"If you’re lazy and work less, you’ll have less Medisave" - Khaw Boon Wan
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Same Old, Same Old
The Elections Department (ELD) is tweaking the rules again, raising maximum spending limit from $3.50 to $4.00 per voter, tilting the "level playing" field to political parties with deeper pockets. Other changes include new ballot papers featuring candidates' mugshots "to help the elderly identify the candidates". Since we only get to see these guys face to face once in fifty five years, we won't know the purity of their hearts from a brief encounter. What they should include is an accompanying short quote reflective of their true colours:
"If you’re lazy and work less, you’ll have less Medisave" - Khaw Boon Wan
"Without foreign workers, Singapore is likely to become a ‘garbage city’. Cleanliness is a character thing. It shows who you really are." - Goh Chok Tong on Tokyo has no rubbish even though the Japanese capital has no rubbish bins in public places
"A manpower policy that advocates hiring "Singaporeans first" will not benefit the economy in the long term" - Senior Minister of State for Manpower Amy Khor
"We (also) need to reflect, are we the way they described?" - Bay Yam Keng on Sun Xu's "more dogs than humans in Singapore"
"However, it may not be wise to call for the tradeoffs to be tilted further to an extent that it dissuades good people from coming forward in future” - Grace Fu on ministerial pay cut
"Some cardboard collectors treat it (collection of cardboards) as a form of exercise and activity rather than being cooped up at home" - Tan Chuan Jin
"Well, everybody has a car, we have two — my wife drives one, I drive one. We are both professionals, we need to travel" - Koh Poh Koon on car ownership
"...I regret making the decision because, in the end, the baby continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill of more than $300,000..."- Lim Hng Kiang on regretting the decision to save a baby's life.
"If we spent 387 million dollars, will we get value from that expenditure? In my mind, the answer... is yes." - Vivian Balakrishnan on YOG budget blowout
"Whether a participant perished or survived depended on where he or she happened to be at the time." Heng Swee Kiat on why 12 year olds died on Mt Kinabalu
"If you’re lazy and work less, you’ll have less Medisave" - Khaw Boon Wan
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Are these the faces of our credible government?
ReplyDelete#sgelections follow the tweets
DeleteWhy are there so many "sandbags" pics in your post?
ReplyDeleteIn Hokkien, what do they call it?
Anyone?
"How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?" - Vivian
ReplyDelete"For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable organisation, $600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred millions in reserves." - Mrs Goh Chok Tong
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." - Lim Hng Kiang
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." - Yeo Cheow Tong
"Retrenchment is good for Singapore . If there is no retrenchment, then I worry."- SM Goh
Is this the ghost month?
ReplyDeleteBe warned do not view this post before your lunch or dinner ...... or rather after your lunch or dinner ...... either way it may not be "advisable "
ReplyDeleteThe food either may not goes in well or may come out like a "flood" .....
"Best policy proposal of Khaw Boon Wan":
ReplyDelete"Dump" sinkies old folks (pioneer generation) in Johor, Batam .......
Besides a "mugshot" of the candidates, for those voters who are blind ( and cannot see the pics ), they should improvise a button for the blind voters to press and hear a short podcast or voice recording of the candidates.
ReplyDeleteBelow YouTube audio / video clip could be an example.
https://youtu.be/CTMMRrxx-Ug
By the one and only "Super-Hero" politician in Sinkieland.
No prizes for the correct guess. It starts with a "Z" and ends with a "O"
This video below lagi best:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/QEBJn_M80Rk
"Better" than the original Korean version.
The best quote should go to Minister Chan Chun Sing.
ReplyDeleteOnly two words:
" Kee Chiu"
What about that PAP MP who told us a S$500,000 annual salary Minister is not going to have enough dignity to speak to corporate heads ?
ReplyDeleteSo the differential make up to current salary was to shore up the dignity of our PAP Minsters including that of LKY'son ? Nothing really to do with basic HONESTY which should not cost a cent more ?
Since they like to talk about LKY so much, so was LKY wrong with such arguments like "If my son is not paid enough, he will be tempted to be dishonest or corrupt?"
Is it not akin to encouraging aspirant PAP Ministers who are basically corrupt and dishonest to apply as well since part of a Minister's remuneration would have considered the financial gains to reward a potentially corrupt person from being corrupt ?
