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[h=2]16 Quotes by your ‘Out of Touch’ PAP MPs[/h]
August 19th, 2015 |
Author: Contributions
I came across the following quotes in an article by Chan Joo Yee. The
questions for you to ask and ponder are:
a) Do
these people really understand you and your plight?
b) Does some introductions in a coffee-shop, old age home, hawker
centre mean they are now ‘closer to you?’
c) Is your estate and Town Council management much more important
than the national issues that will not only affect you, but your children and
their children in future?
d) Are you prepared to gamble 5 more years with them in the hope that
they will change overnight and abandon policies you don’t want?
Consider the following quotes by these very men and women who are urging you
– to quote the PM, ‘not weaken the PAP team.’ This is what the so-called strong
team you elected into power in 2011 had to say about you:
The Quotes:
1. “Singaporeans first policy would not benefit the economy in the
long term.”
2.“It’s not the government’s duty to love Singaporeans.”
3.“Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is
not to ensure that sons of influential men get preferential treatment. Instead
it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment.”
4.“Retrenchment is good for Singapore. If there is no retrenchment,
then I worry.”
5.“NSman’s service to Singapore cannot be measured in dollars and
cents.”
6.“Well, everybody has a car, we have two — my wife drives one, I
drive one. We are both professionals, we need to travel.”
7. “If you’re lazy and work less, you’ll have less
Medisave.”
8.“Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast
screening.”
9.“If the annual salary of the Minister of Information,
Communications and the Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he
discusses policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they
need not listen to the minister’s ideas and proposals.”
10.“Some cardboard collectors treat it (collection of cardboards) as
a form of exercise and activity rather than being cooped up at
home.”
11.“How much do you want? Do you want 3 meals in a hawker centre,
food court or restaurant?”
12.“It’s not for the money (multiple directorships) because some of
the companies pay me as little as $10,000 a year.”
13.“People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected
from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape,
after all, is democracy in action.”
14.“It would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate
the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and
Mandarin.”
15.“CPF is not your money.”
16.“If chicken is expensive, eat fish.”
There’s probably a lot more, but you get the idea. This is the thinking and
mind-set of the men and women you sent to Parliament the last time. They can
scold, mock and try to do the opposition in – but do remember – who’s
the cause of your all your problems now? Is it the opposition or the Govt you
have routinely given a blank cheque to do whatever they want, when ever they
want? And now they are telling you to consider ‘an enlightened
self-interest when you go and vote.’ Is your self interests vis-à-vis your
estate amenities, which don’t forget is what is expected of any Govt in power
anywhere in the world, or is the national interests and your future as
Singaporeans in your own country, more important?
You have a tough choice and decision to make – think carefully and vote
wisely.
Sir
Nelspruit
* The author blogs at Anyhow Hantam.
[h=2]16 Quotes by your ‘Out of Touch’ PAP MPs[/h]
August 19th, 2015 |
Author: Contributions
I came across the following quotes in an article by Chan Joo Yee. The
questions for you to ask and ponder are:
these people really understand you and your plight?
b) Does some introductions in a coffee-shop, old age home, hawker
centre mean they are now ‘closer to you?’
c) Is your estate and Town Council management much more important
than the national issues that will not only affect you, but your children and
their children in future?
d) Are you prepared to gamble 5 more years with them in the hope that
they will change overnight and abandon policies you don’t want?
Consider the following quotes by these very men and women who are urging you
– to quote the PM, ‘not weaken the PAP team.’ This is what the so-called strong
team you elected into power in 2011 had to say about you:
The Quotes:
1. “Singaporeans first policy would not benefit the economy in the
long term.”
2.“It’s not the government’s duty to love Singaporeans.”
3.“Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is
not to ensure that sons of influential men get preferential treatment. Instead
it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment.”
4.“Retrenchment is good for Singapore. If there is no retrenchment,
then I worry.”
5.“NSman’s service to Singapore cannot be measured in dollars and
cents.”
6.“Well, everybody has a car, we have two — my wife drives one, I
drive one. We are both professionals, we need to travel.”
7. “If you’re lazy and work less, you’ll have less
Medisave.”
8.“Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast
screening.”
9.“If the annual salary of the Minister of Information,
Communications and the Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he
discusses policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they
need not listen to the minister’s ideas and proposals.”
10.“Some cardboard collectors treat it (collection of cardboards) as
a form of exercise and activity rather than being cooped up at
home.”
11.“How much do you want? Do you want 3 meals in a hawker centre,
food court or restaurant?”
12.“It’s not for the money (multiple directorships) because some of
the companies pay me as little as $10,000 a year.”
13.“People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected
from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape,
after all, is democracy in action.”
14.“It would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate
the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and
Mandarin.”
15.“CPF is not your money.”
16.“If chicken is expensive, eat fish.”
mind-set of the men and women you sent to Parliament the last time. They can
scold, mock and try to do the opposition in – but do remember – who’s
the cause of your all your problems now? Is it the opposition or the Govt you
have routinely given a blank cheque to do whatever they want, when ever they
want? And now they are telling you to consider ‘an enlightened
self-interest when you go and vote.’ Is your self interests vis-à-vis your
estate amenities, which don’t forget is what is expected of any Govt in power
anywhere in the world, or is the national interests and your future as
Singaporeans in your own country, more important?
You have a tough choice and decision to make – think carefully and vote
wisely.
Sir
Nelspruit
* The author blogs at Anyhow Hantam.
