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PAP Vs SDP Objective. Singaporean shall vote for SDP

fivestars

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The People Action Party's objectives shall be to forge a nation of Singaporeans; to build a multiracial society to infuse into Singaporeans a sense of national identity.

In other words is to create revolution in Chinese Culture, Chinese Language and Chinese Habit like Mao Tze Tong, into multiracial society. No other objective.


The Singapore Democratic Party's objectives shall be to build an economically stable and progressive nation based on the free market system where private entrepreneurship is encouraged and direct Government participation in business is minimized. To foster a vibrant and dynamic society based on pluralism and diversity; to replace elitism with free competition and equal opportunity for all Singaporeans especially in the area of education; to remove all policies that discriminate against the less fortunate, women and minorities; to do away with excessive regulation that stifles innovation, creativity, and adventurism. To restore a proper system of checks-and-balance in the polity and to ensure the independence of the judiciary; to encourage Singaporeans to participate in the nation’s political process; to respect human, civil, and political rights of Singaporeans; to achieve a free-flow of information in the society.

Compare to PAP, SDP create more favor to Singaporean

What is your view?
 

cleareyes

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The People Action Party's objectives shall be to forge a nation of Singaporeans; to build a multiracial society to infuse into Singaporeans a sense of national identity.

In other words is to create revolution in Chinese Culture, Chinese Language and Chinese Habit like Mao Tze Tong, into multiracial society. No other objective.


The Singapore Democratic Party's objectives shall be to build an economically stable and progressive nation based on the free market system where private entrepreneurship is encouraged and direct Government participation in business is minimized. To foster a vibrant and dynamic society based on pluralism and diversity; to replace elitism with free competition and equal opportunity for all Singaporeans especially in the area of education; to remove all policies that discriminate against the less fortunate, women and minorities; to do away with excessive regulation that stifles innovation, creativity, and adventurism. To restore a proper system of checks-and-balance in the polity and to ensure the independence of the judiciary; to encourage Singaporeans to participate in the nation’s political process; to respect human, civil, and political rights of Singaporeans; to achieve a free-flow of information in the society.

Compare to PAP, SDP create more favor to Singaporean

What is your view?

My view is you should shut up and stop talking as if you know what is happening.
 

methink

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My view is you should shut up and stop talking as if you know what is happening.

The pappies are noted for quickly shutting ppl up who do not agree with them. You by telling Fivestars to shut up you have reflected this bad attitude.

When have we seen a real debate between the pappies and the real opposition? If ever there was one, my money is on the opposition. Please tell the bullying party to come down from their high pedestral. These bullies should start to eat humble pie.

Maybe you too? What says you?
 

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The pappies are noted for quickly shutting ppl up who do not agree with them. You by telling Fivestars to shut up.

When have we seen a real debate between the pappies and the real opposition? If ever there was one, my money is on the opposition. Please tell the bullying party to come down from their high pedestral. These bullies should start to eat humble pie.

Maybe you too? What says you?

Thank you.

We can see the change from 1965 to now. PAP pledge, just and equal society but it is Elite society. The PAP objectives shall be to build a multiracial society but the PAP political aim is to have a culture revolution fairly into a Eurasian British Colonial not Malay, Chinese or Indian that fair, just, and tolerant to all. What do you think?
 

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Sir Winston Churchill said, "Never in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few."

I will vote for the real opposition!
 

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http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/05/reclaiming-our-political-space/

“I may want to be involved politically this time,” Gilbert Goh, a friend of mine, told me recently. It is an increasingly prevalent sentiment. And although I am not sure exactly what would motivate an individual to throw his lot in and jump into the cauldron of opposition politics in Singapore (or whatever passes off for politics here) there is no doubt that there is an underlying sense of disenchantment with the ruling regime among a growing segment of the populace.

To be sure, I agree with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew when he said some years ago, when he handed the baton over to the new generation of leaders, that the new leaders will face more acute challenges than Singapore did in its earlier days. Starting from a lower base, Singapore’s progress was fast-paced and Singapore quickly became one of the Asian Tigers, surpassing all expectations in what was termed its “economic miracle.”
But times have changed and the new challenges are, in a sense, tougher to meet.

And one of these is the underlying unhappiness among Singaporeans about the lack of identity (or privileges) of being a citizen. The government has, of late, recognized this and has announced changes in policies which are geared towards “differentiating” between Singaporeans and foreigners, and between citizens and Permanent Residents. Undoubtedly, this has much to do with the potential political costs to the ruling People’s Action Party if Singaporeans continue to feel disenchanted, ahead of the forthcoming general elections.
While the government may now be trying to assuage such concerns, some younger Singaporeans have had enough, it would seem, and are stepping up and putting their money where their mouths are – throwing their lot in with opposition political parties.

