Teo Chee Hean: HDB, CPF and COE are egs of “policy innovatio
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Teo Chee Hean: HDB, CPF and COE are examples of “policy innovations” of the PAP
April 1, 2010 by Our Correspondent
Filed under HeadlinesWritten by Our Correspondent
Indulging in shameless self-praise is fast becoming a trait characterizing the world’s most expensive ministers.
Coming right after Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan who gave himself a pat on his back for maintaining a “sustainable” healthcare system in Singapore at an Asian conference on healthcare, it is now Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean’s turn to do so.
Mr Teo was embarrassed publicly when he was caught on TV napping when his fellow colleague Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng was making a speech in parliament not too long ago:
During a speech made at a civil service event last night, Mr Teo lavished generous praises on the PAP for “planning ahead”.
“Singapore has a reputation for being forward looking. For almost 20 years, scenario planning has been a key part of our efforts to understand and plan for the future,” he proclaimed.
The PAP has always portrayed itself as the “savior” of Singapore without which the entire nation will collapse.
As such, PAP leaders have demanded Singaporeans pay them out of the world salaries without which they will leave for the private sector.
A career civil servant, Mr Teo earns almost $3 million dollars a year, or more than 5 times the annual salary of U.S. President Barack Obama. He is expected to get another hefty 8.8 percent pay rise this year.
Repeating an often used PAP rhetoric that it dares to take “tough” measures to tackle national problems, Mr Teo said:
“Singapore has always taken bold, creative and pragmatic approaches to solve national challenges. When the situation calls for it, we have eschewed conventional wisdom, or the politically correct, and sought out innovative solutions.”
One “innovative” solution thought by the PAP to boost Singapore’s declining birth rate is to flood the island with immigrants from China and India.
Though many Singaporeans are unhappy with the PAP’s liberal immigration and pro-foreigner policies, there is nothing they can do about it as the PAP controls all state institutions and there is no credible opposition to challenge it.
“The public housing programme, the Central Provident Fund system as well as the certificate of entitlement scheme for vehicle ownership are all examples of policy innovations,” Mr Teo continued to boast to his audience rather unashamedly.
Singapore’s public housing programme and Central Provident Fund system have provided the state a ready available source of funds.
More than 85 percent of Singaporeans live in flats built by HDB. A significant proportion of their CPF savings are tied up to mortgage loans used to pay for these flats.
Under a new scheme introduced in 2003, Singaporeans are required to keep a minimum sum in excess of $110,000 in their CPF ordinary accounts before they can withdraw it when they reach 55 years of age.
Singapore is the richest country in Asia after Japan and while its cash-flushed sovereign wealth funds can afford to lose billions of national reserves in failed overseas investments, Singaporeans enjoy few social welfare benefits from the nanny state thanks to its “policy innovations.”
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This is ... funny.
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Short term solutions to long term ills.
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Teo Chee Bye also Deputy PM ?
WTF..............how many deputy PMs you need for this freaking island...............!
PM..............deputy PM.............assistant PM...............Vice PM.............deputy vice PM................assistant vice PM.........
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Yes, innovative policies to suck the pple dry!
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is SAF/ MINDEF very innovative?
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"Policy innovations" mainly benefit the despots. The nation benefits minimal out of them.
These ministers are fast to sing their own praises and they are not for apologising to the nation when they make mistakes.
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
Teo Chee Bye also Deputy PM ?
WTF..............how many deputy PMs you need for this freaking island...............!
PM..............deputy PM.............assistant PM...............Vice PM.............deputy vice PM................assistant vice PM.........
Too kua zhang liao.
DPM got 2. He and Wong.
Above PM got 3. 2 SMs -- Goh and JayaKumar (East Coast GRC) and 1 MM --- You should know who is it.
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we're feeding too many good for nothing parasites...................all becoz someone is rearing all these useless lackeys to stay in power indefinitely..........
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Is this what they call a con job these days?
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
we're feeding too many good for nothing parasites...................all becoz someone is rearing all these useless lackeys to stay in power indefinitely..........
waste money, resources to have them around
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becoz someone wants to start a ruling dynasty so keep so many parasitic lackeys mah................
some people call these lackeys as dogs...............but that's an insult to Man's best friend..............
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he didnt say ERP did he
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
becoz someone wants to start a ruling dynasty so keep so many parasitic lackeys mah................
some people call these lackeys as dogs...............but that's an insult to Man's best friend..............
True, it is an insult to dog. They are pests or bugs that keep sucking blood. -
i think this Teo Chee Bye is related to OCBC Bank or some bank...............standard lah, get all these useless farks from banks and big corps..............
they have no real talents at all..................when when it comes to bullshitting and bootlicking............they have no peers.............
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he used to be from the navy lar, admiral I think.
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
they have no real talents at all..................when when it comes to bullshitting and bootlicking............they have no peers.............
thats what politicians are. sex, lies, and incompetent. yes you are right to say in this regards, they have no peers
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Teo Chee Bye is navy admiral..............???!!!
does he even know how to swim or not...................?
i bet he can't even tell port side from starboard....................
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Originally posted by As romanista2001:
Teo Chee Bye also Deputy PM ?
WTF..............how many deputy PMs you need for this freaking island...............!
PM..............deputy PM.............assistant PM...............Vice PM.............deputy vice PM................assistant vice PM.........
eh...did u get the name right?? -
Well, GST, ERP, IRA, FT, FW, ISD, PAP etc etc are also innovations
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Originally posted by angel7030:
Well, GST, ERP, IRA, FT, FW, ISD, PAP etc etc are also innovations
The agenda of a Taiwanese 'hum' in this SgForum was clearly stated by itself - ‘to make sure the audience moving/divert toward you’ (*1)
Is it any surprise to see that the efforts of the resident CBM here is obviously to sabotage the thread with its flippant and irrelevant replies, and get all attempts at serious discussion to be driven off track - simply to bring attention to its own stupidity ?
With its brain stuck between its ‘Labia Majora’ and ‘Labia Minora’ - and a brain no bigger then the size of its ‘clitoris’ - all it can do is to flap in rapturous idiocy to attract attention to itself as an 'Attention Seeking Whore' fitted with a world class CBM.
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Atobe................
despite sounding like a broken record....................this kind of posts from you always make me laugh............LOL
too bad the Angel's outer pussylips too thick already................your words no effect on her one..............LOL
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
he didnt say ERP did he
ERP is not an innovation.
It's just a simple money sucking vacuum machine.
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Originally posted by charlize:
ERP is not an innovation.
It's just a simple money sucking vacuum machine.
ERP still ok onenext time there will be
HRP /Human Road PRicing
every sg ppl will have to pay 2 dollars fee
if they will to enter into CBD area during peak hrs
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Originally posted by noahnoah:
ERP still ok onenext time there will be
HRP /Human Road PRicing
every sg ppl will have to pay 2 dollars fee
if they will to enter into CBD area during peak hrs
No, you pay as long as you step out of your house.
*Beep*
