Dear toiletmatter,

Maybe we should count ourselves lucky that japanese and german did not win ww2. Maybe we should see it as coincidence that cars, mobile phone, airplane etc are just thing that dropped from the sky to make our life easier.

I mean, by the way you put it, everyone might as well point the gun on our head and pull the trigger.

It is so predictable of this gov. Increase the price of everything, next come out wayang programme to say that if public face problem, seek help in the programme.

PM Lee,
Why not you and your clowns cut own pay to $100,000 a year together with your bunch of good-for-nothing father, SM, ministers ,and craps, and citizens will urge the gahmen to do their best to get through downturn together ?

Creating unemployment problems for locals in the 1st place through mass import of cheap foreign labor that local bosses favor, & then claiming to “solve” the problem with useless schemes or empty advice?

His claims are more twisted than A & W’s curly fries!

Come next election, we’ll be singing “na na na na. na na na na. hey-ey-ey. goodbye!” to him!

Can TOC calculate how much is made from these ERP gantries on a monthly basis and how much impact on living cost?

of course the gomin can do more.
But we have no MP power to push for our demands for improvement.
But no worries, that 80 inside will help wan.
U trust me right?

in terms of ‘goodies’ elites given out,

on the other hand, not sure how much $ commoners already paid upfront???

another lunch time discussion topic; raining soon got to run…

aiyoyo

Giving out goody bags and ang pows is not a bad thing, provided it is with good & genuine intent. I don’t want to mislead anyone (as some are saying of others, and they could be right), but do you consider the upgrading of HDB a “formal” way? I mean, upgrade 4-5 blocks, stop, wait 4 years, elections, then start/stop again with another 4-5 blocks. Logically, can’t they just continuously upgrade the estate throughout the intermediate 4 years? Look around and see how fast a brand new govt-linked building can be put up, all stops pulled.

@63) RED-man on June 24th, 2009 1.43 am

It is doing a Falklands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War). Mark, this year NDP will be spectacular, never mind the recession. In meantime, everyone has forgotton the debate as to why the national stadium is still usable & yet millions was used to create the largest floating stage in the world.

Yes indeed, where Singapore is one of the few countries that has multi-billions government organising ROADSHOW once in a while. Especially when the people are getting frustrated with them or nearing a election.

They are giving out goody bags, ang pows and also financial assistance.
But why doesn’t this happen in a formal way…like 1 agency doing the required job…..
Like this Heartstring….lah…Jln Kayu Helping Hand lah…and CDC’s, East West North….

The reason, I can think off is that they don’t really want to account for the Total number of people who are in Need.
And another reason these grassroots people usually RC’s popping up everywhere and offering help and money makes people belief that the PAP…MP is the one giving out all these money…when it is actually the tax payers and from the Ministry…budgeted to provide assistance.

Best is to form a proper organisation and provide structured assistance…to the entire family, then this current way.
So that everyone gets equal amount and there won’t be duplications.
And those coming for assistance don’t need to feel unconfortable as well.

LHL…if you want people to band togather… be as one….perhaps this is a good approach.

And…people, I heard some of these MP’s are giving money out from their own pockets as well….some ..only some for their residents.

Don’t know where Singapore is heading economically….
thank god for derivatives…and for some fools who didn’t get it…but thought they.
did….

May We Live in Interesting Times.

Hope KopitiamApek will contribute some views here.

With PAP MP , it is legal gathering. But with opp party MP, it is illegal gathering. What a double standard.

Right ! We cannot lose him after all where else in the world can we a talented gahmen and his noble family who lose billions of tax-money and still pretending nothing has happened and now finding more ways to squeeze and milk more blood from the citizens.

It is said that Emperor Nero burnt the city with fire while still playing instrument
“Rumors soon arose accusing the Emperor Nero of ordering the torching of the city and standing on the summit of the Palatine playing his lyre as flames devoured the world around him.”
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rome.htm

Well, our Emperor family even greater than Emperor Nero and more senile, burning unprecedent billions of taxmoney and reserves while still eating shark fin and mee siam mai hum.