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		<title>By: Arthur Martinkus</title>
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		<description>Dear ALL WISE, BRAVE AND BELOVED Citizens,

The Voice of Righteousness(for OUR NATION LONG TERM BENEFITS)

Reason why I am posting in the internet at this early hour of final day before cooling day(I am not a good writer) :

I just love my country Singapore which I was born. I want to contribute to our people. And I really want our country to grow healthily and with morals and ethics and compassion, as much as our citizens want.
The following state of mind of mine many of us may not want to see through this article.

But Please let me do an analysis why most GRCs and SMCs contests ARE ALL LOST to Ruling Party INCLUDING ALJUNIED except maybe Hougang. Real Democracy is LOST. AND SEE THE LONG TERMS PROS AND CONS BELOW……

See Below Notes

1) ONE MAIN REASON of Failure of this election is because Traditional Media, for example Newspaper Like Straits Times, New Paper, Today. TV like channel 8, Indian channel and Malaysia channels Suria, Channel News Asia and also radio channels. And who listens to these channels?

It is the less internet savvy common people who outnumbers internet users by 20-30% at least(that is lots of votes, we need 5 to 10 years before we can catch up with to at least match the traditional media population, although now our internet take up rate is 70-75%

BUT how many common folks even internet savvy or abled are politically that upright and concerned? Which is much lesser even when they are internet savvy), which is especially more senior, elderly folks, people who are handicap and cant walk and cant walk well due to old age and also those too busily working fighting for these survival…

Thats why the ruling party is controlling us with very smart IRON FISTSSS for 50 over years, THROUGH THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA.
They are also using traditional medias to drive traffic to their various websites like facebooks and also http://WWW.GE.SG which is quite biased favourably towards ruling party. How SMART.
THEY ENSLAVE the people to work hard and fast till we cant work still cant receive our CPF and retire well, how sad and disappointing and they are brilliant money makers WITHOUT EVEN USING WHIPS, and occasional giving us very very small carrots year after year.

page 1 of 6


WE should promote to people to listen to all media to all sides of stories or at least 2 sides of the story. We need to let them know Media is biased and untrue about some stories, at least let the public take traditional media with a pinch of salt.

Other important but not as major REASONS as above :
2) Ruling party apologized, toned down to mellow to gain sympathy, empathy and swing votes and more neutral votes or rather their usual old supporters who fear changes and also fear of anarchy which will not happen as during 1959 our ruling party were having issues and with the resilent of our people and not just government we pulled through, also during 1965 our national building thanks to the old guards of Goh Keng Swee and many old MPs and ministers, and they are now focused on policies, which they would win back 5-10% of the votes, enough to break the opposition by GREAT numbers!!

3) Cooling day magic may see lots of surprise reports / accusation about opposition parties or their members. AlsoThey are actually depriving all voters of chances to last minute evaluate the situation by talking to opposition parties also.

4) PAP average speakers are better speakers and given more airtime and radio time from traditional medias(maybe selected from ruling party tea parties, not using our public money?)

5) Digging out opposition parties and opposition candidates old issues which might not be valid like privatization of hougang HUDC when the hougang accounts are intact and ruling parties are not giving full details, both parties need to clarify but not at this point of time.

6) From what I understand, the ruling party got a team of advisers to teach the ruling party candidates about how to write, speak, dress, public speak, address issues, make newsletters and magazine, and put them into newspaper.

7) GRC created and also democracy dead from that day, and also our feedback system of election is distort until few years later till next election it is too late.