Singaporeans such as Gilbert.

“I want to walk the talk instead of hiding behind the internet grumbling,” he says. He gives several reasons why he is ready to try and do something for Singapore. One of these is the influence he’s had in living in Australia for a while, having seen how freedom of speech and democracy is important to a country. But a reason closer to his heart is the “many emails from people who are replaced by foreigners [in employment] and their pitiful state,” he says. Gilbert runs trasitioning.org, a support site for the unemployed, and was himself unemployed for a time. He is also a writer and released the book, “How to survive unemployment”, in 2009. Gilbert has not decided which party, if any, he would subscribe to.

Gerald Giam, 33 and a blogger, joined the Workers’ Party more than a year ago. “I wasn’t always an opposition supporter,” he says on his blog. After graduating from the University of Southern California in the United States, he “made a drastic career switch” from his first job as an IT consultant to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in 2005.

“Ironically, it was during my time in the civil service that my eyes were opened to the reality that Singapore needs a stronger opposition in order to ensure better governance for our future generations.” He believes that even while the PAP remains in power, there is a useful role for the opposition to play. “The opposition can use its platform in Parliament to apply pressure on the government to change policies which are not serving Singaporeans well,” Gerald explains. “As much as the PAP wants to portray itself as impervious to public pressure, the reality is that when they know that there is a real threat to their support at the next elections, they will have to bow to public pressure built up by the opposition.”

Gerald is not the only one from the establishment to have stepped into the opposition fray in recent times.

Tony Tan, 39, of the Reform Party (RP) used to be in the Administrative Service (AS) and has an impressive resume. A recipient of the SAF Merit Scholarship, he earned a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from the University of Cambridge. He also earned a MBA and Biomedical degrees from the University of Leicester and Central Queensland University respectively. He left SAF to found an educational provider, achieving success that earned him the Spirit of Enterprise award.

“We may need people from all strata of the society to be represented in Parliament,” he says in a previous interview with TOC. “If the issues for ordinary Singaporeans are not given priority and accorded attention in Parliament, then we need to send in ordinary Singaporeans into Parliament to bring those issues across to the government.”

His wife, Hazel Poa, who also used to work in the AS, has joined her husband in becoming a member of the RP. “The power situation between the ruling party and the voters is a balancing act,” she explains. “If a ruling party secures an overwhelming majority, the balance of power tilts towards the ruling party. If the ruling party has only a slight majority in Parliament, and there is a viable opposition sitting in the wings, then the voters become more powerful.”

Despite being the youngest party on the block, the RP already has a youth wing. Reaffirming the wisdom of their party elders, Justin Ong and Nicole Seah called for greater empowerment of the electorate. Justin, the president of the Young Reformers, explains that “we need to encourage participation in the public life for youths to feel a greater ownership towards the political processes of the country.”

Nicole, 24, agrees but says “[there] are still are a lot of youths out there who do not care about politics.” She explains, however, that this is not because they do not care about their country. “Rather, it is the unfortunate consequence of a nanny state. We’ve been raised in a way that a lot of us do not think about having a strong stake in policies that concern our lives, because there is someone out there who insists that a certain way of life is best for us.”

Koh Choong Yong, 37, currently serving his first term as president of the Workers’ Party’s Youth Wing, hopes “to show Singapore youths that politics is not something that is confined to older people, and youngsters can and should be part of this process, whether inside or outside a political party.”
Koh’s fellow WP member and secretary of its Youth Wing, Bernard Chen, 24, believes in putting “power, wealth and opportunity in the hands of the many, not the few.”

“Describing himself as a non-violent reformer to the weaknesses of the capitalistic, paternal and materialistic society, he seeks to achieve a just, compassionate, righteous, fair Singapore society via the parliamentary process.” Bernard is the brain behind the youth wing’s series of forums called “Youthquake”. Youthquake “is a series of forums that seeks to be an effective and open platform for youths to present their ideas and to educate and empower young Singaporeans to bring about positive social change,” the youth wing says on its website.

Jarrod Luo, [picture right] 26, Honorary Secretary of the Young Democrats, the youth wing of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), feels the so-called apathy among youths has been “artificially engineered” by the government. “Fortunately, youths have access to New Media today, so they are [at the] very least aware of the current situation on political and socio-economic issues in Singapore,” he says.

