How are new doctors to swear Hypo Oath
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Doctors are require to swear on oath they would do everything to save and prolong life.
In the case of an over-confident autocracy, it will do everything unpopular as necessary to save a few dollars for the state coffer.
The poor cannot expect any help as there will be no free lunch. Ministers however can take monies as they like from the people's taxes and GST to be paid on par with Sim Wong Hoo or Wee Chaw Yao because by not paying them such equivalents citizens may lose the talents possessed by these ministers else ministers may also turn corrupt.
Worse if anything should go wrong with the economy it will just take in lower-wage foreign workers to replace the local who would have to collect empty bins to carry on living.
Worse still such a government will say :Don't expect us to use tax payers' monies to prolong your life. If you are in a coma it is better to switch off the machine .. Does such a society still value life as it claims on other occasions like talking to foreign journalists about the Zichuan quake disaster. Does such a society still insist doctors in signing up for his profession must take the hypo oath to save and prolong life ... or must the young doctor now be asked to switch off the machine to save public tax monies for government to hoard a bigger surplus.
This is the kind of inhuman society we are building and we are told government will send its rescue team to Myanmar or China - don't know for what purpose. -
your point being?
p.s. btw.. it's the Hippocratic Oath...
got a question.. is your putting on your shoe also political and something to rail against the bloody gabrament about?
you need professional help.. really...
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The bearable bear, Who need professional help? Look at your tail? Should you have that extra appendix sticking out from the hind legs?
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Dunno about the political part, Bear, but the way some doctors go about thinking that folks are there to serve them instead of the other way round, I reckon it could well be the Hypocritical Oath. Besides, it's been a helluva long while since the oath was anything more than a formality.
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yeah.. i know about the greedy doctors bit..
but bobby here wants to plant their greed on the MIW or attempt to link the MIW to the doctors
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Yeah, well, I've been out of town way too long to keep up with the latest shenanigans, so I really couldn't give half a stuff anyway.
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The gist of what I said is we have a government which becomes too greedy to hoard monies for its own sake. This is what PM Lee said about patients in coma " "Prolonging life is not the solution"
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Say, isn't the old boy's ball-and-chain in a coma with a busted noggin anyway? Could be time for him to put his money where his mouth is.
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Originally posted by robertteh:
The gist of what I said is we have a government which becomes too greedy to hoard monies for its own sake. This is what PM Lee said about patients in coma ” “Prolonging life is not the solution”
the gist of what i'm saying is that this shit happens on every bloody country on the planet.. so don't bloody throw this on the gabrament..
you rant and rage so much about nonsense.. so much so that when something NEEDS to be said, no one listens anymore.. it's just noise... you're just a mad dog barking at the moon.. so much so that when you bark at a burglar or at a meteor, you are dismissed as a mad dog..
if you are not, stop bloody behaving like a mad dog barking at the moon..
you are just helping the MIW by discrediting the opposition..
just like andyboy is discrediting the good work of the honest opposition people by ranting that CSJ's shit is caviar and his fart is the finest perfume...
and if you cannot understand that, go read about the boy who cried wolf.. you're crying wolf.. you are just a whinging, whining crybaby.. everything on the planet seems to be the fault of the MIW..
grow the hell up...
sheesh..
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The bearable bear, I do not have to scold anyone unless I am replying to someone who ask for it. Where did I call anyone a mad dog?
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I thought being a doctor is a calling to preserve lives. The oath seem sacred in my opinion.
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Originally posted by the Bear:
the gist of what i'm saying is that this shit happens on every bloody country on the planet.. so don't bloody throw this on the gabrament..
you rant and rage so much about nonsense.. so much so that when something NEEDS to be said, no one listens anymore.. it's just noise... you're just a mad dog barking at the moon.. so much so that when you bark at a burglar or at a meteor, you are dismissed as a mad dog..
if you are not, stop bloody behaving like a mad dog barking at the moon..
you are just helping the MIW by discrediting the opposition..
just like andyboy is discrediting the good work of the honest opposition people by ranting that CSJ's shit is caviar and his fart is the finest perfume...
and if you cannot understand that, go read about the boy who cried wolf.. you're crying wolf.. you are just a whinging, whining crybaby.. everything on the planet seems to be the fault of the MIW..
grow the hell up...
sheesh..
