In what many would consider PM’s opening salvo in the GE campaign (though not me for the reasons stated here, I’ve changed my mind and think an election will be held next yr), our constructive, nation-building media, over the week end, carried reports of an iaudience PM gave them.
Don’t know about you but lots of his comments upset me because they are self-serving rubbish that flies against the facts. As even thinking a lot about them now gets my blood pressure into stroke territory, I’ll confine myself to commenting on a few of his commentss every day.
How not to depend on govt?
PM said that S’poreans should only rely on the govt as a last resort: they should do things for themselves and not rely on govt.
Well when 37% of an ordinary working S’poreans’s monthly salary goes into his or hers CPF account, and the uses that the money, can be used is dictated by the govt, how not to depend on the govt?
And the high prices of private residential property (remember the state controls the supply of land) means that “affordable” public housing is the only option for S’poreans resulting in about 82% of S’poreans living in HDB flats. Again how not to depend on govt?
The govt designs the CPF system so that most S’poreans are dependent on the govt. So PM is at best being disengenous..
Electing gd MPs?
He should the best check and balance to his govt is to elect gd MPs.
Seems he has forgotten that the GRC system forces us to select a team of MPs some of whom are problematic: think the eye doctor who looks down on people that are not paid well and Kate Spade Tin.
His advice is only applicable in SMCs., not GRCs. where voters have to take a team, and where one or two ministers always head the team.
Immigration woes our fault?
PM said he regrets the fact that “Singapore did not build up its infrastructure quickly enough in anticipation of a population growth driven mainly by an influx of foreign workers”
This is what someone posted on Facebook
Come on PM, It is NOT Spore..it is the Govt U led that COCK up..after all WHO approves the policies and are decision makers that allows foreign workers to “tsunami” in here..Sporeans arh? …so let call a spade a spade….Your Cabinet Team LOST the PLOT, so imo, the BUCK stops with U, PM. U cock up BIG TIME. Period.
If this is the opening barrage of the GE, PM is firing blanks, not facts.
Cynical Investor
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