PM Wong addresses cost of living concerns
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Prime Minister Lawrence Wong addressed Singaporeans' concerns about cost of living in a video posted to his RUclips channel on Oct. 2.
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Are young Singaporeans being priced out of the housing market?
Housing is a fundamental need in Singapore. Why are foreigners, including new citizens, allowed to purchase flats at skyrocketing prices, driving up costs and making it increasingly difficult for locals to afford their own homes?
And the unchecked proliferation of dodgy massage centres, bars and freelancing foreign prostitutes (advertised on social media) in every local neighbourhoods, transient nature of the population coupled with highest living expenditure, stressful long working hours, cut-throat competition from across the world in skills & wages are stress factors that's driving our young men & women to not want to marry or form a family. People naturally procreate and raise up children when they feel happy, secure and safe.
EXACTLYYYYY 🤣
why didn’t they talk or even raise this huge concern in parliamentary on this when it matters the most to young Singaporeans?
It worries me a lot thinking about it with the influx of foreign people, including new citizens, raising numbers.
SG is so bloody small yet they allow such people in?
If the land size of SG is that of our neighbouring countries, I can totally understand in allowing more people and giving away citizenship as and when you like but this is too much really.
is the government really that blind to see or they simply chose to be ignorant and be blinded with greed and money?
You increased the GST without taking into account how much prices will increase and cascade to the consumer (10%%, 20%,30%). You give out all these vouchers | payouts that the middle class don't qualify for while increasing prices all over the board.Therefore you are indirectly taxing them.Certainly will vote for opposition.
CDC is for every household. It does not cascade to all consumers evenly. High income earners consume disproportionately more goods and services and hence will pay more gst. The revenue can be passed to low income earners in the form of subsidies to mitigate the impact
@@evoxpressBrainwashed, you’re the reason why Singapore is the worst country in the world
Sorry PM, you lost me at the first 5 seconds when you said the world is getting better. Starting with that line simply makes it seem that you rulers and elites live in a different world than us plebs...
Bullshit, can the food prices come down? never heard before.
Stop the handouts, fix the problems!
Can't fix the problem...so handouts!???
Don't put blame on inflation, is all about not whole-heartedly taking care of local breed who built up what Singapore is today, foreigners just landed here with their so-called " s " pass holders but are better salaries than local talent worst when they back home will build big landed houses whereas our local sre paying for a unit small and cramped that will not lasts half their tenure will go for enbloc again and our male still have to waste their two precious years on n s and and to further study another few years in order to fight for jobs with foreigners so-called " talent " and our local breed Singaporean whole-life hard-earned stressed n sweat c p f money are not return sooner resulting members have to work till they drop in order to support themselves instead of retiring happily looking after their grandchildren. But our small island population Singapore ministers and president are world highest paid salary despite no natural disaster. Cut ministers and president salaries why small island Singapore our leaders are world highest paid salary. No need talking just return local breed whole-life hard-earned stressed n sweat c p f money sooner, problem solve, we want our own " blood " money, no need c d c vouchers.
Singaporeans like to complain and complain... These spass holders u saying, getting pay average sgd1800 to sgd2500, minus rent and living expenses easily more than half gone. At times of inflation these foreigners get nothing, no support whatsoever. Dont complain for the sake of complain
You are 💯 correct.
LOL ..... What a sore loser !!! Majority of Singaporeans love and support the gov and its policies. When a few daft losers cannot compete they whine on YT comment
Foreigner is a degree profesional holdel that can be deserve to get high salary than your because you are only diploma and training course how come you asking high salary without contribution. Thats funny idiotic mindset
you said it right, sir 🫡
WE SGPOREANS DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS SHIT 😔🙏🏼
Just stop increase gst, transport fare, water and electricity bill
LHL told the same lie for the later half of his 20 years premiership. Why would Singaporeans be fooled a second time by LW?
First NTUC supermarket never gives the best food prices. Many of their items are priced really high. Meats especially. You can buy cheaper online or from wholesaler. Though Singapore dollar is stronger than most, we are poorer than some of our ASEAN neighbours , in terms of amount of food, car ownership, house living space etc. Come summer holidays, all these foreigners run back home to WFH, in turn spending their disposable income in their home country e.g. buying big properties etc. Singapore then becomes a ghost town.
Yes, it is not cheap. Have stop purchasing from NTUC as Cold Storage is much cheaper and also want to terminate the NTUC membership card.
Giant groceries are also cheaper by far
Sheng siong
Go out and buy from small grocery shops or CK, Sheng Siong instead.
not to mention, other supermarkets even Cold Storage give clearance items, NTUC has never reduced price for produce that are going to be thrown away, not even the rotisserie chicken
Cut yours and the minister's salary
$2mil a year? or was it 2.2, that's like 160,000/month on the taxpayer wtf
What's go up will never comes down and this can't go on by giving out painkillers it's only temporary gain with long term pain 😢😢
Inflation can go down. But does that mean the prices for the food & other product will go down also?
