While Gilbert Goh and his friends are busy planning the May
Day Protest Rally, while many angry Singaporeans are rallying for support from
their friends and other Singaporeans to make a presence at Hong Lim to make a
statement to the Govt’s population policy, time is ticking away. How much time
is left to prevent the population from growing from 5.3m to 6.9m in 2030? How
much time is left to prevent the population from hitting 6m in 2020?
There was an unusual silence from the govt’s quarter as to
what is happening since the White Paper was approved in Parliament in a sure
pass voting when PAP held an absolute majority of parliamentary seats. The
passing of the unpopular bill with very little support from the citizens has
been quickly swept into the cupboard and not to see daylight again. No govt
official is willing to talk about it, presumably the whole process and
mechanism of bringing in more foreigners to hit the two targets of 6m in 2020
and 6.9m in 2030 are in full swing. Make hay while the sun shines.
If this is so, how many have been added to the 5.3m to date
and how many foreigners will be coming in monthly or annually as to plan?
According to the projection in the White Paper, the average increase in
population is 100k annually or about 8,500 monthly. Two months have passed and
the population number must have gone up accordingly. By May Day about 35,000
new migrants would have gone pass the gate. By 2016, 300,000 more heads will
add to the current 5.3m to 5.6m.
Is there any change in the position of the Govt on this? As
planned, I suppose. And the increase will add to demands for all other services
and facilities and more trains, cars, roads and HDB flats and schools and what
not…more Jolibees and restaurants and shopping centres and food courts.
At the moment the road to 2016 is a foregone conclusion and
5.6m will be the population by then. Would the GE change anything? A regime
change is the only way to put a stop to the population growth and a rewind to a
smaller number, maybe 5m or less. So it looks like nothing is going make any
difference till 2016 and very likely after 2016, if PAP continues to be in
power, the 2020 and 2030 targets of 6m and 6.9m are the likely certainties.
Is there time for change or just wishful thinking?
Bo bian lar. Many older sinkies still think pap today is the same as pap of yesteryear so till this generation passes on, pap will be in power and by then population already 6.9 m
ReplyDeleteMales sinkies around 50 to 65 year old are the most vocal against the system. This is very apparent in Blogoland, few social political bloggers are from the younger generation. There were some but few had the stamina to last more than a couple of years.
DeleteOn the other hand, most grassroot volunteers are young, probably trying to connect with those in power and networking for a good future. The young are brought up to be pragmatic and street smart. Other than bread and butter, they want high paying job and car. They are brought up to strive for success materially by the system.
More practical are the mothers of these younger generations. The women in Sg are the most practical, few have intellectual ideal. And they are usually the ones with the most influence over the younger sinkies.
Make hay when the Sun is shining. It is so wise for our leaders to strike while the iron is hot. Time and tide wait for no man, opportunity once lost could be gone forever. Take whatever advantage while we are still in the competition. From the look of developments in the region, Sg maybe out of the game soon. Like durian when ripe, will have to be consumed or be left to nature.
ReplyDeleteThere is no reason to want a collapse of the market place with all businesses close or move elsewhere. That will mean the collapse of the society. Now is the only chance to bring in the dole, be it through increase in commercial activity or brought in by anyone with integrity or without.
Knowing that time and condition are certainly not in our favour, like one dealing with a terminal disease left with just a little breathing time, it is only right to go for the last desperate measure come what may.
Btw, many are blaming and calling Gilbert Goh xenophobic. Here is one most nationalistic patriot and he cannot be patriotic without being nationalistic. He probably doing all he can for sinkies to have a place, a home in a land they can call their own. When the land is invaded, peaceful or otherwise, home is no more homely neither will it be sweet.
Everything is up to sinkies to decide.
The rice was cooked long time ago. But Singaporeans didn't care. They made sure they themselves "benefited" and got their few grains of the tasty steamed rice. The govt even threw in a bit of soup and meat occasionally, just to keep the Sheeple happy.
ReplyDeleteNow the Sheeple are not so happy. Apparently interlopers have made their way in and eaten all the remaining rice and now the cooker is empty.
Around 2014/ 2015 there will be a "crisis" -- a real one, or a fake one created to generate fear and confusion. The Sheeple will be bleating. They will BEG for protection from the Wolf.
