That’s good though. At least you get to know their thoughts on matters without having to book a kopitiam appointment that either one of you will be late for.

Daniel, please keep to the topic of the article. Your comments about Tuas Power being sold to a Chinese company has nothing to do with bloggers becoming politicians. Thanks. – Moderator

Imagine the profitability from these companies sellout could easily top the S$1.8 billions surplus of 40% GST hike needed to help the poor. Did the government know about this potential sellout ?

These are taxmoney properties and why are they pumped it back to Temasek so easily and without question ? Why this isn’t return to public to help Singaporean ?

China’s Huaneng buys Singapore’s Tuas Power for $3 bln (Singapore $4.2 billions)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7384443

If this is the indicator, more Singapore government companies might even sellout for profitability. So where the accountability and transparency of the deal ? Give the account of how these profit is utilized for Singapore rather than for coffers’ benefit and salary.

He is an Asean scholar and joined DAP. I frequently visited M’sian blogs.
M’sian blogs, to be frank is more open.Most young bloggers from comments i have read wants changes in the country system.Some I have noted almost everyday contributed comments and end up being regular.

M’sian bloggers are more united with a kinda lingkage with each other mostly i can see is anti-govt.
The loss of 5 states recently in my point of view is due to high numbers of M’sian households having internet connection.They do not trust M’sian medias and in turn,turn to blogs for views.

Malaysia is ranked 129, and Singapore is 145th or around there.

We could use a few more intelligent firebrands like him. How come he can come up from the same education system as us, and yet we don’t have (as many) people like that?

Is it because our national issues are not quite as compelling as over there? Or is it because too many have been assimilated by the system?

Mr Wang btw is a civil servant….I doubt he’d stand for office.

There are no doubt that many are concerned and interested in the wellbeings and welfares of the people and the country. Unfortunately, even all these kind souls have much differences in their ideas on how to go about it.

The Malaysian Masses are far more cohesive as a people, conversely Singaporean elites(well educated/highly successful), be they in the Ruling Parties or elsewhere, are themselves fractious and incline to want to outshine one anothers. Lamentable, but the ’show of success’, to be visibly flambuoyant(showmanship) is generally a characteristic of a typical Singaporean today. The 5 Cs of yesteryears has bred and inculcated this ‘hou lieness’(boastful/conceited) attitude. It is an attitude flaw that is not going away anytime soon but getting stronger as time goes by.

Noticed in this piece here how some commenters imposed or insist which bloggers are better choices? Can we deny that within three commenters, there are three choices? And what if the three form or join different parties? Hey, have You not read commenters slamming bloggers and commenters mauling each other with expletives? Elites; You can unite? Ask yourself!

“The strength of the local blogging community is that they are non-political. Once you have bloggers entering politics, it undermines the purity of blogging, because bloggers are supposed to be neutral.”

Interesting. I would like to ask Sze Hian what are his views then of Choo Zheng Xi being a honorarium recipient from a PAP Minister? Does that mean he is no longer neutral?

Minister Wang? Minister Brown? Minister Giam?

Please. I said it once and I will say it again. They are gutless and fearful of losing their well-endowed lives.

A govt that does not listen to the voices of the people should not be given the mandate to govern the people.

A govt that taxes the people unnecessarily must be taken to task for the unjustified policy.

A govt that does not practise real transparency and accountability must be legislated to do so by the people.

A govt that uses “high cost of living policies” to favour wealth creation for the rich must be opposed by the people.

A govt that manipulates policies to deprive citizens of subsidies such as healthcare means testing must be challenged by the people.

A govt that does not take responsibility for its lapses or mistakes cannot justify its astronomical pay which cannot be justified in the first place.

A govt that engages part-time MPs cannot be a serious govt. Taxpayers’ money is not spent justifiably.

A govt that controls the mass media for its own purposes cannot term itself a democratic party. It’s insulting its own intelligence.

A govt that is running businesses cannot be called a govt. It should be incorporated as “Govt Services Pte Ltd” and subject to shareholders’ (Singaporeans) vote and appointments. Profits have to be declared and distributed accordingly.

A govt that expects the citizens to sacrifice but not themselves is an illegitimate govt.

A govt that rewards ministers’ bonus based on the economic performance perpetuates policies that are detrimental to its citizens.

Ministers and MPs who give speeches during parliamentary debates instead of raising hard questions and rooting for in-depth answers are simply doing themselves and Singaporeans gross disfavours. Their presence are simply a waste of time.

After raising some issues and very curtailed speech, always ends with,

“Mr Speaker sir, I support the motion.”

IRONIC MPs

The drop in the KLSE is being magnified and the only reason they provide is the opposition win has undermining the economy and invester confidence. I believe this is a knee jerk reaction as there are other factors to consider as well. Many are selling off investments in BN linked companies as their preferencial position would be in question. Others have adopted the approach to study the attitude of major investers. It is far too early to make a judgement. The KLSE will rise to much higher levels as the opposition makes the government accountable and forces transparency. An open market will attract invester confidence and that would spell a no-confidence vote for the MIW given all their blunders.

But seriously, it was a mistake for any government to clamp down on socio-political blogs. And also on using podcasts during SGP GE2000. It’s like forbidden fruit. The more the government says no, the more the blogging community will defy the call and publish online.

*shrug* probably this will signal new changes in socia-political blogging in Singapore.

LOL,
Kaffein