8) electorate is biased towards the ruling party and the rally rules bias including cooling day.
9) Using Anchor ministers like George Yeo, Wong Keng Seng to be a shield to gain political compassion, how smart.
10) Using HDB upgrading and MRT and estate and facilities upgrading to lure voters.
11) The ruling trying to control using websites like http://www.GE.SG

12) Also Take for instance after seeing yesterday night tampines rally by NSP(my hometown), I think MBT can still win Tampines by a HUGE margin(at least 10 more percent).

page 2 of 6



So Sorry to say that… (MBT is good businessman really and I really don’t like him as he is draining our money.)
a)Because the NSP team new members are mostly not public speakers(although they might speak from their hearts glad to say that).

b) Also some of them did not capture the hearts of people from the beginning to the end.

c) The opposition parties did not cover enough the blocks of HDB and condos when elderly people, senior folks and people who wants alternative voice or rather representative voice of opposite MPs from Tampines will be heard. I suggest those not so good in public speaking(example speaking too emotionally, some are too soft, some are too monotonous tone, some dont catch rhythm well, eye contact if media is catch no enough) will go to visit in buddies system to reach out to as many residents as possible as tomorrow is the final day.

d) Luckily guest speaker Tan Kin Lian-ex nutc income CEO(spoke many good points like our hdb cost and transport cost too high, but abit too soft but can be better voice projection) lift up some spirits to gather swing and rational votes, followed by Goh Meng Seng(can be better) and also Nicole Seah(rational yet to the point and simple).

e) Speak of pros and cons and give example for end of chapter of speech and also try to back it up with substantial information and quotes.

f) Talk more about plans, dont be too radical do it progressively as it may scare voters.

g) I agree with Mr Goh Meng Seng on high housing price and also compassion of gov is lost which renting house to foreigner for more profit than to rent to Singaporean and left alone to sleep openly in void decks, streets and also parks like east coast. Luckily he mentioned they are not anti-foreigners but must take care of citizen housing and other rights first which saved abit of vote, if not some good number of votes. Also opposition parties please please say about good to have PR and new citizen but seriously the balance of managing these foreign people were lost and they need to

i) Also Miss Nicole Seah cost of livings points which she spoke sincerely and close to our hearts. She present well with very well tone(not emotional but sincere and not pushy)

j) Good points of candidate to say give discount to hdb flats, but seriously for example I would rather want to let ruling party every year give us back 20k of rebate since we got that much reserves for the next 5 years(but ruling party will say it is saved for rainy days, if it is unaccounted for and unaudited but we cant even use to pay our internal debts of housing and cost of livings to save fire what is the

page 3 of 6


use of having some much reserves and CPF when there is minimum sum policy which is more than 110k-120k for each person), instead of the petty handouts(or sweets) or rebate(which sends shivers to my spine and mind.

Sorry, Even Hougang may not be safe to opposition, the rest of opposition party are in very jeopardy state. I dont put the ruling party up to bring down opposition morale at this point. But I have to wake loved fellow Singaporeans up.

Hopefully Singaporean have done enough positive deeds and generous mindsets previously to be appreciative of opposition parties so that they can really win, but I doubt Singaporeans have such a good fortune as most of us are self centred about short terms gains about upgrade of hdb, environments, cpf and monetary handouts before election.

And after that struggling to pay for housing debts and bills and payments to counter cost of living for next 5 years, which the people have been doing actually since again I mentioned GRC, because GRC was first CREATED 25 years ago(if we forgot when the GRC Matrix(the movie) was created to kill democracy from day 1).

Many non-ruling parties candidates may be sued for defamation, one of them is Nicole Seah maybe, hope by writing this I am protecting them through public eyes……

Hopefully, opposition becomes stronger, but I doubt so as ruling parties will try ways and means to tear them down and most people like the past elections with capabilities will not want to come into election again, maybe until the day when the cancer of democracy got too serious like we become HK or Japan asset bubbles and higher cost of living. but it would be too late to help.

