10 reasons why Singaporeans will never come first for PM Lee’s administration
January 19th, 2010 | 
Author: By Tan Keng Leng
Recently, PM Lee declared that “Singaporeans will always come first” for his administration. Predictably, this announcement was met by a storm of protests both from the pro and anti-government factions of netizens.
The anti-government factions denounced his declaration as just propaganda intended to divert attention from his administration’s staunchly pro-foreigner policies, while the pro-government faction denounced the anti-government faction as a bunch of ingrates who failed to appreciate everything the government has achieved.
So do Singaporeans really come first for the Lee Administration, and if so, how do exactly do they come first? To arrive at a correct conclusion to the answer, it would be best to count the ways in which Singaporeans are obviously coming in first for the administration.
1. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to die in war, because the foreigners and elites will flee the country. Of course, one cannot reasonably expect the foreigners to stay and fight for Singapore; after all, this is not their country.
In fact, it may even be better to get rid of them entirely, because if Singapore happens to be at war with their homelands, then they may well become a fifth column against the SAF. But what about the elite?
Of late, there have been a number of fatal accidents in the SAF. All the dead soldiers came from middle or lower income families; none came from the families of the elite. So what’s the reason for this?
Are children of ordinary locals actually being placed in dangerous frontline positions while children of the elite are placed in safe rear-echelon positions? After all, if children of the elite are facing the same risks, then one should reasonably expect at least a few of them to get hurt in training periodically, right?
No one expects the SAF to answer this question even if it was put forward to them. Even if they were to reply, it would just be the standard stock answer: Singapore is a meritocracy, and that it just so happens that the elite children are the best. But of course, if this was truly so, then many of the fatal accidents could have easily be prevented in the very first place, since they would have planned for adequate safety procedures to safeguard against them happening at all
2. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to be retrenched in any recession, while job priority goes to the elite and foreigners. This isn’t just idle supposition; it is actually borne out in the current recession.
One would imagine that any CEO who lost $48,000,000,000/- in failed investments would be out looking for a new job the very next day, but in the case of Temasek Holdings CEO Madam Ho Ching, it was her successor Mr. Charles “Chip” Goodyear who found himself looking for a new job after just five months instead. Exactly why was never revealed, except that it was “due to strategic differences”.
A very important question that should be asked but never was is this: strategic differences over what? Selling-off of money-losing investments? Dismissal of non-performing scholars from politically-connected elite families? Diversification of investment portfolios instead of putting all of TH’s eggs into a few baskets? What?
Furthermore, as a supposed “meritocracy”, the heads anyone found responsible for these blunders should roll, so where were the announced dismissals? Or was Chip Goodyear’s head the only one to roll? If this is so, then the interesting issue would be why his head should roll when he clearly had nothing to do with the debacle since he wasn’t in charge of the organization at the time.
Madam Ho has since been restored to her position because according to Finance Minister Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, “she’s the best person for the job”. Of course, if this was so, the question of why her resignation was even accepted and Chip Goodyear appointed as her successor in the first place should be but was never answered.
One thing this bizarre incident did prove though was that the government failed to live up to its promises of “more good years”, since a prominent Goodyear did quit in a huff and leave over bureaucratic meddling in his job.
The current recession has also proven something else: contrary to the government’s previous pronouncements on the issue, foreign workers are NOT a buffer against retrenchments for locals. In fact, if anything, it is the locals themselves who are serving as a buffer for the foreigners. Thousands of locals have lost their jobs, replaced by foreigners. Presumably in the same way that Temasek Holdings earned “negative profits” of $48,000,000,000/- in the recession, so too are foreign workers a “negative buffer” against retrenchments for locals.
3. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to suffer pay cuts in a recession. The foreigners will only have their pay frozen, while the elites will get massive pay increments for being “talented” enough to come up with this solution.
At the start of the recession, the government was quick to implement pay cuts. However, as they failed to announce ministerial pay cuts as well, presumably they continued to receive their over-bloated salaries. True, they did announce no bonuses or pay increments, but then again, the same applied for the “lesser mortals”. And now that the economy is picking up once more, while the government did call upon employers to restore staff salaries, they are not enforcing it. And sooner or later, they will announce the restoration of their own bonuses etc.
And as for the foreigners, even if their salaries were cut, the very fact that their employee CPF contribution is only 5% means that they are far better able to absorb the impact of such cuts better than locals can, simply because foreigners earning the same basic salary as locals have a much higher take home pay.
4. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to receive priority in selecting the schools of their choice. This comes after all the best schools have been reserved for the elites and foreigners of course.
This statement may be an exaggeration, but not by much. Twenty years ago or so, the then-PM Lee announced the graduate mother priority scheme. In this scheme, children of women graduates who are married to other graduates would be given priority for schooling in keeping with his theories of the genetic intellectual superiority of graduate parents.
There are many major flaws in this theory: for one thing, if talent and intelligence are hereditary, then one would reasonably expect the children of Oscar-winning Hollywood stars to also be as talented as their parents, but many if not most are not.
For another thing, there are many geniuses whose parents came from modest backgrounds, most notably Professor Albert Einstein. Predictably, the scheme failed, because the graduate mothers who chose to register their children under the scheme quickly found themselves ostracized by their outraged friends. One can’t help but wonder about one very important point: if scholars really are so intellectually superior, then why did they fail to predict the outcome of this ill-conceived scheme?
As for the foreigners, there has been much controversy in the public and debate in government circles over whether they should be given equal opportunities as locals, notably sparked off by the arrogant, sense-of-entitlement letter written by Mrs. Sweta Agarwal.
The government is always going on and on about how to convince the PRs to become Singapore citizens, but really, this debate is a non-issue that proves that the elite scholars are anything but the best and brightest in the country. Locals should always be given privileges not available to foreigners, whether PRs or otherwise.
If foreigners have the same benefits as locals, then why should they adopt Singapore citizenship? Conversely, if locals have no advantages in anything at all over foreigners, then why shouldn’t they be “quitters” and leave behind a country that does not appreciate them and takes them for granted instead? Since any lesser mortal can realize this, then why can’t the elite scholars? Or are they so high up in their ivory towers that the rarefied air up there has caused them to hallucinate and become delusional?
Perhaps replacing them as policy planners with lesser mortals would give them a reality check if this is the case.
5. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to be called upon to donate generously to the less fortunate. Whether it is for foreign disasters, needy locals or whatever, the government is always exhorting locals to keep donating even though the salaries and living standards of ordinary locals have been steadily declining.
Given its huge reserves, the government can easily pay for these programs, but they refuse to. This is especially appalling when one considers that they have actually dipped into the reserves to pay for cost overruns in the two casinos.
The government is always saying that they have to take actions that are good for the country and not those that are necessarily popular. Applying this logic to the above, presumably they regard a crutch mentality among the wealthy elite as being good for the country.
6. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to be rejected for welfare or other benefits. A couple of years ago, the government raised GST, ostensibly to “increase Workfare assistance” to the needy, but when Dr. Lily Neo, one of the few PAP MPs who show genuine concern for needy locals appealed for assistance to be raised by at least $100/- per month, MM Lee curtly told her off for it.
