage, be productive and connect with people who knows how to prosper in Sin.
In Sin, must do as the Sins do.
- 19/3/13 13:08
Singapore's F-35. The most expensive fighter jet ever built.
Why our Leeders must buy it I will never understand.
But spend one dollar of our tax money to help our fellow Singaporeans.
We get PAPig MPs asking "where is the money going to come from?"
Now we know.
The money to pay for the F-35 is going to come from NOT helping our fellow Singaporeans.
- 19/3/13 13:17
Expensive fighter jet can scare enemy from attacking us.
Poor, needy and old Sinkies can scare enemy away or not?
And they don't even pay income tax to pay for government spending, including buying fighter jets.
- 19/3/13 14:19
Whatever lah, as long as 60% voted PAP because WP is not ready.
- 19/3/13 14:21
To be a bus driver, Sg'reans need to undergo months of intensive training and testing. Tested and passed, posted to depot where a follow-up training by a qualified mentor, for about a week or so. Tested and passed, then only they would be allowed to drive solo, on the public road. (However, I believe, FT's drivers bypasses most of the above. But that's not my points right now.)
Just like the incompetent PM and most of those MPs that parachuted in, or by the corrupted pulling string methods.
My questions :
1) Why until today, the idiotic Goment still need Co-Driver ???
2) Why until today, PM still need two mentors to assist him ???
3) Why until today, the Co-Driver still can't drive ???
4) Show me, which Country in the World, have such a stupid idiotic system ???
- 19/3/13 15:16
I was at the supermarket. I farted conspicuously but somehow, it must have gotten notice because a mad man kept following me around. Or was it my perfume?
- 19/3/13 15:25
They're gifted, to breath their own kind.
- 19/3/13 15:36
Poor Singaporeans pay income tax because of GST.
Sick & dying Singaporeans pay GST tax on their hospital and Medicine bills.
Children pay filial piety tax (maid levy) when they hire maid to look after old & sick parents.
Parents pay children tax (maid levy) when they hire maid to look after their children.
- 19/3/13 15:44
1) Why until today, the idiotic Goment still need Co-Driver ???
2) Why until today, PM still need two mentors to assist him ???
3) Why until today, the Co-Driver still can't drive ???
Anon 19/3/13 15:16
So that mentors got job, power, salary and money mah.
Co-driver can drive, then driver become jobless, tio bo? Then no power, no salary and no money mah.
Remember, must be smart to make money. So they are smart, not stupid idiotic as you said.
You got money or not? If not, you are stupid idiotic.
- 19/3/13 15:58
I LMAOLROTF, till I nearly fall off my chair.
- 19/3/13 21:17
The never-ending torrent of news about economic despair and political turmoil across the world serves as a reminder of what an enviable position we occupy in the global context, and how fragile and fleeting success can be when met with complacency and a sense of entitlement.Ours is a position that has been achieved through the hard work and tireless struggle of those that came before us, and it is our shared responsibility to preserve and grow this brilliant legacy for our children to inherit.
- 19/3/13 21:23
If pay reduce to the level of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland Ministers' Level, don't to think about 6.9M, because don't so much money to finance them?
- 19/3/13 22:31
Ours is a position that has been achieved through the hard work and tireless struggle of those that came before us, and it is our shared responsibility to preserve and grow this brilliant legacy for our children to inherit. UNQUOTE
19/3/13 21:23
When there is work to be done, it is a "shared responsibility."
When there is money to be made, it is millions in salary for the pigs.
And no minimum wage for the rest of us.
I spit on this type of legacy.
My children will not be slaves to pigs.
Vote Opposition for justice & equality.
- 19/3/13 23:36


text:
Associated Press
NEW YORK - This year's winners of the top prizes in children's literature were honored for stories of resilience over the most everyday troubles: a boy grounded by his parents, a dog that loses its favorite toy.
Jack Gantos' "Dead End in Norvelt" won the John Newbery Medal for the best children's book of 2011, and Chris Raschka's "A Ball for Daisy" won the Randolph Caldecott award for best illustration. The prizes were announced Monday by the American Library Association during its midwinter meeting in Dallas.
