Bad practice to set up many separate funds
I dislike the practice of setting up separate funds for special purposes. The latest is the Merdeka Generation Fund. I do not know if separate funds were set up in the past for Edusave, Skills Future, Pioneer Generation, etc. Why do I object to this practice? A separate fund may give the impression that it is self controlling....
Defending incompetency despite fat political salaries not the way to go
For the second time, I have read what Heng Swee Keat said. The conclusions that I took home with me is that he was defensive of his government's mediocrity and his cabinet colleagues' incompetency despite them drawing very fat political salaries from our people. Their incompetency and slackness are too many and I will just list...
Compared to Taiwan, our Medisave and medishield seem like gross failures
Click to enlarge In an article Channel NewsAsia wrote yesterday, it talked about a Ms Serynn Guay who said that "one of her worries is "unpredictable" healthcare bills". She said: “We don't know how much we’ll need when we're older ... Will we be able to retire comfortably? Will our savings be enough?” She added: “It’s...
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