Goh chok tong: I can see an avalanche of social issues coming

[McDonaldsKid]

Evidence of factional differences are coming to the surface.

Exactly what I was thinking. Who else is on Woody's side?

 

[tanwahtiu]

fucking Woody. Because of old fart bully and gangster attitude Woody would have get the same thing getting fuck like today.

 

[Unrepented]

Captain Obvious:" If there is no social issues, then I worry".

He must be worrying that there are no social issues coming.

 

[blackmondy]

The social issue is exposing pappy's skeletons in the closet which cause great unease among pappy dogs.

 

[SBFTirak]

He must be worrying that there are no social issues coming.

We will be worried if he's not worried.

 

[Wunderfool]

[h=1]GOH CHOK TONG: I CAN SEE AN AVALANCHE OF SOCIAL ISSUES COMING[/h]
Post date:
24 Apr 2015 - 11:05am








Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong thinks that the Singapore society will go through a major upheaval.

"I can see an avalanche of social issues coming," he said this at the launch of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Social Service Research Center today.
"The social challenges of Singaporeans in the next 50 years will be drastically different from those in the last 50," he also said.

Mr Goh also said that he "social climate change" is currently happening in Singapore and "takes place imperceptibly and you see the effects only long after it has become irreversible", The Straits Times reported.

Mr Goh also said that he believed that three things will influence social change in Singapore, namely on demography, technology and social expectations.

On demography, he pointed to the "an aging and declining population" and how cross-border marriages will make Singapore more diverse and which could have effects on the Singapore identity.

He also said that technological change and the use of mobile devices and social media will have an effect on social interactions.

Mr Goh also felt that there is a rising middle class which might have different social expectations, as well as fears of what to expect of the future.

As such, he said that more research should be done to understand these changes.

The Social Service Research Center has thus been set up to work with "policy makers and social service agencies to develop and test social programmes and services", it was reported by The Straits Times.

The Straits Times also reported that the centre will be led by Professor Paul Cheung and Associate Professor Irene Ng. They arre both from the NUS's social work department.







Mr Goh is not the first person to mention that social change has been affecting the social fabric in Singapore. Many academics and civil society actors as well as the media have been pointing out the effects of not only how immigration and demographic changes will affect Singapore, but also how the economic policies of the current ruling party, the People's Action Party, and the cultural erosion, also has an impact on Singapore.

For example, just last month, the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at the Singapore Management University launched the Handbook on Inequality, Poverty and Unmet Social Needs in Singapore.

“There is growing public awareness and increasing government action to address the diverse needs of the diverse group of low-income Singaporeans," Dr Tan Chi Chiu, Chairman of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation, said.

Mr Jonathan Chang, Centre Director of Lien Centre for Social Innovation, also said that the handbook "has been more than three years in the making".

Clearly, social issues have taken centre stage over the past few years and it is perhaps the government that has not responded as swiftly.

For example, even as Singapore today has the highest income inequality and poverty among the developed countries, Minister for Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong still claimed last year that income inequality has stabilised and then-Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing also refused to define a poverty line, in spite of Singapore having an estimated poverty rate of 30 percent.

In fact, when Associate Professor Tilak Abeysinghe pointed out that 30 percent of Singaporean households have to spend 105 to 151 percent of their incomes and cannot earn enough to even spend on basic necessities, he was wrongly criticised by the government.

But it is impossible to ignore the ballooning of social problems in Singapore now and the government might finally be acknowledging this.

Still, as Mr Goh said, many of the social effects can only be seen much later on and they can also be irreversible. If so, the Singapore society might be fundamentally change and it is even more urgent to study the impacts and how policies need to be geared towards addressing them.

It is not really a revelation though... I think many people can see these changes coming ... with immigration and demographics changes... the diversity of immigrants in Singapore , cross marriages ... cultural and identity erosion...the potential of conflicts due to different philosophy, different habits, different behaviors, different races and practices etc.

 

[winnipegjets]

PAP doesn't know how to handle social media. Once, they could do as they please and then use the mass media to feed junks to sinkees. Now sinkees are exposed to alternate views on the internet and that is spread by social media.

I suspect that a version of Great Wall of China is coming.

