Facebook Rally: Vote The PAP Out?

December 30, 2009 | Willis Wee

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• Dead_meat
  Break down and build again that what we human are good at..
• Dead_meat
  PAP must go look at the casino.. what coming next ,,,legally what..what next. man ,,,,.Is time to vote them out, Your aim is to the first world status, because you are unfit..
• rudeshock
  Will the wind of change finally blow our way? No. http://mindbloggingstuff.blogspot.com/2008/03/w...
• jwny
  I think it is unfair to the government of the Republic,
  
  influx of foreigners is due to solely one reason - we are running out of people. Every couple chooses to have 1 or nil children, if we do not have enough citizens our country will be short of the only one thing we can produce - useful people
  
  Property prices are high due to the limited space the republic has, the HDB is formed to ensure citizens (families) can have a home at reasonable prices.
  
  Medical costs can be subsidised...but at who's expenses? Higher taxes imposed on taxpayers?
• rliew
  importing foreigners can be solved with more stringer as in Australia where they look at which profession they are lacked of and what they need. In Australia, they will check your English. Not like here you can see most Chinese don't speak simple English. They don't even bother to learn even after they are in Singapore.
  
  Property prices are artificially high and cannot be explained by a simple "limited space". Compare to HK, Singapore still have a lot more space. Most HDB sellers make it high by asking too much even it is a govt subsidized housing. Also government allow on-blocked scheme with little regulation where people allow to make a high demand but not realizing developers will make higher demand when they sell to the same people with smaller unit of course.
  
  Medical costs can be subsidized, yes....isn't 7% GST enough? isn't ERP and so on enough??? Should government reduce their own millions $$$ salary instead imposing this and that. For one thing, they like to compare: when about transportation cost, gov't's salary, they will compare US, Japan, UK, Aust. When comparing efficient, services and all others, they will compare third world countries, M'sia, Thailand, Indonesia. It doesn't make any sense, right?
• belindaang
  All I can say is... these people are silly.
  
  Of course you CAN vote the PAP out. But question is... WHO are you gonna vote IN? Someone has to put the country into place. You can argue that PAP has monopolize the country and manipulated the population so well that there are no other stronger leaders who want (or can) be in the frontline. However, whether or not this argument is valid, this is the truth. There is no one party strong enough to be voted IN now other than PAP.
  
  It is not about just one strong leader. It is about a strong team of fore-sighted and capable politicians. People who genuinely believe they can do a better job and make changes to those policies should join opposition and prove their worth so the day Singapore is ready, another party can take over the reins.
  
  Should PAP continue to monopolize? That is not the problem. The problem is Singapore is not ready to let another party take over now. Will it happen in the future? Maybe and I believe so at some point of time.
• omgzam
  In a Singaporean context, the page is for PAP to "wake up their idea".
• rliew
  Clearly you have miss the point here, Belinda. It is not who to vote IN or OUT. It is about check and balance....it is about democratic process where there is a need for 2 or more parties to have a greater say in Parliament. There is no doubt that PAP will remain as government in next election, but there is a greater need for more say and better debate or everything pass thru the parliament. Or you wish to have a ONE party system as in China?
• sarah_chong
  I guess the page's real motive is not to rally for people to vote PAP out, but to rally for people to trigger some sort of response from them. We all know we are stuck with only one strong enough political party to elect, but I guess if we don't speak out, there wouldn't even be a slightest hope for improvement.
  
  I also hope that when Singapore really finds herself people who can do a better job, they are given enough resources and freedom of speech for a fair fight to prove their worth.