After much debate, the government finally settled on a $30/- increment, with 20% deduction for CPF of course. This was then followed by a massive pay increment for ministers. This was then followed by an announcement at the end of the year that per capita income had gone up substantially, meaning that the standard of living in the country had improved.
What was left unmentioned was that it went up only for a few elite people, not the vast majority. Presumably this was how the GST increase was meant to benefit the needy: by using it to give themselves massive pay increments so as to raise per capita income with minimal increase in assistance for the people who truly need it, the poor.
From time to time, the government says that they are well on track to provide a Swiss standard of living for the country. What they obviously failed to mention was that by that, they meant a Swiss cheese standard of living for the country, with all the cheese, the good parts in other words, going to the elite and foreigners, and all the holes being left for ordinary locals.
The government justifies its refusal to provide welfare benefits because they claim that it will cause the poor to develop a crutch mentality, and yet at the same time, they encourage locals to donate to private charities (see #6 above) when this will also create a crutch mentality in them.
Further contradicting themselves, the government has also announced a series of programs to integrate foreigners with locals. So it would appear that the government doesn’t want to support locals with a crutch mentality, but is all too happy to support foreigners with the same crutch mentality. Obviously they have forgotten that locals from low income families pay taxes, serve NS and vote too.
Perhaps they should be reminded of it by losing a few GRCs.
7. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to bear the brunt of massive housing cost increases. According to several ministers, including MND Mah Bow Tan, HDB will always provide affordable housing for locals. The problem though, is that affordability is a subjective matter.
For example, to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a US$20,000,000/- mansion is affordable. To a middle manager earning Sg$5,000/- a month, this is an insane price to pay for a house. Likewise, to a government minister earning Sg$1,000,000 a year or more, a HDB flat costing upwards of Sg$400,000/- is affordable, but to a local couple whose joint income is Sg$4,000/- per month or less, they will need to slave away for 30 to 40 years to pay off their mortgage loans, with little if anything to support them in their twilight years.
The government claims that their calculations are based upon a per capita salary of Sg$7,000/- per month, or in other words, Sg$14,000/- per month for a married couple. Given that many if not most ordinary locals earn only a third of that amount, this of course means they will need more than three times as long to pay off their housing loans, not including the interest. This clearly shows just how out of touch with reality the policy makers have become.
But then again, what can one possibly expect from people whose idea of raising the standard of living in the country is to raise per capita income for the people in the country by giving themselves massive pay increments?
8. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to be given priority for dirty, low-paid, dangerous jobs such as road sweepers, toilet cleaners, construction workers etc.
This is because the best jobs are reserved for the elites while the good jobs are reserved for foreigners, “otherwise they won’t want to come”. In fact, the government has even stated that it. Exactly why was never explained.
After all, if it is really “in the strategic interests of the country for locals to fill these posts” as claimed, then shouldn’t it all the more be in the strategic interests of the country to employ only locals in the utilities industry, considering that trouble in this sector will result in the country being shut down and cut off from the outside world?
Furthermore, given the high accident rate in the construction and shipbuilding industries, are foreign governments actually threatening to ban their nationals from working in these industries unless industrial safety standards are tightened? Is this the real reason why it is in the strategic interests for locals to fill these posts?
There is another issue here. Given the government’s frequent claims that Singapore is a meritocracy, then why should jobs be reserved for anybody at all? Shouldn’t all jobs be opened to competition instead? Or are these elites and foreign talents so good that they can only perform when their jobs are secure and they are free from competition and under no threat of losing their jobs?
9. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to be blamed for such blunders as the escape of Mas Selamat Kastari or the Geylang Serai food poisoning debacle. In fact, several government ministers did say Singaporeans have become complacent, which is why these events occurred. How exactly ordinary locals are at fault for them though was never detailed.
Terrorist mastermind Kastari’s escape came about because the commander of the Whitley Road Detention Center (an elite scholar) where he had been incarcerated kept ignoring repeated reports of the danger posed by the design of the toilet he escaped from, while his Nepalese Gurkha guards left him unattended in the toilet. How ordinary locals caused this potentially catastrophic incident through their complacency and negligence when no ordinary locals were ever involved in it remains a mystery.
The Geylang Serai Indian rojak food poisoning case was caused unsanitary conditions within the market, and according to government officials, “failure of the victims to wash their hands after using the toilet”.
If this is so, then this would be the first ever known incident of people eating Indian rojak with their bare hands. How they are able to withstand the sizzling hot oil on the fritters or the scalding hot gravy they are dipped into without the use of a fork is an intriguing question.
A more intriguing question though is this: what were the Aljunied CCC and the NEA doing all the time before the incident that the market and food center should be in such unsanitary conditions, and why weren’t they ever publicly taken to task for it?
10. Ordinary Singaporeans will always be the first to get the spurs stuck into their hides for being lazy. No less than MM Lee had said this. He even went on to declare that Singaporeans prefer to spend time on sports and other enrichment activities whereas China nationals spend time in libraries.
Perhaps one should give him the benefit of the doubt here; he is an octogenarian after all. It’s only natural that he should forget that it is the government itself that demands that Singaporeans should participate in sports and other enrichment activities, and that their academic performance (and chances to be admitted into good schools) would be graded accordingly because the government wants locals to be all-rounded and not merely academics.
Curiously though, foreign students, in particular the PRCs, seem to be exempted from this requirement, which is why they can spend all their time studying and in the library. In fact, the government even provides them free English lessons so that they can bridge the gulf in English standards between themselves and locals.
Whether they can actually compete with the local students should they be equally encumbered with all these CCA requirements is a good question. The answer is, probably not, since they cannot even compete with the locals in English, the fundamental building block of the local education system, without CCA requirements and free additional English lessons. But then again, given that their positions in good schools have been reserved for them, they don’t need to care about such things either.
After a careful analysis of all the ways in which Singaporeans will always come first for the government, it appears that the pro-government faction is correct. Ordinary Singaporeans do always come first for the government exactly as they claim.
It just isn’t coming in first in a positive way.
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The crux is that the leeching familee and their eunuch cronies have never treated Singapore as a nation. They have been treating Singapore as milking cow for them to enrich themselves. The rest of the people, local and foreign alike are all enslaved to feed the cow for them to milk. That’s why the leeching familee has never made a distinction between the locals and the foreigners in term of rights, privilege, job priority, etc. A slave is a slave to them.
good article, well written
we do not need a government like this
Singaporeans will always come first
1) First to die
First to be cane
2) First to pay
3) First to be on chopping board
4) First to be sacrifice
5) First to be bully
6) First to be summon
7) First to be send to jail
9) First to be the Last
10)First to bite the bullet while they fire missile and canon behind our back.
Singaporeans are always FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree on the part that elites and their male offsprings are seldom found in hazardous combat vocation in saf.
Singapore Government is the first to mistreat their people this way.
The whole engineering works towards to making more money for MIW in term of salaries and bonuses. This is the first thing on their mind. Singaporean you die your business.
Even if you don’t want to be treated by them this way, it is not easy to replace them. Should you think you can vote them out, others think they should be voted in. At the end of the day they are back in to do what they want to do that is to make more money.
Totally despaired and dejected but what can we do.