The entry of these younger Singaporeans may raise expectations of a renaissance for youth participation in politics, but only time will tell.
The Workers’ Party’s “Suicide Squad” generated much excitement in the previous election, when they managed to secure a respectable 33.9% of the votes against Lee Hsien Loong’s PAP team in Ang Mo Kio GRC. However, much of its momentum has dissipated, with most members of the team having retreated from the political forefront.

In 2004, when Lee Hsien Loong became Prime Minister, he promised more political space for Singaporeans. Yet, this is still a pipe dream six years on. In fact, it could be argued that political space has dwindled instead of having expanded. But placing the blame on the PAP’s hegemony is too convenient an excuse, since this situation has been aggravated by the reluctance of Singaporeans, particularly the younger ones, to reclaim their voices and leave their mark on the political space.

In standing up in party politics, these new opposition politicians have made a statement against the culture of fear and apathy that has plagued our society. Perhaps what these young and young-at-heart people in oppositional politics are trying to do is to re-assert the idea of being Singaporean – and in the process reclaim some of the political space that has been lost.
In a country where oppositional politics is shunned like the plague, the participation of these new opposition members can only be good for the nation in the long run.
 

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The God Bless to Opposition Candidate:-

The Reform Party yesterday became the first party to unveil its candidates for the next general election.

Political parties typically keep their cards close to their chest until the last possible moment, but the Reform Party decided to present six possible candidates to its members and the media.

Two are political unknowns and have only recently been seen at party events: One is theatre director Alec Tok, 45, and the other is process improvement manager Jeisilan Sivalingam, 40. Mr Jeisilan works for a multinational chemical company and his job is to help increase productivity.

All young adult around 40s and not retire candidate above 65 years old like LKY.
 

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sdp being powerless now already behaving like some bigshots. if they were to be in power, they shall be worst off than the pap. luckily, they are going to be history pretty soon and hence the tissue choping of another standby party USD.

chee has finally achieves his goal when SDP is wound up. he is doing the pap proud for shutting down one of the pioneer opp parties in sgp.

kudo to the chee, bye SDP!
 

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The People Action Party's objectives shall be to forge a nation of Singaporeans; to build a multiracial society to infuse into Singaporeans a sense of national identity.

In other words is to create revolution in Chinese Culture, Chinese Language and Chinese Habit like Mao Tze Tong, into multiracial society. No other objective.


The Singapore Democratic Party's objectives shall be to build an economically stable and progressive nation based on the free market system where private entrepreneurship is encouraged and direct Government participation in business is minimized. To foster a vibrant and dynamic society based on pluralism and diversity; to replace elitism with free competition and equal opportunity for all Singaporeans especially in the area of education; to remove all policies that discriminate against the less fortunate, women and minorities; to do away with excessive regulation that stifles innovation, creativity, and adventurism. To restore a proper system of checks-and-balance in the polity and to ensure the independence of the judiciary; to encourage Singaporeans to participate in the nation’s political process; to respect human, civil, and political rights of Singaporeans; to achieve a free-flow of information in the society.

Compare to PAP, SDP create more favor to Singaporean

What is your view?


Don't you know that the free market/efficient market hypothesis caused the economic crisis? That developed countries did not use free market policies to grow? Read Ha-JoonChang's books. See Joseph Stiglitz model of globalisation.
 

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Ha-Joon Chang (Korean: 장하준, Hanja: 張夏准, b. South Korea in 1963) is one of the leading heterodox economists specialising in development economics.

Currently a Reader in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, Chang is the author of several influential policy books, including 2002's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective.

He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the European Investment Bank as well as to Oxfam and various United Nations agencies. He is also a fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.

Chang is also known for being an important academic influence on the economist Rafael Correa, currently President of Ecuador
 

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Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979).

He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists (whom he calls "free market fundamentalists") and some international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Columbia faculty, and has held the rank of University Professor since 2003.

He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute and is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Stiglitz is also an honorary professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. Stiglitz is one of the most frequently cited economists in the world.
 

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The pappies are noted for quickly shutting ppl up who do not agree with them. You by telling Fivestars to shut up you have reflected this bad attitude.

When have we seen a real debate between the pappies and the real opposition? If ever there was one, my money is on the opposition. Please tell the bullying party to come down from their high pedestral. These bullies should start to eat humble pie.

Maybe you too? What says you?

I n telling him to shutup because he has been talking nonsense and seriously, u want a real debate, you want to debate on real issues on constant nonsense crap this fellow had been putting up?