It is amazing how your thought process moved furiously from one line to another in one blind slide - like the 'careless bear' that slipped and skid on the slippery ice surface in your 'avatar'.
With MIW claiming to be the few talented Singaporeans in control of Singapore - and is actually in control of 82 seats in Parliament - is this not a fact that they are responsible for all the events that happen in Singapore ?
Every aspect of Life in Singapore is in the hands of this Ruling Political Party that manipulated the big and small events affecting every Singaporean across all ages - from cradle to grave.
What you see as Bobby's nonsense may not necessarily be seen as the same by others who are less articulate in expressing themselves, and have to suffer in abject silence without the means to bring their experience to the attention of anyone.
Your vehement derogatory words thrown at Bobby seems to be typical of a frustrated person embroiled in the same boiling soup as all other Singaporean. Your anger reflects your sense of impotentence or incompetence to offer anything better to resolve your own position, and simply prefer to live in the boil and not be reminded by Bobby's diligent efforts.
If you cannot accept his views, why stop him from exercising his Rights to his views ?
Why will you draw your circle of criticism to insult the larger Singaporean community that still support the Alternative Parties - including CSJ and the SDP ?
Sadly, and if at all - it seems that you are the one that do not know how to differentiate between caviar and CSJ's shit, and perfume from his fart - as even a kindergarten child will know how to instinctively withdraw from the pungence.
As usual your remarks are insulting and more then condescendingly disrespectful towards others in this forum who may or maynot be diehard anti-MIW.
If you cannot accept Bobby's views, why will you even want to click on his thread ?
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Originally posted by Atobe:
If you cannot accept his views, why stop him from exercising his Rights to his views ?
That is precisely what you have been doing towards those who hold an opposing view. Whilst criticising the ruling party for suppression of alternative views, you have shown yourself to be far more intolerant.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
That is precisely what you have been doing towards those who hold an opposing view. Whilst criticising the ruling party for suppression of alternative views, you have shown yourself to be far more intolerant.
still working on sunday?wow, they must be paying you some big peanuts.
and peanuts come from who? do you know? doon bite hand that actually feed you.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
That is precisely what you have been doing towards those who hold an opposing view. Whilst criticising the ruling party for suppression of alternative views, you have shown yourself to be far more intolerant.
Atobe and bobbies are only ordinary citizens offering their 2 cents' worth of views to check on government's wrongful acts and policies. They are not too concerned with countering anyone's views to the extent of wanting to debunk them and persuading them not to post their views in any way. Can you and bear say the same. If there were more Atobes and Bobbies during the past 40 plus years we might not have gone through such problems like NKF and Shin Corp. Whether you and bear are persistent in intercepting the more articulate views of Atobe or Bobbies, let all forumers here be the judge. Please do report back to the leaders who sent you here that their counter-insurgency itself might be evil and illegal and anti-progress and anti-people as there is no basis for a government being paid to do its duties to stop people from questioning their wrong doings openly or covertly in the press or internet media. -
All that you and Atobe have done is to spill your vitriol against the government at every turn, castigating the ruling party for everything. You have shown yourselves to be not just partisan, but blinkered by your personal bias as not to see the good the government has done. The people will judge and have indeed done so, time and again at the polls, when even a senior member of the WP has voted for the ruling party.
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OM, You have now acted like you are the protector of past 40 years of glories refusing to see the same glories of the past are no longer glories but liabilities. Within the first 10 years the leaders have done well but thereafter due to their autocracy and insensitivities to people's needs and aspirations they have taken the route as posted in "Our Elitist Governing Philosophy". For years now people want a more caring governing system as enunciated by Dr. Catherine Lim or Ex-civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow. Have the leaders changed their elitist governing self-glorifying philosophy one bit ? GST was increased by another 2% in years of bigger surpluses just for self-glory and more of people's monies are splurged on grandiose projects and ministers and public servants are getting a few months of bonuses on top of NKF type of peanut rewards and more monies are being hoarded to be lost on Shin Corp and Global Crossing. What have the leaders done to deserve silent support of Atobe or Bobbies?
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Originally posted by robertteh:
OM,
You have now acted like you are the protector of past 40 years of glories refusing to see the same glories of the past are no longer glories but liabilities. Within the first 10 years the leaders have done well but thereafter due to their autocracy and insensitivities to people’s needs and aspirations they have taken the route as posted in “Our Elitist Governing Philosophy”.