Tan Keng Leng,
Sir, you hit the nail on the head with this article.
Despite their supreme sacrifice of having more children and doing National Service, Singaporeans are asked by the PAP government to compete with foreigners for their living.
We get blamed for for everything e.g. driving HDB prices up, shunning cleaning jobs, etc. The police is used against Singapore politicians first and us Singaporeans second (I think that is their primary purpose of the SPF).
We are second class citizens in our own country. For all these we need to thank ourselves. We voted the PAP into government to fix ourselves.
Singaporeans, if we want more of the same, elect the PAP into government again in the coming elections. The choice is ours.
can anyone write 10 reasons why singporeans will come last for goodies?
young bright minds can really write good essays!!
I’m too slow for that… cannot compete with young people !!
Dear PM Lee,
Lately, you said “Singaporeans will always come first” for your administration but many Singaporeans think otherwise.
If you still trust that the people believe in what you have promised, maybe you can further confirm and prove it by standing in a single constituency ward in next GE.
You should move away from AMK GRC, and come forward, a favorable outcome of the result in that single ward will show your policy is right as well as your popularity as a PM among common Singaporeans. Kindly consider it, sir. Thank you.
Best Regards
Peter Su
Once I had a PRC woman as a colleague. She was new and I have to taught her the ropes about the job.
She laughed at me for donating to charity and she laughed at the whole TV charity program without any sympathy. She also laughed at me for serving army.
Now she has become a manager in that company. And I have left the company.
Singaporeans better wake up. There’s not much time left. Give them another 5 more years to accelerate the foreigners policy and you will have no chance to turn back.
喜新厌旧,人之常情
but if applied to governing a country, then it create tensions between the old and new and is detrimental to the country.
PAP should reflect and abandon this discriminatory policy
Chinese are now in the position of the minorities last time up to today. Now they complain because they kenna the same as they give. But last time couldn’t be bothered. Hypocrites.
They are still living in the past! Again, the performance of the last few years is dissapointing
With the elites’ consent,ordinary citizens will be chastised for NOT CLEANING UP public toilets!
But,some dicks forget,ORDINARY CITIZENS ARE THE VOTERS!
VOTE LOYAL AND FAITHFUL SINGAPOREANS FOR SINGAPORE!
It’s time to GET RID of the NONSENSE!
That point about a high proportion of places in top schools being reserved for foreigners is absolutely spot on.
For evidence, google for RJC’s graduating classes.
It’s all there.
just my opinion, you should subtantiate your argumetns better with evidence…..
After the PAP governed Spore for 45 years then this present PM realized that “Singaporeans will always come first”.
What happen in those 45 years b4 this?
Bloody good article! Couldn’t have articulated it better!
If we could shorten it, put it in point forms including the basis, we can mass email out during the elections to remind sillyporeans why PAP should NOT be the next government come hell or high water!
Would really love to see the YPAP squirm and using their ’superior’ logic to poke flaws in this article.
Well DONE!!! I LOVE IT!
This is the kind of writing that we need more off from TR.
What he did was to question and probe the moronic statements made by our Millionaire Ruling Elites, instead of it becoming a FT/FW or Govt. bashing opinion piece. Keep up the good work Mr Tan Keng Leng as it helps TR to be a more credible platform for Political Freedom.
Now, if only if we have more people like Mr Tan Keng Leng form a new political party, I would support them wholeheartedly.
A very well written piece of article that really reflects the suffering of the main-street-men, under the tyranny, despotic, dictate, dogmatize, despicable, contemptible, loathsome, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, insolent, lethargic, defiant, mercenary and senseless ruling, by this bunch of idiotic and ungrateful million-dollar nerds!
Singapore is just like “Animal Farm”.
The PAPs are the pigs.
We are the rest of the animals. The pigs expects us to all be like Boxer the horse – “LKY is always right!”, work hard to enrich the PAP, then when we are old and useless, toss us aside by telling the younger generation to send the old ones to Johor.
If wars are fought with pens and papers, we will win any war because the SAF top posts are filled with young and inexperienced scholar generals whom I will not trust to bring my grand children to cross the road.
I wonder if these generals know which end of the rifle they should hold?
The mind boggles.
Singaporean’s life is indeed cheap, especially if you are lesser mortal.
Remember a lesser mortal was killed by a falling lamp-post in Tampines some years back? What did the Tampines Town Council do in the end?
Excellent read!
Very well-written article.
The increment of $30/month is a f**king embarrassment. What can you do with $30/month?! The elites should try to live the life of the destitute and poor for a change.
Anyone has any link to this $100/mth, $30/mth increment news?
So why are we waiting for ? Are we ready for the coming election ? Guess we all have not much choice but to boot them out . We can see a freak election soon
First to be fed propaganda nonsense everyday.
grear article. more please. just to remind everyone, everyday, what a hypocritical government we have.
Excellent article. A must read for every Singaporean! Thumbs up!
LKY has never regarded sinkapore as a nation. He wanted to rule Malaysia, but UMNO kicked him and sinkapore out. Now he believes that the entire stock of sinkees have become lazy and useless, so he is seeking to REPLACE THE PEOPLE ENTIRELY. This is economic and social genocide at the finest level!!
“Twenty years ago or so, the then-PM Lee announced the graduate mother priority scheme. In this scheme, children of women graduates who are married to other graduates would be given priority for schooling in keeping with his theories of the genetic intellectual superiority of graduate parents.”
在當時，很多人都知道什麽叫“優生學”.偏偏這些制定政策的“精英分子”不知道，才搞出這麽一個不合邏輯的政策。難道所有的醫生都不知道“優生學”的定義嗎？他們卻一個個不敢吭聲。以至造成新加坡人的後代一個比一個“笨”！臺灣的李敖是說對了！
“優生學” 是：
（1） “聰明” + “聰明” = “聰明”
（2） “笨” + “聰明” = “聰明”
（3） “笨” + “笨” = “笨”
所以要改善新加坡人的品種，一定要盡量做到（2），這樣，新加坡人的品種“聰明”和“笨”的比例將會提升.即是“聰明”的人會越來越多,而“笨”的人會越來越少.
反之,如果只做到（1）和（3），那新加坡人的品種永遠就是“聰明”和“笨”的比例永遠一樣,甚至會下降,即是“聰明”的人會越來越少,而“笨”的人會越來越多！現在的新加坡人品種正是歸這一類!
11) First to serve National Service.
12) First to be arrested for defamation and disobedient charges
13) First to be pick tin cans and cardboards in the streets
14) First to be booted out of HDB flats if we can’t pay town councils and banks
15) First to contribute CPF(PR contribute only 15% for 1st 2 years)
16) First to have your organs removed once declared brain dead under HOTA
17) First to pay more through ERP hike, GST hike, Electricity hike, Price hike and Inflations
18) First to compromise our space, jobs and resources for foreigners
19) First to be rejected for scholarships and local university places
20) First to be ignored for complaints and feedbacks
I am READY.
My friends are READY.
My families and relatives are READY.
My brothers, sisters and in-law are also READY.
WE ARE READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The PM should be called Foreign Prime Minister or FPM. The same goes for SM and MM for loving foreigners so much. They have converted Singapore into a dumping ground for foreign rejects totaling 40% and still counting.
