On May 16 2014 India witnessed the biggest landslide victory of
Narendra Modi led BJP (Barath iya Janta Party) over the dynasty ruling
Indian Congress Party.
It shockingly ended the dynastic ruling Congress party’s grip and
control of the Indian nation via the Gandhi family led by Sonia Gandhi
and dynastical heir apparent poor and much criticized Rahul Gandhi
Though BJP itself have won elections before under the former coalition
government of former BJP Leader A. Vajpayee, the current huge landslide
win by Gujrat Chief Minister and Prime ministerial Candidate is earth
shattering in India.
Why?
• It was the people’s overwhelming mandate to a former humble
tea seller’s son who had proven himself as a leader with good track
record in development as seen in the state of Gujrat by throwing out all
the corruption and power failed rule of Gandhi elite.
• It was the people’s total rejection of the many failed
policies, numerous blunders committed by the Ruling Congress Party which
was also plagued by numerous corruption scandals like Coal Scandal,
railway scandal/etc.
• And most importantly poor leadership by PM Manmohan Singh who
was widely a ceremonial PM while Gandhi family via Sonia Gandhi ruled
India.
• Indians wanted jobs, arrest the spiraling cost of living and
food prices (inflation), development of states which have been neglected
because of a poor central government & leader and complete
stagnation of growth and opportunities for middle class and poor Indian
citizens.
• Even businesses were stalled and affected by the poor
government and leadership which have resulted in the massive rejection
of the Ruling Congress and a full stop to Dynastic rule at the PM
level…. Posted by Marky Sim in TRE
The above are the introductory paragraphs of an article posted by Marky
Sim in TRE. After reading it, I was asking myself, if you change the
words Indian and India to Singaporean and Singapore, Congress Party to
PAP, and change the family name, it is like a forecast of a report of a
GE in the future, maybe the next GE or in some GE further down the
road. Some of the factors and conditions are very similar and familiar
to what is happening here.
Can it really happen here? Congress and the Gandhi family were so
entrenched in India that no one could foresee their obliteration from
the govt and politics of India. Yet, after 65 years of might and glory,
it came to a dismal ending. Rahul is a fake in every sense of the word.
He is not meant to be a politician but a scion of a very rich and
powerful family who is enjoying his life of luxury. At best he could be
put there by his mother as a politician and pretend to be one. And Sonia
is not Indira or at least not in her class. The fate of the Congress
Party was all there to be rewritten and the time has come for it to
pass.
Can it happen in Sin City? Far fetch, we are different?
Kopi Level - Green
5/21/2014
Obama only worths US$7m!
It is reported that Obama, the President of the USA is worth a meager
US$7m or lesser. Accordingn to money.cnn.com, ‘(15 May) The White
House on Thursday released the latest financial disclosures for
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
The Obamas were worth between $2 million and $7 million in 2013.
While about the same as the previous year, that’s down considerably from 2010, when they were worth between $2.8 million and $11.8 million….
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife were worth between $276,000 and $943,000.’
Oh mine, these people are considered poor in the island of Singapore where every average citizen is worth at least half a million or more. Many of the hawkers or taxi drivers are probably richer than the Joe Bidens. Don’t even compare them with our politicians. Hmmm, when they met and sized each other up, what would each be thinking about the other’s wealth or worth?
And to think that some of the ministers are likely to be worth many hundreds of million or more.
Obama, want to try to be our citizen and make a run for the Presidency or the Premiership? Guaranteed would make you ten times richer in just one term. Please think about it seriously. Our door is always open for you. As for Joe Biden, no need to try. 50% of our population is richer than you and that includes very ordinary Singaporeans.
The Obamas were worth between $2 million and $7 million in 2013.
While about the same as the previous year, that’s down considerably from 2010, when they were worth between $2.8 million and $11.8 million….
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife were worth between $276,000 and $943,000.’
Oh mine, these people are considered poor in the island of Singapore where every average citizen is worth at least half a million or more. Many of the hawkers or taxi drivers are probably richer than the Joe Bidens. Don’t even compare them with our politicians. Hmmm, when they met and sized each other up, what would each be thinking about the other’s wealth or worth?
