What can you do for the country?

• PRP

  28 Apr 04, 19:10

  A former president of USA said: Ask not what the country can do for you.Ask what you can do for your country."
  
  While the PAP govt is not very good,if everybody can contribute something to the country,this country would be a better place.
  
  Pls note that the word "country" is not equivalent to "government".
  Couuntry = People (including the govt) + The territory
• men_@_arms

  28 Apr 04, 21:19

  John F Kennedy said that, and it was only to rouse up the young generation of Yanks to go and die in Vietnam
• mayham321

  29 Apr 04, 00:45

  Originally posted by PRP:

  A former president of USA said: Ask not what the country can do for you.Ask what you can do for your country."
  
  While the PAP govt is not very good,if everybody can contribute something to the country,this country would be a better place.
  
  Pls note that the word "country" is not equivalent to "government".
  Couuntry = People (including the govt) + The territory

  sorry R U ignorant??
  
  USA diff from S'pore: also don't u know the male population has already done their part by serving NS?? wat else or more must people here do: we aslo pay heavy taxes so the top managemnt can prosper .... Y not ask wat the top managment has done in the past few years to make live better or easiler for us???
• PRP

  29 Apr 04, 18:49

  Mayham,
  Why is US different from us?
  
  Everybody including ministers should do his part for the country.
• Sardaukar

  29 Apr 04, 20:47

  I can be a soldier and warrior for my country,or maybe even a businessman.
  
  Probably a soldier,given that I plan to sign on.Hey,the SAF may be fucked up but that doesn't mean I have to be among those fucked up regulars that give the SAF a bad rep.I still believe in the old values of honour.
• sgboy2004

  29 Apr 04, 20:53

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• mayham321

  1 May 04, 01:35

  Originally posted by PRP:

  Mayham,
  Why is US different from us?
  
  Everybody including ministers should do his part for the country.

  ?? i guess u haven't been 2 US???
  
  u mean US = S'pore??
• PRP

  1 May 04, 19:30

  Yes, S'pore is not equal to US.But S'pore is our country.We should serve our country,wrong?
• Parka

  1 May 04, 19:33

  You know what's the greatest thing you can do for your country?
  
  That's to create jobs.
• Lingos

  1 May 04, 19:39

  What I can do for it...
  
  Leave the overpopulated island and find work overseas.. throw lots of money when back in sg. hahah..
• apollo861

  2 May 04, 09:39

  That saying is kind of ambiguous.
  Lets say, 1940s Germany?
  
  Anyway, yes, do what you can do for your country. But the key word is 'can'. do your specialisation, bugger it. and i am not supporting anarchy, or anything like that, because thats not really helping your country, or the world for that matter. Unless of course the government is totally corrupt...
  
  if you are good at (A), yet they bug you to do (B) which you suck at, and quote you that saying.... its counterproductive, right?
• Thailand_Hero

  2 May 04, 10:33

  Originally posted by men_@_arms:

  John F Kennedy said that, and it was only to rouse up the young generation of Yanks to go and die in Vietnam

  Ask Not what your country can do for you...but instead ask what you can do for THEIR country!
• hell_jul

  2 May 04, 10:38

  i can help to donate as much as 5 figure sum & run to another country..
• proudsingaporean

  28 May 04, 00:19

  Well I can serve the community and society-at-large, but who am I, a single person out of a 3-million strong population, to try and change Singapore?