Quote from "matagandhi" posted at youngpap And 66.6% of the
voters chose the PAP. I am not saying that all the 33.3% who voted
for the opposition are ungrateful people, but end of they day, we
must still respect the wish of the majority.
and liked we said before
if you removed the grc bullies
you would not even get 66%
so don't be ungrateful to the citizens
Good point!!! if PAP is to compete fairly without resorting to
defamation suits against opposition candidates of potential we
would have a more vibrant political process today to help us become
more competitive socially culturally and economically.
However political oppositions were regularly sued for defamation
for innuendos made in the heat of electioneering and were deprived
of opportunities to stand for election as single candidates by the
engineered GRC blockade and electoral boundary redrawing.
Without such below-the-belt questionable methodology it will be
doubtful if it could secure even 40% of the votes.
This topic is about who should be grateful to who - ministers and
MPs who should be grateful to the people or the other way
round.
Yes, people were grateful to the founding father for their
contributions in building the nation from scratch in 1960s. But
since the 1970s when the first generation leaders began to promote
elitism and their own glory and rewarding themselves with the
highest salaries and rewards against the wishes of the people, the
later batches of MPs and Ministers have not been performing up to
the expectation of the masses.
If these MPs and Ministers have half the quality as expected they
should have helped to correct some of the major policy errors such
as high-cost tax-and-recover and corporatisation policies which
resulted in losses of economic competitiveness and technology
start-ups
So objectively based on facts and numbers, have the later-year MPs
and Ministers done a good job since 1970s for which the people
should be grateful
So many talented scholars were put up to be MPs and Ministers since
1970s but they seem to come and go receiving million-dollar
salaries and good lifelong retirement golden eggs but have they
solved or help solve the high cost and 20 major policy errors as
pointed out in various feedbacks.
People who committed suicides by jumping the MRT tracks could have
caused chaotic street demonstrations. But they were patient and
tolerated the non-performing MPs and ministers who were receiving
all the million-dollar salaries without solving problems or proving
their worth through performance over 20 years and were still being
given so many chances since 1970s.
So it may be asked : who should be indeed grateful to who.