DeleteCan you believe PAP will do this sort of monkey business ?
The mugshots are not to help the elderly identify the candidates. After all there were no reports of mis-identication in the past elections.They are required to enable the new citizens to identify the PAP candidates.
ReplyDeleteMember of Parliament Zainudin Nordin, MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC:
ReplyDeletePosted Offensive quote in facebook: "Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action."
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/mp-zainudin-draws-flak-for-posting-‘offensive’-quote---093144145.html
"But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed... If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right..."
ReplyDeleteLee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955
So was he a man of honour to be respected or not when he did not basically keep his very own words ?
DeleteSimple answer is "NO".
Delete"If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law - if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states - then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies - even those who do not subscribe to our views - as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself."
ReplyDeleteOpposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955
When I think of Amos, I can only think of one word for PAP. Hypocrite.
DeleteWell I hope there is no screw up in the ballot papers. Just imagine a picture of Amos on the ballot paper of PM.
DeleteJust the thought of this give me happiness more than the carrots dangled in PM NDR speech
Basing on his definition of Fascist states, Singapore under the PAP is Fascist.
DeleteSaycheese
"Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love-it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they're conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict."
ReplyDeleteLee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October, 1956
Can forgive him or not ? He was only acting and criticising the future himself, you see.
Delete"If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework."
ReplyDeleteOpposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Oct 4, 1956
In the end he became God himself. God of Hypocrisy.
DeleteAustralian Labour Minister promises Australians a 2/3 Australian Core Workforce
ReplyDelete====================================================================
Do you think Australians would call this Minister a traitor?
Do you think Australians would vote for this Minister?
Do you think Australians would vote for his political party?
- Just how stupid do you think Singaporeans are?
Since it cost him next to nothing, can someone please ask the PM in complete honesty whether he is going to say SORRY again just before the eve of this coming 2015 GE since his team's performance is even far worst than before the last GE in 2011 ?
ReplyDelete1) Palmergate 2012
Delete2) AIMgate 2013
3) PRC bus drivers strike 2012
4) Little India Riot 2013
5) Dengue Epidemic 2015
6) Penny Stocks $8 billion Evaporated 2014
7) MRT chronic breakdowns 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015
8) HDB New Flats defects 2014, 2015
9) CPIB embezzlement 2013
10) Civil Defense Chief Sex Scandal 2013/ 14
11) CNB Chief sex scandal 2013/ 4
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12) Rats epidemic Bt Batok 2015
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13) SG50 Commemorative Notes Misspelled First President's Name 2015
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14) Seng Kang columbarium tender screwup 2015
Delete15) Sembawang GRC CCC members expenses claim 2012
Delete16) Brompton bikes "scandal" 2013/ 14
Delete............ The list goes on
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Since it is SG50, readers can help fill up till number (50).
http://newnation.sg/2015/03/govt-confirms-cpf-money-is-your-money-if-you-think-it-is-not-your-money-if-you-think-it-isnt/
ReplyDeleteHow about this Pinky who support a joker that CPF may not be your money, apparently he already treat our CPF as his money. He will just support anyone excellently that support his retarded and corrupted view.
Best of all, force us to put money into CPF, then tell us because he giving us interest, it might not by your money after all. What kind of fuck#@ing retarded logic is that ? Only a retarded can think of such thing and believe singaporeans are daft.
Retarded Pinky said.
"The Budget debate began yesterday. NMP Chia Yong Yong made an excellent speech about the CPF. I was not in the chamber to hear her, but watched it later on YouTube.
Yong Yong cast the question in a broader perspective: whether it is right to think of the CPF as “our money”, to be spent solely as we choose. She explained how choice always comes with responsibility, and benefits always carry obligations. When we exercise personal choice (e.g. by spending our CPF savings early), there is a price to be paid (e.g. we may not have enough to support ourselves in old age), and that price should not be paid by someone else (e.g. other taxpayers).
Yong Yong had asked me earlier whether we had settled the CPF policy, and if so was it worth her while to speak. I said we had worked out the main changes, but strongly encouraged her to express her view and contribute to the public debate. I am glad that she did, and to such good effect."
