Let me see the bottomline u r trying to say
The gov suck. The new thing u wanna say is Mas Selamat. Frankly
speaking it is indeed one of the most shameful thing tat happened
to the ministry of home affairs. Although they made such a big cock
up, the safety level of singapore is still good.
To be critical, how about u roberteh ? How do we know u r better
? At least they have 40 years of track record and we obtain a high
quality of living. If we vote u, why will life become better ? U r
quick to complain about NKF etc but everybody can make complaints.
Complain is easy. The coffeeshop uncle can also say the same thing
as u. The ability to come out with solution is the one tat is
necessary. Do u think just by opposing the gov then suddenly
everything become good ? Suddenly singaporean become all rich, all
inflation problem gone, mas selamat is captured and all charity
have no corruption ? Things doesn't work tat easily. We must be
pro-active in trying to work out the economy. Wat is the plan to
improve the economy ? Otherwise wat is the real work u
do when u get voted in ? Complain ?
Do I criticise the government because I am offering myself as a
candidate for election?
Must I offer all the alternative solutions to the many problems
like taxing and hoarding of monies and negative anti-progress and
anti-people policies before I give my views on government's
policies and behavior problems?
Yet it is so characteristic of the government which claims
itself world class to deny problems and refuses to accept
responsibilities even for fiascos like NKF, Shin Corp or Mas
Selamat which is merely the tip of the iceberg of problems people
are currently facing.
True the government has certain successes in the initial years
up to perhaps the 1970s.
After that it is no longer the same government but has become
one which only cares for its own selfish agendas to stay in power
and reward itself despite failures to restructure the economy to
the value-adding and knowledge-based economy talked about for
years.
Read my alternative solutions to many problems as posted in
another thread "minimalist taxing and maximalist facilitator
government is what we want" for constructive suggestions.
The truth is many alternative solutions have been put up by
people over the years which are more than worthwhile to look into
but has the government ever been bothered to listen or pay
attention.
It is the attitude of the government which is now the real
issue.
It is now found beyond all doubts that it is a government of
hypocrisy of the first order.
On the one hand, the leaders in international conferences often
lamented our people lack of interest in politics and even wondered
why our own journalists are mum in forums MM Lee was speaking in
and on the other the same government will be resorting to all kinds
of hypocrisy to deny answering to problems and issues.
It is nothing new in what you are asking. It is the same
negative government which will continue to say it will be open to
views and opinions but when people do come forward to give them
they will start pushing away problems and issues when confronted
resorting to methods like selective comparisons with worse case
scenarios in other countries or throwing back the problems at
people challenging to come up with alternatives or to stand for
election if they can.
What sort of feedback process is this? What sort of sincerity or
openness is this?
So what you are asking is the same sort of hypocrisy in dealing
with people's feedback processes that is all.
Why not just own up and so that the government has been overly
paranoid and negative in its attitude towards accepting their
responsibilities for failures in running of the country.
It is this negative and overly paranoid attitude which causes
many of our current problems like rising costs of living and our
losing economic competitiveness and it is the same negative
attitude which causes so much problems found in NKF, Mas Selamat or
Shin Corp which in the final analysis is only the tip of the big
iceberg of poor attitude characterising the whole government.
