Polling Day tomorrowwww!
I WISH I COULD VOTE THIS YEAR.
The sentiments of the netizens seem to be extremely anti-pap and very pro ANY opposition. Seriously, is this called for. Opposition and their supporters keep talking about rising cost of living in Singapore. But really, if you opened your eyes and looked BEYOND this island, don't you realise that inflation is everywhere? In fact, I think anyone who's well-educated enough would realise that inflation is inevitable and might even beneficial if it occurs in a well-paced progression.
The investment failure also want to blame PAP. Again, few investors survived the financial crisis and almost everyone lost money, no matter how big or small. Warren Buffett did too. WHY YOU ALL WANT TO BLAME PAP.
I think a few legit criticisms of PAP, are its lack of apparent connection with the ground, and as the fb article I liked yesterday, the arrogance. But arrogance is not necessarily a flaw of a government to run the country what. PAP has been in power for all the years since Singapore is known as who she is now. The opposition keeps telling voters to not just look at the past, historical track records.
But what track record do the opposition parties have? Even their promises are not very solid. They sound nice and dreamy yes. But I don't think NSP's idea of pegging national growth to wage growth is very feasible. If you keep promoting wage growth, I don't think anyone would want to hire us already cuz we want soooo much.
And abolishing GST only sounds nice, but is it really practical. I think the idea of earning these tax revenue so that the government has these resources to help the poor is more workable and fair. After all, the poor don't contribute much to the GST, the rich do. But really, PAP government can do more to help the poor... self-reliance is very, very important, I agree (yeah yeah the NE we have in school :D ) and I would hate to see the US's social security scheme implemented in Singapore, but still, more allowance would be good.
Sighs.
I don't know why I'm ranting so much.
I just really really hope that PAP will still win this election. Please. The economy is still recovering, if another shockwave hits, do you think a newly reassembled government would be able to handle it well, if at all? It's not that I'm entirely risk-averse and want to stick to status quo (or maybe I am?) but status quo is good.
I'm very proud of Singapore governance despite the controversy of Singapore being one of the lowest ranked nation in terms of "openness" or something. And this ranking seems to be too frequently quoted by opposition supporters, don't you think.
PLEASE VOTE PAP!!!
fall for someone who catches you @22:54