Dear PM Lee
ReplyDeleteIs CPF money really our money?
How about you?
Are you really our Prime Minister?
Do you really represent the interest of Singaporeans?
Or do you represent the interest of Aliens?
The PM represents the interest of all Singaporeans equally; only the natural aristocrats are more equal - they can treat your CPF as their money and exempt themselves from the laws applicable to you.
Delete/// "Election campaigning activities and Seventh Month Festival events should be kept separate," it said in a statement, adding that other forms of stage performances and entertainment are also not allowed to be held with election rallies under the Public Order (Election Meetings) Regulations 2009. ///
ReplyDeleteThen how come Kit Chan is allowed on the stage to perform at the 7th-month Getai cum Election Rally?
Haven't you heard "一国两制"?
Delete"Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters."
ReplyDeleteOpposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 5, 1959
"Let us get down to fundamentals. Is this an open, or is this a closed society? Is it a society where men can preach ideas - novel, unorthodox, heresies, to established churches and established governments - where there is a constant contest for men's hearts and minds on the basis of what is right, of what is just, of what is in the national interests, or is it a closed society where the mass media - the newspapers, the journals, publications, TV, radio - either bound by sound or by sight, or both sound and sight, men's minds are fed with a constant drone of sycophantic support for a particular orthodox political philosophy? I am talking of the principle of the open society, the open debate, ideas, not intimidation, persuasion not coercion..."
ReplyDeleteLee Kuan Yew, Before Singapore's independence, Malaysian Parliamentary Debates, Dec 18, 1964
"One of the crucial yardsticks by which we shall have to judge the results of the new abortion law combined with the voluntary sterilisation law will be whether it tends to raise or lower the total quality of our population. We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two. Intelligent application of these laws can help reduce the distortion that has already set in. Until the less educated themselves are convinced and realise that they should concentrate their limited resources on one or two to give their children the maximum chance to climb up the educational ladder, their children will always be at the bottom of the economic scale. It is unlikely that the results will be discernible before five years. Nor will the effect be felt before fifteen to twenty years. But we will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic."
ReplyDeleteAbortion Bill (As reported from Select Committee), 29 Dec 1969. Singapore Parliament Reports
"Look, Jeyaretnam can't win the infighting. I'll tell you why. WE are in charge. Every government ministry and department is under our control. And in the infighting, he will go down for the count every time... I will make him crawl on his bended knees, and beg for mercy."
ReplyDelete1981, as recounted by former President C. V. Devan Nair, as quoted in Beyond suspicion?: the Singapore judiciary, Francis T. Seow
"If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem."
ReplyDeleteNational Day Rally, 1983. Cited in The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet's Surprising Future, Fred Pearce
"I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked."
ReplyDeletePresident's Address, Debate on President's Address, Parliament of Singapore (March 01, 1985).
"Mah Bow Tan, age 16, took his 'O' levels - six distinctions, two credits. Mr Chiam, age 18 - 1953 I think - six credits, one pass. He passed his English language, not bad. The next year, in 1954, he worked harder, he got a credit for his English. So you see, it's not because he doesn't know English that he found difficult in expressing himself. It's what's inside here *tapping his head*. And you better search your inside here before you cast your votes. Goodbye and good luck."
ReplyDeleteSpeech at Fullerton Square dissing Chiam See tong, 19 December 1984
"Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts."
ReplyDeleteLee Kuan Yew on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
Meanwhile the new PRC immigrants are welcomed to pee and poo, in our MRTs many thanks to our PAP leaders ?
Delete"Supposing I'm now 21, 22, what would I do? I would not be absorbed in wanting to change life in Singapore. I'm not responsible for Singapore...Why should I go and undertake this job and spend my whole life pushing this for a lot of people for whom nothing is good enough? I will have a fall-back position, which many are doing - have a house in Perth or Vancouver or Sydney, or an apartment in London, in case I need some place suddenly, and think about whether I go on to America."
ReplyDeleteSM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
“Every month, when I receive my CPF statement, I feel so rich and the best part is, I know the CPF money won’t run away.”
ReplyDeleteMinister Lim Swee Say
He forgot to add "... I know the CPF money won't run away UNTIL WE ALL DIE".
DeleteAnd my CPF money gets morer and morest every month.
