REPLY to president's poety on hope - "Prose of No Hope"

• robertteh

  27 Sep 07, 09:36

  (REPLY TO PRESIDENT'S POEM ON HOPE) - PROSE OF "NO HOPE".
  
  On and on leaders on the little red dot,
  
  Carry on wrangling with laws and regulations,
  
  Years and years of tweaking of voting process,
  
  Of bending democratic rules of accountability,
  
  Without thought of people's suffering and want,
  
  Double charge on lands, assets, recovering all costs,
  
  GLCs usurping citizens' assets into monopoly schemes,
  
  Direct and indirect taxes unspent and assumulated
  
  To be spent on extravagant golden taps and own salaries,
  
  Idle taxes grow surpluses by billions not enough,
  
  Losses on Shin Corp not disclosed or explained,
  
  On national day Citizens brace for another shock,
  
  Pay and pay without services or accountability
  
  Another and another excuse yet cooked up,
  
  This time citizens contrite to live longer lives,
  
  Citizens deemed careless with their own monies
  
  Not failure in governing CPF schemes or economy,
  
  For fear citizens might squander own retirement funds,
  
  Had better leave their funds at 55 to better hand.
  
  With a bit of tweaking like interest top-up,
  
  Leaders would take their fund to form a pool
  
  To pay out small annuities to whoever live longest lives,
  
  The red dot leaders say annuities would look after all,
  
  But they did not say by their own billion surpluses
  
  Or not by surpluses from hidden profits gained,
  
  But by little monies left of citizens who live shorter lives,
  
  Who had to postpone draw of retirement kitties
  
  From 55 to 85 to pay for citizens living longer lives,
  
  The elected MPs each gives a great speech,
  
  And even sultry poetry for good to sing praises,
  
  Of goodness to receive collective annuities,
  
  In spirit and truth this is the story,
  
  Of how the little red dot is governed,
  
  By greed, scheming and legalistic puppetry.
  
• robertteh

  27 Sep 07, 15:14

  PROSE OF CHANGE AND HOPE, (Reply to President's poetry on hope)
  
  Hide no wrongfulness and mistakes,
  
  Talents need no promotion and adulation,
  
  Talents not deceit or false pretences,
  
  Talents speak truths and accountability,
  
  Accountable policies and processes,
  
  Let's start off with an accountable taxation,
  
  Let's start to reveal hidden profits on schemes,
  
  Let's present truthful budgets showing all gains,
  
  Let deficit figures be true revealing hidden profits,
  
  Let taxes go to providing essential services to the people,
  
  Let budgets not be wastefully spent on budgeting,
  
  Let inefficiencies be self-checked by internal processes,
  
  Let actions speak loudly than words and decisions made,
  
  Let government be answerable by action processes,
  
  Let servants serve efficiently and productively,
  
  The nation and not to detract with excuses or blame
  
  For "X theory" is a negative mentality,
  
  Blaming people for lack of trying or instability,
  
  For loss of face, defamation or threat to law and order,
  
  For "Y" theory will lift people and government as one,
  
  Restore government as servants to serve and to persevere,
  
  Going to the extra mile and not to resort to threats or self-ness,
  
  Self-ness true cause of instability, talents self-explained,
  
  Think again, dispense policies of negativism or protectionism.
  
• robertteh

  2 Oct 07, 19:23

  People are no poets,
  So expect no poetry,
  To sing praises of government,
  They have every right though,
  By whatever means at their disposal,
  To chastise leaders for hypocrisy,
  
  So let there be no excuse,
  To deprive people of avenues,
  Of expressions of problems,
  Or cover up suffering with no solutions.
  
  To the president who claims success,
  People say life is not placid as negara,
  People are suffering greatly in silence,
  They demand justice and equity,
  In governance of the little red dot.
  
  Ha president do you see,
  Placid negara is only a pretence,
  A false front that all is well,
  
  Look again, nothing has changed,
  Government has enslaved them,
  To pay and pay taxes and more,
  With excuses like no free lunch,
  Forever sacrifices people must bear,
  Yet when people are without jobs,
  Ministers reward themselves more salaries,
  By the millions to no end,
  
  So Mr. President how could you expect,
  Long-suffering citizens to put on smiling face,
  Or pay and pay another cent,
  Cos they are heavy in debts,
  From your government's nonsense.