Soaring prices - the poor cannot afford three basic meals.

I am reminded of a Professor Kishore Mahbubani who said,

“There are no homeless, destitute or starving people ..Poverty has been eradicated`

Incidentally, this is the same gentleman who slam our folks for thinking lesser of NUS and sending their kids to overseas universities - but surprise surprise, his own children are in overseas universities.

I am also reminded of a Dr Vivian Balakrishnan-

Dr Lily Neo: Sir, I want to check with the Minister again when he said on the strict criteria on the entitlement for PA recipients. May I ask him what is his definition of “subsistence living”? Am I correct to say that, out of $260 per month for PA recipients, $100 goes to rental, power supply and S&C and leaving them with only $5 a day to live on? Am I correct to say that any basic meal in any hawker centre is already $2.50 to $3.00 per meal? Therefore, is it too much to ask for just three meals a day as an entitlement for the PA recipients?

Dr Vivian Balakrishnan: How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

Apparently, some can’t even afford three meals in a hawker centre.

And now, Mrs Yu Foo Yee Shoon is questioning as to how much is enough in the issue of aid for the poorest households in Singapore.

I am reminded of Wee Shu Min again. Elitist. Doesn’t know much about the lower income group and couldn’t care less. Unsympathetic. Uncaring.

At times like this, take heart that there are still good folks who know the meaning of empathy.