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PM: Protect Singapore, our shared asset

MarrickG

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SINGAPORE is a precious jewel and should be treasured, protected and improved, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday, calling it a "shared asset".

That is the message Mr Lee wants to tell the electorate after nine days of "intense" campaigning.

Touted as a watershed election, the incumbent ruling party, the People's Action Party (PAP), faces an unprecedented challenge from the opposition parties, with 82 out of 87 seats contested.

Speaking to reporters after a walkabout at food centres and markets in Ang Mo Kio, Mr Lee said he hopes that voters will take the time to deliberate on their choice on Cooling-off Day today.

He said: "I hope they can sit back...and think over their choice for tomorrow."

Though he understands that voters are concerned with pressing issues such as housing and the cost of living, he urged them to also consider the Government's long-term plans, such as leadership renewal.

"The issue of leadership renewal is rarely discussed because people feel it is not something that affects them today. But if we do not consider it now, we will have a problem 10 years later," he said in Mandarin.

With "a certain rise in the temperature" islandwide, he added: "People know that this is no ordinary time, it's an election and people are canvassing for support, for votes.

"So many things...which people have been thinking about, perhaps it crystallises a little bit more during this period."

One topic on the minds of Singaporeans is the possible rise in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) after the polls. Stickers have been spotted on notice boards in some parts of Singapore, telling voters to "Say No to 10% GST".

To ease voters' doubts, Mr Lee and his Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) team took the time to hand residents pamphlets with a message quashing rumours of such a hike. His wife, Ms Ho Ching, was also present, greeting and distributing materials to residents.

Mr Lee said: "We're just putting it there...to prevent anybody from getting confused.

"As the election goes, people are interested in what the leaders are saying, what the arguments are about. So we decided to prepare some fresh materials." Though Mr Lee was confident about how the PAP will fare at the polls, he said: "We are not taking anybody's vote for granted. We are fighting for every vote."

On the fiercely contested Aljunied GRC where the PAP is up against the Workers' Party's (WP) "A" Team, Mr Lee said: "(The PAP) is fighting hard. Our people are in good spirits."

The WP line-up in Aljunied comprises party chief Low Thia Khiang, party chairman Sylvia Lim, corporate lawyer Chen Show Mao, counsellor Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap and postgraduate law student Pritam Singh.

On the competition in Aljunied, Minister Mentor (MM) Lee Kuan Yew had said earlier that voters there would have "five years to live and repent" should the opposition be elected.

During his Tuesday lunch-time rally speech, the younger Mr Lee stated his stand - that the Government works differently from that of MM's generation.

When asked for MM's reactions to what he had said, Mr Lee said: "I think he understands. He doesn't disagree with what I say. He knows our position and we know his position."

In the same rally speech, Mr Lee had also apologised to Singaporeans for "mistakes" such as the escape of detained terrorist Mas Selamat in 2008 and floods in Orchard Road last year.

He said: "I'm very grateful for the response to my speech, I'm very moved and touched. I think it has resonated with people."

However, the opposition expressed sceptisim about Mr Lee's apology, calling it a move to win sympathy votes.

When my paper asked the Prime Minister for his views, he said: "The opposition will say that. I have already said what I have to say; I think Singaporeans know that when I say something, I mean what I say."
 

aangsc

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"SINGAPORE is a precious jewel and should be treasured, protected and improved," said our PM.

On the contrary , I think Singapore is an expensive jewel to maintain and it is only nice for the foreign tourists. The jaga managing it are also expensive, we are having problem supporting such expensive taste you know. DO you have no way to lower the cost to maintaining it ? Perhaps, we need to outsource to a more competent team that can do the same job for a lower price. Actually, I am very curious how much does it cost us tax payers to maintain these "servants". I found some old information about pay in 2007 . Anyone has the latest scale ? I have no problem that some top calibre and high performance ministers are earning millions, but I don't think every one of them fit into that category.
The annual salary structure
With immediate effect, (in Singapore dollars):
President – $3,187,100 (up 24.9%),
Prime Minister – $3,091,200 (up 25.5%),
Senior Minister – $3,043,300 (up 13.5%),
Minister Mentor – $3,043,300 (up 13.5%),
Deputy Prime Minister – $2,452,500 (up 18.8%),
Minister and Senior Perm Sec – $1,593,500 (up 32.5% increase) (MR4 Grade),
Entry Superscale Grade – $384,000 (up 3.3%) [SR9 Grade],
Member of Parliament – $216,300 (up 23.2%).
 
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Taro Ries

Alfrescian
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We must protect Singapore, our shared asset from imbeciles in white. This is the only country we have. Let not a small group of conspirators rob it from us.

I'm moved to tears seeing the large turnout of my fellowmen at this years' opposition rallies. I always thought that Singaporeans are incapable of coming together at a non-government sanctioned political event in such numbers but I was very happy to be proven wrong.

Suddenly, there was hope for change and I am very grateful for these patriots who risk their careers, sacrificed their time, money, and privacy to walk into some would consider the crosshairs of the PAP.

They have taken up the cudgel for the people when so few even have the courage vote from the heart.

The air in these rallies was electric. It gave me hope and make me felt connected to my fellowmen again. I see I was not alone in my grouses. I see brave men and women ready to act. I see what Singaporeans are capable of despite having been put down and shackled by a fascist government.

For those few hours, everyone was color blind. The crowd cheered regardless or not if they understood English, Hokkien, Teochew, Hainanese, Tamil or Malay. And it was spontaneous unlike the fake crowds that the PAP brought in by busloads.

For those few hours, I experienced a truly united Singapore. I wished deep in my heart that this spirit will last long enough through the next few days till the election, that the electricity emanating from the stadium would be carried by the wind and envelop every corner of the island to the uninformed, the uncertain and to those too paralysed with fear to act.

I hear the echos of the cheers bouncing off the blocks of HDB flats. Awaken my fellowmen, awaken!
 

streetsmart73

Alfrescian (InfP)
Generous Asset
hi there


1. what an expensive protection fees sheep are currently paying man!
2. top elites commanding top salaries into the millions.
3. for an overcrowding jewel, full of sheep and other sheep from elsewhere.
4. trains that packed to the brim; public housing that is not necessarily meant for the common sheep but shared with other sheep from elsewhere.
5. roads and erp! oops! healthcare and education.
6. my crocodile tears from my ageing eyes begin to roll down man!
 
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