They have sold Singapore to the foreigners. Why have National Service when they have openly invited foreigners to take over our jobs, homes, etc, the very basis why we have national service in the first place?
Singapore is being led by a group of numskulls and nincompoops who called themselves ministers.
“This is the kind of writing that we need more off from TR.”
Maybe TR should consider renaming itself as Temasek Times to replace ShittyTimes, haha. ST versus TT (not TT Durai !)
ShittyTimes,
do get the fu$%#ck out of our elite uncaring face !
Fear Not!
Everything can be Changed IF we wanna.
Period.
If policies are changed now, situation can be reversed.
1. Stop inflow.
2. Boost up incentives for citizen procreation . Dig into reserves if have to.
3. MNCs must hire a fixed quota of citizens.
4. Investigate all possible conflicts of interest. Ill gotten money used for procreation incentives and job creation / skills training.
5. Cut wasted salaries.
No more too high. Take it or leave it.
The above can achieve the same population explosion while freezing intake of the flux.
Everything can be changed IF done in time.
i have made up my mind for this coming election for party to vote.
So well written. BRAVOOOOOOOOO!
Oppostion wake up now do your job. You need to summarise this article into simple point form and translate into eng, chi, malay and tamil then PERSONALLY send a copy to every citizens before GE so that they can pin it up as POSTER in their homes.
Pardon my ignorance, if PM Lee lost AMK GRC can he still be PM? Likewise if MBT lost can he still head HDB?
@ReadyOredi, Ya! U’re ready. No loop hole to spare, Remind the old Aunty, they are easily being buff to join RC and get Brain wash. Wake them up. We Singaporean have to fight for ourself.
Made sure no stone are unturn.Good Luck !
We need everyone’s help to print this out and distribute to the residents via the letterboxes in your block.
I will be photocopying this article in a 2 page per page layout and distribute to the letter boxes in my block…..
If this is just to be read online then all the DDos during the election period will render this web site and TOC completely useless.
People need something concrete to read and feel and discuss. Articles like these needs to be in hardcopy for a further readership.
Despite having served NS, Young Singaporean couples are finding difficulties to own such high prices HDB flats. They are in direct competition with new citizens n PRs and are mostly being left out becos ICA granting new citizenships and PRs to create crazy demands.
With 85% Singaporeans living in 900,000 units of HDB flats and without influx of 1.2 mio foreigners, there shouldn’t be any problem to own a HDB flat at all. But this govt relax immigration policy has badly affected prices beyong this young Singaporean couples’ reach.
Hello! Petty arguments and name-calling is a waste of good brain matter and that rare emotion called “compassion”, wouldn’t you say?
We can keep speculating, huffing & puffing our Singaporean chests, and never get straight answers. Realise that this dissatisfaction happens worldwide. That’s politics for you.
Despite this underlying (perhaps of late more simmering at the surface?) current of dissatisfaction, Singaporeans refuse to buck their asses up and band together.
1. If you’re GENUINELY annoyed that foreigners are grabbing the jobs from your fellow Singaporeans, why are you hiring cheaper labour and non-English speaking ones at that for jobs at service counters and food centres?
2. Why do I observe more attentive service towards Caucasians or Westerners than towards local patrons?
3. Why do you, disgruntled business owners, not invent ways to make your fellow Singaporeans feel more appreciated by offering exclusive deals at shopping malls, hotels, or other places of recreation to spread solidarity? Who do you think is stuck in this land with cash in hand, restlessness to stay out of their pigeon-hole HDB flat, and a desire to relief their daily work-stress everyday, all year round? Does that definition sound like ‘tourists’ to you?
4. Can’t you practise the same compassion towards your other Singaporean drivers on the roads?
i) Give way to people who signal their intentions
ii) Don’t hog the extreme right lane if you’re going under 90km/hr
iii) Salute the another driver who politely gives you right of way – it makes someone else feel their actions are appreciated, since you can’t figure that out.
iv) Do not rush into the yellow-box, obstruct exiting vehicles and pretend to stare straight-ahead as if you’re aware – FYI, it’s pathetic and indicative of a cowardly personality. At least wave an apology to the driver you’re blocking.
v) Do not stop your car on either side of a busy road to alight your passengers, or to scratch parts of your anatomy. Your fellow tired Singaporeans are trying to get home soonest to cook, eat, pay bills on the internet, make babies & sleep asap. Have some COMPASSION.
You will never win on the grounds that in almost every aspect of success in this world, background, network, brains and a certain amount of well, ‘bullying’ for want of a better word, rules. Anything else, would be FANTASTIC! But idealistic.
I reckon, the reasons why Singaporeans are Unsuccessful, Angry, Easily Appeased in the Short-Run:
1. Unsuccessful – We have an education (a diploma or degree is not the point of an education) and you choose to drive a cab in an industry that’s over-saturated?
2. Easily Appeased in the Short-Run: We are influenced and satisfied with the point of views given in our government-controlled media. You think that you are thinking, therefore you are where you are today.
3. Angry: You have plenty compared to other citizens in other countries. Plenty. But because you want BMWs and branded goods to disguise your lack of manners and world-knowledge, you will never attain happiness or contentment. But can’t blame you. The system & culture of education in Singapore has never been about helping your fellow Singaporean classmate succeed – your satisfaction was achieved if he failed or did worse than you, correct?
We also cannot talk openly about the biases and prejudices between our cultures and races in Singapore, *wags finger* in case we are accused of racism (given that Singaporeans have a strange use of English and languages in general, any definition of anything goes) Yet, we are obviously different in many ways and biases will always exist, this ‘racism’ policy is making everything go the other way. – Spit it out, Singaporeans, then clear it up.
The reason why our Minister Mentor succeeds at anything, is because he is honest (too bad sometimes it’s brutal but it’s true! Although open to interpretation).
Bottom line, Singaporeans are not successful & unhappy because I have observed the following mentality and attitudes:
1. They do not to hire fellow Singaporeans (see hiring cheap foreign labour) to support their own countrymen.
2. They believe that status and success are achieved as long as you achieve straight A’s at school, must sit in an office job even if you are unpaid and controlled by power & women-hungry Westerners.
3. Shoot their mouth off with the emotion and rationality of a woman scorned without doing the things that COUNT for a change (see point 1).
So, you guys really miffed about injustices in general, or just plain angry that you can’t afford your BMW? Because this sort of thing happens in every country, in case you didn’t know – if you didn’t, do your research.
Because you do not really have the interests of your fellow Singaporeans at heart, I can conclude that you are just angry that you, have also been victimized.
When genuine compassion surpasses selfish-profiteering, a change will take place. Otherwise, continue to jump up and down
Oh my Gosh, i know those folks! their not PRC! those spoke like you and i. what the hell is wrong with this site? This site should be reported!
//ace on Tue, 19th Jan 2010 5:31 pm
sorry I cannot help much as I m working oversea.
Its a good idea with everyone’s help. start the ball rolling.
May I also suggest to send some copies to Local University students association (Union), Social Clubs etc….to info younger voters.
Keep the fire burning.
//Singapolung
very funny but true.