No cash prizes are given, but the awards are watched closely by booksellers and librarians and often lead to increased sales and a lasting place on a school or store bookshelf. Previous winners include such favorites as Louis Sachar's "Holes" and Brian Selznick's "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," the basis for Martin Scorsese's film "Hugo."
Within hours of the prizes' announcement, "Dead End in Norvelt" and "A Ball for Daisy" were both in the top 50 on Amazon.com and both out of stock.
Gantos and Raschla are well established in children's publishing. Gantos, 60, has been a finalist for the Newbery and the National Book Award. Raschka, 52, won the Caldecott in 2006 for "The Hello, Goodbye Window."
Gantos' novel follows the humorous adventures of a boy named Jack Gantos, grounded "for life" by his parents and prone to the most gushing nosebleeds. But he is restored by the stories he learns about his hometown, Norvelt, a planned community in Pennsylvania founded during the Great Depression.
The author is more than a little like the Jack Gantos of his book. He spent part of his childhood in Norvelt and shares his character's sensitive nose. Gantos said he thought of "Dead End" after giving a eulogy for his aunt that looked back on Norvelt's special past.
"I talked about the spirit of people helping people, and how people really banded together," Gantos said during a telephone interview from his home in Boston. "And at the end of my eulogy, a lot of people came up to me and said they didn't know about the history of Norvelt. I love history, and I love humor, so I thought history could use a little humor."
Raschka's wordless picture book, told through watercolor, ink and gouache, recounts the saga of a white and gray terrier whose beloved red ball is stolen by a bigger, brown poodle. The ball bursts and Daisy's spirit seems to break with it, until the poodle returns with a blue ball that leaves the pets and their owners equally content.
Raschka said "Daisy" was inspired by his son, who at age 4 was devastated when his yellow ball broke during a scrape with a neighbor. The author said he began thinking of "those first feelings of losing something beloved" and knowing you can't get it back. For the story, he changed the main character from a boy to a dog.
"When you're a picture book illustrator, your readers are often 3 or 4 years old, and you don't want the drawing to be upsetting in itself," Raschka said during a phone interview from the offices of Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Inc. "By having an animal, there's some distance, and yet there is still a connection."
Other winners were announced Monday, including John Corey Whaley's "Where Things Come Back," which received the Michael L. Printz Award for best young adult literature; and Kadir Nelson's "Heart and Soul," winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award for best African-American story. The King prize for best illustrated book was given to Shane W. Evans' "Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom."
Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones," winner last fall of the National Book Award for fiction, was among 10 recipients of the Alex Award for adult books that appeal to teens. Others cited included Erin Morgenstern's acclaimed debut "The Night Circus" and David Levithan's "The Lover's Dictionary." Bill Wright's "Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy" received the Stonewall award for "exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience."
The Pura Belpre award for best Latino author went to Guadalupe Garcia McCall for "Under the Mesquite," while the Belpre illustration prize was given to Duncan Tonatiuh for "Diego Rivera: His World and Ours." Translator Laura Wilkerson's work on Bibi Dumon Tak's "Soldier Bear," originally published in Dutch in 2008, won her the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for best book translated from a foreign language.
Susan Cooper, known for her fantasy series "The Dark is Rising," won the Margaret A. Edwards award for lifetime achievement in young adult literature.

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Existing Market, tasteful, something that would be appealing to the general public.
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While most real estate agencies were downsizing and getting rid of personnel during the depths of the housing crash, Gaff's Realty was more than happy to take on more agents.
PORT ORANGE — While most real estate agencies were downsizing and getting rid of personnel during the depths of the housing crash, Gaff's Realty was more than happy to take on more agents.
Combined with cutting fees and offering a very generous share of commissions to its agents — an uncommon 90-to-10 percent split, with the agents getting the larger portion — the firm, founded in 1997 by owner Andrea Davis, has grown to include a "family" of 102 real estate agents.
Davis attributes her firm's success to just that: treating her agents like family. Even if it has become a very large, extended family, stretching over two counties, she said she still takes the time to individually mentor each of her agents.
"When the downturn happened, I changed my business plan," said Davis. "What I did was I went and downsized all our expenses, but, when my competitors were charging their agents more fees, I did the opposite. I dropped all our fees and I gave them all a raise. I raised them all to a 90/10 split."