...and the PAP will get voted in as "saviours" once again, and the Sheeple will have again handed over the reins to the Wolf.
I'm a betting man, but only bet on "sure" things: GE 2016 -- PAP win. Not landslide, a few seats lost, but a clear win.
Me concurs completely
ReplyDeletewith Matilah Singapura.
Matilah terus! Out of the frying pan
into the fire.
PAP will be the victor come 2015/16
and also the succeeding one.
patriot
@patriot:
ReplyDeleteLong before netizens started wayang-ing on blogs and forums about 6.9 population, the PAP execs have already started planning their 2016 strategy.
They are the one of the most organised coterie of crooks the human race has ever seen. Even the Mafia hormat them ;-)
I hormat- senjata kepada semua baruah baruah or your so-called Mafia Generals all the time. They deserve my salute for their brazen candidness.
DeleteNot only their chief challenge You, he even tells You the weapons, hatchet and knuckle duster, that he is equipped with. To date, absolutely no one dare go near him.
I give more salutes whenever I see angmohs carry his balls. Even Obama does not get that kind of respect.
Matilah has reserved two bottles for him, me will add one more to it.
patriot
If the human race understood economics, and could mobilise and organise itself to hunt down and terminate a group of assholes, that group of assholes would be the world's central bankers.
ReplyDeleteALL OF THEM been printing up shit loads of worthless paper using the enormous amount of public debt issued in the last 8-10 years or so (and before that) to "bail out" banks, cuntrees, corporations, and of course -- last on the list, give them a few crumbs and low paid jobs -- The Sheeple.
Sometime between 2013-2020 a lot of those bonds are going to MATURE, which means principle (now deflated in purchasing power) needs to be paid back to the OWNERS of capital.
So the central bankers will print up SOME MORE shit currency to pay back, but this time the bond holders might tell them to "fuck off" and dump the bonds. Many hedge funds are already SHORTING govt securities. With such heavy selling, the motherfucker is going to drop like buah nangka busok. (translation for blur-fuck FT's: rotting jackfruit)
Then you will see A Crisis, and this one will be catastrophic.
Singapore will be anally raped by the Big Black Dildo of economic and financial bloodletting. Some will be in the streets or at Hong Lim in one kind or another of "Occupy" movement. The vast majority will be cowering in fear, and in their trepidation of Apocalyptic Certainty, and especially for the Baby Boomers -- assured abject poverty from which there is NO RECOVERY -- will overwhelmingly, even begrudgingly vote for the PAP. Sure, emotionally they'll hate the PAP, and hate themselves for voting for the PAP, but it will be a choice between a multitude of EVILS.
Sooner or later One Evil, will WIN.
**Note: any which way it goes, The Central Bankers will win. They are the consistent evil, beyond destruction
Sheeple, to the slaughther with you!
Matilah, I just wrote a piece in the same vein. You jump in ahead of me. Never mind, will post it tomorrow as my Sunday sermon to support what you just said. A doomsday scenario. : )
ReplyDeleteI agree with Matilah.
ReplyDeleteCentral is an epitome of government being captive by elite private interest. It works against the people. It skew all the wealth towards elites.
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redbean,
As usual, I look forward to your posts and to the ensuing discourse to which it'll be my pleasure to engage in.
Final note, please include and expound on it:
The ISA is still on the books. The PAP-government (“I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.”-- LKY) has the authority, and the legal right to use the police, ISA, Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (corrupt fuckers catching other corrupt fuckers) to silence political dissent and if necessary, opposition, to aid a PAP election "victory".
- -- posted via TOR network via SSH VPN -- trace me if you can fuckers :-)
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Hi Anon 12:58,
ReplyDeleteThe premise that the ISA is wrong and should be scrapped is barking at the wrong tree. The ISA is like a knife, it cannot kill anyone unless someone uses it. And if someone has the intent to kill, he needs not use the knife as there are many ways to skin a cat.
The ISA is as good at the person wielding it or as bad as the person misusing it. Even the officers involved, there are good thinking officers there are unthinking officers.
