(As posted at www.youngpap.org.sg on 11.11.06)
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?
In the past 41 years the system of government is autocracy dictated by one man based on his concepts and assumptions.
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?