Young Singaporeans should have confidence in their future, s
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Originally posted by Annilator47:
putting pressure and competiton is not the way to go, especially when the competition has intensified too much by the flood of foriegners and this prevents our young ones from making themselves better and more advanced.
There's good and bad.
Dun forget some real good ones are hungry to strive to better their life compared to their home country.
Unless the younger Singaporeans are naturally hungry to strive for a better future.
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I have to thank the person who post this question and the many insights I gathered from the replies. I was just reading this piece of news today on yahoo.
Quote: "Farouk Osman, an Undergraduate, said: "It’s regarding a statement made by the Minister Mentor that if the opposition wins in a GRC contest then Singaporeans should better sell their flat because they would no longer be of any value. I think that’s bad. He’s basically saying don’t vote the opposition and my feeling is that most Singaporeans don’t like being told what to do, especially regarding political stuff and this is especially so for people like us, the younger generation."
It is a console to hear Singapore young adult voicing out their concerns. I strongly share with Farouk Osman's plight. It is not right for Minister Mentor to impose on their personal standpoint on young adult. A good mentor should see to it that a student is exposed to all knowledge, real life cases, experiences, and let the student decides for himself which position he wants to take. Telling the student "don't vote the opposition" downright unacceptable.
Track back a bit on Singapore's past. Our country started off as a fishing village, and the majority of the population then were not educated. Therefore, people need to be led by the government. The progress Singapore has achieved from being a third world country to a developed nation over just 44 years is applaudable. However, times have changed. Majority of the population now are well-educated, and most of them have been around the world, or even received good education from abroad (due to limited university intake here). With internet, many young adults here are exposed to all sort of information. The downside is, some people take in the bad influence, such as excessive consumption, wasteful life-styles, and extreme viewpoints without critical thinking. What we need to caution is that information on the internet is not all true.You need to have a critical mind and read widely to make any comment on issues.
For example, the case with current PAP is that they do not know how to present themselves to a new generation. In my opinion, many times PAP members give inappropriate speeches. Also, PAP is not listening to its people, although it hears what people have to say. In other words, they still treat Singaporeans as ignorant, uneducated people who need to be led.
I think Singaporeans are ready for multi-party systems, as long as we keep to our core values and common goal of making our environment a better place to live. These are just my opinion, now you make your own :)
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When the PAP leadership start talking in an alarmist way - then it is a sure sign that they have no confidence nor trust the ability of Singaporeans to perform when it comes to exercising our responsiblity at the poll station during Election Day.
It is a sad reflection to the level of rapport that was supposed to have existed between the political leadership and the citizens - who had supposedly given their consistent overwhelming mandate to the political leaders through all the elections over the last 53 years.
Still it is troubling to note that the incumbent political leaders will lose confidence towards Singaporeans prior to each election and will resort to either gerrymeandering or outright bullying with scare tactics, scolding, and alarmist strategies to win the election.
Can the young be expected to be confident of their future - when the incumbent leadership has no confidence in the young to exercise their own judgment ?
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Is sleeping in a parliament debate on a public televised show debate consider them being alarming. Uncle, open yr eyes ya. They are as cool as the ice ya.
Dun think you can change the govt
by LKY
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Dont feed the english pro troll lah.
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How can we be confident of a country that treats us worst than foreigners and wants to ship us out as soon as we are old and unproductive economically?
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Originally posted by TTFU:
Dont feed the english pro troll lah.
Who is the english pro troll you are against?YOu rather choose to be with the PIMP troll?
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- When a politician (party) sets out to serve its people(nation) but in reality takes a different stance towards its citizens/nation to perpetuate power for itself Self or party) or is motivated by short-term political gains, $$$, self-aggrandizment, self-interests or vested interests it is most likely that a segmentation, a divide n rule policy is the mainstay and a debilitation one at that . Any sensible and intelligent person would inexorably gravitate towards voting them out.
- In the case of Singapore, this one-party system with its seemingly spurious checks n balances, tranparency, accountability (not forgetting a lame and a conniving media, i label it lame cos MSM is anomalous!) anything that is progagated has to taken facetiously at face value.
Singaporeans come first – is it really true? Instead of simply, blindly imbibing and uncritically subscribing to what is being espoused, explained or propagated in the lame media or by politicians of the current incumbent govt, it would augur well for one and the future if one were to look around with discerning eyes, scrutinize policies, legislations, schemes and ... the reality of what is actually transpiring would have one wondering as to how these sorry state of affairs came to be.
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Originally posted by pearlie27:
How can we be confident of a country that treats us worst than foreigners and wants to ship us out as soon as we are old and unproductive economically?
Is this your own personal view or a general views, any facts to show?? Be responsible for what you said ya. -
Originally posted by Fugazzi:
- When a politician (party) sets out to serve its people(nation) but in reality takes a different stance towards its citizens/nation to perpetuate power for itself Self or party) or is motivated by short-term political gains, $$$, self-aggrandizment, self-interests or vested interests it is most likely that a segmentation, a divide n rule policy is the mainstay and a debilitation one at that . Any sensible and intelligent person would inexorably gravitate towards voting them out.
- In the case of Singapore, this one-party system with its seemingly spurious checks n balances, tranparency, accountability (not forgetting a lame and a conniving media, i label it lame cos MSM is anomalous!) anything that is progagated has to taken facetiously at face value.
Singaporeans come first – is it really true? Instead of simply, blindly imbibing and uncritically subscribing to what is being espoused, explained or propagated in the lame media or by politicians of the current incumbent govt, it would augur well for one and the future if one were to look around with discerning eyes, scrutinize policies, legislations, schemes and ... the reality of what is actually transpiring would have one wondering as to how these sorry state of affairs came to be.
When the govt set out to make this place a rich and prosper country so that inclusively, all its citizens across a broad base can have a slice of the bigger and richer pies, they did not expect some of them refused to move up the prosperity ladder with them, leading to a low of 10 to 15% still hovering a third world beggar stage. And certain this group of people will feel the disparity of wealth to too much for them to handle leading to them blaming the govt and the society at large.Now with the govt encouraging them take up higher skill jobs thru almost free training and payroll included, they still refuse to come forward to embrace the second chance of their life, all these end up jobless not because of no job, but rather refused to accept what the society offered them.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
If i am a student there, i would had asked him on why he slept during an important Parliamentary session whereby his counterparts WKS was delivery an important speech on home affair matter. For that, we have not much confident in the govt.
Wa.. finally u say something sensible.
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huh?? i thot i was sensible all the time.
, dun underestimate the youngs ya. -
Can the angel7030 be serious with its attempt to offer any intelligent opinions in this Speaker's Corner, or has it not been an established character flaw with its idiocy and frivolity in every thread that it had shown its clear intention to provocate responses that will drive all attention to its own controversial idiocy only ?
The agenda of this Taiwanese 'hum' was very clearly stated by itself - ‘to make sure the audience moving/divert toward you’ (*1)
This is an OPEN statement to all participant in this Forum - to resist and ignore the idiocy of this 'angel7030' and not to indulge this 'hum' from Taiwan in useless exchanges that stretch into multiple pages to drive the thread off-track.
The persistence of the Taiwanese 'hum' to post its irrelevant and irreverent idiocy is to drive the thread off-track.
Its declared agenda is to draw the attention of any participant to engage with its idiocy - so as to pile up the pages in the thread with nonsensical exchange with itself - and the thread being ignored.