I vote THE VOTE of no confidence for ruling party on the high housing prices(my children will not be able to afford hdb due to higher price definitely due to inflation, pegging to market prices, overprinting of money, greed of authorities, high cost of building which by right is not so high), ERP(200 over ERP Gantries standby with some 3-5 Singapore dollars, transport cost including CRAZY TAXI prices which the authorities should allow car pool and waive ERP for Central Business District Area, which would drive up cost of living and even housing prices, mark my words here also),
no accountability(no independent groups of auditors with members of the public to witness, tally and sign off) and transparency of Reserves, GICs and temasek reserves, Ministers and Super Scale Civil Servant Pays, bonuses and increment and promotion and increase of headcounts each year(plus retrenchments/retirements of older and more senior staffs). Their cost structure have far become too much higher than what they can give Singaporean back year after year. that&#039;s why they tax more and more in various form year after year and this is a form of price inflation of cost of living. Town councils accounts should be audited also.

page 4 of 6


The ruling parties have been good for first national building, but they have already lost the balance between national building of well being for people and money making.

And I intend to leave Singapore as much i don’t want to.
AGAIN MARK MY WORDS HERE, Singapore WILL soon become Hong Kong and also even Japan, China and India where housing price and cost of living are too high!! It WILL GET OUT OF HAND.

It is getting harder each day. Pay and pay without knowing why we need to pay more and more, and we piss and piss. Work and work and work for long hours and when we retire still cant take our CPF(maybe cant even fork out any CPF to pay for housing) and think when my retirement age is 80 to 100 years old by then. And I have to pay 30 years for our house.

I guess Singapore Pte Ltd(not Ltd) has just really becoming a Very Very Very Big MNC(s), even bigger after THIS election….

Singaporeans will continue to be unwilling boiling frogs, and will continue in a way that they wont even know how, where and when to voice out publicly although deep inside their heart they are very tired working and paying debts and bills.

I personally guess and believe all these are due to the reserves and loss of GICs and temasek holding that they want to cover up the losses(including in CHINA Suzhou and India and Thailand) that lead to the recent years mania increase of the prices of everything including housing and ERP, non-withdrawal of CPF, retirement age increase.

No ones want to be left, no ones want to be left at home, no ones want to be forced to leave their homes, but I guess we will.

The education system is THE SOURCE of why our policies of meritocracy and elite, but all along it is emphasizing in second place morals, ethics and compassion. That’s why now our ruling parties leaders or rather followers are yes men and also more close to the party than the nation. The quality and non monetary motivation of candidates for this election from non-ruling parties are far better than ruling parties despite all odds and doubts of people fear change for the better of democracy and monopolies, but ruling parties are dividing them and conquering them one by one… The balance of conscience is lost.

Also, the healthcare is too high and also not enough time to take care of health due to cost of living, for example the lower income like contract workers and more than 30000 taxi drivers and many other private bus drivers…

Upgrading of HDB estate comes with a price, which we have to address the false glory behind it as we are driven so hard so fast to work harder and harder, longer and longer each day. Not sure when we can retire is a scary thing.

The government only spend 1.6% of GDP to healthcare, that’s why we have to work hard for our hefty and long medical bills. Plus lack of hospitals and healthcare scheme where we are reminded that we are not welfare state, but remember the word we can die, but we cant be sick or ill.

The lists goes on and on.. I am neither a statistic guy nor a pro-hdb upgrading man(as it is promoting false glory while we work and struggle for livelihood) but I sense as a concerned resident of Singapore and resident of Tampines,
I urge that Mah Bow Tan(MBT) be removed from election so that he can move on to the private sectors to help ruling parties make more money. George Yeo can retire since they are millionaire, we definitely have talents from non ruling parties.

If we vote ruling party WITH LANDSLIDE VICTORY USING GRC SYSTEM and they don’t control the situation well, Singaporean might be swarmed with 1000000 to 1500000(1million to 1.5 million) more Foreigners soon that our next generations are squeezed out of Singaporean even they work very very very hard and fast, till the day they die. Filial Piety may be lost from children to their parents and before that parents can afford to have any child and don’t even want to get married like many of my friends above mid 35s, due to cost of living to even support themselves…

Remember the cooling day tricks… It is not about voting opposition, it is voting for votes of no confidence of ruling party and voting for ourselves and our children not be enslaved by ruling party, be brave and be farsighted..

