Captures in essence what has happened , what is going on and will it fix the issues. Note how the phrase "sense of entitlement" has been thrown back to the PAP which came out with the term.
http://catherinelim.sg/2013/03/16/the-pap-and-the-people-bread-and-butter-concerns-and-much-more/
"Clearly, after more than 40 years of untrammeled power, the PAP had settled into a deadly complacency and sense of entitlement, that caused them to ride roughshod over the people’s feelings and push through a whole slew of controversial and unpopular policies, including those that would lead directly to the present bread-and-butter grievances.
But even before the people’s anger erupted at the polls, the socioeconomic and political aspects of an issue had already become inextricably linked, with the result that economic problems came to be seen as having an ultimate political cause. Thus the hardships of day-to-day living were attributed to PAP arrogance, elitism and insensitivity, and the flight abroad of bright young talent that would be needed to chart and strengthen Singapore’s economic future, was attributed to the PAP’s continuing suppression of political freedom.
The present badly deteriorating relationship between the government and the people thus cannot be repaired as long as both parties perceive it as no more than one massive bread-and-butter problem to be broken up into its many separate components which can then be fixed one by one, whether it is about the spiralling cost of resale HDB units, COEs, CPF, GST, increased bus fares, increased hospital fees, maid levies, etc. That would be dealing with the problem only at the surface, not the root. At worst, it could be just a frenzied, uncoordinated exercise of fire-fighting and damage-control."
http://catherinelim.sg/2013/03/16/the-pap-and-the-people-bread-and-butter-concerns-and-much-more/
"Clearly, after more than 40 years of untrammeled power, the PAP had settled into a deadly complacency and sense of entitlement, that caused them to ride roughshod over the people’s feelings and push through a whole slew of controversial and unpopular policies, including those that would lead directly to the present bread-and-butter grievances.
But even before the people’s anger erupted at the polls, the socioeconomic and political aspects of an issue had already become inextricably linked, with the result that economic problems came to be seen as having an ultimate political cause. Thus the hardships of day-to-day living were attributed to PAP arrogance, elitism and insensitivity, and the flight abroad of bright young talent that would be needed to chart and strengthen Singapore’s economic future, was attributed to the PAP’s continuing suppression of political freedom.
The present badly deteriorating relationship between the government and the people thus cannot be repaired as long as both parties perceive it as no more than one massive bread-and-butter problem to be broken up into its many separate components which can then be fixed one by one, whether it is about the spiralling cost of resale HDB units, COEs, CPF, GST, increased bus fares, increased hospital fees, maid levies, etc. That would be dealing with the problem only at the surface, not the root. At worst, it could be just a frenzied, uncoordinated exercise of fire-fighting and damage-control."
