PAP lessons for Singaporeans

[blissquek]

These are very good signs.

These are signs that they have totally lost touch with the ground.

PAP's eventual loss of power is imminent.

With the current politcial infighting and give another 3 to 5 years when founder father MM passes on. LHL will not be able to hold the party together and will disintergrate.

Then the politcical scene would be more lively and we will move away from the 154th ranking....

 

[po2wq]

Are there any "Singaporean lessons for PAP?" ...

got! ...

latest lesson ... papaljunied! ...


mor cumming! ...

 

[Kuailan]

I just checked the latest results for COE bidding out today and found that the COE for big cars has crossed the $80K mark[Lnk]. Singapore has the highest cost of car ownership in the world and I wonder if we have the highest cost of car ownership excluding the price of the car! In many places you can get a brand new Mercedes for less than the price of that piece of paper[Example].

The COE is just one example of an extreme that Singaporeans have to cope with in their struggle for a better quality of life. While it is often argued that these schemes are necessary for various reasons, we should think about the outcomes and the cumulative effects of these extremes on ordinary Singaporeans. For me, I find it quite amazing how Singaporeans have come to accept these extremes - the same situation that will make citizens of other countries jump and scream - yet our leaders express their view that Singaporeans lack resilience [ Resilience building challenging for S'pore]and are too dependent on the govt.

Singaporeans pay the 2nd highest electricity tariffs in the world[ Link]. Our leaders are paid the highest salaries in the world even after the recent 'cuts'. We have the most expensive public housing in the world. The biggest income gap among developed countries - nobody comes close except USA which occasionally beat us...but the people there have been occupying Wall Street for months due to the income inequality and we can't even find people to show up at Raffles Place. Our fertility rate has plunged to be the lowest among 222 countries. [See CIA's factbook]. We now have the 2nd highest population density in the world[Link]. Highest foreign influx outside the middle east. We have the 2nd highest per capita execution rate in the world[Link] after this country known as Turkmenistan which is run by mad dictators.

Singaporean workers work the longest hours according to ILO[ Link] (without minimum wages). Workers have the 2nd highest stress level in Asia[Link]. Singapore has the fastest growing number of millionaires [Link] likely due to the naturalisation of high net worth individuals here for the low taxes. The 2 casinos here have overtaken the total revenue of casinos in Las Vegas[Link], Lee Kuan Yew left his PM job as the world's longest serving prime minister[Link]. We also have the world's the longest-serving prisoner of conscience, Chia Thye Poh [Link]whose detention exceeded that of Nelson Mandela[Link].

Singaporean workers are the world's unhappiest[ Link]. Singaporeans shoulder the heaviest share of healthcare expediture among developed countries and our govt % expenditure of healthcare is the lowest. Our expenditure on defense express as a % of the govt budget exceeds that of Israel.

The foreign maids in Singapore are the among lowest paid in the world[ Link] - large part of what you pay goes to the levy yet the whole country can debate for months over giving the maid one day off per week when this is mandatory in every other country where they are better paid. Singapore probably has some of the best educated cabbies in the world due to severe structural unemployment - it is not uncommon to meet a cabby with a degree and if you're lucky, you can met the one with a PhD from Stanford[Link].

Our team based (GRC) election system is quite unique in the world and generate results that are also very unusual - a govt opposed by 40% of the people has 95% of the seats in parliament.

We have elderly cleaners [ Elderly toilet cleaners a sad reflection of society here] - they are sometimes so old that even people from developing countries like China and Phillipines get a shock when they see these cleaners. Singaporeans have the highest savings rate in the world due to the CPF scheme but more than half will not have enough (minimum sum) to retire on. Singapore has one of the highest reserves per capita in the world - large part of which comes from the the sale of public housing to Singaporeans many of whom now have great difficulty retiring unless they are willing to lose their homes.

It is strange how we have come to accept some of these extremes as normal over time. When you talk about spending a little less on defense some Singaporeans will worry about being less secure. When we discuss about giving maids one day off Singaporeans worry about what the maid will during their day off - yet they trust the maid to look after their expensive homes and their children. When we cut the pay of our leaders which was the highest in the world, we cut it to a level that is still the highest in the world. The govt is terrified of giving a little to the poor elderly so that they do not have to work yet they are okay with with losing a few tens of billions of our reserves in bad investments.

There is a tipping point when people begin to see reality for what it is and the distortion becomes hard for the mind to accept. There will be a point when change becomes inevitable and people begin to push things from the extreme back to normal - the propaganda can only do so much for so long. I often wonder if it is going to be a long slow process towards normality or we are going to snap out of this deep hypnosis by a single event in 2016.



Article was written by Lucky Tan

 

[kingrant]

Without them, Singaporeans do not know how to live decently. Their flats and environ will become pigsties, the place will revert to a mosquito swamp.

Those PAP fuckwits have been dispensing their "wisdom" since 1963. I put up with it for more than 3 decades till I could take it no more.

 

[groober2011]

The worst is the Zorro Clown dispensing his "pearls of wisdom." I can't stand the way they lecture their audience. I can empathise with that reporter who threw his shoe at Bush.

 

[zhihau]

Article was written by Lucky Tan

we've been talking about the proverbial frog in the boiling soup for yonks
the newly minted citizens will bear these costs in absolute bewilderment

 

[jw5]

can't even articulate his thoughts coherently, failing to string together just a few sentences that can make sense, aggravated by his mangled pronounciation. And he wants to dispense us "wisdom"??? I rather listen to the old man at my neighborhood coffee shop and we don't even need to pay him millions, just a cup of kopi-c will do!

master of stating the obvious and making motherhood statements, using atrocious spoken english with diction worse than a pinoy, singer, dancer, comedian, superhero, best better betterest!

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Agree.
Things have to get worse before it can get better.
And things are turning bad fast.
The 60.1% needs to feel their backsides burning before they wake up.

That's even better. It is an indication that the electorate is not as advanced as those of 1st world countries. The direct implication is most Sinkies are driven by their carnal needs and wants (houses, cars, vacations, toys, disposable income) rather than political ideals.

When enough Sinkies have lost their jobs to FTs, they will no longer be ball-less.

Let the FT policy go into full throttle. Let property prices go into a colossal bubble. Let PRC students sponsored by PAP deride the locals ......

Boldness and courage are incubated on the edges of desperation and hunger. And the PAP is too blind to sense it.

 

[winners]

With the current politcial infighting and give another 3 to 5 years when founder father MM passes on. LHL will not be able to hold the party together and will disintergrate.

Then the politcical scene would be more lively and we will move away from the 154th ranking....

This I concur. I expect the old man can't live beyond 2014 and once he ups lorry, there will be disintegration within the ruling party. Many of those in the same age as me whom I've spoken to also have this same opinion.

 

[po2wq]

PM Lee tells us about two challenges ...

no worries ... got a prez who craims he can ezily tame ze perfect storm ...

Yaacob tells us about good net behaviour ...

dat occurs once in 50 yrs ...

Teo CH tells us not to denigrate others ...

start wif dat wan burger ...

Tharman tells us to be regional ...

from world crass, world bestest, world lumpar 1 ... 2 regional crass, regional bestest, regional lumpar 1? ...

 

[groober2011]

This I concur. I expect the old man can't live beyond 2014 and once he ups lorry, there will be disintegration within the ruling party. Many of those in the same age as me whom I've spoken to also have this same opinion.

This time round should be his swan song. I really doubt he can continue and I hope he won't.