Tan Kin Lian: SDP's alternative economic vision sensible
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
I don't think it is biased. PAP policies and their organisation of society stifled creativity, innovation and chinese entrepreneurial spirit.
This is true.
It's not biased.
Autocratic societies like ours are not creative, innovative societies.
Basically, societies where people are living in fear of the state are not innovative societies.
Moreover, Communism, on the winning side of the war, nonetheless showed that it, like any authoritarian system, failed to produce innovations, flexibility, and freedom; it could make extensive industrial advances only by copying freer peoples, and could not raise its standards of living substantially because it could not combine lack of freedom and force in political life and in the utilization of economic resources with the increased production of food and spiritual or intellectual freedom which were the chief desires of its own peoples.
in some sense it's true.but if u go on whacking n not suggesting it'll continue to rot as what you mention.
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haha poh ah pak
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
As long as PAP is in power, Singaporeans will never have political freedom.
creativity, cultural vitality, innovative spirit, intellectual life will forever be stifled.
As long as you are happy, and i am happy, careless who is in power.. -
as long can eat cai png
one should remain happy
at all times
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Originally posted by sbst275:
If English was never used, you believe e MNCs would have come here and set up shop easily? Communication to e outside world esp back then the opened up Western world is very important.I think many of e comments you made, if we never went that way you wouldn't be here either
on the contrary, if we went the other way, we could be better and he would had live happier..option is the key to healthy life, one who seek one way will alway see that way as the only good, and therefore ignored all other ways which could be better, if not, same -
Originally posted by noahnoah:
as long can eat cai png
one should remain happy
at all times
cai png dun make people happy, most suffer from diabetic and png's constipation after taking too much cai png. Very unhappy. -
The Prime Minister has appointed Mr Yam Ah Mee as the Returning Officer for both presidential and parliamentary elections from 1 June 2010, to succeed Mr Tan Boon Huat who has retired from the Civil Service.
The Presidential Election is a six-year term and our Old Nathan was appointed on 17 August 2005 for his second term, so Tan kian Lian should seriously think of running for the Elected Presidency of Singapore!
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Originally posted by sbst275:
If English was never used, you believe e MNCs would have come here and set up shop easily? Communication to e outside world esp back then the opened up Western world is very important.as long as the labour costs and taxes are cheap, they will come.
Come mon lah, the PRCs in jurong MNCs factories, how many can speak english?
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew's son, the Prime Minister speaks to pre-university students.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Singapore's state owned and controlled newspaper the Straits Times online edition of June 1, 2010 has the story "Remember your obligations". He was speaking to graduating High School students, telling them to remember their obligations to society by either joining the one party dictatorship's Government Service Sector or do charity work.
By this, he was implying that as the state has given them an education, it was only just for them to repay the community.
But really is this all correct? Has his father, Lee Kuan Yew really done something good for these students, or has he in fact damaged their minds by turning them into cowardly servile robots, only capable of blindly following Lee Kuan Yew's orders?
Education, we would all agree is meant to open the minds of students, enabling them to think openly and fearlessly for what is right and the courage to execute it. But if this was in fact what education was meant to be, these students have not been educated at all; they have been brainwashed into submission and complete obedience to authority. Singapore has in fact damaged their minds, resulting in fact in their being handicapped in any other society other than Singapore.
The Singapore government has caused these students by years of indoctrination to become consumed in fear, unable to think openly and act upon their ideas. For instance, every single one of these High School students is fully aware that in Singapore there is no freedom of speech, no human rights whatsoever. Had these students been in any other country, they would have protested against this denial of rights a long time ago, and held nationwide protests to demand them.
Yet, these Singapore students have no courage to do any of that, thanks to Lee Kuan Yew style education which has turned every single one of these people into literally robots, only capable of obeying orders but incapable of having any opinions about anything.
If these students are aware of how much Lee Kuan Yew and his son have damaged their minds, they would would be so enraged as to tell both father and son to stop this immediately. But no, these students did not have anything to say. As expected of Lee Kuan Yew's students, they knew no better, quietly listened to the son's speech and went home to their HDB government apartments, to another day of the same old boring, submissive, uncomplaining existence.
No, these students did not have an education. What they have had in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore is a brainwashing.
Those whose minds have been damaged beyond redemption, will perhaps stay behind and join Lee Kuan Yew's government service as his son desires. Others who are still able to realise the harm that is being done to them, would in all probability pack up and leave Singapore permanently.
Gopalan NairYou are invited to leave Singapore permanently. The rest of the normal SIngaporeans will stay and send off the despot of the gorillas in white.
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why dun SDP suggest Singapore become an agricultural economy lagi better
no need to depend on others ?
Can.
singapore soil is quite suitable for the growth of rice and it can support a population of 100,000 people based on a study.
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Originally posted by sbst275:
If English was never used, you believe e MNCs would have come here and set up shop easily? Communication to e outside world esp back then the opened up Western world is very important.I think many of e comments you made, if we never went that way you wouldn't be here either
U think this user will really want MNC to set up in Singapore? No. You have went into his / her ploy le.
Well, I think the early days of PAP was heading in the right direction except the chinese language policy and PSLE / streaming issue. If anyone insist that PAP was heading in the wrong direction, then they should pray for communism in Singapore, which might be better instead.
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Originally posted by Devil7030:
why dun SDP suggest Singapore become an agricultural economy lagi better
no need to depend on others ?
Can.
singapore soil is quite suitable for the growth of rice and it can support a population of 100,000 people based on a study.
If you all are willing to see your Sing dollars in yr banks or CPF depreciate to the level of Rupiah or ringgits, SDP suggestion of agricultural economy may work to your liking -
hey what happened to tan kin lian's appeal for signatures regarding his run for presidency?
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Originally posted by Samuel Lee:
U think this user will really want MNC to set up in Singapore? No. You have went into his / her ploy le.
I want MNCs to set up in Singapore.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
on the contrary, if we went the other way, we could be better and he would had live happier..option is the key to healthy life, one who seek one way will alway see that way as the only good, and therefore ignored all other ways which could be better, if not, same
maybe, maybe not.but whatever it was, Singapore survived as a country better than Malaysia. Only problem now is how to look ahead.
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
as long as the labour costs and taxes are cheap, they will come.
Come mon lah, the PRCs in jurong MNCs factories, how many can speak english?
so you're trying to mean S'pore would not develop up e economic chain forever? No? These MNCs are also moving up e ladder chain as the continue on in Singapore.Wat M'sia is doing now for example, is wat we did up till early 1990s.
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Originally posted by Samuel Lee:
U think this user will really want MNC to set up in Singapore? No. You have went into his / her ploy le.
Well, I think the early days of PAP was heading in the right direction except the chinese language policy and PSLE / streaming issue. If anyone insist that PAP was heading in the wrong direction, then they should pray for communism in Singapore, which might be better instead.
To me it's very sad Mother Tongue was actually neglected. But it's least that many of us understnad our basic Mother Tongue in wiriting (language issue esp w/ Chinese Dialect I know it's controvesy though).Better than M'sia.. Let Indep Chinese High School thrive yet KL govt refuse to accept their cert for uni or govt post. Yet our S'pore uni accept their cert.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
If you all are willing to see your Sing dollars in yr banks or CPF depreciate to the level of Rupiah or ringgits, SDP suggestion of agricultural economy may work to your liking
then e only way to survive is to open up.Even Evergreen Group's boss said depending on Taiwan's port to survive is no use.