 

[Wunderfool]

PAP doesn't know how to handle social media. Once, they could do as they please and then use the mass media to feed junks to sinkees. Now sinkees are exposed to alternate views on the internet and that is spread by social media.

I suspect that a version of Great Wall of China is coming.

The strategy for the new batch of government is quite unlike LKY. LKY never believed in fb. He belonged to the old school. Newspaper and radio. But the social motto of the new generation of leaders is " if you can't beat them (in social media) , join them." So, you have JohnTan here ... ( just a wild guess )

 

[zhihau]

'Major upheaval' - translation:

"Marine Parade GRC is fucked. Start looking for a job outside politics, PAP MPs."

Put EC-GRC, JC-SMC on the list as well
Vote the PAP out!

 

[batman1]

Who is the farking bastard who promised us Swiss standard of living ?

 

[kryonlight]

So, you have JohnTan here ... ( just a wild guess )

JohnTan is a fake PAP IB. But sometimes he's very convincing and you can't sense the satire in his post.

 

[JOKERCHEW]

Who is the farking bastard who promised us Swiss standard of living ?

"We are in Switzerland,
Or outside Switzerland"

 

[Wunderfool]

JohnTan is a fake PAP IB. But sometimes he's very convincing and you can't sense the satire in his post.

Welcome to the Cyberworld !

 

[JohnTan]

The strategy for the new batch of government is quite unlike LKY. LKY never believed in fb. He belonged to the old school. Newspaper and radio. But the social motto of the new generation of leaders is " if you can't beat them (in social media) , join them." So, you have JohnTan here ... ( just a wild guess )

Old media still rules despite the proliferation of social media. To most people, if it ain't on the Straits Times, it still ain't official regardless of it "going viral". When LKY and the Old Guard controlled the media back in the 1960s, it basically ensured that they would win the GEs for the next 50 years. And PAP is still gonna win the elections soon.

Despite having FB and Twitter, parties like SDP and WP have a very small public profile and vast majority of people have no idea what they do or what they stand for.

We all need to do our part and vote PAP in for every single seat, so that our PM can focus his attention on fixing our social problems, instead of constantly worrying how the opposition are trying to trip him and fix him.

 

[kryonlight]

We all need to do our part and vote PAP in for every single seat, so that our PM can focus his attention on fixing our social problems, instead of constantly worrying how the opposition are trying to trip him and fix him.

It's pretty obvious your exceptional PM is multi-task challenged unlike our ultra-exceptional founding father. This doesn't bode well for Singapore.

 

[Wunderfool]

Old media still rules despite the proliferation of social media. To most people, if it ain't on the Straits Times, it still ain't official regardless of it "going viral". When LKY and the Old Guard controlled the media back in the 1960s, it basically ensured that they would win the GEs for the next 50 years. And PAP is still gonna win the elections soon.

Despite having FB and Twitter, parties like SDP and WP have a very small public profile and vast majority of people have no idea what they do or what they stand for.

We all need to do our part and vote PAP in for every single seat, so that our PM can focus his attention on fixing our social problems, instead of constantly worrying how the opposition are trying to trip him and fix him.

Well said!

Politics, in its basic form, is a game of influence. So, the more official the influence, the more authentic the influence.

 

[kryonlight]

Well said!

Politics, in its basic form, is a game of influence. So, the more official the influence, the more authentic the influence.

Why do you support LKY and the Old Guard controlling the media?

 

[Wunderfool]

Why do you support LKY and the Old Guard controlling the media?

That's the game of politics... even the Opps will do the same if they are in power.

 

[JohnTan]

Why do you support LKY and the Old Guard controlling the media?

I support anyone if they can promise us a high standard of living, good education, good jobs, money, security and a good future for the children. I have no issue with such a government arbitrarily arresting supposed commie bastards and bankrupting opposition jerkoffs who try to disrupt the good work of our government. And most of the voters feel the same way.

Cursing us for voting PAP will only further convince us that you are irrational and unreliable, and we will be more resolved to vote for PAP in the coming GE.

 

[kryonlight]

I support anyone if they can promise us a high standard of living, good education, good jobs, money, security and a good future for the children.

I guess when war and poverty comes, you will be the first person to run away from Singapore. Or if you can't run away, you will be the first person to join the Kempeitai to continue living the same good life.