Why crowd at rally cheered WP, then fell silent

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

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May 3, 2011
Why crowd at rally cheered WP, then fell silent

THE People's Action Party (PAP) has an excellent record in maintaining strong economic growth.

Singapore was one of the first nations to rebound from the latest financial crisis.

Through due diligence and hard work, we have achieved virtually absolute stability and security.

Unfortunately, many Singaporeans take such hard-earned progress for granted and prefer to focus on policy shortcomings.

Have they been fair to the Government?

No government in this world is capable of satisfying all that its citizens desire, so why are we expecting the PAP to accomplish the impossible?

At a Workers' Party rally I attended, the speakers were swift to criticise PAP policies, and that drew the cheers.

But when the speakers began to propose policies they would initiate to replace those of the PAP, the crowd fell silent.

In my view, the contrasting reaction is due to the fact that although many Singaporeans may be displeased with the PAP for various reasons, they remain unconvinced that the opposition parties would deliver on their promises.

Is Singapore then ready to let the opposition take charge of our country?

Do we not acknowledge the repercussions if Foreign Minister George Yeo were to leave the Cabinet should WP win Aljunied GRC?

Voters will need to seriously weigh the pros and cons of the rival parties when they cast their ballots on Saturday.

Shauna Loh (Miss)

http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_663907.html

 

[Rogue Trader]

They fell silent because they couldn't understand Chen's cheem speech.

 

[Forvendet]

George Yeo has no foreign policies. He issues travel advisories to travel agencies and tourists and always issues statements that he's puzzled when Malaysia, Indonesia, China etc. do something unfavorable to Singapore, or welcome if it's favorable. SM is the Senior Foreign Minister. I'm not good in Chinese but I've checked with Chinese friends. The Chinese title for SM is about the same as the US Secretary of State, i.e. Foreign Minister. George is Asst Foreign Minister at best.

 

[seebaysong]

Izit bcos your mouth is sucking them so hard tt they cannot tahan so need to bite their fingers and keep quiet !?!

 

[leoman]

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No government in this world is capable of satisfying all that its citizens desire, so why are we expecting the PAP to accomplish the impossible?
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exactllee d sentiment, those who r satisfy with pap vote 'em. aljunied grc pple mayb deprived n misaligned , so they vote APs.
wat d heck? tis is call election !!

 

[Char_Azn]

George Yeo has no foreign policies. He issues travel advisories to travel agencies and tourists and always issues statements that he's puzzled when Malaysia, Indonesia, China etc. do something unfavorable to Singapore, or welcome if it's favorable. SM is the Senior Foreign Minister. I'm not good in Chinese but I've checked with Chinese friends. The Chinese title for SM is about the same as the US Secretary of State, i.e. Foreign Minister. George is Asst Foreign Minister at best.

MBT will one up him when GY gets kicked out and they transfer him over

 

[sense]

Unfortunately, many Singaporeans take such hard-earned progress for granted and prefer to focus on policy shortcomings.

Have they been fair to the Government?

No government in this world is capable of satisfying all that its citizens desire, so why are we expecting the PAP to accomplish the impossible?

Yes, Singaporeans are actually quite fair. While Singaporeans do not expected the Govt to be perfect, we do expect their policies to be in the 99 percentile.

Why 99% percentile? Because that's the expectation from their multi-million dollars annual pay package. Is that fair that the ministers be paid in the 99 percentile and yet expected to achieve less than 90 percentile?

While I am in the minority group who believe that the multi-million pay package is actually fine for the ministers, am in the majority group that also believe in performance driven system. If the superscale & above civil service wants to benchmark itself to the private section, then their performance/penalties should also be similar to that of the private section.

 

[Forvendet]

MBT will one up him when GY gets kicked out and they transfer him over

MBT is so short and ugly (nothing personal, just fact), how to be foreign minister?

 

[Equalisation]

MBT is so short and ugly (nothing personal, just fact), how to be foreign minister?

Oi kotek .... you got permission from your mother in law before saying this or not ??

 

[Forvendet]

You still camping by the pond? No permission from your wife to go back up bedroom?

 

[eQuipment]

that miss low who wrote this to the press has shit for brains. just bcos all the seats r contested doesnt mean all the oppositions will win the remaining 82 seats in parliament. just bcos a certain policy doesnt please the audience or herself, doesnt mean that the incumbent has had good or better policies.

for her to make this silly comment is very low, in essence, not very different from opposition supporter attending pap rally & shouting opposition slogans & booing the speaker.

 

[vamjok]

i was there and how come i did not feel it?

in fact whenever LTK and team introduced alternative proposal on

1 pegging sales of housing to first timer to middle income,
2 CPF pegging to pension scheme as recommended by world bank
3 lowering cost of transportation, concession for elderly and offpeak
4 have a bloody good look at current foreigners policy and limit their numbers
5 introduced a "insurance" like scheme work in synergy with current medisave to deal with rising health care. CPF can be used to pay this insurance so that citizen dun feel the pain

the crowd went wild. that bloody reporter is a mole from pappy for writting this nonsensical report