Think before you vote

last SG · 2010-12-07T13:50:14+00:00

http://www.temasekreview.net/2010/12/24/singapore-is-no-longer-a-story-i-want-to-be-a-part-of/ Lots of interesting comments.

Demon Bane SG

If you keep telling a fresh grad that she has no working experience and won't hire her, then how the hell she get any job experience?

Good point. Maybe we should give opposition a serious consideration...hmmm...

Junyang700 SG

Good point. Maybe we should give opposition a serious consideration...hmmm...

Yes we should, especially if you are the younger generation.

Junyang700 SG

If you keep telling a fresh grad that she has no working experience and won't hire her, then how the hell she get any job experience?

same here. couldnt find a job out there - reason always cited that we have no working experience.

And the govt is giving us less opportunities by extending the services of older workers... which means all the old people are stucked with the organisation with limited new hirings, making it even harder for us to find a job.

Demon Bane SG

Will the govt know which party I vote? Is voting really a secret?

charlize SG

It's all about choices.

We need to create a culture and system that gives the voters choice.

If party A is not performing, vote in party B.

If party B is not performing, then vote back party A or C or D or E.

It's like your job - if you hate your job, then look for another job.

Don't stay in the same dead end job which you hate and then kpkb why you are stuck in that dead end job.

At least if you changed jobs, you did your best to do something about it.

Nobody can guarantee your next job won't be a crappy job but at least you tried.

Demon Bane SG

Most people are happy with PAP leh....that's why for so many years they have been winning seats in parliament. I think PAP is the most successful political party in the whole world! Ministers pay scale also amongst the highest in the whole world, correct? Anybody has statistic on that?

Junyang700 SG

this election we will know lor... these 5 years have been the worst...

Demon Bane SG

Why people want to set up or join opposition as a career? Why they dun join PAP?

charlize SG

Yes, majority of the people were quite satisfied with the incumbent at the last election.

After that, everything start to change.

I hear even hard core supporters are starting to switch sides after what has happened in the last few years and what the country is becoming.

Demon Bane SG

Yes, majority of the people were quite satisfied with the incumbent at the last election.

After that, everything start to change.

I hear even hard core supporters are starting to switch sides after what has happened in the last few years and what the country is becoming.

What had happened in the last few years? What the country is becoming? I dunno. Please elaborate...Thanks!

charlize SG

What had happened in the last few years? What the country is becoming? I dunno. Please elaborate...Thanks!

You sound very young and innocent.

Or are you just pretending ?

Demon Bane SG

You sound very young and innocent.

Or are you just pretending ?

No lah, I'm curious about what u said....is it becos of property prices, influx of foreign talents, taxation and CPF policies? I dunno what you meant....

Demon Bane SG

If opposition wins 50% seats how? What will happen to Singapore then?

tranquilice SG

Opposition have no experience in running the country leh....are you sure they can do the job well if elected ? I dunno...

When PAP was elected in 1959, they had no experience too.

tranquilice SG

Will the govt know which party I vote? Is voting really a secret?

So what if voting is not secret? What can PAP do to you if they know you didn't vote them?

33% voted for opposition last election. Did PAP do anything to these voters? Take their flats away? Take away their jobs? Put them in jail?

charlize SG

http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/01/16/singaporeans-don%E2%80%99t-want-duds-in-parliament/

tranquilice SG

If opposition wins 50% seats how? What will happen to Singapore then?

More good years for Singapore native citizens? Foreigners will pack bag and return home?

But one thing for sure is, if opposition wins 50% seats, PAP is going to be fixed and maybe even collapse!

FBFIce SG

later only 1 whole grc, all no need to vote

tranquilice SG

later only 1 whole grc, all no need to vote

They might as well implement a law to ban opposition, then everyone forever no need to vote.

bic_cherry SG

If opposition wins 50% seats how? What will happen to Singapore then?

Don't worry about the PAP, they can continue to oddly run SG via their political extension: the 'PA' [[email protected]] (illicitly) and indefinitely.

At least so long as complaints like:

MND continues to throw smoke bombs over role of PAP “grassroots advisers”
October 27th, 2009, From our Correspondent
The National Development Ministry has continued to throw smoke-bombs over the role of PAP“grassroots advisers” in a letter written by its press secretary Lim Yuin Chien, which was published in the Straits Times Forum today.
The letter was a direct rebuttal of a biting commentary published last week by Straits Times senior correspondent Sue-Ann Chia [alt link] who earlier questioned the seemingly conflicting roles of a MP and grassroots adviser.
Mr Lim wrote that “the roles of MP and adviser are distinct and separate, even though government MPs, wearing their other hat of advisers, are expected to perform both roles.”
“Opposition MPs cannot be appointed advisers, because they do not answer to the ruling party. They have no constitutional or legal obligation to carry out national programmes on the Government’s behalf. Nor can the Government hold them to account if they perform this role unsatisfactorily.” he added.That’s where Mr Lim is wrong. There is no such thing as a “government MP.” The correct term to use should be “PAP MPs”.
The PAP is NOT the government of Singapore which can be formed by a coalition of parties.
Mr Lim re-emphasized that “the LUP is not a town council programme. It is a national programme which receives most of its funding from the Government.”
And where does the government receive its funding from? From every citizen of Singapore including the residents of Hougang and Potong Pasir.
There is absolutely no reason why opposition MPs cannot be appointed as grassroots advisers unless they decline to work with the government.
The root cause of the problem lies in the lack of a clearly defined demarcation between the state and the party which resulted in many supposedly apolitical institutions like the People’s Association being made use of by the PAP to serve its partisan interests.
As the People’s Association is a statutory board, its members and grassroots advisers should have no political affiliations.
It is disingenuous of the PAP to appoint their losing candidates to continue “serving” in the opposition wards under the veneer of being the “grassroots advisers” appointed by the PA.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/10/27/mnd-continues-to-throw-smoke-bombs-over-role-of-pap-grassroots-advisers/

Continually end up like,

PAP 'grassroots advisers' will always have a part to play in govt funded 'upgrading schemes' so ling as SGporeans continually 'bite their bait' of voting the ruling party to get their 'priority upgrading' done.

So:

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