And to think that some of the ministers are likely to be worth many hundreds of million or more.
Obama, want to try to be our citizen and make a run for the Presidency or the Premiership? Guaranteed would make you ten times richer in just one term. Please think about it seriously. Our door is always open for you. As for Joe Biden, no need to try. 50% of our population is richer than you and that includes very ordinary Singaporeans.
The bull of retraining PMETs
The pathetic plight of the PMETs did not happen overnight and is
affecting a large pool of our PMETs. Many of them are highly qualified
and experienced in their areas of expertise. Now we can hear daily
diatribes and garbages about how these PMETs are not fit or did not have
the skill sets to be reemployed in their fields of expertise and their
jobs have to be taken over by foreigners. So the only remedy is to
retrain them. I will touch on these two fallacies here, the lack of
skill sets of PMETs and the retraining.
There is this myth that the foreigners brought in to replace our experience PMETs have the experienced and skill sets to do the job that the PMETs have been doing as the incumbent. As the incumbent he is suddenly not fit for the job? How come? And the successor, where is this turkey from and what skill sets and experience that he possesses to be able to do the job that the incumbent no longer is able to do? Think? Even if the successor comes with a string of PhDs, it does not mean he is more able to do the job when the extra qualifications and experience are irrelevant and redundant. There is no need to hire a nuclear scientist to be a technician.
Why are the PMETs being replaced by foreigners to easily and cannot find another similar jobs in the industry when there are hundreds of thousands of jobs being taken over by foreigners? Think. What the fuck is happening?
Now the retraining part. A highly experienced professional needs more training to be employable? What the fuck is that? What kind of training can one provide to a highly experienced and technically qualified professional at the peak of his career unless you are talking about a career change?
What career change, upgrading, promotion to a more senior level? Or training a professional to downgrade, to become a salesman, a technician in a completely new field, like a nurse or a counter sales staff or a cleaner? Why are we wasting the training and experience of these highly qualified professionals when we can offer hundreds of thousands of jobs to funny foreign talents with funny qualifications, background and experience? Are we thinking? Do we know the problem? Are we creating new problems, wasting our talent and resources to under employ our talents?
It is utterly foolish and idiotic that our local talents who are educated in the best educational system, universities, acquired a lot of experienced as senior managers are found no longer fit to do jobs at the same level and funny foreigners are deemed to be better. And we consigned our precious human talents, after heavy investments, to the rubbish dump at the prime of their lives, to retrain them to do non executive or low level jobs when there are so many good jobs given to foreigners.
The answer is to ensure that our local talents are gainfully and appropriate employed according to their expertise and experience. The foreigners should not be here to displace them. They are here to complement our shortage in skilled labour. Isn’t that the objective? Until all our PMETs are fully employed, MOM should not grant any more EPs to foreigners at the expense of our PMETs.
Are we crazy to retrain our PMETs to lower jobs? It is not a matter of pride but misallocation of resources. Do they believe that human resource is our most precious asset? Why are we wasting this precious resource and keep replacing them with funny foreign talents? This is like a nation of people self administering poison to kill themselves. It is economic suicide of a population of professional and talented people.
It is euthanasia of the PMETs.
Kopi Level - RED!!!!
There is this myth that the foreigners brought in to replace our experience PMETs have the experienced and skill sets to do the job that the PMETs have been doing as the incumbent. As the incumbent he is suddenly not fit for the job? How come? And the successor, where is this turkey from and what skill sets and experience that he possesses to be able to do the job that the incumbent no longer is able to do? Think? Even if the successor comes with a string of PhDs, it does not mean he is more able to do the job when the extra qualifications and experience are irrelevant and redundant. There is no need to hire a nuclear scientist to be a technician.
Why are the PMETs being replaced by foreigners to easily and cannot find another similar jobs in the industry when there are hundreds of thousands of jobs being taken over by foreigners? Think. What the fuck is happening?
Now the retraining part. A highly experienced professional needs more training to be employable? What the fuck is that? What kind of training can one provide to a highly experienced and technically qualified professional at the peak of his career unless you are talking about a career change?
