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本帖最后由 kelingkia2013 于 3-9-2015 07:25 PM 编辑
Dear Gilbert,
I heard about you from my friend who tells me that you are a labour activist representing the downtrodden in Singapore.
Would just like to share with you my experience. I have a diploma from Republic Polytechnic and have been working for some years now as an secretary. Even though my salary has risen in the past few years, I am finding it increasingly difficult to maintain the costs of living.
For example, my increment last year was $80 (about 3.5%) but the costs of food court near my workplace in CBD has grown way more. A set meal for example has risen from $3.90 to $5.00. What is more worrying is that I have just gotten engaged with my finance and I do not look at the future with optimism.
My brother has told me about how his IT company has hired so many foreigners on S-pass for $2500 which is even higher that what I am earning. And the thing is that this is very cheap considered to locals whose pay is about $3.5 to $4k working as a IT engineer.
I am worried that someone may steal my job in the near future.
I am also about to get married soon and did a simple cost calculation that we need about $1.5k a month at least for payment for loans taken out for a simple wedding, 5 day honeymoon to Bali, and furniture. Also, our monthly mortgage will cost us at least $1.2k in CPF for a new HDB.
After spending $550 for food, transport and groceries, $300 for general maintenance, and giving $400 to my aged parents and school going siblings, I find that I do not have enough money left.
The reality today is that costs of living is really affecting the middle-class like myself. Sigh.
Good luck for the upcoming elections as we need more people like you who has walked the ground to speak up for us in Parliament.
Thanks,
Fatimah
亲爱的吉尔伯特，我听说你从我的朋友谁告诉我，你是一个劳工维权人士代表在新加坡受压迫。只是想与大家分享我的经验。我从共和理工学院的文凭和已经工作了好几年，现在作为一个秘书。虽然我的工资在过去的几年里复活，我发现越来越难以维持生活的费用。例如，我的递增，去年是$ 80（约3.5％），但美食广场靠近我在CBD工作的费用增长方式更加。一个套餐，例如从$ 3.90上升到$ 5.00不等。更令人担心的是，我刚刚得到从事我的资金，我不看未来持乐观态度。我哥哥告诉我怎么他的IT公司已经聘请这么多的外国人在S-通行证为$ 2500个这甚至高于我所挣。而事实是，这是很便宜认为当地人的薪酬约为$ 3.5至$ 4K工作作为一个IT工程师。我担心有人会偷我的工作在不久的将来。我也即将结婚不久，做了简单的成本计算，我们需要约$ 1.5ka每月至少支付取出来了简单的婚礼，一日5次蜜月巴厘岛和家具的贷款。此外，我们的每月按揭将花费我们至少$ 1.2K在CPF新组屋。支出用于食品，运输和杂货$ 550，一般维修300 $，和我年迈的父母和学校去的兄弟姐妹给$ 400个后，我发现我没有足够的钱离开了。今天的现实是，生活成本确实影响了中产阶级像我一样。一声叹息。祝你好运，为即将到来的选举，因为我们需要更多的人喜欢你谁已经走到了发言，为我们在议会中的地面上。谢谢，法蒂玛
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