
A needless death
There was no need to call up Aloysius Pang for reservist training. If he was not called up, he would have been alive today working hard towards a great future. Why did I say this? We have a full time army of 37,000 professional soldiers and 35,000 full time NS men, making a total of 72,000 men. We call up reservists for training...

Spending estimated, unearned returns under NIR framework = Spending our children’s future
PAP has been tweaking too many legislations in the hope that Singaporeans will be confused and give up questioning. It’s about time we sit up and scrutinize PAP, eg the NIR framework. MOF: “Prior to FY2009, there was only the NII component. The NIR component was introduced in FY2009 with the implementation of the NIR framework,...

The ‘cheated’ generation
From 1970s till early 1980s, one can buy a 4 room HDB flats for a mere $20K-$30K. They introduced the inclusion of land price some time in mid 1980s and the prices of HDB flats started to climb. By early 1990s-1995, GCT came up with the Asset Enhancement Scheme which entice Singaporeans to spend more of their CPF to buy HDB...
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