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[h=2]Dr Koh’s fish and bone story – very touching but very myopic too[/h]
January 19th, 2013 |
Author: Contributions
I read the recent article [Link] on Dr Koh’s humble days of living off fish and porridge and how he “knows” what it’s like to struggle back in the old days, and how he can relate with families that are putting up with this struggle today.
Dr Koh should ask himself and the PAP, what had gone wrong. How is it after so many years of so called Swiss standard of living with sky high buildings and fast cars on small roads, you still see Singaporeans going hungry and picking of scraps from hawker centers?
You see our Singaporean elders waiting to clean tables, washing toilets and some even got no money to see the doctor, all this is still happening even after so years of PAP rule.
Dr Koh, if the PAP was never able to change or address these issues in the past, tell us what makes you so special that you can change anything after this bi-election?
This is not just for some of the residents of Punggol , but for many other Singaporeans as well.
To me the by-election is about getting more opposition into parliament so that we have more accountability and transparency, Singaporeans do not want “more of the same”, just look at the AIM’s saga, if we put more opposition into parliament, Singaporeans get more transparency and accountability and our issues can be addressed in parliament.
We can’t address anything if we have “more of the same” in parliament, because if your boss tells you to remain silent, I don’t think you will speak up for us.
Don’t have to look so far, just look around you and see the old and poor people in Singapore, the young and jobless or under employed Singaporeans, the high cost of HDB flats with no transparency on its building costs, the opening of flood gates to cheap labor to take away our jobs and depress our wages.
PAP even allow foreigners to lease our HDB public housing, and sell it for a handsome profit!
How did we become so poor? No prizes for guessing!
At the end of the day, you are a PAP man under the PAP umbrella that has been managing this country for ages. So, how do you expect to help Singaporeans who are struggling, when it was the PAP formulated policies that put us there in the first place?
“More of the same” Anyone?
Cheers,
.
Luke
I read the recent article [Link] on Dr Koh’s humble days of living off fish and porridge and how he “knows” what it’s like to struggle back in the old days, and how he can relate with families that are putting up with this struggle today.
Dr Koh should ask himself and the PAP, what had gone wrong. How is it after so many years of so called Swiss standard of living with sky high buildings and fast cars on small roads, you still see Singaporeans going hungry and picking of scraps from hawker centers?
You see our Singaporean elders waiting to clean tables, washing toilets and some even got no money to see the doctor, all this is still happening even after so years of PAP rule.
Dr Koh, if the PAP was never able to change or address these issues in the past, tell us what makes you so special that you can change anything after this bi-election?
This is not just for some of the residents of Punggol , but for many other Singaporeans as well.
To me the by-election is about getting more opposition into parliament so that we have more accountability and transparency, Singaporeans do not want “more of the same”, just look at the AIM’s saga, if we put more opposition into parliament, Singaporeans get more transparency and accountability and our issues can be addressed in parliament.
We can’t address anything if we have “more of the same” in parliament, because if your boss tells you to remain silent, I don’t think you will speak up for us.
Don’t have to look so far, just look around you and see the old and poor people in Singapore, the young and jobless or under employed Singaporeans, the high cost of HDB flats with no transparency on its building costs, the opening of flood gates to cheap labor to take away our jobs and depress our wages.
PAP even allow foreigners to lease our HDB public housing, and sell it for a handsome profit!
How did we become so poor? No prizes for guessing!
At the end of the day, you are a PAP man under the PAP umbrella that has been managing this country for ages. So, how do you expect to help Singaporeans who are struggling, when it was the PAP formulated policies that put us there in the first place?
“More of the same” Anyone?
Cheers,
.
Luke
