Sinkapore is tiny dot ...it should be compared to a certain region of the neighbouring countries instead. Otherwise, compare it to the developed countries. Average incomes tell us nothing. Use median income lah.
You are not comparing apple with apple.
It's tolerable in speech but does not look good in writing.
You don't normally use Singlish.
There's always been loads of crap in this forum.
However in the good old days there was a sense of enthusiasm and optimism that on line forums could change things.There was also some hope that when the old fart kicked the bucket things would change.Nowadays everyone is just jaded and disillusioned. I can't be bothered anymore either whereas I used to be very enthusiastic especially in offering help in getting out of that cesspit country.However life goes on and I still find some enjoyment in reading some of the stuff here.
I'm trying out https again but it seems to be messing up the formatting and also the edit and reply scripts seem to take forever.
There's always been loads of crap in this forum.
Yeah just noticed that too... back to the drawing board.
Once again, I will explain my argument. 1) We know that odds are there will be nothing done against the govt and the responsible ministers because this is a dictatorship. However, in some cases action is actually taken. The Brompton Bike scandal is a good example, where a whistle blower tipped off the chinese newspaper and the whole case got out in the open. Who tipped them off? I don't know and you don't know. But for sure, the local newspapers don't check the govt procurement website every day to look for these kinds of scandal. Maybe the Taiwanese competitor who makes similar folding bikes to the Brompton company tipped off the newspaper? maybe a another bike shop got pissed off that their competitor Bikeshop won the contract because the owner was a buddy of the Nparks manager who put up the tender? No one knows. But we do know that something was done, and the guy went to court and was charged. 2) Even if nothing was done, or will be done, people should still whistle blow. why? Because by doing so, they will put the PAP on the defensive. They will expose the PAP as untrustworthy and dishonest. Look at the spin and the lies that Khaw put on the Brompton bike scandal. It made him look like an idiot. The same for the crack trains scandals. After Factwire broke the news, the local media was filled with pages and pages of LTA and SMRT trying to defend itself. Anytime when you can cast legitimate doubt on the competency of the PAP it is a good thing. You will never sway the 40-50% hardcore PAP who don't care and will still vote them even if they were bend over and personally raped by their local PAP MP. But the 10-15% fence sitters might do something about it at the next GE. 3) I don't know why people on this forum equate whistle blowing with reprisals and job loss. It can be completely anonymous as shown above. They cannot come after you if they do not know who you are. That is the whole reason that Wikileaks exist. No one knows who are the exact people releasing all this information. Wikileaks receives all the secret documents from all its sources and then releases it to the news media. If they identified who their sources were, they will not be in business for long. Every single person who sends incriminating information to Wikileaks is unknown. With so many ways to achieve and maintain anonymity, there is really no excuse other then lack of balls. 4) U have hit the nail on the head. with social media and online networks, there is no reason that the news cannot be spread out there,..........while maintaining your anonymity.
I have considered getting out, and I might still do that down the road. I do qualify under the various investor immigrant categories put out there by various countries. But always, i ask myself, why should I leave? What have I done wrong that I should leave? I was born and raised here and its true the country has changed from a happy one in my earlier years to the shit hole it is today. But i if leave, I am playing into the PAP's hands. They want you to leave. They want more new citizens to come in, even if its for a short time, to keep their votes up and buy new shit HDB flats from them. If anybody should leave, it should be the PAP. They are the ones that fucked up the place.
Yes, but without this forum and others like it, things would be worse. I can guarantee you that. U think the PAP does not monitor and read these forums? These forums are good for enlightening people and also good for explaining the new scams that come out. Want to know why the govt really wanted to shift to the new bus model and the implications of that, come here and read the thread on it. If even 10 people change their votes from PAP to oppo after reading some post here, then its already worth it. i have long maintained that the WP is a fake oppo and put out several threads on this, and i can see the opinion is switching to my point of view here. There is still some usefulness to this forum.There's always been loads of crap in this forum.
