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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Aljunied curses the day they voted PAP</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>PAPalBull <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>7:23 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 8) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>47841.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD id=msgtxt_1 class=msgtxt>PAP let Aljunied GRC down
<SMALL class=metadata>Published Thursday, April 14, 2011 by Singapore Election |
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By: baldeagle
The mood is sombre.... dark in this GRC...
Singaporeans are fed-up with the rising prices. Noodle at the
neighbourhood coffee shop cost 50 cents more a bowl now... Hawkers
cannot afford the high rents ($5,000 to 7500 a month) have to stop
selling...leaving most the stalls in the coffee shop empty. Sitting
in the coffee shop is like attending a wake.
The retired old folks who gather here daily after their morning walk
around the reservoir....are not smiling anymore. Their favourite
minister, George Yeo is now a taboo subject... 7 of the 9 old folks
would get angry whenever his name is mentioned...fuck words in Hokkien
would be heard. These old folks had been behind PAP winning in past
elections.
Why the change ?
PAP has let them down...BADLY. Their retirement fund has been eaten up
by the rising cost...rising food cost (meat, veg, fish, and hawker
meals)... cost of electricity and water,... higher transport
cost...many have lost their temporary jobs to Bangladeshi.... They
asked Minister Yeo for help...he promised to do something. After
months of waiting...nothing was done...instead the prices gone even
higher....two who have to work at 70 years old lost their table
cleaning jobs to foreigners!!! The old folks are worried about how to
live...now their money can buy less and less. When their retirement
are exhausted, they may be forced to go before their time.
Nobody talk about the election goodies and upgrading anymore..instead
they curse PAP for letting them down...To them PAP is no longer a good
government.
These old folks who have voted for PAP all their lives....They will
certainly not support PAP anymore.
This scene is repeated in many the coffee shops around the Aljunied
GRC.
If the election is held next month, PAP will surely lose thousands
more votes. The slim majority PAP won in the 2006 election will be
gone. If worker's party could field a strong team including Chan Show
Mau...We will see a new Foreign minister.
The wind of change is becoming stronger...and stronger...in Aljunied
GRC.
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zhang <SMALL class=commentmetadata>on 4:56 PM SGT </SMALL>Well it is not just the cleaners' jobs that are being taken away. If you go to our Philips headquarters at Toa Payoh - just see how many of our middle management/ clerical jobs are also given away to ang mohs. Are you sure we can't find enough of our own Singaporeans to fill these jobs? If citizens are not being taken care of, can we expect any loyalty from the citizens? We are supposed to be one of the most well educated and intelligent people in the region. In areas of maths, science competitions we are always amongst the top. I do not believe we can't match these ang mohs. To think that they are allowed in for a free ride under the "label" of foreign talents and looking down on the locals who feed them is really disheartening!
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<SMALL class=metadata>Published Thursday, April 14, 2011 by Singapore Election |
</SMALL> By: baldeagle
The mood is sombre.... dark in this GRC...
Singaporeans are fed-up with the rising prices. Noodle at the
neighbourhood coffee shop cost 50 cents more a bowl now... Hawkers
cannot afford the high rents ($5,000 to 7500 a month) have to stop
selling...leaving most the stalls in the coffee shop empty. Sitting
in the coffee shop is like attending a wake.
The retired old folks who gather here daily after their morning walk
around the reservoir....are not smiling anymore. Their favourite
minister, George Yeo is now a taboo subject... 7 of the 9 old folks
would get angry whenever his name is mentioned...fuck words in Hokkien
would be heard. These old folks had been behind PAP winning in past
elections.
Why the change ?
PAP has let them down...BADLY. Their retirement fund has been eaten up
by the rising cost...rising food cost (meat, veg, fish, and hawker
meals)... cost of electricity and water,... higher transport
cost...many have lost their temporary jobs to Bangladeshi.... They
asked Minister Yeo for help...he promised to do something. After
months of waiting...nothing was done...instead the prices gone even
higher....two who have to work at 70 years old lost their table
cleaning jobs to foreigners!!! The old folks are worried about how to
live...now their money can buy less and less. When their retirement
are exhausted, they may be forced to go before their time.
Nobody talk about the election goodies and upgrading anymore..instead
they curse PAP for letting them down...To them PAP is no longer a good
government.
These old folks who have voted for PAP all their lives....They will
certainly not support PAP anymore.
This scene is repeated in many the coffee shops around the Aljunied
GRC.
If the election is held next month, PAP will surely lose thousands
more votes. The slim majority PAP won in the 2006 election will be
gone. If worker's party could field a strong team including Chan Show
Mau...We will see a new Foreign minister.
The wind of change is becoming stronger...and stronger...in Aljunied
GRC.
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