For years now people want a more caring governing system as enunciated by Dr. Catherine Lim or Ex-civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow.
Have the leaders changed their elitist governing self-glorifying philosophy one bit ? GST was increased by another 2% in years of bigger surpluses just for self-glory and more of people’s monies are splurged on grandiose projects and ministers and public servants are getting a few months of bonuses on top of NKF type of peanut rewards and more monies are being hoarded to be lost on Shin Corp and Global Crossing. What have the leaders done to deserve silent support of Atobe or Bobbies?
Wrong! What the people want is continued prosperity for the nation in the midst of rising competition from China and regional nations. The ruling party has delivered that. Nobody agrees with all of the government's policy and even I have gone on record criticising the government's support for Thaksin, for example. I thought Thaksin was a spent force and we should have hanged him in favour of the military junta who had the support of the Thai king. I was wrong and Thaksin's faction is now back in power.
What you and Atobe have failed to do is to remove your tainted glasses and see the good the givernment has done, as well as its failures. People look at the overall performance of the ruling party and weigh it against the confidence or rather, the lack of it even among the leadership of the WP.
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OM, In my tinted glass I still see government as behaving like hypocrite and a big bully so this is the gist of my criticisms of government who of course up to now is still too thick-skinned to accept errors and is trying to counter such criticisms adopting a negative attitude towards such criticisms playing with their so-called 40 plus years of great achievements benefiting themselves at the expense of the ordinary people who are struggling and are losing their CPF retirements due to government's immoral attitude and wrong policies. Did you include such honest down to earth feedbacks to the M/W?
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
That is precisely what you have been doing towards those who hold an opposing view. Whilst criticising the ruling party for suppression of alternative views, you have shown yourself to be far more intolerant.
Are you participating in the same SgForum and viewing my posts with your own preferred tinted glasses ?I have always challenged someone elses point of views, but will not insult other's for their point of views - this does not mean that I will not trade insult for insult, as I can deliver as robust a reply as I can absorb.
Similarly, I do not generalise that the 66.6% Singaporeans that voted PAP - as apple-polishers or carpet beggars, as most Singaporeans are 'apolitical' and are mere 'passive' opportunists numbed by the threats and acts of ''political abuses'' that the PAP Leadership had unashamedly used to demolish anyone who dare to oppose them.
The majority of the passive Singaporean prefer to turn a blind eye to the feast on the table reserved for the Elitist Ruling Class, and are resigned to only hope for the crumbs to fall off from the Elitists' tables at their own leisurely pace.
Why will I want to antagonise the larger Singaporean population, who wish to continue with their deep slumber ?
I will engage only those who are prepared to be engaged, and will challenge anyone's position that I see to be flawed, and will open myself to the same treatment in this SgForum.
You should know this better than anyone, and I am not surprised by your continued effort to blow smoke when there are no burning ambers around.
Hope you will not choke on your own smoke.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
All that you and Atobe have done is to spill your vitriol against the government at every turn, castigating the ruling party for everything. You have shown yourselves to be not just partisan, but blinkered by your personal bias as not to see the good the government has done. The people will judge and have indeed done so, time and again at the polls, when even a senior member of the WP has voted for the ruling party.
The Ruling Party has managed to gain their political position to govern Singapore by dishonest means at every election, and won each Election through guile and unprincipled means that any First World Country will be ashamed of.This little Red Dot of 4.5 Million persons has less then two-thirds being Citizens, and less then half are eligible voters, yet there are 84 members of Parliament to be elected, or which on Nomination Day - almost half are already considered walk-over win for the incumbent Ruling Political Party.
The purposeful use of the enlarge parliament, grouped in enlarged GRCs under the pretext of ensuring representation of the minority ethnic groups in Parliament, coupled with a high election deposit fees - are all designed to prevent any candidates from an already impoverished Alternative Political Parties from creating any upset to the incumbent political party.
With legislations in place that prevent any large anonymous donations from Singaporeans - as many would have been targeted for petty political reprisal by the Ruling Party - and this legislation was designed to hit the treasury of the Alternative Political Parties.
The control of the broadcast and print media - including attempts to even control the internet during the election - have resulted in an unbalanced public exposure in favor of the incumbent Ruling Political Party. This situation is made worst by the bias and lop sided exposure of negative news concerning the Alternative Political Parties, and with such news given extra prominence over an extended period.
