Thursday, February 07, 2013

Enough is enough

When are they going to stop talking about the government's plan to increase population growth? I'm getting so sick of reading every headline in papers, online, FB that says 6.9 million population!

After reading all the views and reports, there are points that I agree with and I don't agree with. My personal take:
  • Increase in foreign worker - it is probably needed as no singaporeans are willing to do the dirty work of construction, plus pay is not great.
  • Please fix the infrastructure and transportation system. The system now is not even able to support our current population. If you can get it fixed, you can go ahead and have population growth.
  • Are we setting our ambitions too high for 6.9 million?  Singapore is only a small island and we are scarce in land. Even though the govenment assures that we have room but at what price?  We will lose not only green areas where people can enjoy, home size will probably become even smaller and housing will be made even more expensive by those bloodsucker developers
In any case, whether we agree or disagree, will the government change its mind???  I think I already know what's the verdict on this.

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