And lots of Singaporeans are complaining about PAP. I personally dun like it. What's the point of complaining so much about PAP? I dunno if they're really putting in real effort to improve things or to help Singaporeans. But no matter what, PAP is still managed by PEOPLE. People have limited abilities damn it. What's the point of blaming everything on PAP and expect them to solve all the problems. If you dun like it, dun just stay there and whine. Freaking get out and find a solution to the problem!
Try voting PAP out and bloody see what other parties can seriously do. I'd really like to see those whiners volunteering to solve all these problems. And i really what's going to happen if there is just a direct enforcement to kick all foreigners out. Singapore will degrade into some third world country again?
I truly agree with the guy that mentioned the thing below.
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September 13, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Aaand what? Vote out the PAP and then what? What would change? Nothing. Do you seriously think that simply handing over the reins of power to another party would make a jot of difference? Please!
Look at almost every country in the world, and what ‘regime change’ has brought. Nothing changed. Look at America and all the hype about Obama. What changed? NOTHING. The economic recovery is tottering, the national debt is at a record high, unemployment is soaring and now they want to burn Qurans to commemorate 9/11. Iraq is still a mess and Afghanistan is a lost cause. Change We Need?! Bullshit.
What do you expect to change? Do you really think an RP or WP government would immediately start packing off foreigners back to their home countries? Or that suddenly people will boost up the local population by having more kids? Or that suddenly our government bodies which are filled with PAP yes men at the top will become more accountable? Only fools and kids will believe that. The PAP is not the problem. The problem is Singaporean. We wanted this scenario, and now that we’ve got it, we don’t like it and blame the government and pretend it’s not what we wanted. No one is forcing hawker centres to recruit PRC nationals. No one is forcing the thousands of retail places and restaurants here to recruit Indonesians and Filipinos, but Singaporeans want profit at any cost, even if it means screwing over other Singaporeans. If Singaporeans didn’t sleep with PRC women we wouldn’t even have PRC prostitutes!
No one forces anyone to go to casinos and yet most of the people there are Singaporean. No one is forcing anyone to ask 50k over valuation and yet Singaporeans are asking that much money because they are avaricious. No one forced 67% of people to vote the PAP, but a combination of greed, fear and selfishness is enough to put an X against their name on the voting sheet. No one forced people to torture kids with insane workloads till they have no time to even play, but a Uniquely Singaporean brand of kiasuism makes them do it.
The problems Singapore faces have no government solutions. They are a direct result of the peoples’ own shortsighted views on what success and happiness means. The PAP is happy to encourage that mindset because it keeps them in power but please don’t kid yourself into thinking that they created this mindset. That is a Uniquely Singaporean creation. The PAP is merely a reflection of that mindset.
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"And lots of Singaporeans are complaining about PAP. I personally dun like it. What's the point of complaining so much about PAP?"
- I believe you have done feedback surveys before, be it in a restaurant, in university or anywhere else. Why do people want to gather feedbacks from others? To improve of course. This is not the case here; people are either afraid of "using the wrong words" in making official comments/criticisms (or complains and whining to you), or have their negative comments filtered off by the various platforms. So what can the uncontented people do? Vent their frustrations in free-er platforms, be it in TR or ranting off with friends while having some kopi.
"But no matter what, PAP is still managed by PEOPLE. People have limited abilities damn it. What's the point of blaming everything on PAP and expect them to solve all the problems."
- Yes, PAP is still managed by people. Aren't people supposed to be accountable for problems they created? Why were laws created? Why were rules created? Are you implying it is ok for a shoplifter to say "you should let me off damn it, I'm human and I have limited abilities, which in this case is the ability to control my greed!" The PAP justified that to prevent top talents from being drained to the private sectors (which supposedly allows them to earn more than being a civil servant), they should be paid an amount competitive to the private sectors (which in this case amounts to millions); but strangely, the accountability in private sectors is not adopted along with the pay. When MSK escaped, it was due to "Singaporeans being complacent"; When it floods once, it happens once in 50 years, when it floods twice, it was "because a drain the cross-section of a double-decker bus got choked with dead leaves" while no picture was captured to prove it, when it doesn't stop flooding, just stay off the media radar and hide for a while. In private sectors, those who fail to deliver are asked to step down, the company is not obliged to keep paying a big pay check to people who are incompetent. We are paying our ministers millions, even more than what the President of the US of A gets (the supposedly most powerful man on the planet), do we not have the right expect results from them?
hmm can't seem to get my 2nd part published..sorry if I multiple-posted.
"If you dun like it, dun just stay there and whine. Freaking get out and find a solution to the problem!"
- Imagine you're a patron in a "high-class" restaurant. The chef messed up your dinner and thus you are "complaining" and "whining". Then a fellow patron sitting at the next table says "If you dun like it, dun just stay there and whine. Freaking get out and find a solution to the problem!" Does this feel correct? We are paying them to do their job and now because the chef messed up I have to go cook myself my own dinner? Why do I even pay someone and end up having to do things myself? What’s more patrons with pink membership cards that they got through the years of support of the restaurant from a small stall to the “high-class” restaurant it is now are left either stranded, while the restaurants open its door wide for non-members in a hope to boost its membership subscriptions.
Yes, voting the PAP out may not solve all the problems (which ironically are created by them), but it definitely won't be solved with them around. If the oppositions win we will atleast be able to see how other people could have tackled the same issues that the PAP have had so much trouble with.
The quoted comment is not wrong in a sense that the people, mainly business owners adopted PAP's profit-at-any-cost concept. These business owners are not wrong, they are not charitable organizations, they will resort to hiring a cheaper workforce. A quote from the author of the comment "We wanted this scenario, and now that we’ve got it, we don’t like it and blame the government and pretend it’s not what we wanted." Take a look at this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCuDwTgzA5g&feature=PlayList&p=52BB89B3CA9515C1&index=2) and see whether the current Singapore is what the people voted the PAP for.
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