Still, it was remarkable that for a group of 'political newbies' seen as light weight politiicans from the WP, its GRC for Ang Mo Kio was able to make a big dent to the PAP GRC for the same constituency led by PM LHL.
If the entire election was held with a more level field, Singapore would have seen a more open and fairer election.
Bias, prejudice, vitriol from my postings ?
You see what you wish to see - which surprisingly you seem to be blinkered to the same acts from the PAP Elites towards members of the Alternative Political Parties 24/7 throughout the year - before, during and post-Election.
Compare the Political Environment with that in the UK - it is more than a world apart, yet MM LKY can dare claim to have brought Singapore into the First World.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
Wrong! What the people want is continued prosperity for the nation in the midst of rising competition from China and regional nations. The ruling party has delivered that. Nobody agrees with all of the government's policy and even I have gone on record criticising the government's support for Thaksin, for example. I thought Thaksin was a spent force and we should have hanged him in favour of the military junta who had the support of the Thai king. I was wrong and Thaksin's faction is now back in power.
What you and Atobe have failed to do is to remove your tainted glasses and see the good the givernment has done, as well as its failures. People look at the overall performance of the ruling party and weigh it against the confidence or rather, the lack of it even among the leadership of the WP.
Wrong ?
What do you know about the needs of Singaporeans when you live in a cloistered world that is half-a-globe away in UK ?
Can Singapore continue to compete with the likes of China and other regional nations, when others are already loosening up their political controls, and having their own Governmental Monoliths being dismantled from commerce and industry - while this Singapore Dinosaur will continue under the guise of privatisation ?
Can we believe your belated critique of the Singapore Government over the Thaksin affair, and your changed in opinion about the revival of Thaksin's Group ?
Your brilliance in understanding Singapore Politics is already amazing, and should we be dazzled by your effort in attempting to dabble with the Thais ?
If it is worth anything, your assessment of Thaksin and his group is lacking in due diligence in proper research, which seem characteristic of your 'Elitist Types' that is over-confident with the supposed confidential elitist sources whom you have always crowed about rubbing your small shoulders with.
Remarkably, you dare to tell Robertteh and Atobe to remove our tainted glasses, when your own mind is already colored without any help from any glasses in believing that the Government has delivered.
In 2007, did you not dispute the fact that there are no hard-up Singaporeans around - that there are NO destitute and homeless in Singapore ?
Since the last recession in 1997, the economy has been flip-flopping through the 9/11 incident, SARS and Bird-Flu - with unemployment hitting an all time high of 4.6% in 2001, and stubbornly remaining at 2.6% since 2006.
Inflation has reached an all time high of 6.7% for the month of March - and the middle-income group has shrunk in size, with more down-grading to near the Standard of Living of the lower-income group.
Since 2004-2005, those unfortunate Singaporeans who have seen their real income reduced from 20% to 40% have yet to recover, as many were already in their 40s and 50s with the passage of time adding to their age burden in finding employment - contributing to the unemployment index.
Is Robertteh and Atobe looking at the Singapore events with tainted glasses, or are you looking from UK with binoculars selectively focussed and unable to see the bigger picture that is available to us locally ?
If the Singapore Government has delivered, the incumbent Ruling Political Party should exercise principles in ensuring fair elections as conducted in the First World countries.
Yet we see the incumbent Ruling Poitical Party fearing their further decline in votes, and will resort to Third World Politics to ensure a win for themselves.
The insecurity of the Ruling Political Party has led to the persecution with such venom on political challenges from the former Solicitor-General Francis Seow, and the other loyal Singaporean Citizen Tang Liang Hong, which led them to exile themselves from Singapore or resulting in their permanent imprisonment after a political show trial.
The political venom is nothing compared to the seeming vitriol that you see in the posts from Robertteh and Atobe.
If you cannot stand up to such political debate, you are still a virgin taking a walk in a Red-Dot district where you do not belong.
Stay on in the UK, where you are safer.
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Singapore vs the World - Cost of Living: http://www.finfacts.ie/costofliving.htm
Singapore Cost of Living - 2008 : http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/08/the-relentless-rising-cost-of-living-in-singapore/
Francis Seow - http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031019fs.htm
Tang Liang Hong - http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2006/05/feature-on-tang-liang-hong.html
Google search - http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&q=singapore+francis+seow+tang+liang+hong&meta=
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Wrong ?
