Some rowdy parliaments or our so-called law n order better?

robertteh SG

="friedguest"][size=18] Click YouTube under http://www.youtube.com and see how civilized and well mannered our parliamentarians are compared to their Malaysian counterparts! I feel so sorry for their opposition members, esp the non bumis fighting those classless UMNO monkeys.

I'm so glad that LKY opted out of Malaysia instead of taking the shits from them.

Majulah S'pura![/size]

Auto-piloted every presumably good policy to the other extremes are worse.

Under the name of anti-welfare, costs are recovered by every government department by cost-centre accounting and lands which were already paid by citizens were charged to citizens again in housing, hospital and utility bills etc.

This is bad.

Under the name of law and order, they came up with laws to prevent people from grouping of 5 calling it illegal assembly. This is bad.

Under the guise of racial harmony, they came up with GRC to grab political power for themselves.

This is bad.

Under the excuse of keeping talents, they design all kinds of method to pay themselves the lottery tickets just because a few CEOs were paid more than them.

That is bad.

Under the cloak of protecting classified info, they refuse to be accountable in the way they spend monies and lost them on suzhou or shin corp.

That is bad.

At the end it is still a more rowdy parliament where citizens' representatives are able to feel in charge and can question ministers that is better for law and order and our children's long-term survival and prosperity and not a protected system to suit the power that be to do as they like.

4getmenot SG

You see that sometime in the korean, taiwan and even japan parliament.. are their economy or their country doing bad becuz of what happens in the parliament? Rolling Eyes

I'd prefer to see a parliament with full blooded passion debate rather than one that looks like an automated robots on a duty row..

<Precious> SG

Everything on earth has its co-existing opposite.
Nothing is absolutely good nor ansolutely bad........

Your post(s) almost always contain(s) nothing but your personal assertions: ....... This is bad! Perhaps you would care to explain why you have derived your view that something is bad......... because for everything you declare bad, I can also easily see many other good! Evil or Very Mad

Unless you do so, I am apt to treat every of your post as bo liao!
Better to keep quiet and be suspected of being stoo-pid than to pour everything out and confirm that one indeed is stoo-pid.......! Wink

spinsugar SG

Is it better to keep everything under a lid under a pressure cooker environment to look clean until the steam is no longer controllable, or better to have an open steamer where everything good bad and ugly is exposed for all to see?

No points for guessing which option I'm for.

robertteh SG

Always is your strong assertion as well. If there is a government that causes rising costs of living and many other problems, then the problem is not with the people. Those who give views are better than those who do not as apathy may cause abuse of power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Government is paid to do a job and people are not.

HyperFocal SG

Then it would be good, if you will highlight the 'goods' about the government and their policies...?

I'm hoping and looking forward to seeing more positive out of them than all the negatives....

Really, I'd like to see MORE good from them than all the 'bad' stuff....

Lets hear them...

qlqq9 SG

Solution: vote them out of power!!

royston_ang SG

Our parliament is always so orderly because the oppositions are simply too weak (only 2).

If there are much more oppositions in the parliament, who can guarantee that the parliament will still remain so quiet? Rolling Eyes

maurizio13 SG

Hehehe....

Compared to other countries, we are like the gay community of parliament.

crazy monkey SG

gay means quiet Question

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Oh please. YOu mean our parliament as an "opposite"? Laughing

Personal assertions? Why you are asserting that his asserts are his and you are asserting that there is a good. And please, tell us what is good about our system that allows the ministers to rob its own citizens legitimately. Perhaps you will also illustrate why there is a need for this "good" when other countries have demonstrated that their economies do not depend entirely on Govt policy but they successfully make a living for their own. That is the trouble with the bulk of Singaporeans; happy to live in a so-called Disneyland protected by external externalities, but too petrified to face down the ugly backside of it. So protected they feel their entire will to live rests on material goods and minimal effort put in.

Let's also do a count as to how long it takes our resident Village Idiot to budge in and demand we "substantiate" our "claims". Laughing

walesa SG

Originally posted by Fingolfin_Noldor:

Oh please. YOu mean our parliament as an "opposite"? Laughing

Personal assertions? Why you are asserting that his asserts are his and you are asserting that there is a good. And please, tell us what is good about our system that allows the ministers to rob its own citizens legitimately. Perhaps you will also illustrate why there is a need for this "good" when other countries have demonstrated that their economies do not depend entirely on Govt policy but they successfully make a living for their own. That is the trouble with the bulk of Singaporeans; happy to live in a so-called Disneyland protected by external externalities, but too petrified to face down the ugly backside of it. So protected they feel their entire will to live rests on material goods and minimal effort put in.

Let's also do a count as to how long it takes our resident Village Idiot to budge in and demand we "substantiate" our "claims". Laughing

Please don't insult Disneyland - at least, Walt Disney's theme parks do bring joy and laughter to the lives of millions of kids who have passed through their doors. I doubt you could say the same about this regime... Laughing

Meat Pao SG

Sir...

1. Hospital bills...utility bills all this.....I think is just a middle way of running an organization without making it a bloated and incompetent public organization. So they are trying to instill some characteristics of private organization into it. This is actually good because it can avoid some public organizations ills and malaise.

A very good example of this desire is...HDB corporatization...and NUS/NTU extra autonomy....to quote 2 recent examples.

From those we can see the thought process.........they are going forward trying to deliver public goods but with private efficiency.

I think this is good. I like the Singapore model.

2. GRC is actually a kind of affirmative action to include more women and minorities. It is surprising anyone would find fault with this.....Is it not good to have an inclusive system, with more women and minorities? I thought this is actually healthy. Imagine if the opposite is true, if certain races are under-represented in parliament.....maybe it will cause discontent....So the current system is good.

3. High renumeration attracts and retain talent. I see that you keep bringing this point up. I have always said the same thing also. High salary = better people = better management. This is good, yet you think this is bad. It is really puzzling.

4. Other things is financial disclosure....this is the only point I agree with you. I also dont know why GIC etc...cannot be more transparent. Or at least more clearer reasons should be provided, if let's say they are confidential or what.

Meat Pao.

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Please, even GCK admitted the system is more meant to coast MPs who can't articulate well to the public to Parliament, never mind whether or not they can even do anything of worth. Laughing

Fingolfin_Noldor SG

Haha.. indeed. Laughing

A bubble of comfortable reality then , one that can be pierced.