Singaporeans have become too complacent and lazy, this is one of the key reasons given by PAP and accepted by many, especially the elites. They say foreign talents create jobs for us, increase our pay and make us more competitive.
But honestly, did you ever look at the government itself? Parliament is dominated by one party. Have they themselves become complacent? Are they more competitive?
Look at the quality of parliamentary debates, it is always lopsided. Look for example at how fast the 6.9M Population White Paper was rushed through without much debate and how much unhappiness was generated? And yet the government said one-party rule is critical to the success of Singapore, and if there are too many opponents, our supreme leader will need to spend time fixing them, this country will collapse, we will run into chaos and our children will become maids in other people’s countries. Ironically, there was an advertisement asking for Singapore maid/driver. I could not stop laughing but this signals something very troubling with this country.
In many parliamentary sessions, you find PAP MPs sleeping or missing in action. Is this the competitiveness they are talking about?
Look at the number of civil servants running into problems. They are paid so highly and yet we are seeing new problems that are not related to money so the logic that high pay will not lead to corruption does not hold water anymore.
There are so many bad policies rushed through Parliament and citizens are worse off for it but the PAP continues to use the media to phrase them nicely (deceptively) to butter us up. Our ministers cannot fix problems, but every time a cock up happens, they will have someone take the blame but never accept responsibility. Do you ever notice?
We have imported 2 million foreigners and we are going to import another 1.5 million, they keep saying it is for our good and competition is good. But why don’t they allow more opposition into Parliament since there are 40% opposing votes? Looking at all the problems and policies for the past few years, we can definitely conclude one-party rule leads to complacency and laziness!
Their logic of one-party rule is opposite to what they are preaching to us, asking us to integrate and embrace competition. Do you realise their hypocrisy? What do you think?
I’m a hypocrite, but you can’t do anything to me!