What do you know about the needs of Singaporeans when you live in a cloistered world that is half-a-globe away in UK ?
Can Singapore continue to compete with the likes of China and other regional nations, when others are already loosening up their political controls, and having their own Governmental Monoliths being dismantled from commerce and industry - while this Singapore Dinosaur will continue under the guise of privatisation ?
Can we believe your belated critique of the Singapore Government over the Thaksin affair, and your changed in opinion about the revival of Thaksin's Group ?
Your brilliance in understanding Singapore Politics is already amazing, and should we be dazzled by your effort in attempting to dabble with the Thais ?
If it is worth anything, your assessment of Thaksin and his group is lacking in due diligence in proper research, which seem characteristic of your 'Elitist Types' that is over-confident with the supposed confidential elitist sources whom you have always crowed about rubbing your small shoulders with.
Remarkably, you dare to tell Robertteh and Atobe to remove our tainted glasses, when your own mind is already colored without any help from any glasses in believing that the Government has delivered.
In 2007, did you not dispute the fact that there are no hard-up Singaporeans around - that there are NO destitute and homeless in Singapore ?
Since the last recession in 1997, the economy has been flip-flopping through the 9/11 incident, SARS and Bird-Flu - with unemployment hitting an all time high of 4.6% in 2001, and stubbornly remaining at 2.6% since 2006.
Inflation has reached an all time high of 6.7% for the month of March - and the middle-income group has shrunk in size, with more down-grading to near the Standard of Living of the lower-income group.
Since 2004-2005, those unfortunate Singaporeans who have seen their real income reduced from 20% to 40% have yet to recover, as many were already in their 40s and 50s with the passage of time adding to their age burden in finding employment - contributing to the unemployment index.
Is Robertteh and Atobe looking at the Singapore events with tainted glasses, or are you looking from UK with binoculars selectively focussed and unable to see the bigger picture that is available to us locally ?
If the Singapore Government has delivered, the incumbent Ruling Political Party should exercise principles in ensuring fair elections as conducted in the First World countries.
Yet we see the incumbent Ruling Poitical Party fearing their further decline in votes, and will resort to Third World Politics to ensure a win for themselves.
The insecurity of the Ruling Political Party has led to the persecution with such venom on political challenges from the former Solicitor-General Francis Seow, and the other loyal Singaporean Citizen Tang Liang Hong, which led them to exile themselves from Singapore or resulting in their permanent imprisonment after a political show trial.
The political venom is nothing compared to the seeming vitriol that you see in the posts from Robertteh and Atobe.
If you cannot stand up to such political debate, you are still a virgin taking a walk in a Red-Dot district where you do not belong.
Stay on in the UK, where you are safer.
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Singapore vs the World - Cost of Living: http://www.finfacts.ie/costofliving.htm
Singapore Cost of Living - 2008 : http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/08/the-relentless-rising-cost-of-living-in-singapore/
Francis Seow - http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031019fs.htm
Tang Liang Hong - http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2006/05/feature-on-tang-liang-hong.html
Google search - http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&q=singapore+francis+seow+tang+liang+hong&meta=
When you haven't got any facts to back you up, don't add to pollution with your bad breath. Singapore has done well in the face of global competition when neighbouring nations who embarced so-called 'western democracy' are struggling. The Philippines claim to have democracy and freedom of speech after getting rid of Marcos? Are they any better off? The last time I looked, it's their women who are working as maids in Singapore.
Do you have the balls to admit you are wrong when having castigated the Singapore government for supporting Thaksin and supported the illegal and undemocratic military coup in Bangkok, the facts now show that the ruling party was right in standing by Thaksin? Oops...guess not.
The poor will always be with us...but it is the irresponsible elements in society like you who would push the blame on the government instead of helping them move out of poverty. Whilst the government have been coming up with new schemes to help the poor and upgrade their skills, all you can do is fart through your mouth.
The entire world is facing a period of high inflation and economic slowdown, yet our unemployment rate has remained lower than many developed nations. This is a reflection of the success of the government's economic policies, so much so that even Opposition party leaders dare not vote in their own. Bread and butter issues are far too important to be left to impotent armchair generals.