To the well-off, powerful and richer people, you might want to rock the boat by allowing GRCs to be biased favourably towards ruling parties, but once the cancer of democracy due to GRC formations are uncurable, the vicious cycle might impact you in vicious cycle manner and even your children in future.

The MAIN, MAIN reason why ruling party don’t want opposition parties is so that they wont check their billions of dollars lost and cannot account for, since the early day Suzhou Industrial Park losses…

Be cautioned in advance my beloved Fellow Countrymen.

Have a GOOD VOTE(there is no best vote, don’t waste your vote to void as opposition need your vote to voice out your real long TERM concerns and NEEDS) using LONG TERM VIEW of balanced multi-parties yet ensure that parties and their candidates are morally, ethically and compassionately and passionately about the people, not just meritocracy and elite system!!

page 5 of 6



Bless ourselves and Bless Singaporeans :)..

Guardians and Forefathers of Singapore help US!!

Hope the positive and pure balanced energies finally flows in Singapore

Let there be no over greed, morally, ethically and compassionate government and people through education from young to nurture with patience!!!

page 6 of 6(final page)

read www.goldclubasia.com/forum to see why ruling party are crappy also</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear ALL WISE, BRAVE AND BELOVED Citizens,</p>
<p>The Voice of Righteousness(for OUR NATION LONG TERM BENEFITS)</p>
<p>Reason why I am posting in the internet at this early hour of final day before cooling day(I am not a good writer) :</p>
<p>I just love my country Singapore which I was born. I want to contribute to our people. And I really want our country to grow healthily and with morals and ethics and compassion, as much as our citizens want.<br />
The following state of mind of mine many of us may not want to see through this article.</p>
<p>But Please let me do an analysis why most GRCs and SMCs contests ARE ALL LOST to Ruling Party INCLUDING ALJUNIED except maybe Hougang. Real Democracy is LOST. AND SEE THE LONG TERMS PROS AND CONS BELOW……</p>
<p>See Below Notes</p>
<p>1) ONE MAIN REASON of Failure of this election is because Traditional Media, for example Newspaper Like Straits Times, New Paper, Today. TV like channel 8, Indian channel and Malaysia channels Suria, Channel News Asia and also radio channels. And who listens to these channels?</p>
<p>It is the less internet savvy common people who outnumbers internet users by 20-30% at least(that is lots of votes, we need 5 to 10 years before we can catch up with to at least match the traditional media population, although now our internet take up rate is 70-75%</p>
<p>BUT how many common folks even internet savvy or abled are politically that upright and concerned? Which is much lesser even when they are internet savvy), which is especially more senior, elderly folks, people who are handicap and cant walk and cant walk well due to old age and also those too busily working fighting for these survival…</p>
<p>Thats why the ruling party is controlling us with very smart IRON FISTSSS for 50 over years, THROUGH THE TRADITIONAL MEDIA.<br />
They are also using traditional medias to drive traffic to their various websites like facebooks and also <a href="http://WWW.GE.SG" rel="nofollow">http://WWW.GE.SG</a> which is quite biased favourably towards ruling party. How SMART.<br />
THEY ENSLAVE the people to work hard and fast till we cant work still cant receive our CPF and retire well, how sad and disappointing and they are brilliant money makers WITHOUT EVEN USING WHIPS, and occasional giving us very very small carrots year after year.</p>
<p>page 1 of 6</p>
<p>WE should promote to people to listen to all media to all sides of stories or at least 2 sides of the story. We need to let them know Media is biased and untrue about some stories, at least let the public take traditional media with a pinch of salt.</p>
<p>Other important but not as major REASONS as above :<br />
2) Ruling party apologized, toned down to mellow to gain sympathy, empathy and swing votes and more neutral votes or rather their usual old supporters who fear changes and also fear of anarchy which will not happen as during 1959 our ruling party were having issues and with the resilent of our people and not just government we pulled through, also during 1965 our national building thanks to the old guards of Goh Keng Swee and many old MPs and ministers, and they are now focused on policies, which they would win back 5-10% of the votes, enough to break the opposition by GREAT numbers!!</p>
<p>3) Cooling day magic may see lots of surprise reports / accusation about opposition parties or their members. AlsoThey are actually depriving all voters of chances to last minute evaluate the situation by talking to opposition parties also.</p>
<p>4) PAP average speakers are better speakers and given more airtime and radio time from traditional medias(maybe selected from ruling party tea parties, not using our public money?)</p>
<p>5) Digging out opposition parties and opposition candidates old issues which might not be valid like privatization of hougang HUDC when the hougang accounts are intact and ruling parties are not giving full details, both parties need to clarify but not at this point of time.</p>
