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The things people will do with money, and the things people will do for money, never amaze me.

The problem that hasn't been addressed is that if we don't import these foreigners who's going to do their jobs? The construction worker, the maids and even the pdmms? I propose we spend 1/6 our current defence budget (i.e. SGD 1 billion dollars) to undertake a national r+d program to develop...

Who in their right mind would go work for A-star? Didn't the acidflask (more about that incident here) debacle explain things clearly already? Anyway, why aren't these scholars capable of solving everyday problems of inflation, insecurity, transportation etc? And who thought of the idea of...

Maybe there ought to be a law governing such investment contracts... Easiest way is to mandate that contracts that don't guarantee their principals (like in this case) to be printed in red coloured paper. Those that guarantee at least 50% princpals be printed in yellow coloured paper...

Good speaking ability is an essential skill of a good politician. Although it's not the only skill. You don't have to do a lot of negotiating and deal making if you're a newsreader. Hell, being a investigative journalist is a lot tougher than a newsreader... A newsreader just... reads. And looks...

If a genie were to grant you this wish, you would end up in IMH. :D Seriously I would say, that if everyone's wishes were more or less granted, then people would develop a more egalitarian outlook towards life. Is that what you had intended? To wish that other people's wishes come true...

After all this mudslinging and cocksucking, I'm sure there's something that you really want out of this. I feel that most of us don't care who runs the show, so long as we get what we want. For this reason I'm starting this wishlist thread. Try to think of something other than just 'money'...

Their lack of coherence in their speech reflects the processes going on in their thoughts.

To put it simply, When opposition takes over, all the useless shit in BN will have to find some other jobs. There are still capable people within the BN... I hope that they will take over the spots that used to be hogged by the useless shits. Same goes for our situation here in Singapore.

The reason for this is because the current government isn't transparent in it's dealings. The presidential tenure of Ong Teng Cheong comes to mind. You would rather rely on someone who sold his soul to get "insider" information and compete unfairly?

I think you fail to realise low birth rate isn't the problem. Dependence on cheap labour is. The government hasn't invested enough in automation/robotics/research. It has also to do with the mentality of getting headcount instead. In sg politics headcount = power. When your fundamentals...

Somehow I'm envious of Malaysia having someone like Anwar. We used to have a Tang Liang Hong but where is he now? We need someone like Anwar who can tough it out here man... JBJ can tough it out, but seems to have some disconnect with the rest of the people.

Chee Soon Juan should learn from Anwar Ibrahim.

Well, learning by copying is always a first step. He's just at that stage yet. Once you have learned all you can, you can try innovating. However, it seems that most Singaporeans can't innovate. They can only learn. Not good in the long run.

In engineering, there's just not enough bright people here in singapore. Forget about FTs from china or india. They make me cough blood. The better engineers from those countries are working in the USA. What we are getting is just trash. In Accountancy, business and finance, where most of the...

So, as I have mentioned before, the solution is to throw out all these FTs (maids + construction workers). The government should make use of the money to develop robots to solve our need for labour.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) costs around 5 billion euros. That would be around 10 billion SGD. That is for a particle accelerator with no immediate economic benefit, other than supporting their local engineering companies. The money probably aided their local companies to develop advanced...

Goodness... you should try to translate the articles you paste to make it more accessible...

ISD is made up of people who are politically reliable first, capable second. So inside, they concentrate on doctrines instead of innovation. Haven't you read enough of Strait Times editorials by ex-ISD people? They write as if they're expecting the readers to be their subordinates. i.e...

What I'm trying to say here is that 'elitism' isn't exactly the right word to use. Arrogance, Self-importance, Delusional, etc. So many other better terms... Do you believe that there are people within the PAP who disagree with the way LKY/GCT/LHL is running the show? There certainly are...