Netizen writes open letter after National Day Rally; says speech this year been a real waste of opportunity - The Independent Singapore News

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'Who is destroying the affordability of our basic cost of living?' — Netizen

A netizen who felt very strongly after PM Lee’s National Day Rally on Sunday , penned an open letter. In a long WhatsApp message circulated on Tuesday , the netizen raised a number of points that affected the everyday man. The anonymous letter was not signed off and it is unclear who its author was.

Against such a “horrendous socio-economic outlook”, the netizen asked how it is still justifiable to initiate an increase in GST. Blaming NTUC FairPrice for “sucking up all the opportunities that should rightly be afforded to our smaller business owners and entrepreneurs”, the netizen speculates that this could be why Singapore has not been successful in grooming local start-up and real entrepreneurs.

If Singapore is indeed a land of opportunity, then we may have to ask the government who are the real beneficiaries of all the socio-economic opportunities, governmental grants, schemes & tax breaks that they have been dishing out since the majority of Singaporeans and small local businesses are still struggling and suffering just to get by.

As more bad news starts emerging about just how badly the 4G ministers had failed to even plan or manage the security of our food & basic essentials, and are now unable to respond decisively as inflation goes breaking the backbone of the average Singaporeans, we need to ask PM Lee if it is fair that Singaporeans have to put up with this bunch of clowns that he has put together for his succession plan but at what...

But if these stockpiles of reserves were used by the government, or its related entities, to sell them at an obscene profit to utility & fuel companies, isn’t this a breach of the original objective of crisis planning? For price-sensitive Singaporeans, all know that NTUC is no longer offering quality products at the lowest cost, and this was vividly evident during the pandemic when the cost of basic food and essentials escalated out of control at its supermarkets.

 

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