Sunday, May 13, 2007
i also got bugged to blog here.. so here i am.
regarding the recent issue about the ministerial pay hike..
- i have absolutely no idea what's going on
- i dont have time to find out what's going on
- my linguistic abilities (or the lack of) is hindering me from understanding lj's article
- the blog design is actually turning me off (dark background and dark fonts)
- im naturally one who doesnt really care about politics cause..
even if i do who am i to affect them?we can criticise for all we care but ultimately the decision is made but those on top. im sorry but this is the cold hard truth. i learn this hard in the army.. i try to voice out things but how many times are these complains reflected and things get changed? just ask yourselves this question. u guys have times and times again from the papers that the gahmen has made this change that change blah blah to benefit the pple but on the ground.. how much have u benefited? i dont know about u guys but me who belongs to those of a low income grp (a monthly income less than 1.5 k a month) doesnt feel any benefit here. the only thing i feel is pain in the form of an increase in GST (which is supposed to boost tax which in term increases AE but i dont care) which is beginning to feel a strain in my wallet.
the benefits will come.. it's a sooner or later case. if it's not sooner it's probably later. and i suppose it's the latter aka later. by the time it come.. i wonder how much pain many pple in the lower income grp will feel before the monetary benefits ease their woes. i wonder who here have the same views with me cus i know many of u guys are much better off then me financially but nevertheless, try to feel for them.
i wont say that i have no faith for the gahmen. i still have.. after all it's MM lee and co who started from scratch to build a post-war SG to what we have today.
but sometimes..
when u realise that a few of those in the cabinet are somehow related to MM lee, economic welfare is not felt by many in the lower income grp, and many other instances.. u know it and we know it. it's somehow like an open secret. i wont post it here in case i get charged or something (the power of an open society).. somehow somewhere in your mind u start to wonder whether the gahmen that u see today is the gahmen that u still have complete faith in..
or not.
this is my 2 cents worth. it's not about my pov about the issue.. but more of the political climate today and how i view my role in the society, one who represents a person from a low income grp. u guys can take it or just leave it as it is.. and u all can comment about it. after all it's a free society, isnt it. the freedom of speech.. hur hur
eugene sang at 12:55 PM