If removing ISA is the solution, you would also have to remove all the other instruments of power like CPIB, the public prosecutors, the judicial system, the police, the tax dept or anything that is part of the establishment.
The evil one is the one who abuses the system and uses the system against his enemies.
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redbean:
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The ISA is as good at the person wielding it or as bad as the person misusing it.
Exactly. No one can call it. However one mustn't neglect the "absolute power corrupts absolutely" tendency which as human beings with human nature is ALWAYS prevalent.
My question: What do you think a man who passionately claims to "raise up from his grave to save Singapore" (notice he said save Singapore, not save SingapoREANS) will do with the ISA probably on speed-dial on his mobile phone?
C'mon, he's done it before.
“Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.”
Justification for using ISA --"ends justify the means" argument for the "legitimacy" of Cunfucianism:
"I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society".
>> Even the officers involved, there are good thinking officers there are unthinking officers.
As the perennial arch-skeptic I don't EVER trust humans to behave MORALLY as a default. They tend to do so when not in stressed situations. However in stressed situations it will almost invariably degenerate to NARROW self-interest, as the Chinese saying goes: "Either you die or i die".
"Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters."
I think Old Harry is one smart political fox. He'll keep the cops and military on his side -- after all, many of the ministers are senior military officers, as is his anointed/ appointed son.
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All dictators and mafia chiefs keep a hatchet man on their side. But history has proven over and over again, when the mandate is over, the hatchet man will turn the hatchet on his master.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very dangerous to believe too much in "history repeats itself". Sometime it APPEARS that way -- we are good at matching patterns, even mutually exclusive ones and confabulating some "connection" -- see 'availability heuristic' , one of our most insidious brain farts.
ReplyDeleteHary Hitler is a superb strategist and constantly paranoid about his security. He had Gurkhas protect him. Even the road to Goh Chok Tong's house in Bk Timah has "anti terrorism countermeasures". These motherfuckers are kiasi in accordance with the pinnacle of Singaporean culture.
Of course these days mere college students are quite capable of building weaponised, autonomous drones with a relatively small sum of money -- so small most of us here could write the cheque to build one: http://kickstriker.com/panopticopter
Anyway, my point is this: LKY is smart. NEVER make the fatal error of underestimating his guile. He has hatched many many people, powerful and influential people. I think this fella will have contingency plans up the gazoo -- escape routes (multiple) plus a safe haven to run to if he even senses he is going to lose. He will have alliances in other cuntrees. He is inherently distrustful of Singaporeans. Please lah, that is patently obvious. Best part: he's never hidden the fact ;-)
Also, remember Singapore is a very UNIQUE case. It doesn't necessarily follow that the arc of causality will play out like in a tale from Chinese folklore. Thinking that is your mind's way of playing tricks on you.
Remember, I make my living from manipulating perceptions :-)
The Availability Heuristic:
ReplyDeleteThe availability heuristic is an unconscious process that operates on the notion that, "if you can think of it, it must be important."
In other words, how easily an example can be called to mind is related to perceptions about how often this event occurs. Thus, people tend to use a readily accessible attribute to base their beliefs about a relatively distant concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
If Sinkies vote for ex- military candidates in future elections, it will be asking for it.
ReplyDeleteThe military and police are parts of the civil service; by definition they are to be absolutely non political and only to work for the good and wellbeing of the people and the state. They should not have any affiliation with political party nor have allegiance to any regime.
Hi RB
ReplyDeleteI am against ISA. Why not we give someone a trial, if he commits crime. We do not lock someone indefintely.
You really think our population is currently only 5.3mil. Maybe is already 6.9mil! There is no independent audit, it is all based on what pap tells you! You believe them??
ReplyDeleteGlobal market crisis in 2015.
ReplyDeletePAP claimed credit for deflating property bubble. Saying if not crisis will be worst.
(Though bubble was created by them, in the 1st place).
MSM will keep blowing the news.
Come 2016 PAP comes to the rescue with aggressive fiscal policies & unprecendented goodies.
PAP wins election, though lost 3 GRCs and 3 SMCs. Still have more than 2/3rd majority.
Back to BUSINESS AS USUAL.
Singaporeans still the same; kaisi, kaisu, kai jhenhu.