"I knew they were going to have less sales. I didn't want them to suffer," she continued. "I knew what it was like in the 80s," when she worked as an agent as another real estate boom went bust.
Davis has been in the real estate business since 1972, spending most of that time as an agent herself. She sympathized with her agents' struggles during the recent housing crash and figured that if she could make life easier for them, they'd stay loyal when better times returned. It was a gamble that paid off for Gaff's Realty.
"I knew if I could be on their side during this and help them out, that they could make it," said Davis. "So we had a very low drop rate, where my competitors lost major amounts of their staff. We had the opposite happen."
Overall, while most agencies saw their agent rolls boom and bust along with the market, Davis said her staff levels steadily increased throughout the recessionary years.
"A lot of people, when home sales fell, they went out and got other jobs," said Joshua Harris, a professor at the University of Central Florida's Dr. P. Phillips Institute for Research and Education in Real Estate.
Harris also noted that having 102 agents is a bit of a feat, especially given the size of the market Gaff's operates in.
"I would say that's fairly large, especially for a market like Volusia County," he said.
Davis likes to individually train new agents at Gaff's — in fact, she noted some of her best agents were ones she hired just out of school and then molded herself.
The key trait in a good agent, she said, is people skills, above all else.
"If they tell me they like housing and so forth, that's not what I'm looking to hear," she said.
Davis believes her firm is on track to surpass its peak annual sales figure of $66 million in 2005. Year-to-date, the firm has brokered $51 million in sales, while since the year 2000, Gaff's has done about $500 million in sales.
"I think last year was the first year we could really start counting on great numbers again, and this year has just been phenomenal," she said. Prices are rising rapidly, she said, and more buyers are having to compete against multiple offers once again.
While the firm may have over 100 agents, Davis is the only full-time employee. Gaff's office on Dunlawton Avenue in Port Orange is its only one in either county, as well, with most of its agents working from the field.
The name Gaff's Realty comes from a shortened version of Davis' maiden name, Gaffka. Along with her family, she moved to Port Orange from Michigan in 1981. Several of her family members own a variety of businesses around Port Orange, including three restaurants and a butcher shop.


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Win a Gibson Les Paul Signed By Les Paul Himself!
Talk about "collectible" guitar! Waterstones is offering this one-off chance for a lucky person to win this legendary guitar, signed by its legendary creator.
As we are sure many of our customers, who visit the Dolphin Music website each day, are true guitar lovers, we thought we'd let you know about this exciting competition!
To celebrate the launch of the new book Gibson Les Paul Manual, Waterstones are giving one lucky winner the chance to own a fabulous Gibson electric guitar signed by Les Paul himself.
The all-time favourite Gibson model, the Les Paul is recognized the world over as an icon for rock and roll. Favoured by legendary guitarists such as Paul McCartney, Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, Jimmy Page and Slash, the Les Paul debuted in 1952, and continues to shape the sounds of popular music today.
The guitar is a traditional Gibson Les Paul in cherry sunburst and worth over £1,500. The prize is made priceless by the addition of a scratch plate signed by Les Paul himself!
For your chance to win this money-can't-buy guitar, you must find the five differences between two Les Paul images and enter the "spot-the-difference competition" on the Waterstones website. Click Here.
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Ben Queen's "A to Z" is the most promising comedy premiering on broadcast networks this fall. That's not saying much — this is not a particularly good year for new comedies — but it's saying something.
Something like, "If you're longing for a heart-on-its-sleeve show that focuses exclusively on romance, and you feel, as many of us did, that Cristin Milioti got a raw deal on 'How I Met Your Mother,' " in which she got to play the titular mom for three minutes before being heartlessly killed off, then this might be the show for you."
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Herman F. Loebl
Aug. 26, 1918 - Nov. 28, 2008
Herman F. Loebl, 90, most recently of Saugatuck Township, Mich., was born to eternal life Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, at his home. He was born Aug. 26, 1918, in Milwaukee to Herman J. and Helen (nee Schmidt) and spent his retirement years at his Lake Michigan home.
