Singapore has always regarded Senior Citizens as liabilities to the State.
It was a very unfair practice set by the Ntuc to reduce the salary of
workers when they reached 60 years and later 65 years old.

Now they are talking about restoring it to a performance base entity.
What nonsense is the government doing? Ntuc is govt. Govt. is Ntuc.

Yes! there is no free lunch everywhere. But are senior citizens given
a fair deal in our search for gainful employment? Has the employers'
mindset changed to accommodate older workers into the workforce.

Talk is cheap. Lim Swee Say was talking about working cheaper,
faster and better. Yes! all these can be done by the foreign workers
who worked long hours, less pay and without CPF. So, where do we
stand as a S'porean and for that matter an older S'porean?

Is the government policy of admitting so many FWs to help S'poreans
or to help themselves laughing to the bank?

Now Ntuc is coming with a new gimmick of performance base appraisal
for senior citizens not to cut their pay or what not. Is this feasible? Will
the employers change their mindset to welcome old workers or take in
more FWs for cheap, better, faster work and the government reaped levies on
all FWs imports into the State coffer. And ultimately into the high salary
of the Ministers.

What have our country and society turned into after 50 years of rule by the
PAP. Have we lost the compassion of humankind to even looked into the
basic needs of the Senior Citizens, whom had played a part in molding the
Singapore of today.

The sad truth of our Senior Citizens is, many of them who do not have an
egg-nest to live a quality life, are been marginalised into miserable living
in a first world S'pore. The abyss created by the government in all aspect
of living, be it housing, food, medical, are all escalating day by day.

Do our government really care for its citizens or care more for its number
one status in the eye of the world? Everything looks good from the outside
but nothing is good from the inside for many citizens.

The government prospers day after day. The citizens, many living a life
hanging in the balance.

Do we want this to happen to our children and children's children?

Patrick Lee S J
Guest writer (leesjuanpat)
Senior Citizen
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