Delete“If you’re the best today, strive to be better. If you’re better today, strive to be ‘betterer’ and if you’re ‘betterer’ today, strive to be ‘betterest’ so that over time, Singapore’s service standards can just keep getting better, ‘betterer’ and ‘betterest’.”
ReplyDeleteMinister Lim Swee Say
His English is better than Chiam See Tong meh, what do you think ?
Delete///“We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has endeared itself to all parties.”
ReplyDeleteMah Bow Tan on the $400,000 exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
There is another similar incident in an exercise to find the best name for Singapore’s first budget terminal, the final name chosen: the Budget Terminal.///
/// “If you ask me whether it has got anything to do with the elections, the answer is ‘yes’. everything has got to do with the elections”
ReplyDeleteMah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development, in announcing a raft of measures to curb property speculation (The Sunday Times, 5Sep2010).///
To take the nation forward for the next 50 years, we need a vision to guide us where we want to be.
DeleteOther than repetitive mundane rehash of past firefighting measures such as baby bonus, housing schemes, there was hardly anything else worth remembering to fit an occasion as symbolic as a NDR speech on a nation's Silver Jubilee, our SG50.
It seems as a nation, we are still going in circles trying to solve many fundamental issues.
Many long term issues are left untouched except those that can hand out political carrots such as baby bonus and housing.
DeleteOn the whole, it is a disappointing speech in terms of the ( lack of ) strategic directions to take the young nation forward in the next 50 years. It is the same boring theme of baby bonus, housing, construction, more hardwares.
Nothing inspiring and nothing special to remember. So much for repeatedly reiterating in the speech that we need to be special to succeed in the long term. Anything special in the speech? Perhaps being able to preach but unable to practise is being "SPECIAL"???
Delete/// “Remember your place in society before you engage in political debate… Debate cannot generate into a free-for-all where no distinction is made between the senior and junior party… You must make distinctions – What is high, what is low, what is above, what is below, and then within this, we can have a debate, we can have a discussion… people should not take on those in authority as ‘equals’” – Former Foreign Minister George Yeo (1994)///
ReplyDelete“Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is not to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential treatment. Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment.”- Cedric Foo
ReplyDelete“Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds of World Cup in 2010.” - Ho Peng Kee
ReplyDelete“One evening, I drove to Little India and it was pitch dark but not because there was no light, but because there were too many Indians around.”
ReplyDeleteformer PAP MP Mr Choo Wee Khiang (1992).
“I was born in a generation where every cent counts, so I believe we should spend our money wisely, and not on frivolities. Sometimes, I think our present Cabinet spends money on frivolities, and staging the F1 is my “favourite” example.” - ex-top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow
ReplyDeleteSinkieland will get unbearably suffocating if she continues along present path.
DeleteSinkieland and sinkies need a breathe of fresh air.
Ngiam Tong Dow already spoken previously. The present path of labour intensive economic structure will only lead to more and more future problems for sinkies ( ultimately gloom and doom ).
DeleteThe good work of the old guards have all been undone since 1990.
Whether in education, economic policies, immigration, population etc.
The incumbents have shot themselves and sinkies in the foot but making sinkies pay for their misjudgement, naivety and follies.
DeleteAfter the initial novelty wears off, all the hardwares and buildings mean nothing to sinkies daily lives.
They are like shots of steroids in the arms in the short term giving temporary boosts but a lifetime of ill effects that will never go away till one's demise.
The incumbents have "failed sinkies"!
DeleteJialat so much fun out of making a fool out of our PAP leaders ? That must be the price they have to pay for being so greedy, tio bo ?
ReplyDeletehttp://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/parliament-has-been-dissolved
ReplyDeleteNomination Day 1st September. It's now or never guys, to take back our country.
DeleteErection on 11 Sep
DeleteChinese calendar says Sep 11 inauspicious for everything. Maybe many more seats going to be lost?
DeleteIt could be very bad.
Deletepatriot
911 Singapore. A day when PAP will be reduced from Action to Ashes.
Delete冲猴!
DeleteGood luck to those born in the year of monkey, rat and dragon ......
