Taiwan vs Singapore

last SG · 2008-10-31T14:49:31+00:00

Taiwan has more political freedom than us but some ppl abuse that freedom to commit crime such as fighting in the legislature and violent protests on streets...

youyayu SG

if singapore were to be like a taiwan..

we should be protesting like fudge almost every month!

how come taiwanese raise price they can protest like fudge...

Singaporeans just seem to accept every price hike?

Fantagf SG

if singapore were to be like a taiwan..

we should be protesting like fudge almost every month!

how come taiwanese raise price they can protest like fudge...

Singaporeans just seem to accept every price hike?

Taiwan is a democratic country. The next protest they are going to have is against the visit of the china official next week.

likedatosocan SG

Is it correct to say that sporeans have always accepted all and any and every hike , past, present (and future)? Its a form of Acceptance, to me, if you continue to Pay And Pay after each hike and go on as normal. To a business, when the customer agrees to pay for the price of a product, that is a form of acceptance.

Would it be sick if this is already a guiness world record?

Is spore unique?

i no no have idea.

oldbreadstinks SG

Taiwan is a democratic country. The next protest they are going to have is against the visit of the china official next week.

its a dilemma really. While I want to have to right to have a protest, its gets frightening when you look at other nations and sometimes it gets out of hand. I actually believe protests should be contained in certain areas to avoid disturbing the peace.

skythewood SG

If any other country is like taiwan, you will see people in parliament fighting.

doing that as the leader of the people is such an ugly sight. if your leaders settle their debates with violence, how can you expect the citizens to be peaceful?

youyayu SG

If any other country is like taiwan, you will see people in parliament fighting.

doing that as the leader of the people is such an ugly sight. if your leaders settle their debates with violence, how can you expect the citizens to be peaceful?

rather then the citizen paying with every penny we earn

caleb_chiang SG

Cos in sg, we would be lock up if 4 or more ppl surfaced to protest...

youyayu SG

Cos in sg, we would be lock up if 4 or more ppl surfaced to protest...

singaporean all 2m+ go out and march.. and those people serving also not happy they also will help the protester ma

oldbreadstinks SG

If any other country is like taiwan, you will see people in parliament fighting.

doing that as the leader of the people is such an ugly sight. if your leaders settle their debates with violence, how can you expect the citizens to be peaceful?

something i never understood, why are they always going hardcore in the parliament? its not like they can't settle it outside some more so old liao still one to do this. but quite ironic, leader fight, people also fight. our leaders......

skythewood SG

rather then the citizen paying with every penny we earn

you are paying every penny you earn?

youyayu SG

you are paying every penny you earn?

hospital
school
bills
phone
power supply
ERP
COE
taxs
blah blah blah

skythewood SG

hospital
school
bills
phone
power supply
ERP
COE
taxs
blah blah blah

so in taiwan, you won't be paying every penny you earn?

youyayu SG

so in taiwan, you won't be paying every penny you earn?

there will still be savings.. in singapore they just suck u dry

skythewood SG

so in taiwan, yo won't take taxi, go to hospital, go to school... blah blah?

Eiizumi SG

Well. Think about it. Singapore has law enforcement. Taiwan, I am not so sure.

Singapore government tax its people. So does Taiwan government.

The different is, Taiwanese people's money end up in corruption.

Singaporean tax money does not end up with corruption (if you're going to fight against this, I guess you want to fight against law. Singapore has law, and has no corruption. Yeh, if you get wat I mean :p).

seotiblizzard SG

Eberi country got law enforcement my friend.

fatone SG

Eberi country got law enforcement my friend.

Kizarny agrees on this.

skythewood SG

low crime doesn't mean no crime.

high crime doesn't mean no law enforcement.

ulquiorra87 SG

Well. Think about it. Singapore has law enforcement. Taiwan, I am not so sure.

Singapore government tax its people. So does Taiwan government.

The different is, Taiwanese people's money end up in corruption.

At least in Taiwan govt take people's money they call it corruption

In SG leaders take people's money is called pay raise or to 'prevent corruption'

So which is worse morally? Taking People's money illegally or making it legal to take people's money? At least the taiwanese are legally armed to deal with injustices, in SG no one questions the government's actions as long as its made legal. The genius of our ministers is that they made it legal to take more money from us

In effect both sides are doing the same thing but one is called corruption and the other is to 'prevent corruption'

Such is the corruption of language when the government has unlimited power and has monopoly over the legal use of force

Stevenson101 SG

Give and take, you want the politicians to host massive PR campaigns, fight for advertisment spots on newspaper and TV, pay for their events, get dirt on their political opponents ...etc and you expect them not to try to recuperate the money when they get the power?

Let's not talk about political contributions, the biggest contributers are always going to be corporations. They're not going to give money to someone who can't give them decent returns.

And you're going to be surprised when all the smart people don't want to take part in politics?

Not to say the PAP is good and democracy bad, but people seriously needs to understand that if you want more of something, you're just going to take from something else.