Playing mother hen, Ng Eng Hen is leading three greenhorns into parliament via the GRC backdoor, spouting platitudes like:
"look out for residents" - Chong Kee Hiong
"inclusive society is critical" - Chee Hong tat
"contribute to S'pore dream" - Saktiandi Bin Supaat
There's good reason why the chicken crossed the good: the pay over there is better. Jack Neo nailed it with "Money No Enough". Even the superscaled salaried permanent secretary is aiming for the million dollar lottery prize. He claims his wife had reservations, but Ngiam Tong Dow begs to differ:
“When you raise ministers’ salaries to the point that they’re earning millions of dollar, every minister — no matter how much he wants to turn up and tell Hsien Loong off or whatever — will hesitate when he thinks of his million-dollar salary. Even if he wants to do it, his wife will stop him.”
We have seen freshly minted ministers looking out for cardboard collectors with rose-tinted glasses, championing influx of foreigners into the local workforce, and dreaming of the Swiss standard attainable only by the likes of Goh Chok Tong and his cohorts.
The original headline for the ChannelNews Asia post was "All three hot-button issues in the last General Election in 2011 are still on minds of Singaporeans". That was quickly toned down to "Housing, jobs and healthcare weigh heaviest on minds of Singaporeans, survey finds". The heat is still on.
In the land of America, only a competent democratically elected president will make it to term two. Here in lah-lah land, an incompetent after 7 terms, is still asking for more time to address the same three heated issues: Housing, Jobs and Healthcare. By the time a new entrant to the workforce - fighting tooth and nail to stave off foreigners imported to compete for the same job opportunity - finally pays off the last mortgage due, he/she is already in her fifties, staring at a depleted bank account to cope with retirement needs. Based on current estimates, the Medishield Life premium will be at least $1,400. And the dream of car ownership will start at about $100,000, the price of the smallest public housing flat unit.
Hard to believe, but it's currently on your television screens. Fancy powerpoint slides and crafted statistics about Housing, Jobs and Healthcare. Parliament has yet to be dissolved and the writ of election yet to be issued, but campaigning is already in earnest. How is it Lee-gal and Lee-gitimate to misuse public media for selfish party agenda?
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Parliament has yet to be dissolved and the writ of election yet to be issued, but campaigning is already in earnest. How is it Lee-gal and Lee-gitimate//
ReplyDeleteSpot on.
Was chatting with a group of Europeans friends here. You know, those from the real first world types. They asked if election has started in singapore. I said yes. They asked when. I said no idea. They all laughed. How could it be that citizens know implicitly campaigning has started, and is clear from papers n tv they read. But no date is announced! Lol, I said that is my authoritarian and kiasu one party government for you. That is the kind of shamocratic first world our leaders claimed we have, constantly humiliating the citizens internationally, making us a butt joke.
Know what else sucks other than national day songs that are written by Canadians aka non Singaporeans, but also those with lyrics that is full of Dreams/Hope/Home , these cliche words.
ReplyDeleteLook how MPs new and old repeating ad nauseum. They truly don't want people to wake up. Far better they stay in their dreams of slumberland and be zombies.
"We all miss Mr Lee but the DREAM that he and the Pioneer Generation and his team of leaders initiated, continues. The Singapore DREAM. That DREAM of making things better for ourselves and for the country and if you think about it, if you look around this area, the DREAM does not stop here,” said Ms Indranee.
That power of NLP (neuro linguistic programming) works wonder on subconscious mind. It keeps you being manipulated, that is.
Mother Hen, haha. That's a good one. Why should we be surprised that they have yewsurped the media to spread their party message? I mean, it's been going on all the time during the SG50 celebrations, to the extent of resurrecting an horrible person.
ReplyDeleteHey, this is only the start. Their verbiage gets so corny that it becomes unbelievable. You gotta have heart first, to sound convincing. Won't you will just love it when the bullshit hits the fan in Sembawang, the cock and bull (Hen & Khaw) will really get nauseating.
"Joining the five-member GRC are Mr Amrin Amin and Mr Ong Ye Kung, who were unveiled at the Sunshine Welfare Action Mission Home in Sembawang, a venue chosen as the party had already booked the location for a "kopi talk" with residents on the same day."
DeleteMore cock and bull from the cow: "They all have their hearts in the right place. This is what we look for in our candidates….We look for people who are honest, with high standards of integrity. Who are passionate about wanting to help others, with a sense of selflessness …."
Mother Hen and his chicken littles
DeleteKhaw-Boy and his greenhorns
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Sembawang the new Khaw-Boy town where anything goes?
DeletePlenty of Malaysians and China FTs there. A very safe seat. Aljunied loser OYK becomes son of sembawang. Lol guaranteed a through train ride?
DeleteThe Heat is causing many Pappieshigh fever.
ReplyDeleteHope, none will suffer stroke, cardiac arrest long term high blood pressure when the Election Results are being announced.
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ReplyDeleteAnyone sees integrity, honesty and sincerity when the Khaw introduces his Team for Sembawang as broadcasted on State Media?
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The one who got away must become the one who got in (on coattail). Typical scholar, whatever it takes to pass the exams. Don't even believe those cries and promises they said to aljunied voters in 2011.
DeleteI think what the Khaw meant was that he wants his candidates to have "dignity". Listen to what his candidate Dr Lim Wee Kiat said in 2011:
Delete"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discusses policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain a bit of dignity."
So do you think they will have "their hearts in the right place……are passionate about wanting to help others, with a sense of selflessness …."?What Ngiam Tong Dow said about Minister's million dollar salaries was right - that is where their heart is. Reading, listening to the Khaw's mumbo jumbo makes me want to puke.
Is it not a real joke that after being paid millions and not withstanding the fact he was personally mentored by that horrible man, he still had to apologised to the nation for so many blunders?
ReplyDeleteIs it fair to the country that he is still taking his sweet time to find the next chosen one ?
And is it not as if he is using our taxpayers' monies to pay his cabinet ministers well enough so that none of them dared to challenge his position?
With this kind of guardian winner-takes-all kind of politics, one fine day we will all end up with one that is not much different from the corrupt one across the Causeway!
/// Hard to believe, but it's currently on your television screens. Fancy powerpoint slides and crafted statistics about Housing, Jobs and Healthcare.///
ReplyDeleteAnd the parody of Journey to the West on Medishield.
There are the blatant flouting of lection laws, and not so blatant one lah!
ReplyDeleteLike that "temasek" ad on TV prime time started since 2 weeks ago, with the little girl saying "selamat pagi" and with "Temasek" flashed across the screen at the end, what does that mean ha? Which "Temasek" is it advertising? Political ad but dare not announce to world clearly who paid for the multi million dollar ad campaign? What is the mesage ha? Every nite, Mediacorp must be laughing to bank, who else benefits from the ad? What is the message ha? Not a single FT face leh, is that ad filmed in red dot recently? Hard to believe, I hear more tagalog than "selamat pagi" in MRT nowadays.
Does "investing for the future: mean I cannot get back my cpf money at 55 years old?
DeleteDoes "future" mean wait long time?
Does "inclusive society is critical" meant adults working for 30 odd years, it is critically inclusive to contribute toward Medishield premiums for parents of newly minted citizens, regardless their existing medical conditions?
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