SECRET AGENDA OF THE LEE DYNASTY AND THE PAP SERVENT
When the whole lot of us dies, we will be replaced by PRC nationals, who will be more willing to deal with the dissedents harshly. They can go Tiananmen 1989 for all I care, by the time we will all be dead. Those lesser mortals get what they deserve because their spurs are not stuck in their hide.
After writing his agenda, King Lee saw a man littering on the street.
“HEY YOU!”
“…”
“FOREIGNER?”
The man nods his head…
“Sorry to bother you. Have a nice day!”
Then another man litters…
“HEY YOU!”
“What? Can’t you see I am late for reservice? I need to sacrifice my life for the nation!”
“Dogs, haul the man to court and fine him $500 and a decade in prision for littering!”
Some examples of over practicing art of relationships (or 关系 in chinese), mostly for personal/ economical gains, amid little social benefit
With things more expensive/ uncertain nowadays, most Singaporeans are getting very concerned/ worried with high cost of living here
Love this article.
Anyone can help to translate this article to 4 other major languages of SinCity. Chinese, Malay, Tamil and Singlish.
Let this article boomz.
Rule of reverse psychology- if u have to deny an accusation, normally u are guilty as charged. No one will believe the accuser if he/she wrongly accused a person without having the accused denying it. So PM, when u have to tell Singaporeans they come first, normally they don’t.
The Domino Effect-
your posting reminds me of the NASTY, SELFISH,I have arrived Singaporeans who apparently think they have ARRIVED.How did they arrive??? through exploiting the cheap FT/FW without thoughts of their less fortunate fellow Singaporeans.The govt. are not helping much either with their high salary Peg to the Corp World and are partly responsible for the current success & failures of Singapore.
Where is Swiss standard of living that GCT dream or talk about during his TERM.Let me tell of a visit to Switzerland 15 years ago.My passport was not stamp for entry & exit,when I asked,I was told that we have such a high standard of living that if you can afford to you are welcome.Remember the Swiss take care of their CITIZENS FIRST & FOREMOST and they have three different nationalities within their borders i.e. French Italian & German (sounds familiar?-Chinese Malay & Indians)They screen their FT/FW for rubbish(no offence meant)
Moral of story??? PLCs,Multi-National,SMEs and Last but not Least the GOVT. & their GIC-TEMASEK Co.Pleas take care of SINGAPOREANS FIRST & FOREMOST i.e.Basic needs and a Wage scheme to provide that STANDARD before opening doors for others.REMEMBER THE SWISS STANDARD??? or is that only Goh’s DREAM after a visit just like mine 15 years ago.
Recently, PM Lee declared that “Singaporeans will always come first” for his administration.
Of course, priority to get arrested mah, not foreigners.
PeterL, didn’t the article clearly explain what the government really means by promising Singaporeans a Swiss standard of living?
And guys, please ignore the domino effect. He is clearly to self-absorbed to realize that if the vast majority of Singaporeans are living in poverty, then he and others like him will also suffer in the end, because left unresolved, such a situation will ALWAYS end with a peasant revolt, and the blood of the elites will always be the one to stain the streets red.
Unfortunately, only a very tiny percentage of Singaporeans go to forums like this one.
Their ignorance is legendary.
Darth Vader-
My point in swiss standard of living means a decent salary even for the lowest level of jobs which supposedly Singaporeans shun.Had the MIN salary be set for the locals to be self sufficed to meet their basic needs and the jobs are more mordernized with technology than I do not see the shame or lowering of dignity in a well paid lowly job instead of hiring FW/FT to do them.
Similarly, I do not expect these lesser educated or less fortunate to take on jobs which are beyond their qualifications and ability.
We do not need to be a welfare or crutch society but a society proud of our achievements knowing all is taken care of FIRST & FOREMOST for their CITIZENS.
Decimal, Singapore uses the Westminster Parliamentary form of government, same as Britain or Australia. In Australia, John Howard lost his seat; he promptly stepped down as head of his party. But then again, he was also a gracious loser, congratulating Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd and wishing him all the best.
Contrast that with PM Lee’s conspiracy to “fix the opposition to prevent them from winning too many seats”. If he lost his seat, then that means he has lost the people’s confidence in his ability to lead them and should thus step down. However, since he IS MM Lee’s son, and it IS the PAP, don’t bet on it. Expect them to announce a by-election in a PAP stronghold so as to return him in instead.
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PeterL, I know what you mean, but that’s my whole point. The Swiss cheese standard of living IS the Swiss standard of living promised by the government.
just, you sound just like robox with his endless whinings of racism and victimization against Indians.
Well written article.
Those Hypocrites Millionaire Ministers said Singaporeans come first, but they come before Singaporeans in paying themselves their obscene pays. Their Familiees comes next, they get their relatives father/wives/sons/nephew-in-laws/cronies to head cushy GLCs without any experiences.
Yes, sir, Singaporeans do come first, but to the Hypocrites PAP, they, their familees (who are also Singaporeans) come before everyone else.
PM Lee or MM Lee’s administration?
During the last stage of Ching dynasty, China was not really ruled by any of the last three Emperors, which died one after another but by the long-life Empress Dowager, who yielded absolute power.
I have NEVER EVER seen a more pro-foreigner/treacherous government more than the current PAP.
It can only be a dog that bites the hand that feeds it!
Mr Tan Keng Leng,
Your article well written, I enjoy reading and understanding thing and thought put together.
Some here simply being a clown, if you agree.
One must think what he or she write and post, we all know a human is not perfect in many ways, I strongly believe.
Who come first doesn’t matter really, and who run the country doesn’t bother me either. But if a tyrant run it, and it sucking the people blood then he or she should be booted asap.
To many cook spoil the soup the common saying, never wrong, too many MPs too many faulty ideals.
Relatively small place though, who and how it is run is simple, just need good people with good ideals.
In other words, Tan Keng Leng has given Singaporeans 10 reasons why they should not vote for the bloody PAP.
I think it is a good idea to copy and read it to the PAP buggers when they drop by during the GE.
To allow Courts Advertisement in Malaysia to employ Malaysian to work in Singapore shows that the statement made by our PM Lee is not true.
Quote”PM Lee declared that “Singaporeans will always come first” for his administration”Unquote
Courts has just proven that our PM Lee is not sincere to Singaporeans.
Good reason why ‘Singaporeans’ won’t come first to the opposition.
http://www.according2ed.com/2010/01/on-opposition-reply-to-email.html
PM Lee has created enough problems for Singaporean. He should be removed from office before more harm is done to Singapore !
Will Singaporeans give him an “F” grade during the coming election ?
I doubt so …. maybe a D or E
The UGLY TRUTH about foreigner INFLUX by the pappies is clearly this:
1. Old guy’s screwed-up child policies till we’ve dropped WAY-WAY BELOW the replacement level of 2.11 children for ever married couple. And that’s NOT INCLUDING to replacing those who stayed single for economic or other reasons.