If prices will come down, PM don't even have to say more productivity and more wages.
For top leaders, high living expenses are never an issue as they are paid millions and received high increment frequently.
While the normal citizens only earn meagre income with super low increments (if there is).
See how many locals has been retrenched? Even our own govt bodies are employing foreigners instead of locals.
What's the point of giving few hundreds of dollars? What Singaporeans need is a job with decent pay.
If Singaporeans has sufficient income, do they need financial help?
Who send us into these artificial unbearable high costs of living for common local folks in Singapore 😢😢
Why are the prices of hdb and other essentials services 😢😢 sky rocketing😮😮
Israel Hamas war or Russia Ukraine conflicts😮😮 effects??🥸🤔🤔
Then try to pacify by offering cdc some cash and utilities vouchers 😂😂😂
Truly policies of the pay and pay till you drop garmen
God have mercy on the common folks of 🇸🇬 😢😢
Please remove Josephine Teo and CHAN Malichan
Monitor, address, but never fix. Always promise gonna do something, but till now nothing have been done.
Same PAP line but little follow thru..
Ask MPs walk around n discern the locals faces..many caught up in the minds on life challenges in Spore
government always playing the wayang card each time without fail
nothing new 😅
Thank you Prime Minister, the $300 can be used for next 10 years.
But mrt fares increasing on dec 28 leh
40% of Foreigners also share the MRT fare too,got it?
@@JH-kv8mt Why are you talking about foreigners paying the MRT fare?
The crux of the issue here is to make life affordable for Singaporeans aka Citizens, got it?
Whats the big deal that foreigners have to pay? If you are a foreigner yourself, then get this straight, you guys chose to come here, so you jolly well pay for your choice to be here !!
If it is unbearable for you, then you are more than welcome to leave !!!
@sihanchen7552 you still need foreign nurses and workers to take care of your ageing parents and build new houses for married couples.They pay the same MRT fares, and they also bear the 9% GST tax. In the end , most Singaporeans share the benefits, especially the old ones and vulnerable. Go and check the bus passengers. Most of the time, the whole log is elderly except for drivers who are young and not local. Oh yes, there are wheelchair boarding the buses too.
@@ozong4361 pay more for MRT fares, yet getting more breakdowns...
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Hi, PM Lawrence Wong. You and your ministers should also help those who take care of their parents or parent in law. These people are those who also need to be help. Some of them are sole breadwinners who are struggling to take care of their families. Do help them.
The president, ministers, and top officials need to take a pay cut now! Why should regular people always be the ones suffering while government officials keep their high salaries? Cut the unnecessary spending in the ministries before forcing us to bear more costs. We shouldn’t have to pay for the government's lack of preparation, and yet the cost of living keeps skyrocketing! And why is the population exploding with more foreigners flooding in, making things even worse for us? This is unacceptable, and the government should be doing more to protect its citizens!
Election lai liao loh
we had 2 years of continous price increases 2023 and 2024 due to your stupid staggered GST increases
$5000 cash out all singaporean salary below $2800
With all due respect sir, it is good to look into working Singaporeans who are bullied by foreigners due to competition since they are willing to work for lower wages, especially shift workers. There are many SG workers who are employed by medium to large companies will tell you whether these observations are factual. Start salary increases for Singaporeans first because they have no other place to go for their employments.
Salary singaporean min $3800 per month
I like to believe the PM in his desire to address the issue of risen cost of living BUT until I see HDB reprice HDB flats without resorting to left-pocket right-pocket grants and position public housing as public housing and not a growth asset, I remain skeptical. Deeply skeptical.
This among other major RISEN cost of living.
We need to stop calling it rising cost of living when it has all but risen tremendously.
Cut & Paste - In UBS’ list of select countries, Singapore has seen the largest growth in its Gini index, up to 70% in 2023 from 53% in 2008. Singapore’s average wealth rose by 116%, while median wealth fell by 2%.
Mr. Wong, it is time to take the thumb off the scale.
Everything costs more each day. Look at HDB flats, they are million dollar flats now on par with the condos. HDB flats are beyond the reach of the working class.
every dammed thing is expensive.
Kindly increase whatever you need to increase weeks before so call General Elections...
Cost of living... 😂
When mostly imported, how to reduce prices...lol ???
Buy from other countries instead of buying everything from Western countries. Fruits & meat are mostly from Western countries so that is why they are so expensive.
Fish ball noodles all selling at $4. Able to reduce them to $2 then cost of living will be low.
