tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post5455909749760594385..comments2024-03-13T03:05:17.980+08:00Comments on Singapore Notes: Scary FridayTattlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037010707866164010noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-39646425008447053062012-04-14T03:26:53.254+08:002012-04-14T03:26:53.254+08:00you expect white and fat cats to catch mice? lolz ...you expect white and fat cats to catch mice? lolz i think they prefer salmon fish grilled and delivered to their silver platter. now they blame us citizens for not showing social gd habits to keep the longkang clean, even in pm's own backyard too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-49578338027511351392012-04-14T03:22:31.566+08:002012-04-14T03:22:31.566+08:00Not only they get to eat the cake, but also choose...Not only they get to eat the cake, but also choose the icing too. <br />This govt has been unable or unwilling to contain inflation..that much is true for everyone to see. They just can't wait to reach the mckinsey scorecard of $90k/per capita GDP...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-36596875739687918392012-04-14T03:18:19.038+08:002012-04-14T03:18:19.038+08:00LKY's words do not haunt us now..
What UK PM C...LKY's words do not haunt us now..<br />What UK PM Cameron said to Najib is true..that MY has the leadership to repeal the ancient law on ISA..<br />Now THAT should haunt our PM & DPM Teo to reflect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-48006526403890517662012-04-14T03:15:11.485+08:002012-04-14T03:15:11.485+08:00Discomfort to them, but comfort to citizens. Other...Discomfort to them, but comfort to citizens. Otherwise, everything that Yale had said about academic freedom is true. There're still plenty to improve..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-53080366822049142302012-04-14T01:13:58.229+08:002012-04-14T01:13:58.229+08:00When the cats stopped catching rats, be careful th...When the cats stopped catching rats, be careful that plagues are on their way in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-59395150683028607512012-04-13T23:19:37.855+08:002012-04-13T23:19:37.855+08:00What's the scariest is this..we always say bla...What's the scariest is this..we always say black cat, white cat as long as it catch mice...well, what happens if the reality today is :<br /><br />White Cat AND Fat Cat and they no longer want to get their fur coat dirty and their fat ass moving? <br /><br />That's why you have all these Procurement lapses where god knows how many $millions are gone, and all the rat infestations everywhere in SG lonkangs. These are just symptoms manifesting itself in reality plane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-13740703855596690652012-04-13T20:48:47.908+08:002012-04-13T20:48:47.908+08:00We Have A Nightmare On High Street!
On top of Lim...We Have A Nightmare On High Street!<br /><br />On top of Lim Chong Yah's "shock therapy", someone should really take a hard look at Singapre's tax regime. This is another way of bringing down the Gini-coefficient and reduce income inequality - by taxing the rich more. Before 1986 Singapore's top rate income and corporate tax was 40%. Now the high income earners and companies enjoy one of the lowest taxes in the world since 2007. This is why our Gini-coefficient is going - south? north? nowhere?<br /><br />Tax rate on above 320,000 20%<br />Tax rate on corporate profits above 300,000 SGD 17%<br />Tax rate on capital gains 0%<br />Expat tax capped at 17%<br />etc ...<br /><br />In 2008 Singapore abolished the Estate Tax because ... "The move will encourage Singapore to become a attractive place for wealth to be invested and built up, whether by Singaporeans or foreigners". <br /><br />With 0% capital gain tax, someone can make a killing in the financial market without paying a single cent in taxes. Without estate duty, beneficiaries of a multi-millionare get to keep all the riches. The CEO of DBS earns over $8 million a year, and pays only 17% in taxes? What about our multi-millionaire ministers, GIC/Temasek/GLC executives, real estate developers, bankers, CEO's etc?<br /> <br />Singapore is a haven/heaven for the rich now.<br />Here the rich not only have the cake, they get to eat it too. We have the highest percentage of millionaires in the world - no wonder cost of living keeps going up. Yah, Singapore is business friendly - maybe too friendly! I like what Obama is doing - The Buffet Rule!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-44474830274704337012012-04-13T18:59:35.236+08:002012-04-13T18:59:35.236+08:00The Great Dictator - speech (4 minutes only)
http...The Great Dictator - speech (4 minutes only)<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IvPIWzQcUYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-67950795001581499452012-04-13T18:56:20.583+08:002012-04-13T18:56:20.583+08:00Is this the scary historical origins of the lightn...Is this the scary historical origins of the lightning logo?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Union_of_FascistsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-90386790867867081242012-04-13T15:00:16.835+08:002012-04-13T15:00:16.835+08:00Another example of the scary 180 degree or possibl...Another example of the scary 180 degree or possibly the revealing of true nature of one influenctial man.<br /><br />From this - <br /><br />"Let us get down to fundamentals. Is this an open, or is this a closed society? Is it a society where men can preach ideas - novel, unorthodox, heresies, to established churches and established governments - where there is a constant contest for men's hearts and minds on the basis of what is right, of what is just, of what is in the national interests, or is it a closed society where the mass media - the newspapers, the journals, publications, TV, radio - either bound by sound or by sight, or both sound and sight, men's minds are fed with a constant drone of sycophantic support for a particular orthodox political philosophy? I am talking of the principle of the open society, the open debate, ideas, not intimidation, persuasion not coercion..." <br /><br /><br />To this - <br /><br />"I won because I've persuasive powers. I can speak to the people over the blather of the media. In a way, I'm like a local Ronald Reagan. And I deliver. When I say I'll do something, they know I'm going to do it. So when I say I'm going to fix that guy, he will be fixed. Let's make no bones about it. I carry my own hatchet. If you take liberties with me, I'll deal with you. I look after myself because when you enter a blind alley with the communists, only one person comes out alive and I have come out alive. So, I'm not afraid of going into an alley with anybody, let alone the foreign press. What can they do to me? Can they influence my votes? They can't." <br /><br />That is scary. <br /><br />What also scares me is when meritocracy devolves to cronyism.Snarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-46964980901511448332012-04-13T14:57:47.635+08:002012-04-13T14:57:47.635+08:00You know what is scary?
How one guy can go from s...You know what is scary?<br /><br />How one guy can go from saying this:<br /><br />"Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters." <br /><br />to this:<br /><br />"Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it"Snarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-18798180969711511472012-04-13T14:32:31.581+08:002012-04-13T14:32:31.581+08:00What is scary is that such recommendations are fro...What is scary is that such recommendations are from academics, and not noise from netizens. It must be very discomforting to the establishment for somebody from the inner circle to voice "dissent" Have the MIWs run out of yes men? Interesting times we shd be seeing in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-13808542800079373382012-04-13T14:22:15.240+08:002012-04-13T14:22:15.240+08:00sorry, i mean its high time ....sorry, i mean its high time ....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-60501246805002689742012-04-13T14:21:49.288+08:002012-04-13T14:21:49.288+08:00agree with you fully. Its high some academic talk...agree with you fully. Its high some academic talk some sense into our A team's brain !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-42185566145564829412012-04-13T14:05:25.626+08:002012-04-13T14:05:25.626+08:00Brilliant Post. Happy Friday to you too!Brilliant Post. Happy Friday to you too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com