If people don't complain what do they do - street rally?
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(As posted at www.youngpap.org.sg on 11.11.06)
In the past 41 years the system of government is autocracy dictated by one man based on his concepts and assumptions.
witness wrote:
Non-Elite-but-Caring wrote:
If you are only suggesting and not insisting, then when your suggestion is
not taken, what should you do?
Continue to bitch about it?
Or drop the matter?
That remark about bitching was uncalled for. So you are learning from a certain matagoondu? It's easier to insult than to make a rational argument. But if you are interested in debate and discussion, I would suggest you stick to attacking ideas rather than persons. Why descend to the level of beasts?
This system has achieved certain initial progress like law and order, cleaner environment and employment opportunities up to the 1970s.
However since the 1970s, all that the autocracy has run out of ideas and instead of upgrading the economy to value-adding technology-driven model talked about for years, it keeps helping itself by its persistent tax-and-recover and corporatization policy to make its own job easier at the expense of the people.
Citizens are left struggling to keep up with high costs of living, dropping wages and structural unemployments.
There is no sign to show that whoever are their scholar new MPs or ministers they are capable of responding to the needs and aspirations of the citizens. They are seen to practise NKF policies to deny complaints with accusations that people are complainers.
People expect our post 65 MPs to possess higher quality of education and abilities at uniting the citizens into collective ventures through broad-based practical knowledge application, innovation and restructuring of the economy to value-adding model talked about for years.
When people are unhappy they will rant they will scold and they will complain. What do you expect them to do under such circumstance - be happy and praise the MPs for hip hopping talents or sweep the estate to play their part in keeping the country clean as proposed by Maliki? -
(as posted at www.youngpap.org.sg on 11.11.06]
I am not in favour of any personal attacks. I am very concerned with major issues and major policy errors such as people's problems being grossed over by hypocrisy in the press media publishing only good news and covering up bad ones.
witness wrote:
roberttehkh wrote:
...When people are unhappy they will rant they will scold and they will complain. What do you expect them to do under such circumstance - be happy and praise the MPs for hip hopping talents or sweep the estate to play their part in keeping the country clean as proposed by Maliki?
Robert...
I am very disappointed that you seem to be condoning unwarranted attacks on persons rather than on their ideas, especially attacks using insulting labels on fellow forumers just because their viewpoints are dissimilar.
The most serious problem facing the nation building process is that the newer and young MPs are still afraid to speak up except may be Michael Palmer against major policy errors still being practised by the old guards from behind the scene. Temasek's overseas losses and the escapefromparadise public issue for example need to be investigated and questions raised by MPs in parliaments.
If serious problems are not taken care of and leaders continue to give excuses through their own post 65 MPs with plenty of excuses like in the past, they would continue to miss great opportunities to solve problems and upgrade the economy.
It is easy for any one to avoid answering to problems of serious negligence, derelictions and incompetence, by giving some reasons to shift the blames somewhere else.
This I think is the more serious problem to discuss in our new parliament by the younger MPs today. The major problem today facing Singapore is not about people not cooperating in estate cleanliness which is a relatively minor issue. -
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u know its their turf anyway.. no use watever you try to post there that would be seen or taken by them as remotely against their 'policy' even though it is logical... it doesn;t exists in their dictionary..
for me.. i dun even bother to visit, such a waste of bandwidth..
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eh no leh, I got a friend surf there before, he told me people there against PAP rather than going along with them.Originally posted by 4getmenot:u know its their turf anyway.. no use watever you try to post there that would be seen or taken by them as remotely against their 'policy' even though it is logical... it doesn;t exists in their dictionary..
for me.. i dun even bother to visit, such a waste of bandwidth.. -
You got a point there.
In other countries which are more liberal, people hold peaceful rallies to highlight their problems or bring up certain issues to the government.
In Singapore, they ban rallies and tell the people instead to go to their MPs.
But now the MPs are telling Singaporeans to stop complaining and go solve their own problems.
And if Singaporeans attempt to solve their own problems by gathering together, they might be accused of trying to plot something illegal.
Singaporeans are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Really.