Are ST’s top 10 ‘Singaporean’ questions to ask PM Lee really reflective?

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[h=2]Are ST’s top 10 ‘Singaporean’ questions to ask PM Lee really reflective?[/h]

September 22nd, 2012 |

Author: Editorial

PM Lee

Straits Times’ Singapolitics site recently conducted an online “Ask the PM” exercise to get netizens to submit questions that they would like to ask PM Lee as part of the National Conversation initiative.
After 2 weeks of solicitation, only about 400 emails were received over a period of 2 weeks earlier this month.
Straits Times then short-listed 25 of them for netizens to vote. The voting started on Mon (17 Sep) and ended yesterday (21 Sep). After 5 days of voting with more than 20,000 votes collected, Straits Times then selected the top 10 questions from the 25 to ask PM Lee.
In a Straits Times news report today (22 Sep), it touted, “Singaporeans had chosen 10 top questions (to ask PM).”
Mr Lee’s replies will be taped and put up by Straits Times in a series of videos next week. Straits Times proudly proclaimed in its news report, “(This) is an exclusive event run by Straits Times.”
Following are the top 10 questions picked by Straits Times out of the short-listed 25, according to their poll results:

1. How will you ensure the cost of living in Singapore remains manageable? How will you keep healthcare affordable? (10%)
2. Can we really have work-life balance? (7%)
3. Can we change the model of public houseing so it is a home, and not an investment asset? (6%)
4. We are trying to help parents look after children, what are we doing to help children look after elderly parents? (6%)
5. What is the limit to our population size? What do you, as PM, think is the optimum size? (6%)
6. Can the Govt do more for those with special needs? It should sign the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (6%)
7. Can we do more for those in the 50s and 60s who have been retrenched or are being rehired at lower pay? (5%)
8. Having a childhood is good in theory, but how do we reduce the reliance on exams? For example, do we need the PSLE? (4%)
9. Where do you see Singapore in 20 years’ time? What will our niche be? Will Parliament still be dominated by the PAP? (4%)
10. Could a percentage of a citizen’s CPF account be set aside for unemployment insurance? (4%)
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Strangely, some of the hot topics which the netizens have been talking about on alternate sites in the last few years are missing from the questions. For example, questions related to the following hot issues frequently discussed in social media were not present:

• over-influx of foreigners in Singapore and job competitions
• wage depression
• infrastructure overload
• more education places in local universities
• income inequality
• asset inflation and runaway housing cost
• media control
• ISA
• scrapping of GRCs
• high electoral deposits
• independent election commission
• domination of GLCs in economy
• over-dependence of MNCs in economy
• low productivity
• not enough CPF to retire
• literally having to work to old age and die at work
• actual reserves we have
• etc

Can the Straits Times really claim that those 10 questions were actually the top ones chosen by Singaporeans to ask PM Lee?
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[jw5]

My first question:

Do you know why Hilary became secretary of state only after Bill was no longer the president?

 

[Kohliantye]

[h=2] Straits Times proudly proclaimed in its news report, “(This) is an exclusive event run by Straits Times.”[/I]

Anyone whose mind conclude that whatever he, she or it (organisation) thinks or do or did or have done anything that which they or it label as INCLUSIVE is a fool in the first place and an undesirable in the eyes of the people.

If I say my lifestyle is Inclusive, or what I produce is Inclusive or what I believe in is INCLUSIVE, I am actually someone suffering from a state of low-esteem, lacking confidence and hence trying to project itself to the highest pedestal.

Stop this drame about INCLUSIVITY.

What is so great making a topic that would be discussed with a politician into something INCLUSIVE, huh????.

The editors, writers and management of the Sraits Times has accidentally plunge the dagger into their bloated bellies.

They are a disgrace to whoever may have taught them to be "a bunch of intelligent lot".

Truly not worth the salt.

Ptui ptui ptui.