Thursday, August 18, 2011

Donating half of the salary

Dear Mr. Tan,


Good to highlight in your campaign that contributing part of the President's salary is a way to acknowledge (1) the overly high salary for President and not vote buying, (2) as a form of public service where there is no need for such high salary, (3) to help those needy who are left behind by the economic development and growth chasing approach in Spore.

Perhaps, you may be able to propose plans/ programmes on how to help those who are falling behind the economic race (or the less privilege).


Wet market and MRT stations, Bus interchange and Shopping complexes, are some good points of contact for campaigning.


Foreigners who are taking up citizenship should be required to serve National Service, both men and women. Men serve in the Armed Forces on the normal duration as Sporeans while women serve as nurses for a shorter period. That would take care of our shortage of nurses in Structured Hospitals, hence, there is no need to hire so many foreigners as nurses. That applies to foreigners and if proved to be successful, then you could extend to local Singaporeans (women) to serve NS as nurses and that will close the gap of women climbing faster at work (at least 2 to 2.5 yrs advantage) and ahead of men with mandatory NS.


Serving as NS nurses for foreigners is an excellent approach to address the current hot topic in Singapore. I am sure many Singaporeans will agree with you on that. But, may not be wise to include the local Singaporean women at this juncture as you may lose votes instead. So just focus your policy on the foreigners who want to take up citizenship.


Keep in touch, cheers.


1 comment:

Alan said...

Men serve in the Armed Forces on the normal duration as Singaporeans while women serve as nurses for a shorter period. That would take care of our shortage of nurses in Structured Hospitals; hence, there is no need to hire so many foreigners as nurses. Maybe more Singaporean will take nursing as a career too as a result. ??? ??? ???

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