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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Thanks for sharing your story, welcome to the forum.
Don't be irritated by the 1 or 2 trolls in this forum, they are truly a nuisance that unfortunately have lots of spare time on their hands.
I think every Singaporean aspires to having a nice passive retirement income like the retirees you met, but it is becoming more and more difficult for the younger ones to do so due to global money printing leading to asset inflation. This of course leads to displeasure against the ruling party.
As the elections come round again I think we will likely see maximal efforts in cooling measures for property and increasing welfare to help the lower and middle class so as to bolster their election chances. Even with this, the results will be unlikely to improve much for the PAP.
What we may then see is more seats falling to the opposition which will more than likely lead to the US style paralyzed A vs B government that will be unable to move forward with unpopular but necessary policies. We will probably have parliament stuck discussing computer system companies (to cite an example) rather than important issues like our graying population or low birth rate. Perhaps that may be the beginning of the end of Singapore's prosperity, if we take a (very) pessimistic view.
Anyway, Happy New Year 2013 to you too! |
you're taking the political stonewalling to the ultimate extreme. come on seriously you're talking about "deadlock" in a house of 81 vs 6 (SIX!)?! As long as the white lords maintain their 2/3, they can ram through any damn policy they want. Coupled with their 35% President we Singaporeans are the ones ultimately paying the price, from overwhelmed public infrastructure and housing.
I would rather them sort things out in Parliament through rigorous debate rather than degenerate into a rubber stamp institution. Wouldn't you have wished this was the case when the treasonous FT policy and housing supply bills were "discussed" in Parliament >10years ago?
The AIM saga might have little to do with typical apathetic Singaporean lives but if you constantly allow the white lords to get away with doing anything they want to this island we're not going to progress much either. We're already getting our jobs robbed from us, our transport overwhelmed and our public flats invaded. I can't see anything worse/better than our current situation.