PAP should stop being condescending and all hypocrisy on PA, for its own good

[Confuseous]

I am reminded of Charles Erwin Wilson, the CEO of GM in the 1950s who said ‘What’s good for GM is good for America ” at the time when GM was the largest company in the world and almost one in two cars sold in the USA was GM. Look what happened to GM, it went bust in 2009 and was rescued by the US government.

Does the PAP think what is good for the PAP is good for Singapore? I hope the PAP learned from this past election that doing the right thing for the people is the path to win back the hearts and minds of Singaporeans. Singapore and the PA are bigger than the PAP.

The PA must accept this new norm and do the right thing by appointing the opposition MP as the grassroots adviser.

The PAP should depoliticise the PA for their own good as they will be getting invaluable feedback from the public. The danger of having a PAP grassroots adviser is that you get to hear what you want to hear – group think.

- http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/09...e-the-peoples-association-for-their-own-good/

 

[refulgence]

The PAP is creaming the PA for their own ends. It is only now that the truth is beginning to surface.

 

[Confuseous]

•The on-going annoyance over the People’s Association who claims to be apolitical, yet is obvious to most that it promotesPAPcandidates and MPs. The response: the PA is to promote government policies, and hence a member of the government has to be in charge. Definition of government is not given.

This response will not satisfy. What the public is complaining about is the exclusion of their elected opposition MPs from being actively involved in the PA. The PA disburses funds for many activities that benefit the local community. Yet the sugar daddy’s name on every banner is always the PAP MP/candidate in his capacity as the Advisor. The PM himself is already the supreme advisor of this association. Do we need a PAP cadre in every constituency?

The PM used the example of the MOE, where the Minister of Education is in the lead, while the work team comprises civil servants. If this model is to be held true, then why can’t we have the government, led by the PM himself being in the management board, with civil servants running the show at the grassroots level? Why can’t the local MP, whether from the ruling party or not, apply to PA for funds or grounds for neutral activities that will benefit the entire community? Can we also not credit any activity or greetings to the PAP MP or cadre?

- http://speakspokewritewrote.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/appropriate-responses-sil-vous-plait/