<p>6) From what I understand, the ruling party got a team of advisers to teach the ruling party candidates about how to write, speak, dress, public speak, address issues, make newsletters and magazine, and put them into newspaper.</p>
<p>7) GRC created and also democracy dead from that day, and also our feedback system of election is distort until few years later till next election it is too late.</p>
<p>8) electorate is biased towards the ruling party and the rally rules bias including cooling day.<br />
9) Using Anchor ministers like George Yeo, Wong Keng Seng to be a shield to gain political compassion, how smart.<br />
10) Using HDB upgrading and MRT and estate and facilities upgrading to lure voters.<br />
11) The ruling trying to control using websites like <a href="http://www.GE.SG" rel="nofollow">http://www.GE.SG</a></p>
<p>12) Also Take for instance after seeing yesterday night tampines rally by NSP(my hometown), I think MBT can still win Tampines by a HUGE margin(at least 10 more percent).</p>
<p>page 2 of 6</p>
<p>So Sorry to say that… (MBT is good businessman really and I really don’t like him as he is draining our money.)<br />
a)Because the NSP team new members are mostly not public speakers(although they might speak from their hearts glad to say that).</p>
<p>b) Also some of them did not capture the hearts of people from the beginning to the end.</p>
<p>c) The opposition parties did not cover enough the blocks of HDB and condos when elderly people, senior folks and people who wants alternative voice or rather representative voice of opposite MPs from Tampines will be heard. I suggest those not so good in public speaking(example speaking too emotionally, some are too soft, some are too monotonous tone, some dont catch rhythm well, eye contact if media is catch no enough) will go to visit in buddies system to reach out to as many residents as possible as tomorrow is the final day.</p>
<p>d) Luckily guest speaker Tan Kin Lian-ex nutc income CEO(spoke many good points like our hdb cost and transport cost too high, but abit too soft but can be better voice projection) lift up some spirits to gather swing and rational votes, followed by Goh Meng Seng(can be better) and also Nicole Seah(rational yet to the point and simple).</p>
<p>e) Speak of pros and cons and give example for end of chapter of speech and also try to back it up with substantial information and quotes.</p>
<p>f) Talk more about plans, dont be too radical do it progressively as it may scare voters.</p>
<p>g) I agree with Mr Goh Meng Seng on high housing price and also compassion of gov is lost which renting house to foreigner for more profit than to rent to Singaporean and left alone to sleep openly in void decks, streets and also parks like east coast. Luckily he mentioned they are not anti-foreigners but must take care of citizen housing and other rights first which saved abit of vote, if not some good number of votes. Also opposition parties please please say about good to have PR and new citizen but seriously the balance of managing these foreign people were lost and they need to</p>
<p>i) Also Miss Nicole Seah cost of livings points which she spoke sincerely and close to our hearts. She present well with very well tone(not emotional but sincere and not pushy)</p>
<p>j) Good points of candidate to say give discount to hdb flats, but seriously for example I would rather want to let ruling party every year give us back 20k of rebate since we got that much reserves for the next 5 years(but ruling party will say it is saved for rainy days, if it is unaccounted for and unaudited but we cant even use to pay our internal debts of housing and cost of livings to save fire what is the</p>
<p>page 3 of 6</p>
<p>use of having some much reserves and CPF when there is minimum sum policy which is more than 110k-120k for each person), instead of the petty handouts(or sweets) or rebate(which sends shivers to my spine and mind.</p>
<p>Sorry, Even Hougang may not be safe to opposition, the rest of opposition party are in very jeopardy state. I dont put the ruling party up to bring down opposition morale at this point. But I have to wake loved fellow Singaporeans up.</p>
<p>Hopefully Singaporean have done enough positive deeds and generous mindsets previously to be appreciative of opposition parties so that they can really win, but I doubt Singaporeans have such a good fortune as most of us are self centred about short terms gains about upgrade of hdb, environments, cpf and monetary handouts before election.</p>
<p>And after that struggling to pay for housing debts and bills and payments to counter cost of living for next 5 years, which the people have been doing actually since again I mentioned GRC, because GRC was first CREATED 25 years ago(if we forgot when the GRC Matrix(the movie) was created to kill democracy from day 1).</p>
<p>Many non-ruling parties candidates may be sued for defamation, one of them is Nicole Seah maybe, hope by writing this I am protecting them through public eyes……</p>
<p>Hopefully, opposition becomes stronger, but I doubt so as ruling parties will try ways and means to tear them down and most people like the past elections with capabilities will not want to come into election again, maybe until the day when the cancer of democracy got too serious like we become HK or Japan asset bubbles and higher cost of living. but it would be too late to help.</p>
