Let the people decide whether you have enriched yourself or not. Long gone are they days when your words were taken as the gospel truth. You guys have made so many re-thinks (not u-turn) and gone back on so many promises that its amazing that people still have faith. I remember ,although many have forgotten, a promise that there will be no increase in government fees for this year. So what is the secret for going back on that promise.

It is not that diffcult to make an estimate on anybody’s cpf. I remember there was a cap on both employee/employer monthly contribution of S$1,200 (I do not know whether this cap had been change). So given this number, roughly multiply it by 12 months and the number of years and assuming there were no withdrawal (LSS do not need to withdraw like most of us do to purchase housing), and add the compounded 2~3.5% yearly interest. We assume a person that had continuous work for 15 years, the rough estimate is easily between 450~500K.

When get yourself all upset by a sily comment? Should feel rich for him. Now, ask him what is he going to do to help those that are not as fortunate as him? Those who had worked their butts off and still finding it hard to make ends meet?

i think a good starting point would be for Vivian to get LSS to tell what is it in his cpf statement that makes him feel rich. I know there are a lot of numerical digits in there. why not share with us so that we can feel rich with him.

and since there have been no reprimands from his bosses, why not the bosses tell us if they fell rich too when looking into their cpf statements?

Vivian for PM – let’s open all secrets!

I think Dr Vivian (a girl’s name?) makes an excellent Prime Minister. The PAP should seriously consider him for the post of PM when LHL steps down. We need a non-Chinese PM in order to be inline with a non-Chinese President.

And in order to honestly honour the words “Singapore has no SECRETS”, when Dr Vivian becomes the PM, he could then reveal to the whole world, especially the Malaysians and Indonesians, all our military top secret files and all the names of our intelligence-gathering agents. How’s that for a start, Dr Vivian?

By the way, is it okay for you to reveal to us how much you have donated to charity the last ten years, giving us a detailed breakdown? Is this asking too much?

so how does the govt contain “too much of the excitement?” – SUE.

it started with LKY, and yes, he had some integrity which MUST be protected against ‘reckless’ commentaries. we can accord him this but his govt and his son’s govt are miles apart! what have GCT & LHL done for Singapore that entitles them to the same (or even bigger) proportions of court payments made against those being sued by them?

come on! … the situation is now so ridiculous. even MPs of the unknown & unheard kind have jumped at the opportunity to make some pocket money on the side. what integrity do they have? what reputation do they possess? just because they happened to be standing by the big shot’s side, they too get to gain from that.

let’s do a simple exercise. go ask the men in the street to name all the 82 pap mps and which wards they represent then see what the result is. I bet each of them won’t even get pass 20 names. I bet too that, collectively, they won’t be able to name all.

don’t be surprise that very soon, mr char kway teow will be suing mr hokkien mee.
but then again, maybe not, because people like these have a thing call ‘kum cheng’.

Perhaps so. This goes back to George Yeo´s June 1991 Speech on Civic Society when he was the Acting Minister of Information and the Arts. He used the term “civic society” to confront issues pertaining to forging a unitary national identity and culture, while making a departure from the widely regarded notion of civil society which involves parliamentary and lobbyist politics.

It will be another first for singapore in the world. We always want to be first in everything what. Hey how come no minister reply in this channel. they not allowed to read is it. Or even defend themselves. Maybe waiting for someone to say something then sue again!

Pl see my post yesterday. I have full confidence in your transparency. Please answer my question. Please do not let me down….

Your grateful citizen…

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What the government is actually saying is that it has the prerogative to manage politics here. Any government that claims this moral right will surely tweak the political system overhwelmingly in its favour. It is really, a circular argument.

oh yes; opposition better be more careful. the world now in crisis. PAP waiting by the wings to make extra pocket money.

plain citizens too. better not be seen in anything that resembles a kangaroo.

Thank you. Just speaking from the heart and my views may not necessary reflect what many others would like to hear. But again, as a staunched believer and advocate of free speech and expression, I think people will have have differing views regardless of any issues at heart, the importance is to give the respect to every indiviudal and try to be impartial as much as one can.

I am a staunched advocate of free speech and expression (and this is about the only thing I wanted more so than anyother policies in Singapore). Let’s just say I respect any individual’s view and never attempted to prove anybody wrong. Just a diferent perspective.

When I find time, I will revisit the article and reply you. Let’s give a little respect to the author of this article and stick to subject matter.

He means that it is hard to keep thing secret such as loss of investment, honest mistake ,errors, blunders, because the public will critically examine and expose them but then to the layman that is the NOT MOST important point and outcome. The point is WE WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO ADMIT THEMSELVES BLATANTLY THAT THEY MAKE THE MISTAKE, HONEST OR NOT, AND GIVE A REAL HONEST ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPEN AND NOT JUST SIMPLY MOVE ON QUICKLY WITH COVERUP , WHICH FURTHER FUEL SPECULATION OF GOVERNMENT’S SINCERITY AND COMPETENCE.

It is one thing that public scrutinze the Singapore government’s blunder but it is another for government to admit its mistake and account to the public.

So please VB,
your view is secondary, primarily we are more interested of what government do to learn from mistake and how you can perpetuate the change. You are not paid millions to entitle and express your view and opinion, you are paid millions to make changes for the betterment of the nation and citizen. There are no such thing as drawing the line just because you are only in charge of youth and sport development, you have in every way to make change in government system up and down, left or right because you are a minister. That is what people expect you to do.

I did not see a reply from you, so I take it as you agreed, good.