Govt S$1.1Billion public bus services cash injection, shouldn't commuters expect a 12.0% bus fare 'discount'?

According to 'S$1.1b bus services scheme not for operators' profit: Lui Tuck Yew' [CNA, 09July2012]: "Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew on Monday said the implementation details of the S$1.1 billion Bus Services Enhancement Programme (BSEP) to ramp up bus capacity over the next five years have largely been sorted out.... Mr Lui said the first of the 550 buses under the BSEP will go on the roads in September."

Current Foreign worker levy system- is it unnecessarily confusing, a waste of manpower and time?

The immediate problems with the current system ('Levies & quotas for hiring Foreign Workers') are multifold:
- Current problems with:

• Phantom Singaporean/ PR workers [tremeritus. e.g.],
• False declaration of qualifications,
• False declaration of salary band and corporate tax evasion through salary refund schemes (worker refunding employer agreed portion of salary),
• Misuse of one type of permit for other types of work: e.g. maids helping behind scenes with employer's hawker business.