Back when Singapore was still a developing nation, life on a
general basis was affordable and national identity was strongly
fostered among the people. In the population of 2.5 million before
1990, and everyone can afford a decent and pleasant standard of
living, trust was deeply rooted into the PAP government because
they indeed knew what was best back then.
Today in 2010, can we still say PAP still knows best?
Let’s take CPF for example. Gone were the days of high
CPF interest rates during Lee Kuan Yew’s times where interest rate
peaked at 6.5% even when Singapore was still a developing country.
But today in a fully developed nation context, our CPF’s interest
rates has been stuck at a pitiful 2.5% ever since the beginning of
Lee Hsien Loong’s leedership. The resulting effect of a low CPF
interest rate translates into low HDB housing loan rate(presently
at 2.6%) which in turn contributed to overpriced HDB Public
Housings where our young couples have been put into hefty 40 years
mortgage debts with.
The PAP has flopped big time when it comes to tackling low birth
rate and their constant denial of recognizing overpriced housings
have deterred and delayed marriages certainly does not reflect
wisdom and responsibility in the decision-making process of public
policies. In simple terms, the PAP is the last party anyone who
have family plans in their mind.
Another area where the
PAP government has crashed miserably is the influx of Foreigners.
Aside from pricing out Singaporeans in housing, the Foreigners here
have also contributed to a depression of wages. Real earnings among
Singaporeans have taken a hit ever since the PAP government relaxed
Singapore’s Immigration and Manpower Policies since 2000. Singapore
used to only have a 3million population in the 1990s, but today, it
has exploded to 5million in less than 20 years in today, 2010. PAP
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong even targeted Singapore’s Population
to a ridiculous 6.5million by 2030. Public Transport are
overcrowded, public infrastructures are overstressed and education
institutes like government subsidized universities, NUS and NTU,
are already keeping Singaporean students out to fulfill their
minimum 20% Foreign Students quota.
Singaporeans are increasingly sidelined by the PAP and condemned
as 2nd class citizens especially for NS men who have to go through
National Slavery. For example, the recent winning of Table Tennis
Championship seems only to be celebrated by PAP and the foreigners.
No true blue Singaporeans will ever do the traitorous move to call
these players Singaporeans, because we all know they are no
Singaporeans; they are mercenaries at best just like the
Gurkhas.
Our National Identity has been diluted no thanks to the present
PAP administrations. $10 million Integration Fund has been set
aside for the foreigners while our elderly and poor take to
streets, peddling tissue papers or collecting aluminium cans from
rubbish bin to rubbish bin.
Despite such pressing issues and urgency, Singapore’s Opposition
Parties are still currently incapable of forming the next
Government. They can’t promise us GST cuts, reduction of
Foreigners, reduction of Public Transport fares, increase in
welfare, increase in affordability or whatsoever. But rest assured,
so long we Singaporeans vote the Opposition Candidates in, we have
One More Voice for the People, instead of yet another sleeping
yes-man.
Vote for Change, vote the PAP out
