Is the PAP ground turning sour over FTs ?

[Sideswipe]

Tampiness GRC
PAP won 61% in 1988, won 59% in 1991, won 73% in 2001, 69% in 2006

69% - the oppositions need a 20% votes swing to win this GRC in less than a year time.

look a very hard task.

 

[kingrant]

Old fart likes to believe that HDB dwellers are sitting on a gold mountain, but doesnt realise that they are only paper gains. If the prices keep going up. when they sell their flats, they will have to pay more for the next flat.

Flat owners end up selling high but buying higher. But that is still better than Temasek Holdings and GIC - they buy high and sell low.

Even if Shorty Mah loses in the next election, there's no freaking way that HDB flats "would no longer be of any value" Its like telling me that once Shorty loses, the HDB prices will plummet to 70s' value or lower?
Hahahhahaha!!!

 

[johnny333]

Old fart likes to believe that HDB dwellers are sitting on a gold mountain, but doesnt realise that they are only paper gains. If the prices keep going up. when they sell their flats, they will have to pay more for the next flat.

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Not forgetting that higher property values mean the gov't collects higher property taxes.

 

[sinren67]

Dear Scroobal,

This is not a good thing for me. :(

I do not intend to become the focus of next elections...as from past elections, those "hotbeds" normally won't win, only those less hot places sneaked in. eg. Yishun, Hougang.. etc.

It is not a good sign for the old man to throw threats with regards to Tampines.

Goh Meng Seng

Maybe the "big 3" will do a walkabout in Tampines during the GE campaign, just like what they did in Nee Soon East in GE 2001.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

Goh Meng Seng,

Aljunied was the target in last ge, and they got the highest percentage amongst the losers. How's that bad for u?

You being the target is good for us voters. You take all the heat, then the oppo candidate in my ward get to fight a decent battle. Nice. Please do your part and stick your neck out for voters. Thank you in advance

Dear Scroobal,

This is not a good thing for me. :(

I do not intend to become the focus of next elections...as from past elections, those "hotbeds" normally won't win, only those less hot places sneaked in. eg. Yishun, Hougang.. etc.

It is not a good sign for the old man to throw threats with regards to Tampines.

Goh Meng Seng

 

[Goh Meng Seng]

Goh Meng Seng,

Aljunied was the target in last ge, and they got the highest percentage amongst the losers. How's that bad for u?

You being the target is good for us voters. You take all the heat, then the oppo candidate in my ward get to fight a decent battle. Nice. Please do your part and stick your neck out for voters. Thank you in advance

Well, I don't really care about being top scorer... I only care about winning or not.

Well I don't mind to take the heat while other GRCs could make the break through. Maybe Aljunied GRC could sail through.

Goh Meng Seng

 

[elephanto]

Old fart likes to believe that HDB dwellers are sitting on a gold mountain, but doesnt realise that they are only paper gains. If the prices keep going up. when they sell their flats, they will have to pay more for the next flat.

Flat owners end up selling high but buying higher. But that is still better than Temasek Holdings and GIC - they buy high and sell low.

Asset Inflation and NOT Asset Appreciation.

Remember that classic pre-historic threat was:-

You vote opposition, foreign investors run away !

Then the threat of the middle ages :-

You vote opposition, your estate will be ghettos, upgrading at back of queue !

Now, entering 2010 ..... still threatening .... sigh

 

[ChaoPappyPoodle]

Old fart likes to believe that HDB dwellers are sitting on a gold mountain, but doesnt realise that they are only paper gains. If the prices keep going up. when they sell their flats, they will have to pay more for the next flat.

Flat owners end up selling high but buying higher. But that is still better than Temasek Holdings and GIC - they buy high and sell low.

There are too many posts like yours for far too long. It is people like you - the so-called 33% that is the cause of PAP stay in power.

People like you think that LKY and his pappies really care for the country when the fact is that they care for themselves first. When you believe in this only then can you convince the other 66%.

Otherwise you are worse off than the 66% because you are weak and when you pretend to be strong. A little wind blows and you're off teh step.

Heh! CB! Of course they know it is only a lease. Of course they know the price is high and even artificially so. Yes they know that more demand plus lower supply equals higher price. THey also know that FTs will push prices up just like how the Hongkies did so when thousands of them came here before 1997.

Wake up your fucking idea and smell the shit from the roses. The PAP is a diabolical beast that is only interested in itself. They have entrenched themselves so well that to them taking care of themselves feels like taking care of the country.

I hope to live long enough to see pappies going to prison for seditious acts.

 

[jw5]

Old fart likes to believe that HDB dwellers are sitting on a gold mountain, but doesnt realise that they are only paper gains. If the prices keep going up. when they sell their flats, they will have to pay more for the next flat.

Flat owners end up selling high but buying higher. But that is still better than Temasek Holdings and GIC - they buy high and sell low.

His logic is absurd.
For most singaporean hdb dwellers, they are living in their only flat and intend to continue living in that flat.
Even if there is price appreciation, it will not be enough for them to upgrade to a condominium or a bigger flat. Most of them would not want to either.
So what's the point of having a value increase in the flat you are living in?
Increase in value is only useful for him and his elite family and friends who have many properties as investments. His lack of empathy or apathy is laughable.

 

[Frankiestine]

Not forgetting that higher property values mean the gov't collects higher property taxes.

And not forgetting they can sell their new flats at a much higher price using the so call "subsidy" which is off the latest selling price of resale flats in that particular area and not the cost of material to build the new flat...which incidentally they used to claim so...

 

[Frankiestine]

Well, I don't really care about being top scorer... I only care about winning or not.

Well I don't mind to take the heat while other GRCs could make the break through. Maybe Aljunied GRC could sail through.

Goh Meng Seng

So you still intend to stand in Teck Whye? Might be good to play on the residents sense of personal security in the area considering how some one could get chopped up while just across the road was the Police Post.