<p>I vote THE VOTE of no confidence for ruling party on the high housing prices(my children will not be able to afford hdb due to higher price definitely due to inflation, pegging to market prices, overprinting of money, greed of authorities, high cost of building which by right is not so high), ERP(200 over ERP Gantries standby with some 3-5 Singapore dollars, transport cost including CRAZY TAXI prices which the authorities should allow car pool and waive ERP for Central Business District Area, which would drive up cost of living and even housing prices, mark my words here also),<br />
no accountability(no independent groups of auditors with members of the public to witness, tally and sign off) and transparency of Reserves, GICs and temasek reserves, Ministers and Super Scale Civil Servant Pays, bonuses and increment and promotion and increase of headcounts each year(plus retrenchments/retirements of older and more senior staffs). Their cost structure have far become too much higher than what they can give Singaporean back year after year. that&#8217;s why they tax more and more in various form year after year and this is a form of price inflation of cost of living. Town councils accounts should be audited also.</p>
<p>page 4 of 6</p>
<p>The ruling parties have been good for first national building, but they have already lost the balance between national building of well being for people and money making.</p>
<p>And I intend to leave Singapore as much i don’t want to.<br />
AGAIN MARK MY WORDS HERE, Singapore WILL soon become Hong Kong and also even Japan, China and India where housing price and cost of living are too high!! It WILL GET OUT OF HAND.</p>
<p>It is getting harder each day. Pay and pay without knowing why we need to pay more and more, and we piss and piss. Work and work and work for long hours and when we retire still cant take our CPF(maybe cant even fork out any CPF to pay for housing) and think when my retirement age is 80 to 100 years old by then. And I have to pay 30 years for our house.</p>
<p>I guess Singapore Pte Ltd(not Ltd) has just really becoming a Very Very Very Big MNC(s), even bigger after THIS election….</p>
<p>Singaporeans will continue to be unwilling boiling frogs, and will continue in a way that they wont even know how, where and when to voice out publicly although deep inside their heart they are very tired working and paying debts and bills.</p>
<p>I personally guess and believe all these are due to the reserves and loss of GICs and temasek holding that they want to cover up the losses(including in CHINA Suzhou and India and Thailand) that lead to the recent years mania increase of the prices of everything including housing and ERP, non-withdrawal of CPF, retirement age increase.</p>
<p>No ones want to be left, no ones want to be left at home, no ones want to be forced to leave their homes, but I guess we will.</p>
<p>The education system is THE SOURCE of why our policies of meritocracy and elite, but all along it is emphasizing in second place morals, ethics and compassion. That’s why now our ruling parties leaders or rather followers are yes men and also more close to the party than the nation. The quality and non monetary motivation of candidates for this election from non-ruling parties are far better than ruling parties despite all odds and doubts of people fear change for the better of democracy and monopolies, but ruling parties are dividing them and conquering them one by one… The balance of conscience is lost.</p>
<p>Also, the healthcare is too high and also not enough time to take care of health due to cost of living, for example the lower income like contract workers and more than 30000 taxi drivers and many other private bus drivers…</p>
<p>Upgrading of HDB estate comes with a price, which we have to address the false glory behind it as we are driven so hard so fast to work harder and harder, longer and longer each day. Not sure when we can retire is a scary thing.</p>
<p>The government only spend 1.6% of GDP to healthcare, that’s why we have to work hard for our hefty and long medical bills. Plus lack of hospitals and healthcare scheme where we are reminded that we are not welfare state, but remember the word we can die, but we cant be sick or ill.</p>
<p>The lists goes on and on.. I am neither a statistic guy nor a pro-hdb upgrading man(as it is promoting false glory while we work and struggle for livelihood) but I sense as a concerned resident of Singapore and resident of Tampines,<br />
I urge that Mah Bow Tan(MBT) be removed from election so that he can move on to the private sectors to help ruling parties make more money. George Yeo can retire since they are millionaire, we definitely have talents from non ruling parties.</p>
<p>If we vote ruling party WITH LANDSLIDE VICTORY USING GRC SYSTEM and they don’t control the situation well, Singaporean might be swarmed with 1000000 to 1500000(1million to 1.5 million) more Foreigners soon that our next generations are squeezed out of Singaporean even they work very very very hard and fast, till the day they die. Filial Piety may be lost from children to their parents and before that parents can afford to have any child and don’t even want to get married like many of my friends above mid 35s, due to cost of living to even support themselves…</p>