2. And so, old guy and their pappy HAVE BEEN SO-STUPID in their policies which DIDN’T TRULY ADDRESS the Long-Term AND Holistic COST-ISSUES of having and bringing up children. So, WHEN THEY Finally Realized that we have reached the “Levels OF NO-RETURN in Population FOR SELF and CULTURAL REPLACEMENT… and so
3. In UTTER DESPERATION – They started bringing in foreigners!!! And the FTs argument is only to Serve their Equally-Stupid argument-logic to QUELL Our expected acrimony towards OUR JOB-LOSSES as a result due to their DESPERATE import of foreigners BY-THE-DROVES!!! … for serving
4. Their appetite for MUCH CHEAPER Labour-Costs too . As GAHmen is surely the biggest employer here since they include all their GLCs and agencies too!!!
MAKE SENSE SO FAR?
5. THUS – ALL of their rhetoric about US Singaporeans being choosy with those jobs requiring more BRAWN than BRAINS – ARE NOTHING MORE THAN YET MORE OF THEIR “SMOKE-SCREENS” FOR COVER-UPS OF their FAILED pappies schemes really!!!… as
6. I’ve shared with others before about Lim Boon Heng as then NTUC Secretary-General and Minister of WHAT hah? (sic!) When he CRITICIZED “younger” Singaporeans for being soft and not taking Shipyard Jobs then – REMEMBER? – THAT HE – SHOULD TAKE UP A SHIP-REPAIR MANAGER JOB IN KEPPEL SHIPYARD AND AT HIS MILLION-DOLLAR MINISTER’S PAY TOO!!!.
I SHARED TOO THAT IT IS DOUBTFUL HE COULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PERFORM AND LAST MORE THAN A MONTH OF “THAT MIND OF A FAST-TRACK GRIND GRIND GRIND”!!! It IS absolutely doubtful that pappies like him really know what it takes to day in day out grind in THAT KIND OF A JOB!!! TALK IS CHEAP INDEED!!!
7. So NOW – what’s the REAL-WORLD and “Class’ of a True-Blue” pappy Minister? As – have they ever faced the kind realities in those kinds of stuff they “talk ever so EXI-PertLY of and about???
TR Guys – your guess and opinions about these pappy things are as good as mine lah!!!
Dear PeterL & DarthVader:
I’d really like to know how I am “self-absorbed”. Kindly explain with evidence from my comment and back your statement up with analysis? I am genuinely interested to understand.
Otherwise, your accusation will perpetuate my observation that like most Singaporeans, you are incapable of understanding anything that isn’t spelled out for you in black-and-white…(in this case, even more ironic) & proud of your myopia. Nothing personal.
You’ve obviously been raised in Singapore where everything is taught to be as it is.
Does your exposure to apparently many things, include the understanding of the term “The Domino Effect”?
The point of my comment, broken down into simpler terms for your comprehension:
1. If Singaporeans refuse to help each other, then obviously they refuse to help themselves. Self-explanatory, eh?
2. The reason why you’re pissed off, is because YOU are suffering. If you had your infamous 5C’s, you wouldn’t give a hoot about your suffering Singaporean neighbour… unless he wasn’t suffering, and had more than you, would you? So if people like you got voted into a ruling party, how would your goals be any different than they are now?
3. Because your own goal is to beat your fellow Singaporeans, you are where you are today. Eg. Nobody wants to give way to the other driver on the road, everybody’s a driver who doesn’t signal intentions in case the other fellow speeds up to block you, everybody pretends to go into the yellow-box so that the other driver can’t come out in front… all too predictable, PeterL & Darth Vader.
4. The reason why Westerners succeed in a foreign land like ours, is because when a fellow “mate” of theirs is out of a job, no matter how incompetent that person is, they WILL find a job amongst their friends in no time. That is because the Western community is tight-knit and loyal to their own kind. Can you be like that, Singaporean?
You ask for a reasonable standard of living, and you EXPECT it of your government. The government is ruled by flesh & blood, and perhaps some supernatural intervention
just as you and I.
If you can’t make things better for your fellow Singaporeans by being considerate, sharing, polite, informative (not glued to soccer & Channel 8 variety dramas) in your everyday life, don’t expect that any person with the power to make life-changing decisions at the highest level will do so for you.
They have as much ‘obligation’ to you, as you to your fellow Singaporeans. That is Swiss culture. Again, a type of greedy behaviour you display here, and want to partake of the pie what you don’t want to share.
And if you still think that my message one of a self-absorbed individual, erm…. good luck, my friend. I hope you win a big lottery and manage to financially inflict yourself on Switzerland.
The Domino Effect-
All I stressed is the fact that should Singapore dream to be or likened themselves to be like the Swiss,we must ensure the least capable be able to receive a wage to ensure their Basic needs are met before others.
All preferences must be given to Singapore citizens FIRST & FOREMOST for jobs,housing,health etc.etc before others even those who are willing to work for less or pay higher for medical & housing.Is that too much to ask with the current situation in Singapore???
Should this obligation be met by the Govt. be it PAP or others and Singaporeans still whine than your POINT stand @ 110%
PeterL:
“All preferences must be given to Singapore citizens FIRST & FOREMOST for jobs,housing,health etc.etc before others even those who are willing to work for less or pay higher for medical & housing.Is that too much to ask with the current situation in Singapore???”
Reply: Agreed. But to what extent?
And will this policy you propose, not encourage an attitude of complacency amongst the people who know they will, by virtue of their citizenship, get preference always, irregardless? When that happens, when you yourself work hard to have a better life, start to say that all the tax you are paying, is going towards sustaining these undeserving individuals who know they will get, when they don’t have to work for it, or THINK about how to achieve the same thing you have? I wonder about this with reference to policies in Australia.
I’m guessing you are male? Let’s say this, it’s easy to propose, “Let’s build a bomb! Problem solved.” But what goes into it to enable it to explode at the right height, pressure, velocity & direction?
“All I stressed is the fact that should Singapore dream to be or likened themselves to be like the Swiss,we must ensure the least capable be able to receive a wage to ensure their Basic needs are met before others.”
Reply: You’re telling me, that you need to be paid a wage to be kind, or considerate to your fellow Singaporeans? So if you’re having a pissed-off day, it gives you the right to give your fellow Singaporeans a hard time too?
I am further enlightened…
If you can afford a car and had an education enough to learn to drive legally, you can surely be capable of understanding what I mean by ‘civic consciousness’. If everything boils down to money, again, that is why Singaporeans will NEVER be on pare with the Swiss, nor reach that level of success, whether on a social, political or financial .
I think it’s time the Singaporean education system incorporated Philosophy and Psychology into their syllabus. At least if we’re all going to be taxi-drivers, we’d be able to talk about the significance of Life & ERPs in ever-extending traffic.
The Domino Effect_
I am fully aware of where you are coming from and I would totally agree with you if not for what we had achieved since independence.
Our arrival is at a cost yet to be measured but where do we go from here??I am male 65 years retired and observed my country as I see it right or wrong.Compared to this generation my generation are a bunch of average lowly educated unaware of the world, working to their bones to make this nation tick and eternally grateful to LKY & PAP???
This generation is almost everything you mentioned in your four points.My concern is the unsuccessful less educated who need to meet their BASIC NEEDS and a lifeline is indeed required don’t you agree.
