I read the news on "Disabled Help Turn Trash into Xmas Tree on Straits Times ( See newspaper cutting) .
Now that the Xmas has gone. Chinese new year is around the corner. Let's see what idea the disabled can come up.
In my opinion, the government should give incentive for such creative idea.
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The best incentive for the disabled give public moral support and donations to the organisation whenever possible. As for the govt, they should give charitable organisations financial support, and stop spending on wasteful projects such as planning to construct a multi-storey building costing millions (from tax payers money) for a new LTA HQ, when the present one is still in good condition and functioning well.
Dear Zen,
Thanks for your comments. I agree with what you said. The govrnment must manage the cost properly as these are tax payers people money
Regards
pehsk
Spending on fanciful grandiose buildings to boost the civil service's ego are not just isolated cases. I have this feeling that the govt has over-collected taxes through various means and the most telling one should be the increase of GST progressively through the years. Imagine just an increase of 1% across the board would rake in millions and it starts from a modest 3% reaching the present startling figure of 7%. Now we should know, for example, why Adam road food centre has been renovated twice through a short space of only a few years - why? - because there is an excess revenue lying in the coffer. So govt officials in order to justify this excess collection quickly try to spend it, in order to avoid public scrutiny. After saying all this, we must also honestly admit that it is not a sin to accumulate revenue, provided it is wisely spent for the benefit of the country and not for the sake of blowing up images, particulary to that of the civil service or other related organisations.
In the hotel that I stayed in in Kuching, they have a X'mas tree made entirely of empty mineral water bottles.
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