[sgbuffett]

It's cause by policies that have driven up poverty and rising number  elderly poor....and cost of living increases that is result of importing more and more people.

While our birth rate is claimed to be among lowest in the world our population growth per capita is highest in the world. Why?

The low birth rate is used as a pretext to import people at a rate beyond what is needed to compensate for low birth rate.

This drives up cost of living ....and causes poverty to rise and elderly poor needs more support. Just look at how much housing costs has risen due to all this ...last yr record number of million dollar HDB flats. Medical cost rise as the large number driven demand up for medical services  A Sjngaporean pest controller has to bid for medical services against a foreign banker earning 20x his pay. You tell me why $100 is not important for him to try to circumvent the rules and get jailed...to me it's reflection of policy failure that puts him there.

But you think about it the entire situation is driven by choices politicians make. After that they need to patch the negative effects of their own decisions.

This govt is down to one trick to boost the economy by its population policies. That was why so many protested the White Paper a few years ago. At the end the white paper tells us they have only one and one main idea. ...and we have no choice but to fight it due to the dire consequences.

The coming GST hike will go down badly in the eyes of the people as they are not blind to what is happening.