Then : We are Sorry. Now : We will NOT CHANGE

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Then: We're sorry

After the tears have dried up, after the whispers of change have evaporated things are back to normal.

Last week at the Economic Development Board's 50th anniversary dinner, investors asked Mr Lee Hsien Loong if Singapore will change direction after the recent General Election.

No, he assured them, the PAP's policies will not change.


Contrast this to his election speech at the
PAP's lunchtime rally at the UOB Plaza on 3 May 11: "When these problems vex you or disturb you or upset your lives, please bear with us. We're trying our best on your behalf. And if we didn't quite get it right, I am sorry but we will try and do better the next time."

Contrition. Humulity. Sevice. Sweet music to the ears of the voters. But that was then, this is now.


The PAP's policies will not change, the PM avers after the election dust settles. Question: If PAP policies will not change, how is Mr Lee going to try and do better?


Policies like importing cheap foreign labour
en masse to suppress our wages and force us to live in an overcrowded city with an infrastructure unable to cope with the population increase.

Policies like the Minimum Sum Scheme which the Government uses to withholding our CPF savings.


Policies that continue to make public services like housing, healthcare and transport profit at our expense.


These are the policies that vex the people. And yet, just barely three months after the elections, the Prime Minister is back to his old ways and doing what the PAP knows best - making the elite richer on the backs of the ordinary folk.


At the EDB dinner, PM Lee insisted that "the population has to support consistent and rational policies that create jobs and wealth." Singaporeans have no problem with policies that create jobs and wealth. What we question is for whom are the jobs and the wealth created?


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Now: We will not change

The tragic fact is that if we don't change our economic direction will get less, not more, competitive. We have relied on perspiration rather than inspiration to drive our economy all these yeras. We do not innovate. We do not create and make things that the world wants to buy. We are still stuck in a command economy, not a knowledged-based economy.

This kind of an economy benefits the few who sit at the top of the economic food-chain. It does little for the broad masses which continue to endure stressful lives with the prospect of not being able to retire.


The PAP is bankrupt of ideas except to bring in more people onto this island to increase its tax base and expand the pool of cheap labour. The question is: How many more people can this place take?


But Mr Lee is right about one thing - there will be no change. Why should there be? He and his ministers are ensconced in their bungalow houses, walled away from an overcrowded society that drives its citizens into distress and depression.


No, nothing has changed and nothing will. Ministers will shed tears, candidates will promise reform, and the government will whisper sweet nothings into our ears - all before the vote is cast.


But make no mistake, change will not come just because the PAP promises it. Change will only come when the people demand it, when we are willing to make the effort to claim back our political rights - our rights to free assembly, a free media and free elections.


Let us learn the lesson already.

*Source from yourSDP.org
 
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repent, repent, repent!!! higher bus fares, MRT fares, COE, ERP...keke
i hate politicians.
just like boy kao cha bor....can promise the gal the moon if they need to but after get liao.......
 
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I wish these threads keep staying up in forums, and new ones created till next election. Fudup
 
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A sales person just told me today that as he was taking the bus,there was a man shouting in the bus cursing the government(LKY,etc) and kept saying "ask police catch me lah" and kept going on......talk about people being stressed beyond limits.
 
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sszone;670539 said:
repent, repent, repent!!! higher bus fares, MRT fares, COE, ERP...keke
i hate politicians.
just like boy kao cha bor....can promise the gal the moon if they need to but after get liao.......

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LKY - "ALJUNIED WILL REPENT!!!"

Now who is repenting??? Those who put their trust and cast their vote to the Men In White...

:liar:BIG FAT LIARS :liar:
 
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All thanks to the 60.1% supporters ... We have 5 more years to repent... What to do ... It cannot be helped ... We are all so screwed.... :shoot:
 
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Before election, classic empathy tactics..."I'm sorry, I hear u, we will change"
After election, like my other colleague would say in hokkien "change ki la*", change bus fare jiu wu

sorry,pls pardon my language but alas there's no oomph way of getting that msg thru
 
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reminds me of a chat i had with my CFO this afternoon.

well in the case of the public transport price hikes, they want to be treated like a private entity, not a cooperative body, must have profit to be answerable to shareholders....fine, be a private entity then
but why come crying to the public......which freaking private entity be it listed or non-listed co ever gets to have a "guaranteed profit line" , even if my company wants a renewal of our machinery in order to phase out the old ones, do we, as a first thing, increase our selling prices to our customers? tell them they LL cannot have any alternative but to accept....and they are in fact helping to pay for my new machinery? very contradicting, wants to be treated as a private entity but cannot behave as one....100mil+ of net profit still not good enough....what happened to good old setting aside, ie making provisions for replacement of old machinery? 人在做,天在看。大家都在看
 