Herman grew up in Waukesha and attended Waukesha High School, where he was valedictorian of his graduating class, and then went on again to be at the top of his class at the Marquette University College of Business Administration. He received his Bachelor of Science from Marquette University in 1941 and his MBA from Harvard University in 1942. He married the former June Hulbert on June 19, 1943. Herman served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 until 1946. He was a professor emeritus and served as associate dean at the Marquette University College of Business Administration, retiring in 1984 after working there for 38 years. He was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and several honorary fraternities, including Alpha Sigma Nu and Beta Gamma Sigma.
Herman is survived by his beloved wife of 65 years, June Loebl; a daughter, Margaret Loebl of Champaign, Ill.; sons, Donald (Ann) Loebl of Augusta, Ga., John (Patricia) Loebl of Lakin, Kan., the Rev. Jeffrey Loebl S.J. of Milwaukee and James Loebl of Green Bay; six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren; and a brother, Robert (Anne) Loebl of Holland, Mich.
Herman was preceded in death by a sister, Helen Schuetze, and his brothers, Frank and John Loebl.
The Mass of Christian burial will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, at Gesu Catholic Church, 1145 W. Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee. The family will receive visitors at 10 a.m. in the church prior to the Mass.
Memorials may be given to the Herman F. Loebl Scholarship Fund, College of Business Administration at University Advancement, Marquette University, 500 N. 19th St., P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881; or the Jesuit Partnership, 3400 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53208.
The family expresses its gratitude for the support, love and prayers that have been given Herman and the family during his illness.
Becker Ritter Funeral Home, 14075 W. North Ave., Brookfield, is serving the family. For more information, call 782-5330 or visit www.BeckerRitter.com.


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A new major release of Novell's community-supported distro openSUSE 11 is now available and can be downloaded from the mirrors. Linux Format has a hands-on look at the new installer, SLAB menu and Compiz Fusion, and weighs up whether the distro can fight competition from Ubuntu and Fedora. Is this the start of a new era for SUSE?


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Lil Wayne Gets Panties Flung at Him During NJ Show [VIDEO]
What does rapper Lil Wayne have in common with legendary singer Tom Jones? Jones is famous for having female fans fling their underpants at him while he's onstage, and Lil Wayne got bombarded by some unmentionables during a recent show in New Jersey.
According to PopCrush, Lil Wayne was performing at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden when a female fan threw a pair of panties at him. He picked it up and held it as he continued to perform — and was immediately barraged by about a dozen pairs of undies.
Lil Wayne is scheduled to appear at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, although it's not known if there will be any airborne undergarments during his performance. In the meantime, here's some footage of the frillies-flinging incident.


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BOSTON — There's no telling what will happen with Marc Savard in terms of his availability for tonight's Game 6 of the Bruins' Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with Buffalo at TD Garden.
Savard took part in an optional skate with about a dozen of his teammates, but did not speak to the media.
When asked about Savard's status, head coach Claude Julien was tight-lipped as usual.
"No confirmation right now," was all Julien would say in his morning media briefing.
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Serious cyclists become obsessed with flashy new miracle-material frames and high-tech componentry, but there's also plenty of innovation among the less-glamorous parts of the bike. Here's proof that essential-but-mundane products like inner tubes, pedals, water bottles and indoor training stands can have a "wow" factor too.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts
During a recent livestream press event, Activision revealed the new multiplayer modes that will be featured in Call of Duty: Ghosts. Activision is calling this the biggest overhaul to multiplayer since the first Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Here's a breakdown of what you'll be playing this November.
After showing a trailer that featured dudes blowing each other up, calling down airstrikes, and using drones to firebomb enemies, Activision went into detail about Call of Duty: Ghosts new multiplayer upgrades. Here are the highlights:
Customization: In the past, you customized a class, now you'll be able to customize a soldier who you'll journey with across the breadth of your Call of Duty experience. Ghost features over 20 thousand customization possibilities, including details of how your soldier looks, and whether you are male or female. You can customize a team of up to 10 soldiers, who can all have different skillsets, and you'll earn experience for each soldier you play. This is important because one of the new modes in the game, Squads, allows you to let the AI control your teammates as you play alongside them in various multiplayer matches.
