CNA Deletes Article About Josephine Teo Saying We Shouldn't Pay NS Men More

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CNA DELETES ARTICLE ABOUT JOSEPHINE TEO SAYING WE SHOULDN'T PAY NSMEN MORE

Post date:
4 Mar 2015 - 4:23pm

Background Story: Josephine Teo: NSmen's Service to Singapore can't be Measured in Dollars and Cents.

Dear TRS, Josephine Teo Obviously Doesn't Know of the Struggles many NSF Face.

In a feedback session on Budget 2015 on Feb 26, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Josephine Teo said “service for the country cannot be measured in dollars and cents” when one participant suggested that National Servicemen should be paid more. (Strangely, the article on Channel News Asia which reported this can longer be found online though a cached copy can still be found on Google as this post was being drafted. I have also made a screen shot of that article in case it’s purged fro Google cache.)

There is no doubt such a statement has got a lot of Singaporean men riled up. Anyone who just use the following terms on Google – Josephine Teo NS – will get a pretty good idea what most have to say on some of the forums. Even one of my friends wrote an blog post on it.

There used to be a time when government ministers has the aura of infalliability and invinicibility. Not any more when you look at the likes of Lim Swee Say, Chan Chun Seng, Grace Fu and Josephine Teo. They don’t even look ministerial. As I once mentioned to a colleague and friend, the end of the PAP may come not because that the opposition has become more capable. It comes because the kind of “top talent” the PAP managed to recruit simply failed to command any respect from the people, as the vote swing in the previous Punggol East by-election has shown. To paraphrase what I told my colleague back then, “It’s like playing chess or soccer. If you keep playing against those whose standard is not your match, not only will your skills not improve, it will actually start to deteriorate.”

So, instead of lashing out at Josephine Teo for being a woman and having not served NS, or ranting about how the Singaporean male lose 2 years of the prime of their lives bearing arms instead of climbing the corporate ladder, I would say this to her:

“Ask yourself madam, how is it that some have to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the rest and yet become economically disadvantaged for doing so, while the rest gets to enjoy the benefit for free and even reap economic advantages from the sacrifice of those serving NS? How to even the sum?”

It’s high time the country give those who served reasonable benefits, when her own boss the Prime Minister justifies for the ministers’ very own “reasonable” pay. In the previous ministerial pay review in Parliament, did she tell the Prime Minsiter that “service for the country cannot be measured in dollars and cents”?

I doubt so. As a friend so rightly point out, the PAP’s slogan these days appears to be:“Practise what I preach, but not what I do.”

There’s a word for that – H Y P O C R I S Y.

And really, there are a lot of people who aren’t really anti-PAP. They are just anti-hypocrisy.

*Read the rest of the article at: The Lycan Times 狼人

 

[Confuseous]

There used to be a time when government ministers has the aura of infalliability and invinicibility. Not any more when you look at the likes of Lim Swee Say, Chan Chun Seng, Grace Fu and Josephine Teo.

These are just clowns, masquerading as ministers, who found the right circus at the right time.
Don't forget the other clowns like Teo Ser Luck, Tan Chuan Jin, Gan Yong Kim, Education minister Goldfish Heng etc etc
The list is long indeed.

 

[yahoo55]

There used to be a time when government ministers has the aura of infalliability and invinicibility. Not any more when you look at the likes of Lim Swee Say, Chan Chun Seng, Grace Fu and Josephine Teo.

These are just clowns, masquerading as ministers, who found the right circus at the right time.
Don't forget the other clowns like Teo Ser Luck, Tan Chuan Jin, Gan Yong Kim, Education minister Goldfish Heng etc etc
The list is long indeed.

Last time PAP ministers had the aura of infalliability and invinicibility because they claimed to Sinkies that they had "helicopter vision", but after so many mistakes over the years, Sinkies realized that the PAP ministers so called "helicopter vision" is a bunch of bullshit to con people. So for years now, we never hear PAP talked about "helicopter vision" anymore.

 

[jw5]

They were referred to as "heavyweights".

These days, they are referred to as being "weighty".

Last time PAP ministers had the aura of infalliability and invinicibility because they claimed to Sinkies that they had "helicopter vision", but after so many mistakes over the years, Sinkies realized that the PAP ministers so called "helicopter vision" is a bunch of bullshit to con people. So for years now, we never hear PAP talked about "helicopter vision" anymore.

 

[Confuseous]

Last time PAP ministers had the aura of infalliability and invinicibility because they claimed to Sinkies that they had "helicopter vision", but after so many mistakes over the years, Sinkies realized that the PAP ministers so called "helicopter vision" is a bunch of bullshit to con people. So for years now, we never hear PAP talked about "helicopter vision" anymore.

These clowns are happy that they have the ability to see the end of their noses.
They cannot see beyond that - especially those with long noses.
They cannot even fix the recurring problems thrown up by the Auditor General's annual report - how to have helicopter vision?
Notice that most of the ministers are not even speaking out, except when really necessary?
They no longer have views to offer - because there are none.
Or when they have, they double confirm how stupid they really are.
Look at the example given by Tan Chuan Jin of a poly graduate and his CPF amount at retirement.
How dumb can people really get?

 

[ykhuser]

knn.
ALL ns men should be given a free 2 room flats FOC

 

[johnny333]

In the past when the PAP controlled the media, it was easy for them to hide their dirty laundry. However nowadays there are too many things going wrong. It's now not only about the incompetent MPs, but also about the whole system with so many incompetent civil servants, grass looters, husbands, wives, children,...

Many of the mistakes made in the past are now catching up e.g. stop at two policies, low wages causing insufficient savings, mismanagement of the CPF, ...