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ST: A “wave of optimism” has swept through Singapore
May 20th, 2010 | Author: Your Correspondent
It’s more good news ahead for Singapore as the economy continues to rebound strongly in the first half of the year.
According to the Straits Times, a “wave of optimism” has swept through Singapore based on a series of new surveys which indicate that confidence is rising among both companies and consumers.
A Hay Group poll has forecast salary rises of 3.2 per cent on average here this year. However, the increase still pale in comparison to the expected 8.8 percent pay hike to be received by PAP ministers.
Singapore’s economy has grown by 13.1 percent in the first quarter, prompting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to proclaim that 100,000 new jobs will be created in the next few years though he was quick to stress that some of which will go to foreigners.
With the next election looming ahead, Singaporeans are overwhelmed by an overdose of PAP propaganda in the state media which will put China’s Xinhua News Agency and North Korea’s Korea Central News Agency to shame.
Not a single day pass without some good news trumpeting the PAP’s accomplishments or painting a rosy picture ahead as if Singapore is indeed entering a “golden period” as predicted by its “forecaster extraordinarie” Lee Kuan Yew.
In the meantime, the key grouses of Singaporeans such as the influx of foreigners, high HDB flat prices and increased stress remain buried underground.
The Head of the Nazi Propaganda Unit Joseph Goebbels once said:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
He would have been proud of the PAP which has outdone the Nazis by masquerading its fascist totalitarian system under the guise of a “democracy” in the eyes of the world.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/05/20/st-a-wave-of-optimism-has-swept-through-singapore/
May 20th, 2010 | Author: Your Correspondent
It’s more good news ahead for Singapore as the economy continues to rebound strongly in the first half of the year.
According to the Straits Times, a “wave of optimism” has swept through Singapore based on a series of new surveys which indicate that confidence is rising among both companies and consumers.
A Hay Group poll has forecast salary rises of 3.2 per cent on average here this year. However, the increase still pale in comparison to the expected 8.8 percent pay hike to be received by PAP ministers.
Singapore’s economy has grown by 13.1 percent in the first quarter, prompting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to proclaim that 100,000 new jobs will be created in the next few years though he was quick to stress that some of which will go to foreigners.
With the next election looming ahead, Singaporeans are overwhelmed by an overdose of PAP propaganda in the state media which will put China’s Xinhua News Agency and North Korea’s Korea Central News Agency to shame.
Not a single day pass without some good news trumpeting the PAP’s accomplishments or painting a rosy picture ahead as if Singapore is indeed entering a “golden period” as predicted by its “forecaster extraordinarie” Lee Kuan Yew.
In the meantime, the key grouses of Singaporeans such as the influx of foreigners, high HDB flat prices and increased stress remain buried underground.
The Head of the Nazi Propaganda Unit Joseph Goebbels once said:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
He would have been proud of the PAP which has outdone the Nazis by masquerading its fascist totalitarian system under the guise of a “democracy” in the eyes of the world.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/05/20/st-a-wave-of-optimism-has-swept-through-singapore/
