Staring into The Abyss Part 4
From The New Paper 20 oct 06:
“Mr Tan (the deceased)’s MP, Mdm Ho Geok Choo, (West Coast GRC), attended his wake last night. She said they had checked their records and was puzzled that he had not approached them for help.She said: “I am quite sad because the Govt has all these packages in place but why are these ppl missin out on them? Is it because they are not aware of them?
See when shit happens, its not the gahmen’s fault, its the people’s fault. For example, its not the gahmen’s fault the there’s no social safety net. Its not the MP’s fault that Tan Jee Suan, 46 has somehow managed to slipped through the cracks.
See when shit happens, its not the gahmen’s fault, its the people’s fault. For example, its not the gahmen’s fault the there’s no social safety net. Its not the MP’s fault that Tan Jee Suan, 46 has somehow managed to slipped through the cracks.
MOUNTING DEBT
Mr Tan was hit by a train at Chinese Garden Station on Wednesday night.
But despite having to cope with mounting debt, she doesn’t blame him.
He was not lazy and had tried hard to find work in the four months he was jobless, she said.
‘He went around coffeeshops looking for work like collecting dirty dishes but they said they already had people doing that,’ she said in Mandarin. ‘It’s not that he didn’t want to work. He just couldn’t find a job’.
They have not paid their utility bills for months and owe more than $400.
All they had to live on was her $500 monthly wage as a factory worker.
And to Wee Shu Min, the privileged spoilt brat, not everyone who is jobless is a wretch, undermotivated and overassuming leech. But you would never understand something like that would you?
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I find it incredible and absolutely disgraceful that in a “free” country the government can state that they “want to know where the donated money is going and how its to be spent”. Its absolutely none of anyone’s business except the widow. The money is hers, donated from the good hearted Singaporeans and already the government want it!
I guess the monkeys in the government needs more peanuts.
Notice the MP brought a $1000 check to the wake, while Singaporeans who understood the poor man’s plight better contributed $500,000. Now that’s a great divide.
Mark… think about it this way, its a 500:1 contrast now, we’re lucky the MP did not just have a $100 check else we’d be having a contrast as good as the high end LCD TVs…
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