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sszone;670613 said:
reminds me of a chat i had with my CFO this afternoon.

well in the case of the public transport price hikes, they want to be treated like a private entity, not a cooperative body, must have profit to be answerable to shareholders....fine, be a private entity then
but why come crying to the public......which freaking private entity be it listed or non-listed co ever gets to have a "guaranteed profit line" , even if my company wants a renewal of our machinery in order to phase out the old ones, do we, as a first thing, increase our selling prices to our customers? tell them they LL cannot have any alternative but to accept....and they are in fact helping to pay for my new machinery? very contradicting, wants to be treated as a private entity but cannot behave as one....100mil+ of net profit still not good enough....what happened to good old setting aside, ie making provisions for replacement of old machinery? 人在做,天在看。大家都在看

Who are the shareholders? Temasek, etc... Why increase fares despite transport companies are making $$$? Because Mrs LSL lost billions of public $$$ to miscalculated performance investment and thus declare 0% profit to the garment this year... And how to refill this pit hole??? Leech more from Ppl's $$$, transport companies got more profits to give greedy shareholders, like temasek. And Temasek will have some positive growth to report at the end of financial year.. Left to right pockets
 
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in cantonese, my mom sometimes scold me when i was young 没眼看 (no eyes see)
i think i am just like those laymen out there, jaded with the promises and what we see.
no eyes see, not bothered to see anymore....see BMW better....woohoo
 
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You think he cares?? He is about to step down from politics very soon. LHL said want to step down also and Ho Ching is also stepping down as CEO Temasek. Maybe they will migrate in a few years' time and hence need to start sourcing for new and capable candidates like 'Tin Pei Ling', 'Mr Ki Chiu' (dunno whats his name) etc... I would say that the scholars nowadays really cannot make it... no quality in their candidates. Those good and better ones from the Young PAP decline to take up the election, hence opportunities went to sub-standard people who wants the $15,000 paycheck to buy Kate Spade, go USS etc...
Just wait and see.... I predict WP will win more seats at the next Election and probably in 10 to 15 years' time WP will be government. Looking at the current policies, the middle class suffers the most. thats why main voters for Opposition are mainly those in their 30s to 40s
 
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I will vote for Brobot ... Coz he is FAP ... I never like PAP ... coz PAP = Pretenders And Parasites... :(
 
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jawzsg;670662 said:
I will vote for Brobot ... Coz he is FAP ... I never like PAP ... coz PAP = Pretenders And Parasites... :(

What is FAP?
 
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jawzsg;670662 said:
I will vote for Brobot ... Coz he is FAP ... I never like PAP ... coz PAP = Pretenders And Parasites... :(

yup Chairman. very true, right now alot of ppl are really gonna Pay And Pay for the next 5 years....Repent!! REpent!! REpent!!!

next time must emigrate to Milk area liao....Behold the Power of the Hammer!!!!
hope they run a good show for this 5 years and prove to its critics and normal folks like us.
and pls pls pls, don't ever keep getting innocent ppl, including my auntie who's RC siao, to support u continuously, by buying tables for your so-called events.....if the events are so hot, the tickets should be sold out due to the demand, be in NDP dinner, whatever crap gathering
 
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anyway, i will stop posting my rantings here, on FB maybe but not here, don't wanna get ryan into trouble in case any of us get carried away and say the wrong thing
 
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sszone;670702 said:
yup Chairman. very true, right now alot of ppl are really gonna Pay And Pay for the next 5 years....Repent!! REpent!! REpent!!!

next time must emigrate to Milk area liao....Behold the Power of the Hammer!!!!
hope they run a good show for this 5 years and prove to its critics and normal folks like us.
and pls pls pls, don't ever keep getting innocent ppl, including my auntie who's RC siao, to support u continuously, by buying tables for your so-called events.....if the events are so hot, the tickets should be sold out due to the demand, be in NDP dinner, whatever crap gathering

Wah RC Siao... hahaha... its does frustrate us when we see RC pushing supporters, especially the older generation, to buy event tables or go zho kapok eg. during election campaigns.. No doubt our first generation deserves the utmost respect for their contributions, these supporters just follow blindly.. Especially the current gen MPs who are generally money spinners :mad:
 
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If i start a REPENT PARTY, will u support me? My asking salary onli 8 k nie. Cheaper than TPL. Plus, no need i promise i will know what to say and only carry bonia wallet. Swee boh?
 
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C3P0;670676 said:
What is FAP?

:rolleyes: ... errr.... Fainting Action Party..... :D
 

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