Money for Your Honey

Can you imagine your gomen giving you money. Literally. It was stated in the newspaper that with the surplus of $3.2billion, we, the citizen of Singapore, pledged ourselves as one united people or not, will get a fair share of the growth dividend.

I for one, know that I will be getting not less than S$300.00 this April, for I live in a 3-room apartment. Let's not talk about how much I earned. That is secondary. And Qhairul will receive $100 for serving the nation. If he were to be 21 as of January, he would be getting $400.00. Too bad turning 21 in June doesn't count.

So here I am, abled mind and body, with 3 school going children (my eldest is still consider schooling as he will continue with his Tertiary studies after his NS), living in 3 room HDB subsidised apartment, earning a 4 figure sum monthly, will receive more growth dividend than a dearest friend of mine, who is living in a 5 room HDB subsidised apartment, with 3 school going children, and 1 serving the nation in the army, suffering from kidney failure, undergoing dialysis 3 times a week, is not under NKF subsidy, was retrenched from his job last month, therefore, no income, and he will get less the amount that is apportion to moi.

Where is the fairness of it all?

I've seen those living around my area, the 3-room apartment, driving Merc and yet, they will receive more than what the 5-rooms dwellers will?

My colleague from the US said that, the government is giving USD600 for every citizen who are earning a low income. He is not entitle as his salary is wee bit into the 'high' income earner. Oh Please ... yours are not wee bit into the range of high income... yours are like "damn right smack in the upper range of high income earner". Who are you kidding? I am the one who prepare your salary every month... you nitwit. And I don't give a hoot about what the Americans are getting. None of them is any friend of mine. Except those few in Longview, Texas.

And now, I have a mix feelings about the whole growth dividend situation, knowing that someone who needs it more than I do, is getting less than I am.

Excerpt from the Budget 2008 Speech

"We have also focused on the needs of the lower-income group especially, when we are able to distribute surpluses. Last year’s GST Offset Package which Singaporeans will continue to receive this year and over the next two years, plus this Budget’s surplus sharing package, provides a significant boost to their incomes. Both these exercises also give the middle-income group support at a time when they too face higher costs of living".


In the word of Bertrand Russell

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.