The extremes you’ve painted are valid (albeit obvious…). Having said that, you have not mentioned which end, on the spectrum of extremes do you think we are now?

Care must be taken to not swing to either side.

We have to wait to see what the other parties have to say, WP, SDA, SDP.

When the majority in a country are in debt (house loans, car loans, credit cards etc) and yet the country is considered rich,
something is very wrong.

When a country near the equator is a small land surrounded by the seas, but yet it’s inhabitants rarely feel the beautiful aura of a tropical island, it is a real shame and something is very wrong.

When the people of a nation are living in close proximity to each other should develop communal spirit and friendship, but yet neighbours created are usually strangers, something is very wrong.

When a person has a fear to speak his mind, something is very wrong.
When many children are not taken care of by their own parents who are not in poverty, something is very wrong.

When the people of a nation are convinced that to achieve happiness and personal well being is to put material and status gains as top priority, something is very wrong.

When a nation has to resort to campaigns, instead of many other ways, to spread the message of courtesy, something is very wrong.

When children’s playtime are replaced by more school work, and all possible future ‘career’ extra cirricular lessons, something is very wrong.

When a child (or anyone) has his or her worth judged by grades and tests, something is very wrong.

When the old of a nation has to work, and cannot enjoy the sunset of their lives, and are not celebrating to their success of their surviving with joy, something is very wrong.

When a nation in all it’s modernity and easy access to education and knowledge, still has majority of her people turning superstitions of all kinds for answers and comfort, something is very wrong.

When the aspirations and reasons of the young to want to migrate (there are many good reasons to be nomadic) is dominated by the lacking of belonging, the feeling of rootlessness, something is very wrong.

When people of a nation is identified by their race, something is very wrong.

When racial tolerance (we are tolerating one another are we? Or should we understand and engage?) rather than understanding is viewed as a virtue, something is very wrong.

When a nation sees the need for very young (and supposedly fit) and impressionable men to carry firearms to maintain law and order or to protect themselves, in a country that bans firearms, something is very wrong.

When a supposedly wealthy nation’s health care and services (old age homes, hospitals, clinics etc) are ‘addressed’ on many levels by foreign hands (whom we should thank without the need to be cynical), something is very wrong.

When ‘retired’ ministers are still on the payroll of tax payers, when they could do a lot more sincere good by entering the private sector.. if that is what they want.. the doing good bit.. something is very wrong.

When a nation is only obsessed with success and medals, when a nation is only behind a (potential) winning sports team and not to ride the journey together with a losing or trying one, when the NATIONAL media only cares about dollars and cents, something is very wrong.

When a nation lies to itself that all is fair and just in its land, but is divided by skin colour (and you reminded about that again and again not just the moment you get your identity card, yes, that is YOUR identity), divided by status, divided by material wealth, divided by grades, divided by class, something is very wrong.

When a person’s unwillingness to litter is because of his fear of monetary punishment instead of many many other good reasons, something is wrong.

When so many of a nation takes pride in looking up to people of ‘richer’ nations and looking down on people of ‘poorer’ nation, something is VERY wrong.

When a person’s view of identity has so few dimensions and very general dimensions; race, gender, poor or rich, good or bad, drunk or sober, etc
Something is very wrong.

Can we start to make it feel a little ‘right’?

Toyota wish new one costs about SGD85,000.00 in sg.
Porsche Cayman (brand new, made in Germany) costs SGD100,000 in uk.

where is the level playing field?

I am curious to know how have , if at all, the super high pricing of cars affected the cost of living in singapore? Compare this to the pay level.

Privatise GLC ? How do you ensure we won
lose our jobs ?

Opposition can use NTUC as whipping boy as one of their themes during election rallies if they really want NTUC to look like stupid fools, here it is. If more of you readers can corroborate what I have seen at Fairprice then tell it. Do NOT let NTUC pull wool over your eyes by letting them claim these are PRs, of course they can get away with it ifthe govt award it to them. But I am very certain that they are on work permits.

At my neighbourhood Fairprice supermarket, I have noticed a gradual increase in the number of China citizens taking up jobs, they wear the Fairprice uniforms. They do NOT understand English sentences at all. I tested one of them for their English skills. It went like this:

Me: What is the price of this? (I noticed the China lady packing canned drinks on the shelves but there was no price tag yet so seized the opportunity to test her English)

China Fairprice worker, grasping at straws & could only identify the one word she knew…..

China worker said: Er, PRICE, ah… PRICE…ah PRICE ah…….等一下…….等一下… PRICE ah….

I knew she was clutching at straws as she kept repeating herself so decided to use another word in place of PRICE.

Me: How MUCH is it?

China worker looked at me again, gave up & fled.

NTUC my foot, whatever policies they have expounded is laid bare in all its hypocrisy at their Fairprice outlets. All these China workers can only think of is to go to YA LONG after work to eat their northerners dumpling food, often hear them conversing amongst themselves at Fairprice while working. Even Geylang is no longer sanctified for its Malay name & has been Sinozed to Ya Long. What are these China workers destroying to our multi lingual culture.

Be down to earth… Lets talk about losing 2 single seats and 2 GRCs for now!!! Lets target to bring down some goondu ministers who leech on our blood ie MBT?

The funny thing is with the current loose rules from the pigs @ parliament, productivity is decreasing at a phenomenal rate.

So what you say don’t hold water.

“… obvious signs that the foreigners working here are “hungrier” and have better attitude…”

Do you mean all foreigners? Have you assessed Each and Every foreign worker?
Did you point out the foreigners who have bad attitude?
Did you point out those who cannot speak english and yet get job as sales assistant ?

Is this not a Sweeping Statement? If there are such foreigners why have you not pointed out? Would this not mean that you selectively choose a good example to suit your rhetoric?

Are you not biased?
If so, what credibility do you have if you use sweeping statements?

“They also happen to have the best healthcare system in the world.”
“Think not about yourself but only the nation, the collective group. I’d suggest North Korea.”
“Or if you want empathy without losing your freedom, I suggest England (stick to the London area).”

The problem with online public spaces that carry majority voices is that we have all these paid cyber ‘moderators’, mostly psychology graduates, to hop in at times to push their agendas. And to use cognitive psychology (e.g. Wason selection task) to corner readers into submission.

BTW, please stop using MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) in attempt to understand human feelings.

“It’s just like a certain PM once argued that Singapore can get into the World Cup…”

talking about world cup, have a look at this article :http://redsports.sg/2009/11/19/singapore-2010-world-cup-football/

I quote “At one time, Singapore also had the same dream.

It was “GOAL 2010: Singapore at the World Cup”.

Can bala comment on this dream ?
Its still a dream and not a dream that was right?

I suggest how to win lah . Remember ping pong?
there you go. if can lah, offer citizenship certificate to beckham and all top players in the world. If like this no win world cup, then can stop dreaming.

L O L

It’s just like a certain PM once argued that Singapore can get into the World Cup because France won it using an assortment of immigrants. “Over-simplistic” springs to mind. I hope it was just propaganda on his part. The most powerful man in Singapore(then) can’t be this dumb.