Government's priority is to improve citizens' lives: PM

[Latka]

That's d way Mr PM. Sincerely hope u can accomplish that in 5 years.

 

NEWS

May 9, 2011

 

Government's priority is to improve citizens' lives: PM

 

GIVEN the external international environment, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the overriding priority for his government is to 'improve the life for our citizens.'

 

Mr Lee was speaking at the 30th anniversary conference of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) at the Shangri-La Hotel on Monday.

 

To achieve this, Mr Lee said Singapore must first grow the economy by staying plugged into the world by attracting investments and talent, encourage local enterprises to diversify, expand and move abroad, among other things.

 

Mr Lee added that it is also the government's objective 'to raise income across the board', including the 'the middle income households and those at the lower end' by upgrading productivity through re-training and education of workers, and restructuring Singapore's industries.

 

Other ways to grow the Singapore economy include buffering it against volatility by accumulating adequate reserves and maintaining political support for policies which benefit Singaporeans.

 

Mr Lee acknowledged in his speech that it is not easy for Singaporeans to cope with rapid changes, even when the overall standards of living are rising and that his 'newly elected PAP government has its work cut out for it.'

 

[Vtim]

 

let's wait and see

[Kangadrool]

motherhood statements.

[Poper]

听就好

[Atonchia]

好好听

[Felipe]

I read it as more stress for Sporeans n more pay for our very capable ministers

[Kiadaw]

Time will tell.

[Relacklabrudder]

chui gon g lam par song

[Blueray]

 

sounds good but would like to see more details in the weeks ahead ...

[Hondacub777]

How to improve har?

Maybe our bros here can help out,and let me start first:

 

1)Do away all ERP gantries,coz the jams are still there.

[Pufferfish1]

add more ERP, GST . then every year give some loose change to the citizen. here you go. helping the citizen

[Zniper]

listen only... talk is cheap...

maybe he will improve our lives by increasing someting else and using our $$$ to "improve" our lives...

[Ahwhye]

somehow i cringe when i read till here....deja vu?

 

To achieve this, Mr Lee said Singapore must first grow the economy by staying plugged into the world by attracting investments and talent, encourage local enterprises to diversify, expand and move abroad, among other things.

 

[Shull]

To achieve this, Mr Lee said Singapore must first grow the economy by staying plugged into the world by attracting investments and talent, encourage local enterprises to diversify, expand and move abroad, among other things.

 

In short... more foreigners coming into our little island...

 

Other ways to grow the Singapore economy include buffering it against volatility by accumulating adequate reserves

 

How adequate is adequate? Fattening up the reserves.. from the pocket of Singaporeans..

 

Mr Lee acknowledged in his speech that it is not easy for Singaporeans to cope with rapid changes

 

No need to elaborate further..

[Hondacub777]

.Everytime when pple talks abt FTs,are they refering to the blue or white collar?

And how does they affect us?Coz wanted to look at the bigger picture as I'm a layman.

[Sdf5725]

for me, it is almost the same agenda from past 5 years. good lucks.

[Felipe]

Shd b white collar cos no sporean will work blue collar not bcos its blue, but bcos the pay is nt enuf.

[Pufferfish1]

blue collar FT means lower and middle citizen be fighting against them for job.

 

white collar FT means middle and higher citizen be fighting against them for job