The DREAM of GCT for a SWISS STANDARD remains a dream but I am sure after declaring ourselves as a 1st world and the best next to Japan in Asia, the Govt. or PAP or the master illusionist LKY
should realize that things are not right and something ought to be done.I reckon that the first thought should be the less privilege,less educated and those who sacrificed their whole lifetime for the Nation.The educated,rich and successful are ready to leave if given an even chance but what about us.We will be overwhelmed by the NEWBIES in no time.All our sacrifices will be for NOUGHT.
Just to add on folks…sorry…
When PAP says Singaporeans comes first…
Please note the capital “S”.
Singaporeans means their own version of Singaporeans..rich folks, their own kakis, their relatives etc etc…
Now please kindly note the same letter “s”.
singaporeans are common and uncommon folks like us in and outside this forum.
There you have it…this article is commendably written and this should be the direction TR should move forward. We want constructive views, solutions or alternatives by all forumers…
Please no more divisive articles with racist/un-mindful undertones insofar as much as possible and blatant ones.
PeterL:
Yes, the ELDERLY that I see being forgotten in the speed and superficial competition for material things in Singapore, is the one thing in this country that is a thorn in my side.
The young and disgruntled, we are highly mobile, and dare I say, rendered helpless to move, only by our fear of freezing winters and the lack of sambal belachan in a foreign land. We will move and have no qualms doing it if policies made in the future dictate that we are unwelcome.
My generation, by decades to you much younger, inferior in age, but I cannot say that we have experienced much less, although perhaps less pleasant.
Unfortunately, Singaporeans don’t seem to be ready for a change. Not in attitudes, no matter how highly-educated we appear to be.
I disagree that the less educated cannot make ends meet. On the contrary, PeterL. I know many people in their twenties to thirties, who are too qualified in terms of education for the standard of living that they will ever get to here. All having proper office jobs. And why? Because they have lost the kampung spirit – where you help your neighbour and not smirk at his failure. All tired slaves to foreign companies, not having the “if you quit, we quit” spirit. Their 2-room HDB flat is at stake, as are their speedy, convenient marriages through which the HDB flat materialised.
I am very sorry to tell you that yes, we will be inevitably be ‘overrun by NEWBIES’ (I assume you mean the foreigners). That’s going to happen and has to happen. It’s the quality of the foreigners. Take a tip or two from the Japanese culture.
The fundamental problem is getting Singaporeans to see each other as friendly allies and treat each other like so. All the policy changes are fantastic! Short-Term solutions, yes. But, where will we, me & my Singapore be in ten years? Twenty years? When your generation has passed-on and my generation has to deal with the effects of everything that your generation has not had to contend with like terrorists, global warming & the internet? It can only get bigger & more dangerous from here. How come if parties aside from PAP don’t have a visionary like MM? Maybe should start by visiting fengshui masters as well?
Singapore cannot be Switzerland; look at the people, the mentality and the land. And if we haven’t learnt by now, parliamentary debates never confuse further than conclude. Why not read between the lines? I constantly wonder why some people choose to fight fire with fire, when we are surrounded by water.
You don’t worry about Singapore, PeterL. Frankly, you should be really angry that people here keep reproducing without giving thought to the quality of the offspring. That’s why we are what we are today.
Being considerate to your Singaporean neighbour makes all the difference. Be the change that you want to be – still can even at your age. And, sacrifice is a part of life afterall, whether, for the honour of a country or for the love of a pet dog; because true sacrifice asks nothing in return.
Singapore has become a BIG 5 STAR RESORT HOTEL.
All Elites are like Owners of Shops in the Hotel.
Scholars are Administrative Managers
All Mid Income Group of Locals are Workers & Maintenance People.
Foreigners are HONORABLE GUESTS. The get % star treatment.
If the Foreigner is a WHITE SKIN – He is SUPER DUPER ELITE GUEST.
Bottom Line if the Admin Manager & Worker go and complain to the TOP Management & Complain.
Answer will be very simple: We need the honorable guest to make our hotel super duper hit…..
Lets Attract more & more & more & more & more guests
Convince them to take a Yearly Plan so that they can stay and help us grow
After sometime make them a life time member of our hotel.
If people complain – Close the flood gates to the guest..
Management will tell if No Guest then No Business
If no Business No money
If no money ….All of us DIE
..
So better start respecting the Honorable Guest and Lets Integrate them to make them be our OWN….
HBK
domino effect, in what way am I indifferent to others? Rather, it is YOU who show indifference to the hardship of others. For your information, I am actively involved in developing social programs to help the under-priviledged. Not exactly what a selfish self-absorbed person would do now, is it? Can you say the same thing about yourself? Obviously not, going by the “me myself & I” attitude you advocate.
singaporeans should never short-changed themselves…part of the reason we have become apathic or barely living a life as a human being…
Just refer to these oft-repeated quotation i have on odd occasions highlight & other forumers too:
Quote from Thomas Jefferson
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty
or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
our amusements, for our calling and our creeds…
[we will] have no time to think,
no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers…
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for [another ]…
till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery…
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”
The question is how much longer can we the citizens of singapore tahan this nonsense…use other people money, lost other people money nevermind if win just give back a bit the rest well we all have rough ideas where it truely went since no transparency….if the current policies against local born citizens continue be it of any race, creed or religon…the only and last solution is to do like-wise the same solution of previous ex-singaporeans who left singapore for other countries that at least put its citizens first [we are not asking to be treat like the rich or to be given luxuries benefits or all that kind of useless shit which ultimately one dies means nothing but read substance to living a decent secured life and fair opportunities to progress forward as a human being]…else for us the citizens we have to find the same means, resources and ways to leave singapore too.
ultimately, there will be only a defenseless island…let us see how the PAP and its kakis try to defend this island with many of its lost productive years/generations ex-citizens gone.
The Domino Effect-
Darth Vader-
Sturmtryppen-
Gentlemen, thank you for your posts and thoughts.There is still hope for the Little Red Dot after all.
“Of late, there have been a number of fatal accidents in the SAF. All the dead soldiers came from middle or lower income families; none came from the families of the elite. So what’s the reason for this?”
WHY? Cos of White Horses! BMT companies like H and S have plenty of them! My friends included.
Singaporean does come first for the PM i.e. first to be sacrified !!!
It’s not just a matter of getting rid of the incompetent PM, we need to get rid of his incompetent wife as well.
Which other CEO of any other company (much less an MNC) can keep his/her job after losing billions of dollars?
We need to get rid of those self-serving million dollar ministers as well. They have lived so long in their ivory towers that they sprout nothing but condescension when they open their mouths.
Vote wisely? I have voted wisely (when I have been allowed to vote), yet my one vote is not making an impact.
We need to spread the word that Singapore can still continue running without the PAP.
We need to show the people what PAP have become. Look at Eric How and Wee Shu Min, two prime examples of the PAP offspring. Elite, Uncaring, Higher Mortals. Where are their compassion and apathy? Where are their moral values? These are the spoilt children of the PAP cadre and these are the future rulers of Singapore, unless we do something about it.
Voting wisely is no longer enough. One must vote wisely AND tell his/her friends/family to do the same. Show them that the truth is not on the 154th ranked Straits Times.
