You sure a not? It's one thing to earn your keep, and another to
not get back what you have put in as hard work.
With the rising costs of living, workers being constantly told to
accept lower wages, having the rules constantly changed that often
renders years of experience and work for naught, is the common man
really getting the fair share of the food he fought for?
There are many ways to manage globalization, I am not convinced the
way we are currently doing it is actually the best for the common
Singaporean... I have a distinct feeling we are tanking the damage
for someone else.
Yes indeed. Give me a party that do better than PAP and
I'll gladly vote for it. Political restrictions made by PAP
government?
The only restrictions they made GRCs and SMCs, which I think is a
half f**k system. Which they say GRCs can have a common source of
resources to building up the constituencies, might as well make
every GRC.
Define better. In the last elections the opposition parties made
an effort to field credible candidates.
And what makes anyone think that they will do any worse if they run
the country? Last I checked, where has all the talk about the
incompetence of the opposition's suggestions really come from?
Their natual opponents, the Ruling Party of course.
To truly see if they are capable, one needs to take their points in
and weight the pros and cons of it- and a lot of them make perfect
sense.
And political restrictions? I think we just need to look at how
other democratic countries conduct their elections to see the vast
difference in our own system. Right here from the start any person
wanting to present an alternative government, no matter how valid
his ideas were would face staggering odds.
And look at our newspaper, rated 154th in the world. Is is a source
of good information? I'm not too convinced.
Our economic "prosperity" has come at a great price- basically we
have made a faustian deal to trade our freedom for prosperity. We
have choosen to be politically ignorant, and to blindly trust in
wherever the bandwagon is going for better or worse, on the faulty
assumption that the way things are now are currently the best that
they can be.
The question is this: can another political party provide the same
economic prosperity at less cost to the Singaporean soul?
Also all these trends are disturbing, as Sun Tzu pointed if the
general is corrupt (lacks morals), eventually this attitude will
filter down to his soldiers and he will be unable to lead them
because the ideological center uniting the men would have been lost
and the men would not fight with or they are, or might even
defect.
I am not saying our current government is corrupt, but what I am
pointing out is that in their bid to prove their point they have
done many things that a true democracy would cringe at: declaring
ideas like "freedom" and "democracy" non bread and butter issues,
constantly showing to the people that the sole idealogy is survival
of the self... all this in all filters down to the Singaporean, and
not surprisingly the common man becomes pragmatic: nationhood is no
longer a value and some simply leave.
This is not that Singaporeans are not proud of their nation, but
one needs to realize our allegiance is to the flag and state of
Singapore, and not whoever's in power who is suppose to serve it.
Hence not all dissent is invalid or uncalled for.
Just look at many of the arguments in here: are they all the work
of people who oppose for the sake of opposing or do they see
something wrong with Singaporean soceity that needs to be
fixed?
Have our traditional "official" channels for getting "feedback" to
the ruling party been effective? I'm not too sure about that.