Time and again, the Opposition parties can only attract criminals and law breakers who would not respect the laws of the land. Who is to blame if they dare not stand up to the consequences of their actions? Unlike those who would play whores to the liberal leftists and eagering embrace every misguided idea they throw at you, I make up my own mind. You would be safer if you come and prostitute yourself to the angmos in UK.
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
When you haven't got any facts to back you up, don't add to pollution with your bad breath. Singapore has done well in the face of global competition when neighbouring nations who embarced so-called 'western democracy' are struggling. The Philippines claim to have democracy and freedom of speech after getting rid of Marcos? Are they any better off? The last time I looked, it's their women who are working as maids in Singapore.
Do you have the balls to admit you are wrong when having castigated the Singapore government for supporting Thaksin and supported the illegal and undemocratic military coup in Bangkok, the facts now show that the ruling party was right in standing by Thaksin? Oops...guess not.
The poor will always be with us...but it is the irresponsible elements in society like you who would push the blame on the government instead of helping them move out of poverty. Whilst the government have been coming up with new schemes to help the poor and upgrade their skills, all you can do is fart through your mouth.
The entire world is facing a period of high inflation and economic slowdown, yet our unemployment rate has remained lower than many developed nations. This is a reflection of the success of the government's economic policies, so much so that even Opposition party leaders dare not vote in their own. Bread and butter issues are far too important to be left to impotent armchair generals.
Time and again, the Opposition parties can only attract criminals and law breakers who would not respect the laws of the land. Who is to blame if they dare not stand up to the consequences of their actions? Unlike those who would play whores to the liberal leftists and eagering embrace every misguided idea they throw at you, I make up my own mind. You would be safer if you come and prostitute yourself to the angmos in UK.
It sure looks good on paper doesnt it..... u might want to come down the ivory tower once in awhile and have a look how it is actually being achieved...
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Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
When you haven't got any facts to back you up, don't add to pollution with your bad breath. Singapore has done well in the face of global competition when neighbouring nations who embarced so-called 'western democracy' are struggling. The Philippines claim to have democracy and freedom of speech after getting rid of Marcos? Are they any better off? The last time I looked, it's their women who are working as maids in Singapore.
I am not surprised that you will avoid what you - and the MIW goons - cannot face as the truth, and bankrupt of logical defensible arguments will then deride the Philippines in the usual characteristic manner, in a vain attempt to hide the failures of Singapore.
Why will you and the MIW not compare the pathetic political and economic state of affairs in Singapore at this time, with the other First World Nations that MM LKY has boasted Singapore belong to ?
Are you not like the Filippinas, having to sell your services to work in the UK, which probably is due to the fact that no one in Singapore - including the Government - had found your skill to be of no use ?
Should we say ''good riddance to bad rubbish'' - when at least most garbage in Singapore are still worth alot more being recycled ?
Do you have the balls to admit you are wrong when having castigated the Singapore government for supporting Thaksin and supported the illegal and undemocratic military coup in Bangkok, the facts now show that the ruling party was right in standing by Thaksin? Oops...guess not.
Firstly, before you talk about having any balls - do you have the brains then the balls to have said your piece against the Singapore Government supporting Thaksin, by transferring S$3 Billion to Thaksin's private account to buy over his Shin Corp ?
It was a disaster in the making, as there were already early signs rumbling amongst the civilian and military elites in Bangkok - before the deal was concluded - and they were very angrily looking at the zealous ambition of Singapore to control all the satellite assets in South-east Asia.
Where were you before the coup ? Am I to believe that you still have the temerity to continue supporting Thaksin even to the extent to believe that his Group is still influential ? This surely confirms your living in a cloistered world - when Thaksin has already vowed staying clear of politics, as he and his wife is up to their necks with law suits over the corrupt sale of government land to his wife while he was in office.
Did LKY believe that the Thai Military Coup was illegal ?
These are surprising words coming from LKY, who had stated that the SAF should intervene in any ''freak election outcome'' that allow an Alternative Political Party to form the next Singapore Government.
Surely, you are not putting your words into LKY's mouth claiming the Thai Military Coup is illegal ?
The poor will always be with us...but it is the irresponsible elements in society like you who would push the blame on the government instead of helping them move out of poverty. Whilst the government have been coming up with new schemes to help the poor and upgrade their skills, all you can do is fart through your mouth.
I am amazed the extent that you will lay yourself down on the carpet to protect the government shoes from getting stained.
If there are no one to challenge the government into action, will the government respond ?
