Why I Vote Against the PAP:
A Note from a Middle Class Voter
Some people asked me why I support the Opposition when I can be considered to be having a comfortable life and a job that pays well.
Now here's why:
The PAP does not play fair.
The lazy retort by many pro-PAP supporters is that "politics is dirty".
To that I say: oh please give me a break. Politics is as dirty as its practitioner allows it to get.
And in the PAP's case, the tactics used are utterly underhanded and despicable.
What can be clearer than during these past 4 years when the ruling Party used all ways and means to attack and sabotage the Workers' Party: from NEA's false accusation on hawker centre cleaning to its raiding of Chinese New Year fair in Hougang to using the grassroots and merchants association to incite residents against AHPETC?
Worse, the PAP-controlled HDB which is under MND whose minister is PAP's chairman cut the funding to AHPETC after Workers Party took over.
Now ask yourself: is this fair?
Who pays the HDB? People like me! Do I not deserve to have the neighbourhood park upgraded just because I voted Workers' Party?
Did I not do national service?
Did I not pay tax?
So in essence, when I vote against the PAP, I am voting for justice.
I am voting for democracy.
I am voting for fairness.
I am voting for accountability.
These are values that all Singaporeans pledged to uphold every morning for 10 years from primary school to secondary school.
It is ironic that some resort to stereotyping to describe opposition voters as poor and unhappy.
Conversely, applying these PAP supporters' logic, can one say that PAP voters are usually materially well-off and rewarded?
Just take a look at all the PAP grassroots "advisors" and the Party's latest slate of candidates lined up for the coming elections:
Henry Kwek who has a $100m networth as the executive director of Foodtraco.
Koh Poh Koon, who has two cars.
Victor Lye, GM of Shenton Insurance.
Calvin Teo, Assistant Secretary
Kaki Bukit CCC who once told unhappy S'poreans to get out of the country and boasted about purchasing a stack of tickets to Jay Chou's concert.
These people may be rich materially but poor and lacking in values.
Did they call for their Party to be accountable for the recurring lapses at statutory boards highlighted by the AGO?
Did they call for their Party to take action to address the influx of foreigners into the PMET sector by way of discriminatory hiring by certain groups of foreign nationals especially those from India?
Did they call for action to address the widening income gap and the desperate cries of many for their CPF money in times of acute needs?
No they didn't.
On the contrary, you have a PAP supporter like Chia Yong Yong masquerading as a non-partisan Nominated MP saying that CPF money is not our money.
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So are these the people you want take over the running of the country for the next 50 years?
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