While walking to a place, I heard a group of mainland Chinese saying, “Singaporeans are stupid.” What can I say ? 60% – FTs – fake citizens – selfish citizens = naive citizens = stupid Singaporeans. It’s very sad to see our country being taken away by barbarians and corrupt court officials.

Money politics here is the worst in the world ! They didn’t use corporate’s monies, they use ours !

I feel comparisons need to be macro and not micro or else we may be like the 4 blind men touching different parts of an elephant and then moves on to touch different parts of another elephant and draw a wrong conclusion.

My first statement is our government is made up of fellow human beings and they are not perfect. Our government is made up of fellow citizens and is not perfect either – pretty much like ourselves. They are the first generation of ‘fathers’ trying to lead the way so besides drawing from examples and history, a lot depends on guts and experiences – that means we cannot realistically expect perfection at every angle.

My second statement is that leading a country is much ore complex than anything and we, being a young nation, is still experimenting. If we think leading a wife and some children can be quite daunting at times, multiply that by a million times. So instead one trying to meet the needs of 4, try meeting the needs of 4 million. And, to add to that, our government are fathers for the first time.

Lets not be critical of our government. If we do that, we become a laughing stock ourselves.

The bigger picture is the delivery, dear friends. Lets compare what our government has delivered during the 45 years and what the other governments have done for their citizens.

I can name a few things that millions of people can only dream of.
1) Peace and stability. I have lived in various countries and have not seen that in any of them. Our foreigners friends can attest to that. We need not worry much about being stabbed or robbed or that our children would get kidnapped, I lived in a country whereby this happens everyday. The locals told me, “If there is no killing on the street for one day, than its really news”. It’s that bad.

2) Employment for the majority. In Singapore, we usually choose what jobs we want. Not so in 90% of the world.

3) Housing for all. One just needs to read the news and will see that millions of people have no proper homes. Their government is unable (for a huge number of reasons) to provide even for that.

4) Food for all. We always say, “Don’t know what to eat today leh”. My goodness, what bliss!!! Tons of people have NOTHING to eat. Without the infrastructure set up by our government, that would not be possible at all! I knew a young girl who ate sliced bread and salt for breakfast because that’s all there was.

5) Rebates for citizens. I know may say that the government take it back in the end. That is not really true if we sit down and do the maths OURSELVES. To start with, do you think our government needs to go one big round, spend administrative money just to pocket back the money? They just did not have to give the rebates. Which countries give money like that? Not many.

I can go on… and on. But seriously, dear friends, we all live on the same island. Lets be gracious to each other and especially to our government – allow them space to grow. Would we like our children to criticize us everyday for the mistakes we make? Then why do we want to do that to others?

Ah Beng

Firstly, money politics are categorised into 2 types. Overt and Covert. If you give money quietly to the voters, that’s covert and that’s ILLEGAL. If you give money publicly, that’s overt and that’s LEGAL. :)

Secondly, presidents are categorised into 2 types. The talk back type and the obedient type. If you talk back, then you’re considered a threat to the government and will eventually cause chaos. If you’re the obedient type, you will help to keep the PEACE cos you simply let the government do their thing. :)

Thirdly, gaining power and money are categorised into 2 types. The give me HIGH salary to stop my greed type, and the give me basic salary and tempt me type. If you give HIGH salary (in the hundreds of thousands), that’s considered LEGAL cos its open and acknowledged. But if its the basic type, you’re courting corruption.

You see there’s always 2 sides to a coin. Some coins have 4 sides…ingots.

* Should Singapore be compared with the 3 world countries like Malaysia or Indonesia? Why not? We’re not exactly 1st world you know?

fievel and Lindia – Thanks for keeping me going! :)

“If a lie is repeated again and again, one day people will believe it to be the truth”.

Can you remember someone in the government once said, “If a lie is repeated again and again, one people will believe it to be the truth” or words to that effect. I think it was LKY himself who said that, if my memory serves me well.

So, Singaporeans now seriously need people like Gerald Giam and many other similarly passionate bloggers to refute such “lies” and open their eyes and ears, so that they will stop falling into the PAP’s psychological warfare traps.

Good work, Gerald. Please continue to write and write and write. I enjoy reading your articles. Thank you very much.