Re: Please control children's healthcare costs.

this is because those who can have babies would rather wait until they
migrate elsewhere, so they can gain citizenship from that country where
their children are being born and leave this forsacken country. those who
are poor, they can't even find a mate, how to talk about babies when they
can't even get married nor feed themselves and even have a decent job to
settle down their future are so uncertain and bleak.

As for those foreigners, they are using sg as a stepping stones, they won't
want their children to serve NS, let alone serving this country don't even
give our own citizens any benefit, you think they are so stupid to what
their children to suffer here? provided we got all those FTs that are
stupid, otherwise, if they are talented they wouldn't even consider coming
here in the first place unless there are some benefits that attracts them,
like free education and the ability to migrate somewhereelse later.

The problem have to be solved at the core, the root, if the citizens
themselves feel deserted by their country, how will others feel? If the
citizens are so unhappy, you think those younger generations and FTs will
want to stay and make this their home? We must first bloom the flowers
inwardly then the bees and butterflies will come and carry along butts and
seeds from all over and then they'll start to blossom here in sg. You can't
throw your fertilizer/money outside your garden and then expect your garden
to also blossom.

"Cherry" <bic_cherry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> Please control children's healthcare costs.
>
> SGporean getting extinct?
> SGporean has he world's 3rd lowest birth rate (223/ 226 countries) @
> 1.05 /woman lifetime (2005est.)
> (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html),
> This means that the population of SGporeans would be halved every
> generation- this is unsustainable. The army and workforce would
> definitely be compromised.
>
>
> To encourage couples to have more children- child healthcare costs
> should be more heavily subsidized and capped at an annual maximum. More
> residential facilities for e.g. downs syndrome children should be
> provided at affordable rates because many educated parents (being of
> the slightly older age group when pregnant) are very afraid to have a
> down's syndrome (/ equivalent) child which they know- would impact
> greatly upon the quality of their lives (shattered dreams, multiple
> costly medical/ behavioral problems to attend to, need to quit job to
> look after child, marital stress)-
>
> Across board child subsidies are not the only answer... as said: is
> adequate support for the mentally dull/ chronically ill child available
> & affordable? - does our elitist society have a place for everyone?
> - Should the birth of such a child to be considered a disaster? - Are
> we really united as a society? Why is our society failing?- - What's
> the consensus?
>
> Thus I feel that it is the responsibility of our society to deeply
> investigate this important issue if we are to avoid the slippery slope
> of population contraction and its attendant problems.
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12826-2004Sep10.html :
> There will be fewer people to support a growing elderly population and
> to sustain the military that protects this 400-square-mile island
> sandwiched between Indonesia and Malaysia. Singapore's vaunted tiger
> economy will whimper.
>
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/26012006/323/singapore-birth-rate-inches-enough-babies-report.html
> "... 37,593 babies were registered in 2005.... Singapore needs a
> replacement rate of 2.1 percent or 50,000 babies a year just to
> maintain the local population without the need for immigration."
>
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3589744.stm
> 23.8.2004- Singapore aims to lift birth rate
> Analysts have warned that future growth may be hampered by an aging
> workforce
>


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