Tiger, horse, dog ..... very strong that day
Based on the rough interpretation of the Chinese almanac, that day is tension filled, several bad luck stars in action, temper easily flared up, avoid unnecessary confrontation and skirmishes or else might involve 血灾 。。。。。accidents prone day ...... avoid hell driving / speeding ...... bad starts creating impediments otw home .... be cautious for those with dim luck this year ..... means ox, goat and a few others ........ inauspicious for those born under the wood element.
DeleteMonkey and wood - sounds like Mr Teochew has both .......
911 PAP
DeleteChek Made Mr Teochew?
DeleteAljunied "告急"?
DeleteIn life, many things are about balance. Giving absolute power to the most benevolent dictatorship may have unintended and apocalyptic consequences if absolute power is in the wrong hands. There is 101% no guarantee that absolute power will be wielded 101% fairly and equitably in the people's interests. On the other hand, to throw caution to the wind and wager everything in a show hand may be too tempestuous and risk practically everything still in possession.
DeleteThe maturity of a nation's populace in political awareness and cultural enlightenment ultimately determines the political choice they made that will decide their future paths for themselves and their future generations.
DeleteNonetheless, at this critical crossroads, it may have reached a stage where it is too perilous to put all eggs in one basket.
DeleteHypothetically, swing voters in some areas may have a hard choice to make!
DeleteIt may not be simply about choosing one side or another.
DeleteIt is about their future, their children's future and their children's children's future.
DeleteIn the end, the eventual outcome in life could be more fortuitous than deterministic.
DeleteThe significance of randomness in almost everything is greatly underestimated.
DeleteThus, the share of randomness in any election outcome cannot be totally disregarded in place of presumed faith and belief in determinism.
DeleteThe Chinese have a saying: " 天作孽，犹可违； 自作孽，不可活。"
DeleteRoughly it has the same meaning as: "Karma is a bitch. Keep calm and let karma finish it."
DeleteThere is a spectre of gloom casting over sinkieland.
ReplyDeleteThe spectre of evil men being elected.
Unite all sinkies!
You have nothing to lose except the handcuffs on your wrists, the shackles around your neck and the chains and locks around your ankles.
They do look decent to me.
ReplyDeleteThey have been talking alot.
promising alot too.
JUST THAT THEY
DO NOT
DELIVER.
SO, ALL THEIR NICE
TALKS ARE JUST TO
PATRONIZE SINKIES.
patriot
They ONLY need 45 seats out of 89 to keep their power.
ReplyDeleteAn only 12-15 ministers to run the cabinet.
The rest are just the same same BUT not different drones.
Remove their dominance and start support local opposition in our backyards and intime, they can trained to be shadow govt.
Given the current domestic climate, it might be inevitable sinkies would yearn for significant change to get a breathe of long deprived and much needed fresh air. In the end, fate and destiny may decide Sinkieland's outcome, just like it did in the past 50 years. For better or for worst.
DeleteA decision that sinkies have to make collectively symbolically and critically during its Silver Jubilee on SG50. A decision that collectively may be the toughest sinkies have to make in its short history. May we see a much stronger and happier Sinkieland in time to come during its Centennial Jubilee on SG100.
DeleteHome is JB, Batam or Bintan where you can stretch monthly Singapore cost easily to pay at least 2-1/2 months ... 80, 90 per cent of Singaporeans own their homes. If they are not affordable, then how do you achieve such an outcome?”
ReplyDeleteKhaw Boon Wan???
This guy advocated in 2009 to "deport" and "dump" sinkies old folks ( pioneer generation ) in JB ...etc . Do you want such leaders?
DeleteElection is only about winning the battle. Governing the country comes later. Thus, what matters in election is strategy, courage, tactics, organisation, machinery, oratory, stamina, charisma, vision, team work ........
ReplyDeleteChicken rice, abalone porridge, D24 durians, chilli craps, XO carrot cakes, mee siam, chicken wings, ..... are lower cheap skate ploys to exploit old folks, aunties, uncles .....
The incumbents seemed confident this time.
Delete胸有成竹
Five more good years, towards Swiss SOL
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
ReplyDeleteJoseph Stalin
建国五十载， 正是金禧庆，
ReplyDelete一举定乾坤，定期九一一，
屋漏连夜雨，遗恨失吞鈮。
each of us must share this with as many as people it is our duty as Singaporeans
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