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First world nation deserves first world pension, say no to CPF risk-pooling

I saw a good post about a universal pension here and we should be supporting this. As a fellow sandwiched Singaporean, it will be our turn to depend on pension on day. I'd like to say that many of us have had enough of the poor CPF payouts, changing goalposts and risk-pooling of our hard-earned savings! At first, CPF was supposed...

PAP is too far into the woods to know that they are prescribing outdated ideas

I shall talk about PM Lee's proposal on extension of Retirement age and increase in CPF rates for older workers. As a Pioneer Citizen who have lived through all the policy twists and turns of the Government under Lee Hsien Loong, his National Day Rally Speech was just a regurgitation of old and tired ideas of how he tried to...

Will Singapore avert the Ozymandias-trap with its extravagance?

Like many Singaporeans, I am surprised by the emphasis that PM Lee Hsien Loong is placing on the effect of climate change at his National Day Rally last Sunday. While I do agree on the challenges and the need to mitigate its many pressing effects, I think PM Lee may have been misguided by some of his advisors to be over-emphasizing...