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What GST hike?

There’s been a lot of discussions going around with the recent mention of the GST hike by our PM Mr Lee Hsien Loong.

This is quite a surprise to me because with the recent MRT suicide cases, there have been issues raised as to why the poor income families were not given the appropriate help when it was needed resulting to such desperate “measures”. Amidst all the finger pointing, the government has decided that a GST hike can solve all issues? Greaaaat!

I must say I’m totally bewildered by this outcome.

In my personal opinion, with the recent hike of mrt prices, electricity, cab fares etc etc, I’m really beginning to see why the richer in Singapore gets richer and the poorer gets poorer…

The rich obviously can grow their money easily. I mean, let’s face it…there’s a saying in Chinese that 钱能使鬼推磨- simply mean that money can make the world go round. It’s really as simple as that.

As for the poor, why do they get poorer? Just keeping up with the hikes in our daily expenditure is enough to kill.

Singapore is no longer as naïve and innocent as before….there’s lesser and lesser compassion and lesser and lesser empathy going around. Everything else is about money, more money and not forgetting…status.

Whoever can beat the crowd and become the “elite” of Singapore gets to have the best life planned out, say the darnest things and still get away with them. Our dear Miss Wee Shu Min was one example to depict how the “elite” here obviously have their nose too high in the clouds to see and understand what it’s like to be a commoner, where jobs are a necessity and not a luxury.

With the income gap ever widening and the job market only slowly picking up, our government finds this the right time to increase the GST? Forgive me to rant on this but I don’t quite understand why this should be a solution? I don’t belong to the poorer income but neither do I belong to the elite…in this case, where should I belong?

The GST impact on me? My pay will definitely stay the same cos I dun think any company will raise their employees’ package just cos the GST is rising, but yet I’ll need to spend more on necessities. And remember, I don’t get help either, cos I dun fall into the many conditions of being POOR. I just need to fend for myself for now, perhaps in due time, I just might qualify being POOR and get help….isn’t that great? I can afford to be poor now…can’t hide my joy….Yay!!!! -.-“

Blabbered by KaiRiNu at 9:57 AM