Comments on: Reforming the obsolete political system remains a key challenge for the next generation

By: mike

mike — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:03:47 +0000

this senile minister (SM) is no longer confident by us and is waiting time with all this craps.

in fact, lots of changes in rule and increasing of cost here in singapore are during his time of control.

By: Fairplayplease

Fairplayplease — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:43:56 +0000

One prehistoric desiccated coconut in this forum thinks that an incumbent bunch of long-overstayed caterpillars have their backside araldited to the seat of power.WELL SINGAPOREANS WILL PROVE THIS UNIMAGINATIVE DOG WRONG who is probably smart enough only to do break dance balancing awkardly on its little dick.

The CATERPILLARS barely surviving on clusters are small densely-packed targets pre-selected for easy demolition and extinction in the next election especially those surviving on mother’s maternal milk looking for hoversack ransom of a million dollar but who can’t even show humour by singing a politically correct song when challenged in the smallest of crisis management.

These dumb caterpillars forgot that “TOO MANY IN ONE SEEMINGLY SAFE PLACE IS VERY STUPIDLY DANGEROUS – the enemy just toss one lousy hand grenade and all three or more caterpillars get blown up to pieces. If they spreaded out, the enemy throw 3 or more hand grenades and still may not be lucky to blow up one “smarter” caterpillar to pieces.

After this unruly mob of crying babies have been removed from their mommy’s tits of salvation, a lot of wise men and woemn will appear from nowhere to help and assist the opposition to take over.

By: amy

amy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:09:28 +0000

“…but without a credible alternative waiting in place, we may have to put up with the status quo for many more years to come”.

This is a catch-22 trap set by pap and I do not believe a word of it. If you say the alternatives are not credible then are you implying that the current ruling elites are very credible?

The alternatives are made to appear weak and not credible because it is suppressed by the forces of the dictatorship. There is no lack to talent in our country and they will surface and be visible once the oppressive forces are gone.

It was pap that said “Do not vote the opposition unless they are better than pap”. And then they go about painting a picture of a useless opposition for everyone to see. Do not be fooled by their trap. So, we must first boot out the ruling party, full stop, no buts.

By: silvir24

silvir24 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:28:07 +0000

And the easy possibility is still ultimately not enough to lure more milk suckling talents into the political scene. We end up having to pay millions for milk suckling politicians. How disgusting is that?!

By: Fairplayplease

Fairplayplease — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:08:15 +0000

Babies who needs to suck mother’s milk in adulthood wants to lead this country through political storms, warfare and economic attrition of globalisation – how re-assuring of that for Singaporeans. I worry their mommy’s nipple is dried of milk supplies for them. Ah Peks, the “very cheeko-pek” types also need maternal milk, any patriotic moms helping?

STILL NOT FUNNY???

By: silvir24

silvir24 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:38:57 +0000

http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-615.htm

The above link justifies the need for PAP to form GRCs in order allow for new candidates win elections easily. This is to lure candidates from their careers to join politics.
I have no idea what rubbish this is. But then our government have had a long history of being able to justify anything and everything, even when it does not make sense. Even when we do not agree, we have it shoved down our throats. What makes anyone think that this will change or can change?
Claims are just that. Claims. If they were really as strong and as good as they claimed, they wouldn’t have to resort to repetitive propaganda in hopes that the more we hear it, the more we will believe it.

By: Fairplayplease

Fairplayplease — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:23:12 +0000

In every true democracy, they have bills of rights of citizen protection against unlawful harassment, detention or abuse of power of those incumbent in Government, why can’t we Singaporeans get the same judicial fairness? Better still, if we can follow the US example of appointment to the highest court of the land be vetted by BOTH POLITICAL DIVIDE – society will be more respectful and trusting of political transparency of any government in power.

By: Neil Bishop

Neil Bishop — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:25:45 +0000

Let’s assume that the PAP will never tolerate opposition parties. What would we want to change about Singapore while leaving the PAP in power? I would go with two major changes:
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1. A Culture of Accountability
The Auditor-General and his/her department needs to be truly independent to the point of the constitution being amended to ensure that this is so.
The newly empowered AG would be required to report on an annual basis on the value of the reserves, GIC and Temasek, with some redactions allowed for particularly sensitive issues.
Any year that saw a decline in values would see a commensurate decline in the salaries paid to the PM, SM, MM, Minister of Finance and other appropriate ministers. If LKY believes that pay reflects performance then let’s measure that performance before making payments.
2. End the Gerrymander
GRCs must go. If a PAP member is too weak to win a seat then he or she should lose. Simple as that.
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These two changes would go a long way to preparing Singapore for the challenges that lie ahead. If the PAP is as good as it claims to be then it should not be afraid to make these changes.

By: Fairplayplease

Fairplayplease — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:12:52 +0000

Singapore has no dearth of talent. Some of the critical voice here shows clearly those araldited to the seat of power is JUST NOT THE MONOPOLY OF WISDOM.

The critical voices here is offers a glimpse of a real tip of the ice-bergs that a lot of brilliant minds exist in our society waiting silently to come forward given the opportunity and climate of political change if these renewal forces sweep in.

I am confident that they are brilliant young people out there in this clever country who will come in at the right time and re-shape this country’s destiny for the better.

We are looking for a responsive and adaptive leadership that will give Singaporeans hopes – not hypes and discredited dogmas irrelevant to global change in politic, law, and economy.

We will change and YES WE CAN AND WILL.

By: Great Asia

Great Asia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:42:30 +0000

we must first boot out the ruling party through the general elections,

- So how? Replace them by monkeys and kangaroos?

but without a credible alternative waiting in place, we may have to put up with the status quo for many more years to come.

- Precisely, credible alternative is what we need to address first. During the Han dynasty, they spent more than 80 years to prepare themselves in order to fight the barbarians from the north.