The matter now is to win support from the middle ground.

How could you win any middle ground when oppositions keep on talking about things that people do not understand?
 

fivestars

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I n telling him to shutup because he has been talking nonsense and seriously, u want a real debate, you want to debate on real issues on constant nonsense crap this fellow had been putting up?

The matter now is to win support from the middle ground.

How could you win any middle ground when oppositions keep on talking about things that people do not understand?

Hi Super Brian Politician Cleareyes

May I know what do you mean on the talking nonsense and seriously.

1) PAP make culture revolution on Chinese race first than follow by Malay and Indian

(The People Action Party's objectives shall be to forge a nation of Singaporeans; to build a multiracial society to infuse into Singaporeans a sense of national identity.)

or

2) SDP objective

(The Singapore Democratic Party's objectives shall be to build an economically stable and progressive nation based on the free market system where private entrepreneurship is encouraged and direct Government participation in business is minimized. To foster a vibrant and dynamic society based on pluralism and diversity; to replace elitism with free competition and equal opportunity for all Singaporeans especially in the area of education; to remove all policies that discriminate against the less fortunate, women and minorities; to do away with excessive regulation that stifles innovation, creativity, and adventurism. To restore a proper system of checks-and-balance in the polity and to ensure the independence of the judiciary; to encourage Singaporeans to participate in the nation’s political process; to respect human, civil, and political rights of Singaporeans; to achieve a free-flow of information in the society.)

or

3) Nobody understand PAP objective or SDP objective because they are not interested.

Thank you for your support
 

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SINGAPORE : Malay and Indian parents that MediaCorp spoke to said they support the move not to reduce the weighting of the Mother Tongue.

But they said teaching styles should be changed to better facilitate learning.

Parents hope to see a more conversational teaching style for Mother Tongue languages.

They feel students will be more motivated to learn the language if there's less memory work and more emphasis on speaking out in class.

"(Encourage) interaction between the teachers and students, and have a more active environment, (so as) not to make the class and the child bored," said parent Mohd Zaki Sarbini.

Some parents are even willing to volunteer their services to collaborate with teachers.

They said the Mother Tongue plays an important role in helping children learn more about their culture.

"No matter how good you are in your English, you will never be called a European You are still an Asian, so you should still know your Asian values. And Mother Tongue lessons help to bring that out in a child," said Suriaratna, also a parent.

Some parents said students who are stronger in their language proficiency skills should also help the weaker ones in class. - CNA /ls
 

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SINGAPORE: The weighting of the Mother Tongue language will not be reduced at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). Instead it will be taught in a new way to cater to differing abilities and to meet the dynamic needs of the student population.

Right at the top of an hour-long interview, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong set the record straight on the weighting issue.

But change is still ahead in a big way.

Mr Lee has stressed many times the fluidity of the situation in terms of new research and IT in the teaching of language.

And this year, Primary Six students will take their exams based on a new syllabus rolled out after a review as recent as in 2004.

PM Lee said: "We have to look ahead because if we don't, by the time the situation is upon us and we start thinking and then we make changes, it's another five years and we will be chasing our tail again.

"And meanwhile another five years of students will have their less optimal experience with Mother Tongue, and to put it bluntly, we will have quite a lot of trouble with Mother Tongue."

Mr Lee also addressed the huge debate after media reports that the Education Ministry was looking at whether to reduce the weighting of the Mother Tongue Language (MTL).

Education Minister Ng Eng Hen explained: "In my interview, I said MOE was looking at options to address the overemphasis on exams, where 'MTL counts for so much in the PSLE'.

"Singaporeans became concerned that MOE was proposing to reduce the weighting of MTL in PSLE. This is not the case. I think I should have chosen my words more carefully and apologise for creating the wrong impression."

Mr Lee said: "We watched the reaction develop. ... We knew we needed to respond but at the same time we wanted to make sure that we put the whole picture out and not just put out a quick reassurance - sorry everybody is upset, therefore we are not doing anything and fall back onto the status quo because the status quo is not tenable.

"We have to move, we have to change the content, we have to change the resources, we have to change the examinations."

In fact, in February at the Istana, the Prime Minister and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew met key Education Ministry officials and 50 Mother Tongue educators to share with them the need to change and to tap their ideas, moving forward.

PM Lee said many who have benefited from Singapore's bilingual education had spoken up this time and that he shares the goals of these parents to keep bilingualism alive and yet give students their best head start possible. - CNA/vm
 
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