It was regression all the way from the year 1985 as mentioned in previous articles published by TRE. LKY thought he was the driver for our Singapore’s success and so did many. Without his “old work-horses” (his chauffeurs in the past), he thought he could do the same with this new younger team. How wrong he was. He thought with his ‘intelligence’, he could drive the new “young team” to a greater height. Unfortunately, it was not to be. The new PAP team now is performing worse than his old team. This can be seen in the percentage of valid votes PAP garnered in the last GE. It obtained the lowest result at 60% since the independence of Singapore. To achieve success, PAP now has to resort to getting in more foreign workforce. All that was achieved in the past will slowly disintegrate into mere nothing. Citizenry becomes a second priority. Priority is “economic growth”. But then, who are the ones benefiting from such economic growth in Singapore? The PMET who is now forced to drive a taxi making $1,500 a month for driving 12 hours a day? Or the grassroots leader who obtains a nice contract from the town council? Today, more Singaporeans are being replaced by the foreign counterparts. Singapore has become a nation for ‘everybody’ with foreign imports crowding an already crowded island. Some joker even said that Singapore can accommodate 10 million people! The Singapore identity is in danger of losing itself. The ‘so-called’ true blue Singaporeans will be extinct in the next century or may be earlier. If we don’t do anything and continue to let PAP lead us, we will surely be going off the cliff cause we have nowhere else to go except downwards. ... where have these so-called ‘able’ young leaders brought us? PMETs driving taxis and becoming security guards? ... are we having a Swiss standard of living now, the utopia painted by Tony Tan’s colleague Goh Chok Tong? Instead, as reported by TRE in one of its articles, we now see long queue of people queuing up for cheap $2 meals at hawker centres. Based on all that I know about the PAP especially under LKY, many are bootlickers and, naïve and daft followers. His son is a complete failure. No need to know why. Just look around us everyday. He has said he was fortunate to have had 20 years of apprenticeship before heading the Cabinet. May be he need another 20 years more? In any case, Singaporeans can forget about the 5Cs we aspired to have in the past. These are now replaced by a new 5Cs proposed by GCT in 2010: ... If I have to reinvent the 5Cs, my dream is to help create the conditions for a generation of Singaporeans to have a good Career, live in Comfort, surrounded by Children, and be Considerate and Charitable. Just on the first ‘C’ – Career alone, I don’t think we can even hope to have that nowadays. I just hope that they don’t relax the rules further to even let FTs drive our taxis! I draw my own conclusion, you draw yours.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 05:38:48 +0000
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