PM Lee asks ppl to demand change-1st let go, 2nd lower costs
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PM Lee has asked people to come forward to ask for change.
That is a very good gesture on his part.
But what have gone wrong so that there is this overwhelming need to ask people to do the bottom-up change.
Just look at what happened briefly in the past 40 years.
Government failed to respect wishes of the people in freeing up press control and in lowering costs of doing business.
But despite feedbacks as posted to Feedback Unit for years in "20 Major Govt Policy Errors" problems were covered up due to lack of alternative voices in parliament and press control.
People bear the burden of persistent tax-and-recover, double-taxing high cost policies and drop in economic competitiveness since 1970s due to failure to upgrade the economy and SMEs.
Businesses cannot survive and people cannot find jobs and are leaving due to wrong policies of the past. This is because the Government have implemented wrong policies to suit its own ease of creating surpluses and raise its own self-rewards.
Government is the one who has refused to change many of these wrong policies of the past. People are not at fault. Now, just go to any HDB heartlands and watch many businesses continue to close shops and people are leaving for greener pasture.
Clamp-down of the press and double-taxing on land and triple-charging on vehicle are wrong policies. Farming out of essential services to GLCs and corporatising these services to allow all of them to suck more monies from people is another wrong policy. Tax-and-recover system is another wrong policy.
Government should change all these wrong policies and encourge all the smaller businesses to grow with supportive procurement policies. Do not close all doors on the smaller guys so that the smaller guys could go into business.
NTUC and GLCs should stop competing against its own people for a living and allow them to do well and create jobs.
Because of all these wrong policies, government has caused unhappiness and migration and finally has to resort to people importing in the name of foreign talents.
We still have not attracted many top talents despite all the FT policy and those who are imported are none other than those we already have in large number. This kind of importing of people does not add values to our economy or create new technology start-ups.
Instead of importing lawyers, accountants, doctors, insurance people and business adm graduates we should import scientists and technologists who could help to branch out in new technology applications and start-ups.
So if government really and sincerely wants to change it should change the root causes of unhappiness and migrations - high costs of living and failure to create new technology start-ups due to conceptual leadership.
So where is the change if government insists on its right to stay firm on all the high-cost policies and discriminatory recruitment practices favoring only the few elites.
If there is the change the change should be to favor and give more opportunities to its own citizens, treat them fairly so that they will not have to migrate elsewhere to seek better jobs and higher pays.
If government stays firm on its pro-foreign policy and does not do anything to address the root causes whatever the change will be of little use but only false pretences to cover up old problems. -
That's why I say, our gov is very LPPL....
Never listen to people and end up LPPL all the time... -
It's not as easy to just change something without an alternative in place. Policies cannot be scrapped leaving a vacuum. I believe that if viable alternatives can be proposed to replace the policies that are undesirable, the Govt will listen. Problem is that any idiot can kpkb that this wan is bad or that wan no good but nobody wants to suggest alternatives.........
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Hehehehee...Originally posted by :It's not as easy to just change something without an alternative in place. Policies cannot be scrapped leaving a vacuum. I believe that if viable alternatives can be proposed to replace the policies that are undesirable, the Govt will listen. Problem is that any idiot can kpkb that this wan is bad or that wan no good but nobody wants to suggest alternatives.........
I seriously DOUBT that they will listen and take up anyone's alternative policies.. otherwise, long ago they would taken up many proposals in here by honorary members like Robertteh, & Atobe - who are Kings of Facts. -
Demand Change?Originally posted by robertteh:PM Lee has asked people to come forward to ask for change.
That is a very good gesture on his part.
But what have gone wrong so that there is this overwhelming need to ask people to do the bottom-up change.
Just look at what happened briefly in the past 40 years.
Government failed to respect wishes of the people in freeing up press control and in lowering costs of doing business.
But despite feedbacks as posted to Feedback Unit for years in "20 Major Govt Policy Errors" problems were covered up due to lack of alternative voices in parliament and press control.
People bear the burden of persistent tax-and-recover, double-taxing high cost policies and drop in economic competitiveness since 1970s due to failure to upgrade the economy and SMEs.
