Monday, July 14, 2008 10:16

Chasing the money rainbow

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That strategy is coming under strain in a Singapore which has been convinced to leave the responsibility of running the country solely to a chosen few and concentrate on chasing the money rainbow… You can see that culture being taken to the extreme in our schools, offices and even homes. I teacher, you student. I boss, you subordinate. I father, you son. And you can see what that culture has done to our people.

PN Balji, Editorial Director, TODAY

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Andrew Loh
Jul 14, 2008 14:29

Spot on, Balji.

And it all started from the very top.

Robert HO
Jul 14, 2008 15:17

RH:
1. It has always been a Faustian bargain, this ‘we run SG as we like as long as you get some goodies’. At first, like Faust, we thought we were getting a reasonable deal, and the Devil was reasonable at first. Then the cunning Devil started to run the place for himself and his famiLIE and some ilks.

2. Today, we can better see what the bargain entails. We sold, not just our souls but also our humanity and any pride we had. Numbed by the Devil’s open greed and arrogance, having had the upper hand for half a century, we get a bitter taste of helplessness as we see him openly abusing the system and us, all for himself and his.

3. Time for his farewell aria, and may it be the screeching scream of impending Hell.

deepbluesea
Jul 14, 2008 19:47

Interesting. All this is very interesting.

Daniel
Jul 14, 2008 19:51

PN Balji, Editorial Director.
Look like you going to be demoted for telling the brutal truth, haha.The old fart will never let anyone publicly say about his nepotism and greed.
But then Singaporean is glad that you speak up with no fear finally.

Well done, Balji, whatever the outcome !

Mr ahmad
Jul 14, 2008 20:04

wah, you wait kena sack !!! if not, you are send by the dark force to be a decoy ??? if not sack, then continue to write against yr master pls…. if you have conscience……

Fever Guy
Jul 14, 2008 20:59

When fear of the old fart no longer had any effect,that’s when fear can no longer be useful anymore. Well said BAJI.

Sad that MP from jurong has to die so young, and without much contribution to the nation had he live longer. Will there be an by-election? I hope there is. This MP died not resigned or step down. DIED. I hope the PAP do not use the rest of GRC MPs as a sharing pool. I wan my MP living not dead and especially not shared.

FG (Jurong GRC Citizen)

Faircomment
Jul 21, 2008 16:05

I fear we may already have gone beyong the tipping point.

George
Sep 22, 2009 19:25

The truth whether Sinkaporean had finally wake up is the result of the coming GE. We must not be over complecent but continue to spread to word we want change. The recession will continue for a quiet if the forecast is right. We had become a country of money crappers, starting from the top. Everything is measured in dollar and cent. What about morality, justice, fairness,thrust? Is this what we want as a country? For male citizen who are required by law to serve NS, are we prepared to fight and defend a system of gahment that serve only those selected few? LKY had said he is prepared to call in the army if the GE produced result contrary to his expectation. Is this democarcy? The will of the people seemed irrelevant. In the past, opposition party was labelled communist but this time round what label had they dreamed up for the opposition?

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