how is mah bow tan going to explain

• seancannot

  3 Oct 10, 23:46

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  Really proves Singaporeans are confused lot.

  kpkb COE ex, ok release more quota.. Now more quota, more jam kpkb jam.. Make ERP kpkb...

  kpkb whole day, wat u want?

  
  That show the lack of planning on the government side.. they are highly paid arent they suppose to plan properly to ensure these problem do not crop up , and they pride themselve as the world first class governement

• sbst275

  4 Oct 10, 00:03

  it's nothing to do w/ poor planning, the COE ought to have been kept expensive else all e new problems would not even surface.

  tat said, population grew too fast as well.

• mancha

  4 Oct 10, 01:00

  Actuall a 360°  turn is turning right back to where you were. 

• freedom4ever

  4 Oct 10, 01:55

  Can we tell PM lee that we want FT to replace Mah Bow Tan?

• angel7030

  4 Oct 10, 14:44

  Originally posted by freedom4ever:

  Can we tell PM lee that we want FT to replace Mah Bow Tan?

  
  Yes, sure, but make sure this FT got some relationship with the Lees first ya

• charlize

  4 Oct 10, 18:18

  Originally posted by freedom4ever:

  Can we tell PM lee that we want FT to replace Mah Bow Tan?

  Is the FT cheaper, better and faster?

• charlize

  4 Oct 10, 18:19

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  I dun think so... it's not like building flats, the load, pressure is much much higher than flats.

  If they can make money from it, anything is possible. 

• charlize

  4 Oct 10, 18:23

   

  http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/10/04/singaporeans-should-be-wary-when-minister-mah-make-some-new-suggestion/

   

   

  

   

   

• sbst275

  4 Oct 10, 22:50

  Originally posted by charlize:

  If they can make money from it, anything is possible. 

  
  there's no free lunch if you still can't find a safe building technique for such loading.

• angel7030

  5 Oct 10, 14:21

  Originally posted by charlize:

  Is the FT cheaper, better and faster?

  
  Sori, FT are not in the cheaper, better and faster category, they are merely for taxation purposes.

• seancannot

  5 Oct 10, 23:49

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  it's nothing to do w/ poor planning, the COE ought to have been kept expensive else all e new problems would not even surface.

  tat said, population grew too fast as well.

  SBS

  
  more coe = more car = more congestion = more carpark needed , every uncle in coffee shop also know,

  with influx of more PR buying more resale flat ,more newly minted citizen vying for new flat , demand increase but supply dries up but his policy was to build less than before

  coe, flat supply , PR citizen intake are controlled by governemnet if this is not poor planning what is this ?

   

   

• freedom4ever

  6 Oct 10, 01:02

  Originally posted by charlize:

  Is the FT cheaper, better and faster?

  Of cos the FT are cheaper, faster and better. If they are not, then our govt won't be shipping them here in containers liao.

• mancha

  6 Oct 10, 01:29

  Originally posted by angel7030:

  
  Sori, FT are not in the cheaper, better and faster category, they are merely for taxation purposes.

   

  Last time, the street goons called it  "protection money".

  You want to do business, pay "protection money".

  Now its called "levy".

• likeyou

  6 Oct 10, 07:34

  Originally posted by freedom4ever:

  Of cos the FT are cheaper, faster and better. If they are not, then our govt won't be shipping them here in containers liao.

  
  They (FT) also rich.......can pay high price for anything they want.....prices shoot up. Salespple happy happy lah.

• Terminator Hitman

  6 Oct 10, 09:07

  mah bow tan isnt goin to explain to anyone.when he retires,,,he will simply go to australia.his wife is an ang mo australian.

• angel7030

  6 Oct 10, 13:40

  Precisely, our govt are not paid to explain, they are only paid to govern. So, do not expect explanation from them, if they do explain, it will be a bonus

• likeyou

  6 Oct 10, 13:45

  Originally posted by angel7030:

  Precisely, our govt are not paid to explain, they are only paid to govern. So, do not expect explanation from them, if they do explain, it will be a bonus

  
  No, they are paid to get more money from the pple.

   

• sbst275

  6 Oct 10, 14:30

  Originally posted by seancannot:

  SBS

  
  more coe = more car = more congestion = more carpark needed , every uncle in coffee shop also know,

  with influx of more PR buying more resale flat ,more newly minted citizen vying for new flat , demand increase but supply dries up but his policy was to build less than before

  coe, flat supply , PR citizen intake are controlled by governemnet if this is not poor planning what is this ?

   

   

  in the first place, e COE is partly ppl want cheaper cars to own also. so they thought, ok we let go a bit, didn't to realise e growth population tabulation went wrong. They used projected figures instead of actual ones.

  Meaning to say, if strictly speaking, coming years should be 0 car growth.

  As for PR intake how are ur going to control in some sense? You can control the type of people coming in, but dun forget you end up gotta employ foreigners (who later on becomes PR) i.e. driving buses.

• charlize

  6 Oct 10, 18:14

  I still think he will win the coming elections in a convincing manner.

   

  Such is the power of new citizens.

• angel7030

  7 Oct 10, 13:05

  and coupled with the weakness of local oppositions and local singaporeans, i am more than convinced.

• reyes

  7 Oct 10, 15:07

  i believe the current HDB houses are way too high and it should never allow PR to purchase it. as far as i know, which country has public housing that allows foreigners to purchase it be it resale or brand new?

  The govt land itself in this HDB mess has only itself to blame. HDB control most of the housing market. that private developer hardly interested into going low end housing market. thus causing singaporeans into believing this is govt responsibility as they dominate the housing market.

   

   

• likeyou

  7 Oct 10, 15:12

  Originally posted by reyes:

  i believe the current HDB houses are way too high and it should never allow PR to purchase it. as far as i know, which country has public housing that allows foreigners to purchase it be it resale or brand new?

  The govt land itself in this HDB mess has only itself to blame. HDB control most of the housing market. that private developer hardly interested into going low end housing market. thus causing singaporeans into believing this is govt responsibility as they dominate the housing market.

   

   

  If govt can have a fixed price for all the hdb flats (depends on the area)...for PR, will that works?

   

• reyes

  7 Oct 10, 15:29

  Originally posted by likeyou:

  If govt can have a fixed price for all the hdb flats (depends on the area)...for PR, will that works?

   

  
  HDB has a policy of balance quotas between races, PRs alike in all HDB flats. thus personally i dont think you idea will work.

  Once the can of worms of allowing PR to own HDB flats has open. now we all know, what drive up the property market. i mean the idiotic explaination of govt that PR are the the cause of driving up property market are nuts. govt explaination cannot simply ignore the facts on basic economics facts, supply n demand. If suddenly there are 3 PR out of 5 buyers competing to buy a resale flats, will it indirectly drive up the resale price of HDB flats? 

   

• charlize

  7 Oct 10, 17:35

  I just read somewhere that a HUDC flat got sold for more than $1 million.

   

  Who will be the greater fool?

   

  The buyer or the seller?

• βέτά

  7 Oct 10, 17:37

   

   

  Prices not supported by the income level.