Dr Toh Chin Chye: FAP Breached CPF's Fundamental Principle

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Did you know Dr Toh Chin Chye whacked the Govt on CPF?

May 27th, 2014 | Author: Contributions




The late Dr Toh Chin Chye


Dear TRE readers,

Thanks to the efforts of readers over at Han Hui Hui facebook who did a CSI
on what the old guard Dr Toh Chin Chye had said about the CPF.

Hats off to them. And I am doing my part to help spread the message.

Thanks to the Internet, we now can find what our founding fathers said from
the archives. In case you don’t know, Dr Toh Chin Chye was the Minister for
Health from 1975 to 1981 until he stepped down from the Cabinet in 1981 to make
way for younger ministers. He remained as a backbencher MP till 1988 when he
retired from politics completely while his compatriot LKY continued to remain in
politics up till even today.

This was what Dr Toh said 30 years ago in a 30 Jun 1984 report: http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspap...2.26.8.11.aspx





As you can see, Dr Toh was vehemently against deferring the withdrawal of CPF
to beyond 60 years old. He said that it was a breach of the fundamental
principle on which CPF had been set up. At the time, even other PAP MPs
applauded Dr Toh at the end of his impassioned speech.

Dr Toh accused the Govt of setting a precedent with the Medisave scheme,
which affects people’s CPF savings.

He said the civil servants who came up with the Medisave scheme were people
who got pensions themselves. “It was easy for them to handle other people’s
problems. Pensions do not come from savings,” he said of the civil servants.

He said what was irksome was that “the government was using people’s savings
and telling them how to spend it”.

Unfortunately, we don’t have Dr Toh with us today to help defend us.

It is very important the we spread what the PAP old guard had said about the
CPF to as wide an audience as possible, especially the uncles and aunties.

See you all at the “Return Our CPF” event at Hong Lim Park on 7 June,
4pm.

Hopefully, the organizer will observe a minute of silence in remembrance of
this honest and upright statesman Dr Toh Chin Chye as well as Ong Teng
Cheong.

P.S. I’ve created the following poster. Please help spread this message to as
many people as possible.


An awakened
Singaporean

* Submitted by TRE reader.


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