New modes: In addition to the aforementioned Squads mode, Activision showed off another new mode called Cranked, where players face a countdown clock that ticks towards their death. Players can add to their clock with each kill, and as they kill their movements speed up, resulting in a fast paced, frantic match. Another mode, called Search and Rescue has players resurrecting their friends. When players die, they drop their dog tags. If a team member can get to those tags they'll resurrect that player, but if an opponent gets there first, the downed player will be out for the rest of the round.
Dynamic World: Ghost's maps won't be static areas like in previous games, but will be fluid environments that change as the battle ranges on. Players can open up new lines of sight by blowing holes in walls. During the trailer, we watch one player shoot out the tanks at a gas station and cause the station's roof to collapse on top of several opponents. Traversing these environments will also be smoother thanks to a number of systems that Infinity Ward has added to the game. Ghosts features a new mantling system and a lean system that lets you lean around cover without pressing a button. A knee slide also allow players zip around the map and slide into cover quickly.
Mobile: Activision is hoping to expand your Call of Duty experience outside of your consoles will a new Call of Duty mobile app that will integrate with your online profile. With the new app you can check your loadouts, profiles, squads, and prestige level. This app also adds some second screen functionality by allowing you to pick your loadout for your next spawn while playing the game.
All told, Ghost features 7 new game modes, 30 new weapons, and a host of new killstreaks. A new weapon class called marksman rifles now bridges the gap between rifles and sniper rifles. We're getting our hands on the game's multiplayer at a special Call of Duty: Ghosts event, so stay tuned for impressions. If you're interested in checking the game out yourself, Activision will be touring Ghost through 10 cities around the world before launch, including: London, Dubai, Sydney, Sao Paolo and Paris.
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Remember the famous Stanford marshmallow study of 1972? It asked children at a campus nursery school to choose between eating a marshmallow (or a cookie or a pretzel, depending on their preference) right away or waiting while the researcher stepped out of the room for a period of time, at which point they would get two marshmallows. The purpose of the study, which involved more than 600 children, was to determine at what age we begin to develop an understanding of delayed gratification.
In follow-ups through the 1980s, data showed that the "high delayers" (the ones who held out for two marshmallows) had more social and academic success and even got higher SAT scores than their "low delaying" peers.
Recently, as if to remind us that attending a university-affiliated preschool can have lifelong ramifications, a subgroup of the participants, now in their 40s, have been evaluated once again, some with MRI brain scans.
It turns out that those who, as children, gobbled up their marshmallows at the first opportunity and then continued to have similar impulses throughout their lives showed more activity in the parts of the brain associated with pleasure. The ones who held out for two marshmallows had more activity in the prefrontal cortex, associated with impulse control. The findings were published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The original study, which has been duplicated time and again, has long been a source of public fascination. Type "Stanford marshmallow" into a Google video search and you'll find clip after clip of cute kid footage, most of it replicating almost exactly the behaviors of the subjects in the original study. (There's lots of hiding of eyes, kicking of desks and even fondling of the marshmallow as though it were a stuffed toy.)
But adorableness aside, much of the appeal of the research lies in the way it lends scientific credence to one of the great American edicts about success: There's a direct correlation between delayed gratification and positive outcome.
"Sacrifice now, benefit later" goes the mantra of upward mobility. We like to believe this ethic is what separates the college-bound student from the dropout. We like to believe it's the reason marrying young carries a greater divorce risk than marrying later. Most of all, we like to hold it up as an essential difference between the rich and the poor. Read just about any finance guru — Richard Kiyosaki, who wrote "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" to name one — and lack of impulse control among the poor emerges as a major theme.
But how good is impulse control when every segment of society — rich, poor and middle class alike — starts to delay gratification by simply not buying things? You get a stalled-out economy with seemingly no end in sight, one in which "lack of consumer demand" has been cited as a bigger problem than economic uncertainty.
Granted, it's not as simple as that, and granted, uncertainty begets diminished demand and vice versa. Still, there's something ironic about the fact that the behavior most associated with prosperity — delayed gratification — is now perpetuating our lack of it.
