January 2007
Is it better to take your medicine sooner or stretch it out? Take medicine once or two times? I prefer to make (sic) my medicine early, why? This is something we need to do, once we have done it, we can move on; we have the resources to have the revenue from the GST that we use….
Channel NewsAsia, PM Lee on GST hike
November 2008
Mr Lee said that while there is still bitter medicine to be taken, the Singapore government has put a bit more sugar coating on the pill.
Channel NewsAsia, on PM Lee’s remarks about downturn
PM Lee’s words always leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
“This is something we need to do, once we have done it, we can move on…
So, we can move on from bitter medicine to bitter pill?
PM Lee should have told us this in January last year!
I really don’t know what he is taking about “bitter medicine”
For as long as my good old memory serves me Singaporeans have been taking the BITTER medicine for ages.
Please don’t sleep in your warm bed tonight, go take a walk around your neighbourhood and know your people and their plight!
One man’s meat is another man’s poison
One man’s MEDICINE is another man’s POISON
These are the words of a poor ruler.
Singaporeans have been taking bitter medicine from Jan 2007 to Nov 2008.
In the same period, ministers have been swallowing two sweet pay rises.
Sugar-coated bitter pills from taxpayers’ money again?
when the old guards were around, you get food on the table, and sometimes even vitamins. Many of our parents managed to retire at a decent age, and few had problems withdrawing their CPF. There were no escalating utility bills to pay and many families did ok with just one breadwinner.
Now that we have moved from 3rd world to 1st, you get nothing but medicine and sugar-coated bitter pill. I reckon we must be very sick, or are these really drugs to turn us into junkies? Anyway, soon, they will find us too sick/addicted to be useful, that’s when they will tell us to take White Rabbit candies by the cartons.
PM Lee, thanks that we’re never far from your thoughts. You always have a ready prescription for us. We are forever indebted to you
Just one word for him…FO!
This government has its priority totally misplaced. The economy is sinking deeper into recession, yet we get the following
1. substance-less lip service
2. no cut in the GST
3. no direct help from the reserves. If the biggest global crisis since the Great Depression is not severe enough to use some of the reserves to prevent further deterioration, I don’t know what is.
3. $150B of deposit guarantee. $2.3B of business loan guarantee. No government funds will only be activated unless something fails. Is it not better to arrest before things spiral out of control?
4. announced measures (a few million dollars here and there) are too little. They treat the symptoms and not the causes.
5. Commit to the wrong infrastructure projects. What is the point of a $5B MCE (most expensive tunnel in the world)? There are worthier public infrastructure projects.
6. Continue to make wrong investment decisions at GIC and Temasek, resulting in massive losses.
Based just on recent performance, it is clear we do not have a first class government; not even second class at that.
nothing good ever comes out from his mouth when he talks.
If we can choose, we do hope that we can vote you and your family out of this face of the earth. We have no idea how you and your f..king ministers can live comfortably with your country people blood and sweat. How you f..king sleep at night without the haunting images of old retired Singaporean folding the cardboard and sleeping at some HDB vockdeck.
May your cancer relaspe soon enough to save the people of Singapore from your evil intention and your old man lost his wife at the same time! Notwithstanding that your rest of the family members stand to be parade around the island to be thrown with stones as hard as their hearts.
Thanks but no thank to you pill. Please keep it for your final judgement day while we do believe you will need it. If there is really a higher power above us, do hear our pray and do have mercy on us.
Y din the ministers taste the bitter midicine as well, The ministers should follow suit wat the ppl is talking since we voted them. Therefore , the pay cut shlden stop at 10plus%.
The new generation of leaders seem lost . They dont have any connection with the people on ground. Once in a while they do a walk about but before they do they let you know they are coming and all the idiots will be running around sucking up to them.
How come the bitter pill. Its time the ministers take the bitter pill. Our President our ministers are paid such high wages. Dont see the President saying he will take a pay cut. Why is he paid so much. To be the governments cronie?
Everyday we hear nothing but bad news when the PM or any other minister speaks. Singapore must be the most depressing place to live in. The government seems to investing all the peoples money overseas. When they loose money its hushed up. Lets move on seems to be their favourite phrase.
So now we have the bitter pill. I think the government and all its ministers should take this pill first. Wheres the loyalty. You want to serve the people and government one should do it from the heart not from the pay packet that you get. So dont keep giving us this shit full of nonsense and garbage.
Time for change in singapore and the sooner the better. The whole world needs to change. Lets start here in singapore.
The citizen suffered while the ministers enjoy the wealth of the country. None of the ministers had really had to work hard to earn the vote of the people . They were parachuted into their high paying post by the PAP regime. The real challenge will come when they had to work hard for our vote. Walk over is no hard work even a monkey could do that. We shall see what brilliance measure they could come up to deal with the recession. they keep telling us to take the bitter pill while they enjoyed the fruit of our labour. We would be happy to take as many bitter pills as required if they could show some simple humanity toward our fellow citizen. Time for change is here and now. Just remember to vote wisely ( vote PAP out) come the general election. They had 50 years of power surely that should be enough or shall we sleep walk into another 50 years of PAP? I know what I would do. I will vote for any one but PAP. I had made up my mind.