Recent content by chobolann

History has shown that no dynasty or kingdom can last forever. Each passing day is a day closer to the demise of PAP as the dominant political power.

I certainly don't fault the hawkers for charging what they did. The hawkers must have taken the cue from our great political leaders. You pay for what you get. You want world class seafood, you got to pay world highest prices. The hawkers have been taught well by our great political...

Japan suffered a lost decade characterized by stagnation, rising fiscal deficit, deflation, and strong yen. These characteristics were supported by Japan’s high savings rate and export competitiveness. The world as a whole could not replicate Japan’s experience. The U.S., for example, must...

BY Andy Xie - the former employee of morgan stanley who hinted that singapore was a money laundering hub. By Andy Xie, Caijing guest economist and board member of Rosetta Stone Advisors Limited From Caijing Magazine Policymakers around the world have not shown an understanding of the...

stagnant wages,increasing cost of living, and resultant increase in debt, and a skewed income distribution is the result of unbridled capitalism. the capitalist will suppress wages to increase their profit margins and increase their CEO salaries. The increasing cost of living such as rents...

if Obama at less than 500k pa gets AIR FORCE ONE, our Prime Minister at several millions pa, is being very frugal with our taxpayers money flying in a SAF plane. I think he deserves more - an A380 all to himself should be the bare minimum us taxpayers should provide to our great leader. We need...

Why didn't the elite scholars of Tourist Promotion Board think of installing lightning protection on our beloved merlion in the first place? Maybe too busy with their French cooking classes to think of it?

TO THE OPPOSITION AND ANY ASPIRING OPPOSITION, for you fellas to stand a fighting chance the next GE, you got to get yourselves organised and you got to have to a sound plan on winning those votes. 1. Remember that Rome was not built in a day. 2. Disavow clowns like chee. 3. Recruit more...

What will PAP increase after the next GE? My guess 1. Increase GST to 10 percent 2. Increase Ministerial and Elite civil service salaries. 3. Increase bus, MRT and taxi fares. 4. Increase number of FTs. 5. Increase number of ERP gantries. 6. Increase electricity and water tariffs. Add...

These disgruntled engineers should band together with other disgruntled professionals like doctors, accountants, lawyers and architects, who some way or other have been screwed or have an axe to grind against the incumbent ruling party.It's easy to break a single chopstick, but not a big bunch...

In the same light - Safety in a GRC is an illusion; if need be, we (the citizens) can identify you, and if we have to, we will be prepared to vote you out of parliament.

The rich pay more taxes, the poor often don't; moreover they get more subsidies which strain our national budget. The poor should be grateful to our generous, benevolent and self-sacrificing PAP leaders for even having a bus route serving their locale. SMRT should look into a feasibility study...

Maybe our university is expensive because we pay our professors well. If so, we should be proud of this. How do you expect your children to get a quality world class education if you don't pay our professors well? Otherwise, they might become corrupt, (teach badly) and your daughters may become...

Our ministers and MPs should send some of their own elderly parents and relatives to the new nursing home in JB to show us peasants how pleasant the environment it is and how convenient it is to visit them. i task them to lead by example. Walk the talk Mr Khaw.

Our minister is just being practical - elderly peasant sinkies of no economic usefulness will be cargoed off to JB, thus reducing the burden to our state coffers. Housing foreign labourers in serangoon gardens who can toil for small wages is better utilisation of precious space in sinkapore...