Does that mean that an army of "low delaying" marshmallow eaters could save the nation by hitting the malls and buying on credit? Probably not, since that's more or less what happened during the most recent real estate boom and things didn't work out too well. But it's increasingly clear that even as we shun instant-gratification seekers, even as we link them to lower achievement and buy into platitudes about rich thinking versus poor thinking, we need them. Especially the ones who are already rich.
We need them to splurge when others are saving, to take risky business ventures when the rest of us are laying low. For every Warren Buffett, who's probably hoarding marshmallows in his Omaha garage, we need a Donald Trump, who may well be constantly pumping marshmallow fluff into his veins.
And let's face it, high delayers, with their long-term successful outcomes, just don't have the stomachs for that. What the world needs now are the kids who stuffed their faces. Otherwise, it's a rocky road indeed.


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Davies & Partners is a new fixed income and hybrid securities specialist firm. The firm provides asset management, research, capital markets and broking in fixed income and hybrid securities.
The job is to design the look and feel for our corporate communications. We require a business card, PowerPoint presentation layout, landscape Word "pitchbook" and portrait report layout. Latin can be used for text.
We have a logo (attached) however we feel it could be enhanced, feel free to change the colour or other effects (such as 3D) to support your overall design.
Institutional feel - clients are financial institutions (hedge funds, insurance companies) and financial advisers, major financial institutions and leading corporations.
1. Business card (in AI and jpeg format) – we like cards that have one colour on the back of the card (perhaps with a watermark of our logo)
2. PowerPoint Presentation (in PowerPoint) – 5 slides: cover, agenda, section break and 2 standard slides – incorporating graphs and tables
3. Pitchbook Presentation (in Word)
A pitchbook is a marketing presentation document that is a cross between a PowerPoint presentation and a regular Word document, with more elements than an overhead presentaion.
We need the design for four key slides:
· Cover
· Section divider
· and sample slides like the pages marked 1 and 5 in the first example
Examples (first two are good, third just to round out):
4. Research Report (in Word) – see attachment. This needs to be clean, simple and easy to read


text:
2 out of 3 adults in England overweight or obese
LONDON (AP) — More than 60 percent of adults in England are overweight or obese, according to new figures by the national public health agency.
The figures were released Tuesday. Experts have previously predicted England's increasing obesity epidemic could mean half its population will be obese by 2030. People who are heavy have a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
To fight bulging waistlines in Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands, authorities are trying a new approach. Overweight people can sign up to get frequent text messages encouraging them to move more and eat less.
One text says "Maybe walk to the shops or use the stairs more often." Officials described it as a "cheap and effective nudge" to take action before obese people need expensive medical attention.


text:
Groping Ghost Won't Let This Poor Grandma Sleep
If you thought that Ohio had cornered the market on aggressively sexual ghosts, you were wrong (as always!): Over in England, 73-year-old Doris Birch says she's had trouble going to sleep over these past four months because of the ghost who gropes her all night long.
"It's like an octopus," she tells acclaimed poltergeist news source Daily Mail:
'I kicked frantically and it went away.
'I've tried sleeping without the duvet. But it started shaking my mattress.
'I even threw the mattress off the bed and bought a new one but it has made no difference.
'This is very creepy and is giving me the jitters. It's harassing me.
'I need to call in the Ghostbusters.'
Throwing the mattress away seems like a really dumb non-solution. Ghosts don't care about the quality or brand of one's bed—they care about haunting and taunting. She's obviously undereducated about ghost culture and social mores.
A vicar swung by Birch's house to inform her that the ghost is probably a "lost spirit," but did nothing to drive it away. Maybe the husband-and-wife ghost-hunting team she's hired will resolve the issue.
If given the choice between ghosts who have sex in your living room—a la the ghosts who have been haunting Ohio resident Dianna Carlisle's house lately—or ghosts who pester you while you're trying to catch your beauty Z's, which would you choose? I'd definitely go with the former choice, because sleep deprivation can drive a person crazy after just a day or two. With the living-room sex ghosts you could always look away or even try to put up a curtain where they can have some privacy (unless they're exhibitionist ghosts, in which case they'll try to flaunt their sexuality). In conclusion, it's better not to be haunted by ghosts.