Please do not buy into all this bullshit and hype, prepare for what comes AFTER!

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Amidst all the excitement, you all know as well as I do what the real outcome will be. It will be the same outcome that it has always been. At best, nothing changes, Potong Pasir is still under SPP, Hougang is still under WP. At worst, all wards belong to PAP, all MPs are PAP. It doesn't matter how badly the PAP screws up; it doesn't matter how qualified the Opposition is. They have always had the mandate of the people. Period.

Now let's cut to the chase of what really matters. What happens after the election. Make no mistake, there will be retribution. You WILL see GST, conservancy charges, transport fares, retirement age, cost of living, Minister's salaries, minimum CPF sum, number of foreigners, prices of new flats, etc all going up. You WILL experience the backlash of allowing the Opposition to have such a huge presence this election, whether you are directly responsible or not.

I'm not telling you who to vote for. I'm telling you, deep down from my heart, to prepare for the worse. Do not buy into the all the bullshit and hype that things are actually going to change. If you've lived in Singapore all your life, you know exactly what kind of people Singaporeans are. Being allowed to cheer at Opposition rallies and venting their frustration at PAP is the CLOSEST they will ever come to making a protest of any sort. At the polling booths this Saturday, you know exactly whom Singaporeans will vote for.

If you are unaffected by rising costs, by all means continue with your good life. If you are affected, brace yourselves. I say this as a realist. Cut through all the words flying around and you will see what actually matters. You must take care of yourself. I'm already prepared for the coming storm. Are you?

 

[i_am_belle]

yeah, im also prepared for the worst, bcos there are ppl who think like this blogger (see article below) --

(found this on the net ... obviously this person has benefitted from PAP policies, or is even residing overseas, who knows ? so she's immuned from the overcrowding, the declining quality of life, the rude/unhappy faces everywhere, the soaring cost of living) ...


Singapore Elections 2011
Posted on 21 April 2011 by uptowngal

Someone told me that when Margaret Thatcher visited Singapore, she made a comment that she & Lee Kuan Yew were similar in the way they ruled a country, however, LKY was more fortunate because he had many more years to roll out his policies. I am unable to verify the authenticity of that comment, though, even if taken as a parable, I still see the point it is trying to make.

I believe that one of the reasons why Singapore has moved from being a Third World country to First World so quickly is because the same party has been in power for the last few decades. Think about it. Elections have to be called every 5 years. If the ruling party changed every time, it means that the newly elected party has only 5 years to implement whatever policies it has for the country. It will probably take about 2 years for the newly elected party to run off the policies implemented by the previous government, by which it only has up to 3 years to implement its own policies, plus plan for the next elections. Given the short frame of time, it is almost practically impossible for the ruling party to do any real long term planning for a country. Will the government be able to do any sort of 5-year & 10-year blueprint? For long term plans that are midway in execution, what happens to them when the ruling party changes? Do these plans get abandoned? Modified? How effective & efficient will the country be if long term plans get disrupted all the time?

People have jokingly called Singapore’s ruling party a dictatorship. But I think how Singapore’s political system has differed from a dictatorship is that although the same party has been in power for many years, there has been proper succession planning & renewal at the top ranks. As a thought, is it necessarily bad that the same party has ruled for so many years? Having the same party in power has ensured that plans and policies have been followed through. Sure, there may have been some wrong decisions made, or opportunities missed. What’s important, however, is that the people who made those decisions were also around to rectify & improve things. I feel that that’s way better than having new politicians come in all the time, give their 5-year shot at running the country, then either moving back to the private sector to earn big bucks leveraging from their political career, or running off because they screwed up.

People talk about our ruling party having “group think” but I think the herd mentality is more applicable & evident in people who bash the government, just for the sake of complaining. There will always be opposition parties in Singapore and there is merit in that. What I hope is that Singaporeans will cast a meaningful vote. Vote for the party that can take our country forward, not for the one who makes the greatest noise.

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[kazuo]

Much though I wd like to see the downfall of the incumbent, the reality is that Sinkies vote with their wallets. Many of the Sinkies who throng the rallies go there to air their grievances vicariously. What they cannot say in public, what they are unable to articulate, they find expression in the speeches of the opp candidates. And dun expect these same pp to jeopardize the value of their flats.

I agree that come May 7, the mandate could be returned to PAP with no opposition in tow. i have been saying this since the hustings began, cos i know how self-centred Sinkies can be.

 

[Bigfuck]

You do not know like everybody else in Singapore as no voting was done for a majority of Singapore for more than 2 decades. You guess is as good as mind and there is no need to manage any expectation.