PAP MP Baey Yam Keng promises to raise residents’ concerns in
Parliament to “change” policies
PAP MP Baey Yam Keng, who just conducted a dialogue session with
Tanjong Pagar residents at Queenstown library last Saturday, had
promised to raise their concerns in Parliament tomorrow to
effect “changes” in the government’s policies.
The three most important concerns on the minds of residents are
low wages of Singapore workers, sky-rocketing HDB flat prices and
escalating healthcare costs.
Many residents complained to him that HDB flats are getting too
expensive and suggested HDB to lengthen the period of residency to
10 years before the flat can be sold.
On Ministry of Health allowing Singaporeans to use Medisave to
pay for treatments at selected Malaysian hospitals, some residents
expressed their worries that this is an indication that MOH has no
intention of providing good and affordable healthcare to
Singaporeans.
Mr Baey claimed he would bring up the issues mentioned in
Parliament:
“Though it (dialogue) may not solve the problems of the
residents, but through it, we had managed to change some existing
policies,” he was quoted as saying by Shin Min Daily.
With due respect to Mr Baey, while he may be genuinely
interested in the welfare of his residents, his hands are tied in
Parliament because of the Party Whip.
Major decisions and policies are usually discussed and
implemented behind closed doors with little discussion or debate
with the MPs, let alone Singaporeans.
More than often not, a decision was already made before the
matter was put to Parliament for the MPs to “discuss”. For example,
PM Lee had already decided to build the two integrated resorts in
Singapore way back in 2005, but the issue was still “debated” in
Parliament when the end result was clear.
The PAP has been governing Singapore for too long without any
opposition in Parliament to check on it. While this facilitates the
speedy decision-making and implementation of policies, it can also
result in terrible blunders like the “stop at two” policy in the
1970s and the present liberal immigration policies.
It is quite pointless and senseless to have 82 PAP MPs
pretending to “debate” in Parliament” when they all have to vote
along party lines in the end.
Unless the PAP is denied its traditional two-thirds majority in
Parliament, such “wayangs” will continue. Unfortunately for Mr
Baey, he is merely a “dummy” in the great PAP “orchestra” conducted
by none other than its “Dear Leader” Lee Kuan Yew who said in
2008:
“To be the prime minister, you don’t have to know every
instrument, but you got to recognise, ah, he’s a good violinist,
he’ll be the first violinist, he’ll be the double bass. He will
play the viola, he will have the trumpet, he will do the drums.
Then you coordinate them and then you have great music. And if you
already have a great orchestra, you can put a dummy there and you
still got great music.”
[Source: Channel News Asia, 5 March 2008]
That Ah Bay trying to act and show concern only, back in office,
he will be cleaning his golf club and practicing putting. Goodness
gracious, singaporean, especially those lower to middle class one
are just to naive and get tricked very years...in taiwan, we
already throw banana skin and rotten eggs at them liao...talk so
much for what..
