Tan Kin Lian's Blog: Letter to SGEP

Monday, March 07, 2011

Letter to SGEP - vote against the PAP

There is a letter published in the SGEP that citizens do not have to vote for the opposition candidates, but they should vote against the PAP for their bad policies. Read SGEP or click here.

5 comments:

yujuan said...: The PAP MPs nowadays do not serve the poeple, they enter politics just for the high pay packets they receive every month, and they also have their own private jobs as well, so they have dual incomes to look forward to.
They just show their faces at the Meet the people sessions, fat hope they would help us with their problems.
So there are no differences between PAP and the other opposition Parties.; March 07, 2011 4:41 PM
zhummmeng said...: In a dual party system voting is often conducted along party line and Not candidate. Voting against is voting against the party regardless of the who is the candidate. The candidate can be a dog or a pig it doesn't matter.It also means to register your opposition to the ruling party.
Voting for an opposition means you want the opposition to represent your interest and you are particular about the candidate , his credentials. It could also mean just an opposition.; March 07, 2011 5:05 PM
Spur said...: The most important issues facing Singapore governance today are the following:-

1. Having sufficient checks & balances, such that the dominant PAP MPs and ministers cannot bulldoze policies and ideas without much public debate, or give ridiculous reasons.

2. Ensure as much as possible that there is no over-long-term single dominating party. Power corrupts, no matter what rules & regulations you put in place. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

3. Ensure more MPs in parliament who are sincere and citizen-centred, people-centred instead of currently which are just business-centred and GDP-centred.

4. Give more competition and spurs to the incumbents. PAP is always telling people to be cheaper better faster, upgrade, don't be choosy, work harder, be more productive etc. Well, it is high time they practice what they preach.

Voting for opposition means that you're voting for the above points.; March 07, 2011 11:46 PM
Redstar said...: I think we have too many scholars which is not a good thing. They may be good at school and scoring As, but they do not understand the hardships faced by the common people. I would prefer those who are not from the elitist camp, as they probably understand the heartland people better. Definitely not those who promote meritocracy as a core value (meritocracy promoted for the benefit of the top 5% elites who are already very well-off?) and an expensive government & civil service in order to improve things in Singapore.
My MP is a scholar. I asked him for more hawker centres to be built to stabilize food prices and combat inflation. He suggested I buy from the wet market and cook it at home. But he's a nice guy. May be his hands are tied by HDB's management.; March 08, 2011 2:54 PM
Redstar said...: I am also unhappy with the hawker centre rental policy as it promotes cooked food inflation for the heart-land residents and retirees.
Many retired food hawkers and rental touts rent stalls from the HDB. They have no real intention of running a food stall but to rent out at higher rentals to genuine food business operators.
They just collect rental incomes without doing real work, at the expense of heart-landers and retirees. These include wet market stalls too, like those selling groceries and toiletries.
A meritocratic system and good governance indeed. And I doubt these rental incomes are taxable as these deals are mostly under the table.; March 11, 2011 11:53 AM