Wat 'difficult period, only now we face' ?
PM, u been repeatedly saying you know we going thru tough n Cost of Living etc and ask us wait till next year budget?
Alot of us income falling behind high Inflation etc..
The Assurance pkge Wil bcome redundant, at rate costs are rising..
Your Govt gotta act faster and match your words by action too..
different salary package for foreigners and locals in the same position, every foreigner employed must train a local to take over their position after two years.
Stop telling us your whatever.....just give us back our $2-$3 lunch/dinner meal cost at the coffeeshop.
The gvt is not doing enough at all
The Singapore dream???? can't even afford Groceries!!!!?
Keep increasing bus prices and i cant afford cabs anymore. Singapore ia for the rich only these days.
Well, PM, do you know that recently I wrote on youtube comments, "Just reduce the rental, the problems will be solved." It was referring to government's efforts to make some coffeshop stalls sell coffee and tea at not more than $1.20 and budget meals at not more than $3.50. But the comment was treated as a taboo and was eaten up by CNA. 🎉🎉🎉
Oh god, his face is really quite hard to look at. "Monitoring closely..." 🤣
Dotn vote for PAP VOTE FOR OPPOSITION
Can i request local logistics worker and officer to get pay raise min 3.5 to 4%?
If inflation is high, why is the salary not adjust, should enforce the company to follow the policy instead of just telling them.
Kindly prioritize local salary wage increase.
V B free loader
Mid income earner no help?
Can prices of poultry be the around the same among supermarkets ShengSiong, Cold Storage, Giant and FairPrice? I underestimated the meaning of money. Now, having money is like sleeping on a comfortable mattress. No money. No comfort.
Good more free money to spend in Sg the rest i can spend in JB.
People are in general very unhappy, and since last years those sellers in food courts are having unhappy faces.
And i need to be careful when ordering the mixed rice as a few times it was over charged.
So not only expensive, but the service quality also deteriorated. Singapore as a whole is showing aging signs now.
And medical costs are sky high. I used to go to mount e orchard. Now I just buy supplements to cure myself and surprisingly with today availability of various experts in social media, the vitamin and omega 3 are much more effective than doctors medication.
There's no need to talk about the world lah. If the PM can make the Singapore MRT run smooth without fault for many years and can ride without stress. You are considered genuine already. Of course, also our salary are getting better.
vote wisely
Reminder to those new young voters... open ur eyes big big
Nothing has changed!! Except higher prices!
billionaires and millionaires also get the money. They can go spend in the restaurant for a few meals again. If this money to help the low income, it will be massive help. Sadly, we are still doing it after many years, feeding the rich.
Dear PM, $300 CDC vouchers should be for EVERY ADULT CITIZEN aged 21 and above. Dont be so stingy and so lazy to give "every household" $300 CDC vouchers. 💖
The handouts are useful but won't solve the crux of the problem
what is the point of this speech
That include the price of owning a car, what more than that the commercial companies buying up their fleets compared to families that really needs one.. is that price stabilization comparability? I wonder..
Well there you go, world is better but singaporeans need still to be force to go through the same inflation even it is "better"
Cut 30% minister salary..all minister will do delivery rider job 😂
Looks like current PM just a cut of the old rags...the mantra of taking care us, raising hope, then disappointment comes along with rhetorics..
You hear this at Parliament debates where they end as non issues.
Due to incumbency of PAP
LOL .... If one reads the comments, you'll get the impression that Singapore must be the poorest country in the world :) But we've the highest GDP per capita !!
How much is the PM salary per year?
Singaporeans will speak when election comes.
getting better? which world are u living in Mr Wong?....the war in Middle East will drive the oil prices upwards....experts are expecting recession....hello...i will also feel better if my salary is a million bucks but as a retired teacher ...things do not look that rosy.
When did inflation get better?
LW is the same as lhl
PAP is trusted for all the initiatives to help Singaporean. I am not in favour of government keep giving money here and there...but should focus to help the poor and ol people more. Have a robust resource on having more trained social and health workers to manage the aging populations instead.
Be grateful and at the same time live prudently.
Inflation is just an excuse .
So laughable 😂😂 more useless vouchers and coupons. This is not sustainable 😂😂😂
make my pay go up than i will pay lol
Kong jie way
PM Wong will do the best for Singapore 🙂👌👍
Yet to demonstrate 'his best' still grappling on his Budget speech n repeat it at NDR..
Honeymoon promise is over..
😂😂😂u mean do his best to maintain their lifestyles by making us work harder & paying more for less😢
Ha..ha..prices can come down only and only when land prices come down...but government doesn't want it....becz they are the landlord...so no way for cost of living to come down to the extent to help people live with ease...
Talk much pay more lah dont tell me my wife earn more i get peanut