What career change, upgrading, promotion to a more senior level? Or training a professional to downgrade, to become a salesman, a technician in a completely new field, like a nurse or a counter sales staff or a cleaner? Why are we wasting the training and experience of these highly qualified professionals when we can offer hundreds of thousands of jobs to funny foreign talents with funny qualifications, background and experience? Are we thinking? Do we know the problem? Are we creating new problems, wasting our talent and resources to under employ our talents?
It is utterly foolish and idiotic that our local talents who are educated in the best educational system, universities, acquired a lot of experienced as senior managers are found no longer fit to do jobs at the same level and funny foreigners are deemed to be better. And we consigned our precious human talents, after heavy investments, to the rubbish dump at the prime of their lives, to retrain them to do non executive or low level jobs when there are so many good jobs given to foreigners.
The answer is to ensure that our local talents are gainfully and appropriate employed according to their expertise and experience. The foreigners should not be here to displace them. They are here to complement our shortage in skilled labour. Isn’t that the objective? Until all our PMETs are fully employed, MOM should not grant any more EPs to foreigners at the expense of our PMETs.
Are we crazy to retrain our PMETs to lower jobs? It is not a matter of pride but misallocation of resources. Do they believe that human resource is our most precious asset? Why are we wasting this precious resource and keep replacing them with funny foreign talents? This is like a nation of people self administering poison to kill themselves. It is economic suicide of a population of professional and talented people.
It is euthanasia of the PMETs.
Kopi Level - RED!!!!
Write Thank You letters to the FWs
Some of the commentators in the Talking Point discussion on integrating
FWs felt they had done a good job in showing their appreciation to the
FWs for building our homes and infrastructure. They wrote ‘love letters’
to thank them for helping to build Sin City into a better place for us.
I have served my NS and am still waiting for a ‘love letter’ from grateful Sinkies to thank me for my sacrifice to the nation, to risk breaking arms and legs, and life to defend country and the Sinkies. Is my contribution to the nation lesser than the FWs? Is the contribution of NSmen less meaningful than the FWs that no one deems fit to write them a ‘love letter’ to show how grateful they are to the NSmen?
Mind you, the NSmen’s sacrifice is done with peanuts, paid peanuts, even less than the FWs. And their sacrifices are almost a life time. Would any do gooders, sensitive and grateful Sinkie like to suggest to other appreciative Sinkies to write a ‘love letter’ to the NSmen to say thank you?
I don’t even remember Mindef saying thank you to me when ROD. Maybe the Kindness Movement can try doing this, write a ‘love letter’ to all NSmen. But I must say this will be nothing as it will be just printing and mass mailing them to everyone. Quite meaningless really when there is something lacking in these letters, the lack of a heart. It will be so different from the ‘love letters’ by concerned and caring Sinkies to the FWs to show their heartfelt thanks.
Tiok boh? How about making this a topic in Talking Point huh, Steve Chia?
Kopi Level - Red. Ouch!
I have served my NS and am still waiting for a ‘love letter’ from grateful Sinkies to thank me for my sacrifice to the nation, to risk breaking arms and legs, and life to defend country and the Sinkies. Is my contribution to the nation lesser than the FWs? Is the contribution of NSmen less meaningful than the FWs that no one deems fit to write them a ‘love letter’ to show how grateful they are to the NSmen?
Mind you, the NSmen’s sacrifice is done with peanuts, paid peanuts, even less than the FWs. And their sacrifices are almost a life time. Would any do gooders, sensitive and grateful Sinkie like to suggest to other appreciative Sinkies to write a ‘love letter’ to the NSmen to say thank you?
I don’t even remember Mindef saying thank you to me when ROD. Maybe the Kindness Movement can try doing this, write a ‘love letter’ to all NSmen. But I must say this will be nothing as it will be just printing and mass mailing them to everyone. Quite meaningless really when there is something lacking in these letters, the lack of a heart. It will be so different from the ‘love letters’ by concerned and caring Sinkies to the FWs to show their heartfelt thanks.
Tiok boh? How about making this a topic in Talking Point huh, Steve Chia?
Kopi Level - Red. Ouch!
5/20/2014
Sinkies are a joke
Let me explain, let me explain. I know you are unhappy when I say that.
