Government begins to talk about people power.
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What is people power? Why does government now decide to talk about people power? Is it true that government does listen to the people and people indeed could influence the government with power on certain major decisions e.g.
(1) Cost of living.
(2) Bus fare increases
(3) HDB Flat prices
(4) Employment of foreign workers where locals are bypassed.
(5) NKF type of problems
(6) Freedom of speech or political views or electing their own MPs without constraints by so many walkovers caused by GRC system.
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Your views please. -
I laughed my ass off reading that article. They should rename the straits times to the pap times.
people power = pap using its power to royally screw the people. -
election tricks
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couldn't agree with you better.Originally posted by av98m:I laughed my ass off reading that article. They should rename the straits times to the pap times.
people power = pap using its power to royally screw the people.
they advocate people's power only election time to vote them in and
people's power after election time to pay for ERP, GST, Mininter's salary etc.....
WTF
who are they trying to con again. -
aiyah, dis is nothing...later they will give our $ again....dats when i will be happy.
No $ No talk. new term for election : N$NT -
Typical man on the street:
" People power ? Where got ?! "
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power to vote them in only.
after that powerless to do anything. -
This time they say they have found another good crop of promising young MPs with a lot of good credentials.
I remember they said they have fielded many supposedly very good MPs before in the election but have these so-called promising young MPs represented people's concern and problems e.g. high cost of living, inability to find jobs for many graduates and retrenched workers, losses of CPF retirenments fund due to asset debacle, increasing bus fares and utilities even though Bus companies are making good profits and control of citzens' views and expressions etc.
If we keep hearing we have a good crop of new and promising candidates in elections but still having to face all the persistent major problems, then do we still believe the next batch of good candidates will be young promising talents?
If we see any change it will be good to reduce the ministers' and MPs' salaries by 1/3 until Singaporeans' unemployment problem is solved and collapsed property asset reinstated to near previous level. -
they understand only before and during the elections. after that auto-erase.Originally posted by robertteh:This time they say the have found and will field many good promising young MPs with a lot of good credentials.
I remember they said they have fielded many supposedly very good MPs before in the election but have these so-called promising young MPs represented people's concern and problems e.g. high cost of living, inability to find jobs for many graduates and retrenched workers, losses of CPF retirenments fund due to asset debacle, increasing bus fares and utilities even though Bus companies are making good profits and control of citzens' views and expressions etc.
If we keep hearing we have a good crop of new and promising candidates in elections but still having to face all the persistent major problems, then do we still believe the next batch of good candidates will be young promising talents?
If we see any change it will be good to reduce the ministers' and MPs' salaries by 1/3 until Singaporeans' unemployment problem is solved and collapsed property asset reinstated to near previous level. -
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wat power?
more clones? -
when pap started, they were already talking about "people power"..
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A state of dictatorship??!!
People are powerless now!
Need help from the divine Lord! -
Actually in an authoritarian state there is no such thing as people's power !!!
The two cannot co-exist as they are like water and fire. -
If ministers reduce their salaries by 1/3 their salaries will still be the highest in the world and remain high enough to prevent them from corruption.
On top of receiving the highest salaries our ministers will still enjoy two-thirds of their last pay for life (soon after ministers abolish teachers' pension scheme in the 1970s just imagine) in the event or retiring after two terms of office. It is best deal of any remuneration package in the whole world without having to prove any true worth (iron rice bowl as their jobs are not subject to hire and fire) unlike people in the private sector.
So why not make ministers' salary reduction as election platform to win back the trust of the people again. If they want to give back people's power then this is the best way to do it not by only making claims of people's power in their own press ? -
Looks like Windows operating system; needs to re-formatted, and re-installed, then run Windows updates.
Then everything will run smoothly again...
How I wish it's as simple as that.... -
Has it occured to anyone that not many from the PAP youth ranks 'graduate' to MP level, and only a few from the recruited ranks at election level stay on in the PAP for long.
The whole process seems to be following a 'tour of duty' trend, something a prominent entrepreneur or an up-and-coming govt / GLC bright spark has to endure as a stepping stone towards greater things. -
more like party than people power.
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I have been thinking over this for some time. While I do not begrudge Teo Chee Hean and George Yeo for landing the Defence and FOreign Affairs portfolios respectively, I sometimes wonder if it is a ploy to stop them from getting contested in their respective GRCs. Their wards contain remnants of former hot spots like Eunos and Cheng San GRCs.
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I did not read the article on people power. It doesn't apply to Singapore anyway.
To say frankly, I wish Singapore never prosper that fast. Now, a lot of people are losing jobs. People who are lowly-educated and not enough skills are retrenched and they take an eternity to find jobs. To help them, we have upgrading courses. And these courses aren't cheap. How to upgrade when they have no money? And the whatever CITREP doesn't help. You have to be an employee of the company to receive subsidies for your upgrading. And then there's the middle-aged workers. Once they hit 35 and holding pretty high posts in the company, the company will start preparations to retrench them.
Secondly, to help our economy, we increase our GST to 5%. While increasing will help minimize the impact, I don't really see a need. If people don't even want to spend money, does increasing help?
Thirdly, transport fares. Transport fares are ever increasing. Feeder buses used to cost lesser than the main ones, and now they cost the same as the main ones. What's more, feeder buses don't even travel as much as the main ones, yet we pay the same price as the main ones. And the new system of regulating bus fares, I think it really sucks. With Singapore's economy improving (according to PAP), we will be paying more and more, not decreasing in some years and increasing in other years.
Lastly, the education system. Teach less, learn more. While it's good, I think they meant it literally. Teach less = cut syllabus. Cut syllabus, how to learn more? You need basics to understand how something happens, which then leads to this and that and all. For the Sports School, glad that they finally allow students whose grades are poor yet are talented to enter. For through-train programs, I don't know the results. Waiting to see if it will really make Singapore students better or worse. Learning Chinese using English is good, but I wonder if it will create a reliance on English or even direct translation to Chinese. This could make our Chinese standards even worse. -
The problem is Singaporeans shy away when they see a Minister's GRC being contested.Bluntly put, they have accorded them too much respect than any ordinary legislator.Regardless of position in Cabinet, a MP's rating should be based on how much he has done for his community.Originally posted by iveco:I have been thinking over this for some time. While I do not begrudge Teo Chee Hean and George Yeo for landing the Defence and FOreign Affairs portfolios respectively, I sometimes wonder if it is a ploy to stop them from getting contested in their respective GRCs. Their wards contain remnants of former hot spots like Eunos and Cheng San GRCs. -
The re-formatting is painful but neccessary.But why not switch to Mac?Originally posted by ShutterBug:Looks like Windows operating system; needs to re-formatted, and re-installed, then run Windows updates.
Then everything will run smoothly again...
How I wish it's as simple as that....