Let be brave to vote out PM Lee in the next GE for his mistake in the immigration policy. He is the root of all the problems that are happening in the last few years!!!
Darth Vader,
That makes my day! I think it’s admirable that you have the emotional and physical capacity to put yourself out there and actively seek a change in our society
You do not need my approval. But, five gold stars in your exercise book anyway!
I think you do take my comment a little too personally. Any comment here, a discerning individual would be able to understand, is directed at a general mass of people. In this case, a common denomination of people I have experienced in this country, local and foreign alike.
I fail to spot where I said,”Hey, DarthVader! YOU are selfish, and self-absorbed(this one’s your word).” I don’t even know you as a person. If I did, I doubt I’d be addressing you as ‘DarthVader’ unless I was being affectionate.
I’m rather sorry I even said anything to insinuate that the policies made by a government, is a reflection of the mentality of it people.
Obviously in this forum (where supposedly like-minded individuals unite), as anywhere else in this country, like MM Lee has constantly been accused, calling a “spade” a “spade” is taken as an offence, than a provocateur of deeper thought.
Can anyone just appreciate that he’s actually telling us the honest reason he is making these policies? Then there will no longer be any need to speculate, right? Sure, get angry, but hey, it’s his opinion. And what have we done to give him that impression, bewildering to us as it may be? Does it have any basis, no matter how slight? Are we being provoked into action or chastised for true complacency? What can “complacency” mean for a country like Singapore and people with a mentality like Singaporeans? So many questions, all answers – assumed. It doesn’t help that Parliamentary debates can be compiled into a bible of Riddles.
To answer your question, yes I will grant you the pleasure of one: No, I don’t have the guts or care enough, to put myself out there to actively help the under-priviledged or develop social programs to make their lives better.
Apparently because I am ’self-absorbed’, I only live by the principle that I should make my fellow Singaporeans feel like they’ve still got a friendly neighbour. I’ll keep on saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to the cleaning lady or sales staff and tip them, not just give her a plastic sunflower. I’ll keep not littering or spitting so you won’t have to step on those (not because someone’s going to slap me with a fine if I do.)
Oh and on the way home from a long day of helping our under-priviledged countrymen, when nobody else wants to give way to you on the roads, I hope I’m there for you
Cheers, DarthV.
FIRST THINGS.FIRST,like some wise guys said.
The FRIST THING we need to do now,VOTE IN MORE OPPOSITION to kick out the ingrates and disloyal PAP MPs who have recently
spoken publicly against our interests and acted rashly against us,true sons and daughters of SINGAPORE!
vote wisely for our own future!!!!
IS more importantly WHAT they have NOT DONE for WHAT they SHOULD. And so… This CAN ONly MEAN one thing…
That they are MOSTLY in “Management By Crisis” skill by Self-Denial!!!
Thus, they are REactionary in nature and seldom in PRO-Action mode. Proof of this are the endless change and tweaks to put right just the old geeko’s countless mistakes!!! Worse and more proof is all he’s YES-man below agreed and never dared to correct him before OR perhaps most of them DIDN’T and DON’T KNOW ANY BETTER TOO and so had been echoing AND trumpeting geeko’s ideas!!!
He should have been put into a country as diversified as the USA whom he suckles. Even Johore is some 33 – YES!!! – THIRTY-THREE times the sizes of Singapore!!! A mouse with the lion’s roar!!!
When Nomination Opens…lets just FLOOD OPP Contestant into all placing…Good,educated ones, So so ones, and Ah Ter,Ah Kaow.
I think…PAPE will hve to go into “OVERDRIVE”,…just “Brainstorming” and ” Intelligence” works on ALL the OPP Candidates.
Lets “Throw them” off guard and let OPP ,WIN BIG THIS TIME
It’s amazing how MiW supporters like domino effect think that anti-establishment types are stupid when they themselves are delusional. True, he didn’t openly accuse me of being self-absorbed and selfish, but he did OPENLY CLAIM that only people who are pissed off that they cannot afford to buy a BMW would be critical of the government, hence openly implying that anti-establishment types are motivated by selfish, self-absorbed reasons.
I wonder how he would describe such selfish, self-absorbed pro-establishment types like Eric How, Sear Hock Rong & Wee Shu Min, and how he would describe an anti-establishment individual like Dr. Catherine Lim, who can definitely afford to buy a BMW.
Then again, you’d have to be blind, deaf, dumb and delusional not to realize the increasingly self-serving policies of the establishment.
Spread the word. Let all of your friends and relatives read this article and see for themselves a “nation” sinking into oblivion. A very good article that expressed all the inequality that chain a non-elite Singaporean.
Hello fellow Singaporean,
it’s time to show the world that we have matured as a people. A people who is now educated, intellectual and informed about the way we are governed and the way our homeland is being run.
Show the world that we are capable of judging the people whom we have supposedly had elected to run our country. Only by having shown our ability to judge, and thus to decide, the way our beloved country is to be run and our fellow Singaporean is to be fairly treated, we can regain pride and dignity and walk with our heads up!
Sorry to point out the fact that no one in this world, no one, is ever going to lift your pride and dignity UNLESS you show that you, my fellow Singaporean, deserves the respect from the people to whom you have so trustingly given them the job of looking after our country’s wellfair. Remember, you, your fathers and grand fathers give them this job. The employer has the right to assess the job performance of the employees !!
What took you guys so long to realize this…
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Darth Vader on Thu, 21st Jan 2010 11:08 pm
Look at Eric How and Wee Shu Min, two prime examples of the PAP offspring. Elite, Uncaring, Higher Mortals. Where are their compassion and apathy? Where are their moral values? These are the spoilt children of the PAP cadre and these are the future rulers of Singapore, unless we do something about it.
LHL has not done any good for the citizen since he became PM. I really doubt about his ability as PM. I think he is more suitable to become Math Professor !!!
The current PAP government is hopeless and do not act on the problems. They will act as if there is no problem like the Ostrich which buries it head in the sand when there is a danger !!!
God Bless Sg , very good articles .
A very big thank you Mr.Tan, for your analysis of, “Singapore
will always come first in PM lee’s administration”.
Well written article which should be forwarded via email, to all Singaporeans for their attention!
All we citizens ask for is for policies than can assist us in this modern day and age. We also wish for policies than help solve problems. We ARE NOT asking for handouts nor charity as most of us want to depend on ourselves to earn a honest living and survive. Is this asking for too much?Is this request unreasonable?
JK on Tue, 26th Jan 2010 3:06 pm
God Bless Sg , very good articles
Me 2nd that …
May God bless Singaporeans …
No need 10 reasons… when the pap has labeled singaporeans as sheeps.. animals (spurs needed).. lazy.. and recently daft.. time for change.. time for pap to lose its 2/3th majority…
SINGAPORE FOR SINGAPOREANS (PRs not included)
the strategy of the pigs to maintain control over s’pore:
1. make them poor so that only the selected few can be rich.
2. if the rich wants to do something else, get rid of them and make them poor.
3. make poor make ps’poreans by massively import singaporeans to knock down their salaries.
4. dry up their CPf savings to cover up their investment losses overseas while making them take up work at any price to cover the mortgage payment.