<p>Remember the cooling day tricks… It is not about voting opposition, it is voting for votes of no confidence of ruling party and voting for ourselves and our children not be enslaved by ruling party, be brave and be farsighted..</p>
<p>To the well-off, powerful and richer people, you might want to rock the boat by allowing GRCs to be biased favourably towards ruling parties, but once the cancer of democracy due to GRC formations are uncurable, the vicious cycle might impact you in vicious cycle manner and even your children in future.</p>
<p>The MAIN, MAIN reason why ruling party don’t want opposition parties is so that they wont check their billions of dollars lost and cannot account for, since the early day Suzhou Industrial Park losses…</p>
<p>Be cautioned in advance my beloved Fellow Countrymen.</p>
<p>Have a GOOD VOTE(there is no best vote, don’t waste your vote to void as opposition need your vote to voice out your real long TERM concerns and NEEDS) using LONG TERM VIEW of balanced multi-parties yet ensure that parties and their candidates are morally, ethically and compassionately and passionately about the people, not just meritocracy and elite system!!</p>
<p>page 5 of 6</p>
<p>Bless ourselves and Bless Singaporeans :)..</p>
<p>Guardians and Forefathers of Singapore help US!!</p>
<p>Hope the positive and pure balanced energies finally flows in Singapore</p>
<p>Let there be no over greed, morally, ethically and compassionate government and people through education from young to nurture with patience!!!</p>
<p>page 6 of 6(final page)</p>
<p>read <a href="http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum" rel="nofollow">http://www.goldclubasia.com/forum</a> to see why ruling party are crappy also</p>
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		<title>By: The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Weekly Roundup: Week 10</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4335</link>
		<dc:creator>The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Weekly Roundup: Week 10</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the path not yet taken - WSJ: &#8216;The Singapore Way&#8217; [Thanks Gerald] - Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low - Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy - Sgpolitics.net: [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the path not yet taken &#8211; WSJ: &#8216;The Singapore Way&#8217; [Thanks Gerald] &#8211; Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low &#8211; Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy &#8211; Sgpolitics.net: [...]</p>
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		<title>By: The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Weekly Roundup: Week 10</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4336</link>
		<dc:creator>The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Weekly Roundup: Week 10</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the path not yet taken - WSJ: &#8216;The Singapore Way&#8217; [Thanks Gerald] - Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low - Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy - Sgpolitics.net: [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the path not yet taken &#8211; WSJ: &#8216;The Singapore Way&#8217; [Thanks Gerald] &#8211; Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low &#8211; Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy &#8211; Sgpolitics.net: [...]</p>
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		<title>By: hahaha</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4322</link>
		<dc:creator>hahaha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If J Teo can represent all the union leaders in Singapore, unions must be lackeys of govt. No wonder our workers are unable to fight for their rights. As LKY said, w/o foreigners, no one would do the dirty work. Maybe Govt should start thinking by paying high ministerial level salaries to our Singapore construction workers so that they can &quot;SACRIFICE&quot; to build our craved IRs!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If J Teo can represent all the union leaders in Singapore, unions must be lackeys of govt. No wonder our workers are unable to fight for their rights. As LKY said, w/o foreigners, no one would do the dirty work. Maybe Govt should start thinking by paying high ministerial level salaries to our Singapore construction workers so that they can &#8220;SACRIFICE&#8221; to build our craved IRs!</p>
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		<title>By: Low Thia Khiang: Low productivity not workers’ fault &#124; The Online Citizen</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4321</link>
		<dc:creator>Low Thia Khiang: Low productivity not workers’ fault &#124; The Online Citizen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This article was first published on Gerlad Giam&#8217;s Blog [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This article was first published on Gerlad Giam&#8217;s Blog [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Kaffein</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4320</link>
		<dc:creator>Kaffein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Easy to rebut and sing the tune of the incumbent party where you have the majority vote. I don&#039;t see how your response have helped Singaporeans, Josephine.