Is it any fault of the vocal Singaporeans for the number of homeless and destitute increasing in Singapore, or for the shrinking of the size of the Middle-Income Group ?
Dream on if you believe that the poor can have their skills upgraded - to what level and to what purpose ?
In the first place, do you know who are the poor in Singapore, when you are cloistered in your ivory tower - half way across the globe in UK ?
Do they fart through their mouth in UK ?
You must have found a new way to release your gas and believe that others can imitate your new found skills ?
The entire world is facing a period of high inflation and economic slowdown, yet our unemployment rate has remained lower than many developed nations. This is a reflection of the success of the government's economic policies, so much so that even Opposition party leaders dare not vote in their own. Bread and butter issues are far too important to be left to impotent armchair generals.
Yes, the entire world is facing a period of high inflation and economic slowdown - do you know that Singapore inflation rate is higher then other First World Nation ?
Singapore inflation in March 2008 was 6.6% which hit a 25 year high.
Borrowing the data from marizio13's diligent work in his thread : ''CPF Interest @ 2.5%, and Inflation @ 6.7%'' - you may wish to review the following and tell me again that other First World Nations are experiencing similar levels of inflation:
The US inflation for 3 months ending April 2008 was 2.3% while an unadjusted 12 months rate was 3.9%.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
Inflation in the UK was 3.0% for 12 months ending April 2008.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=19
Inflation in Australia was 3.5% for 12 months ending March 2008.
http://www.rba.gov.au/Statistics/measures_of_cpi.html#year_ended
Inflation in New Zealand was 3.4% for 12 months ending March 2008.
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/econind/a3/data.html
On the Employment front, other First World Nations have population size that are far bigger then Singapore, and yet have been able to either hold their rate of employment position, or improve the number of unemployed.
In the USA, even as unemployment had increased to 5.0 percent, it was a narrow increase of 0.5 percent. However, total employment at 146.3 million, and the employment-population ratio, at 62.7 percent, were little changed in April. Over the month, the labor force participation rate held at 66.0 percent ... was the same rate a year earlier.
According to the UK Department for Works and Pension - employment in the UK is at an all time high, with the ILO unemployment rate determined at a historical low of 5.2% : http://www.dwp.gov.uk/mediacentre/pressreleases/2008/mar/stat-190308.asp
Australia's February 2008 unemployment report of 4.0 percent showed the best unemployment rate in 33 years. http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/unemployment_rate_sinks_to_33year_low_542689
The New Zealand unemployment rate fell to a national unemployment rate of 3.6 percent - from the previous 3.7 percent in the year ended March 2007. http://www.dol.govt.nz/lmr/regional/joint/index.asp
So much for your effort at exaggerating the big picture for the MIW runned Singapore by deriding the performance of others with the size of their population and economy far larger than Singapore - and with their government costing their respective nationals far less for the better performance achieved.
Pray that you do not feel impotent sitting on your chair thinking you are the mouth piece for some BG - who is no better then a Baby God rather than a Brigadier.
Time and again, the Opposition parties can only attract criminals and law breakers who would not respect the laws of the land. Who is to blame if they dare not stand up to the consequences of their actions? Unlike those who would play whores to the liberal leftists and eagering embrace every misguided idea they throw at you, I make up my own mind. You would be safer if you come and prostitute yourself to the angmos in UK.
This paragraph must surely take the cake in confirming your delusion from having perched high up the ivory tower. Is the air up there so lacking in oxygen that you have become light headed ?
For your information, it is the MIW that have time again bend the laws, and have the Attorney-General conveniently re-interpreting the laws when they themselves have over stepped the legal boundary. It is the MIW under the tutelage of MM, who have abused the laws of Singapore and use the judiciary to terrorise Singaporeans into law fearing Citizens.
It is educated carpet beggars like you, who will eagerly prostitute your principles simply to gain an invitation to have tea with the devils dressed in Red and White.
Try harder if you wish to gain recognition for your vain and futile effort to be seen as some potent force in representing the MIW thinking, as your thoughts are nothing more then rehash of the same old worn out propaganda from HMV at MIW HQ.
With your vast years of experience as a semi-permanent UK resident, surely we can believe you that it is ''safer to come and prostitute yourself to angmos in UK'' ?
Obviously you have done some prostituting over there and are speaking from experience, otherwise how could you have developed such skills in repeating the same with the MIW ?