Businesses cannot survive and people cannot find jobs and are leaving due to wrong policies of the past. This is because the Government have implemented wrong policies to suit its own ease of creating surpluses and raise its own self-rewards.
Government is the one who has refused to change many of these wrong policies of the past. People are not at fault. Now, just go to any HDB heartlands and watch many businesses continue to close shops and people are leaving for greener pasture.
Clamp-down of the press and double-taxing on land and triple-charging on vehicle are wrong policies. Farming out of essential services to GLCs and corporatising these services to allow all of them to suck more monies from people is another wrong policy. Tax-and-recover system is another wrong policy.
Government should change all these wrong policies and encourge all the smaller businesses to grow with supportive procurement policies. Do not close all doors on the smaller guys so that the smaller guys could go into business.
NTUC and GLCs should stop competing against its own people for a living and allow them to do well and create jobs.
Because of all these wrong policies, government has caused unhappiness and migration and finally has to resort to people importing in the name of foreign talents.
We still have not attracted many top talents despite all the FT policy and those who are imported are none other than those we already have in large number. This kind of importing of people does not add values to our economy or create new technology start-ups.
Instead of importing lawyers, accountants, doctors, insurance people and business adm graduates we should import scientists and technologists who could help to branch out in new technology applications and start-ups.
So if government really and sincerely wants to change it should change the root causes of unhappiness and migrations - high costs of living and failure to create new technology start-ups due to conceptual leadership.
So where is the change if government insists on its right to stay firm on all the high-cost policies and discriminatory recruitment practices favoring only the few elites.
If there is the change the change should be to favor and give more opportunities to its own citizens, treat them fairly so that they will not have to migrate elsewhere to seek better jobs and higher pays.
If government stays firm on its pro-foreign policy and does not do anything to address the root causes whatever the change will be of little use but only false pretences to cover up old problems.
PM Lee's definition of change is to entice younger Singaporeans to join politics as a member of the young PAP. He is not speaking about the general public who voice concerns on the forum pages or call into various govt help lines available.
Surprising, it is impossible to enter serious politics without being earmarked by prominent ministers, who practically recruit from private and GLC sectors those they deem as qualified replacements.
The much-hyped process of renewal is as one-tracked as the ministers who champion them. -
NO!!! NO!!!
Let in!!! Gods!!!
Increasing cost all the way!!!u die is yr problem!!!600k is oreli peanut as compared with 2 cents,cheap cheap lah!!!
Our electricity bill is the cheapest in the world, 2 expensive using gen set loh!!!water we brought at 3 cents n sell at 30 cents,2 expensive,use new water loh!!!TRANSPORT min 60 cents(but I paid 90cents min must claim back 30Cents from SBS) HK n TW N korea r more expensive but per bus stops/km we r expensive ,dont say oh!!!!dont take bus n mrt use bicycle,good 4 yr health n free oh!!! -
welcome to the matrixOriginally posted by foomwee88:NO!!! NO!!!
Let in!!! Gods!!!
Increasing cost all the way!!!u die is yr problem!!!600k is oreli peanut as compared with 2 cents,cheap cheap lah!!!
Our electricity bill is the cheapest in the world, 2 expensive using gen set loh!!!water we brought at 3 cents n sell at 30 cents,2 expensive,use new water loh!!!TRANSPORT min 60 cents(but I paid 90cents min must claim back 30Cents from SBS) HK n TW N korea r more expensive but per bus stops/km we r expensive ,dont say oh!!!!dont take bus n mrt use bicycle,good 4 yr health n free oh!!!
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its just another trick up their sleeves to root out any present opposition voice.. dun fall for their tricks, wait got guest knocking on your doors 2am in the morning..
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It is a ghost!!!Dont worry We hve done nothing wrong the one who worry is their conscious!!!Originally posted by 4getmenot:its just another trick up their sleeves to root out any present opposition voice.. dun fall for their tricks, wait got guest knocking on your doors 2am in the morning..
Everboboy has one life better speak up the truth or God will punish u!!!! not at 9 but this life!!!!