I wonder if you are still an MP representing Singaporeans, or an MP representing PAP. For heavens&#039; sake, you are in a parliamentary sitting to REPRESENT your constituency and PEOPLE.

Sheesh,
Kaffein</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Easy to rebut and sing the tune of the incumbent party where you have the majority vote. I don&#8217;t see how your response have helped Singaporeans, Josephine.</p>
<p>I wonder if you are still an MP representing Singaporeans, or an MP representing PAP. For heavens&#8217; sake, you are in a parliamentary sitting to REPRESENT your constituency and PEOPLE.</p>
<p>Sheesh,<br />
Kaffein</p>
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		<title>By: personally</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4319</link>
		<dc:creator>personally</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Josephine is a joke. And what about the loop holes to increasing levy. Workers will end up paying snake heads more for the increase in levy, and continue to be paid peanuts, resulting in low productivity.

How does Me Joseephine tackle this loophole?
http://lianain.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-how-much-did-you-pay-your-agent.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Josephine is a joke. And what about the loop holes to increasing levy. Workers will end up paying snake heads more for the increase in levy, and continue to be paid peanuts, resulting in low productivity.</p>
<p>How does Me Joseephine tackle this loophole?<br />
<a href="http://lianain.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-how-much-did-you-pay-your-agent.html" rel="nofollow">http://lianain.blogspot.com/2010/03/so-how-much-did-you-pay-your-agent.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Daily SG: 3 Mar 2010</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4317</link>
		<dc:creator>The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Daily SG: 3 Mar 2010</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 2010 - Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low - Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy - Sgpolitics.net: [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Daily SG: 3 Mar 2010</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/03/low-productivity-not-our-workers-fault-wps-low/comment-page-1/#comment-4318</link>
		<dc:creator>The Singapore Daily &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Daily SG: 3 Mar 2010</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 2010 - Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low - Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy - Sgpolitics.net: [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] 2010 &#8211; Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low &#8211; Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy &#8211; Sgpolitics.net: [...]</p>
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