Calling you Sinkies is already bad enough. Now calling you a joke, sure
tak boleh tahan. But come on, the facts speak for itself. You can only
be a Sinkie to be a joke. Or you can be a Sinkie and you can be a joke
at the same time. Ok, Ok, hear me ok?
You protest and protest against the 6.9m PWP. So what? Your elected govt and elected representative say anything? Did they even bother to say, yes I hear you, but, but, but? No, they simply ignore you and go ahead with the 6.9m. What can you do?
I know what you can do. Come the next GE, vote them to be your representatives in Parliament, vote them to be your govt again. This one I am very sure about it. Joke or no joke?
Let me try another one. You spent a life time saving for your retirement so that you can take things a bit easier, can flirt with whatever that fancied you, a bottle of wine, a few toys, one in each arm, or go on cruises to nowhere. But the rules keep changing until your money like not your money anymore. You want to spend on mei meis or toy boys, they said cannot. Then they said you must keep them in your CPF until you die, or you must spend them on compulsory schemes. But the compulsory schemes are going to cost more than a few mei meis or toy boys, but you gong gong, never say anything, like your money not your money like that. Let people do as they pleased. Joke or no joke.
You want me to carry on? Enough to admit that Sinkies are a joke? Ok, one more nail into the Sinkie is a joke coffin. You know that high cost of car ownership is due to high population right? Then why you want to go along to have higher and higher population and pay higher and higher for that car? Then at the end you got to squeeze your own balls, if there is any, to convince yourself that taking public transport is good, ride bicycle is better, walking is the best. Joke or no?
Jokers! I could go on and on. And you are sooooo angry when I called you Sinkies and jokers. Not happy right? What are you going to do about it? Going to throw stones at me? That will not change you into something else. You will still be Sinkies and still be jokers because I did not make you a joker. I am only telling you the truth, holding a mirror in your face. You need to do the right thing if you want to be called Singaporeans or anything else other than being Sinkies or jokers. This is my version of sticking a spur into your hide, to not just to feel the pain, but to face up to reality.
Still think you are not Sinkie and not a joker? You don’t even see why or how you ended up in this pathetic state.
PS. This post is going to ruffle a lot of feathers.
Kopi Level - Green
You protest and protest against the 6.9m PWP. So what? Your elected govt and elected representative say anything? Did they even bother to say, yes I hear you, but, but, but? No, they simply ignore you and go ahead with the 6.9m. What can you do?
I know what you can do. Come the next GE, vote them to be your representatives in Parliament, vote them to be your govt again. This one I am very sure about it. Joke or no joke?
Let me try another one. You spent a life time saving for your retirement so that you can take things a bit easier, can flirt with whatever that fancied you, a bottle of wine, a few toys, one in each arm, or go on cruises to nowhere. But the rules keep changing until your money like not your money anymore. You want to spend on mei meis or toy boys, they said cannot. Then they said you must keep them in your CPF until you die, or you must spend them on compulsory schemes. But the compulsory schemes are going to cost more than a few mei meis or toy boys, but you gong gong, never say anything, like your money not your money like that. Let people do as they pleased. Joke or no joke.
You want me to carry on? Enough to admit that Sinkies are a joke? Ok, one more nail into the Sinkie is a joke coffin. You know that high cost of car ownership is due to high population right? Then why you want to go along to have higher and higher population and pay higher and higher for that car? Then at the end you got to squeeze your own balls, if there is any, to convince yourself that taking public transport is good, ride bicycle is better, walking is the best. Joke or no?
Jokers! I could go on and on. And you are sooooo angry when I called you Sinkies and jokers. Not happy right? What are you going to do about it? Going to throw stones at me? That will not change you into something else. You will still be Sinkies and still be jokers because I did not make you a joker. I am only telling you the truth, holding a mirror in your face. You need to do the right thing if you want to be called Singaporeans or anything else other than being Sinkies or jokers. This is my version of sticking a spur into your hide, to not just to feel the pain, but to face up to reality.
Still think you are not Sinkie and not a joker? You don’t even see why or how you ended up in this pathetic state.
PS. This post is going to ruffle a lot of feathers.
Kopi Level - Green
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