Has the PAP finally scored against WP or in their words, "fixed them"? I think residents living in the areas run by AHPETC will have to decide. But if they come to my ward today, my vote would still be with the WP. On the other hand if WP is a much better resourced party, I might go with the PAP instead because I would expect them to perform to a higher standard, perhaps even exceeding the eroding performance of the PAP.
I can't tell if Shanmugam the better communicator from the PAP side was being mischievous or just careless (unforgivably so for something like this)
Look, the MA rate for the residential and commercial cannot be the same as Shan suggested from his table for all PAP run TCs. Was he purposely acting careless to make WP look bad? As for the rest of the numbers we must remember that the WP do not have the same economies of scale as the PAP. Perhaps the WP can do even better, I don't know. All we can say is that what is visible to residents, they do not neglect, like the rubbish do not pile up. I have an IT background and some of these backroom systems with the WP TC has to tangle with are actually quite hard to get it right if the departing manager had purposely mess it up for you before handing over.
Related: All are black pots
Update: 6:10 am
I forgot to add that Shan would have known that people will remember his table which makes WP looks like profiteering at the residents' expense as after a correction which I am waiting for is issued few people would remember the right one.
Update: Feb 15 9:10 am
Looks like Shanmugam is acting blurr and not coming up with the correct data he presented in parliament on the subject of MA rates. On my end I also need to adjust lower my esteem of the man.
Update: Feb 16 15:55 pm
Shanmugam is playing dirty poltics 100%
He hasn't fess up to the bad number he provided in parliament to deceive us. Common sense suggested to me (I wonder how many people could sense that) that his MA numbers were wrong. They cannot be the same for residential and commercial units unless commercial units were misused as dwellings instead of business which is absurd.
Looks like with the PAP, if you are stupid they will be in a hurry to make suckers out of you. I am forced to conclude that many of their non-elite class supporters are daft. If their brains are not helpful, eating the PAP pudding one day will help them realize this. Because they are on a morally bankrupt paradigm which will eventually fail to deliver. Aren't they already struggling?
Update: Feb 15 9:10 am
Looks like Shanmugam is acting blurr and not coming up with the correct data he presented in parliament on the subject of MA rates. On my end I also need to adjust lower my esteem of the man.
Update: Feb 16 15:55 pm
Shanmugam is playing dirty poltics 100%
He hasn't fess up to the bad number he provided in parliament to deceive us. Common sense suggested to me (I wonder how many people could sense that) that his MA numbers were wrong. They cannot be the same for residential and commercial units unless commercial units were misused as dwellings instead of business which is absurd.
Looks like with the PAP, if you are stupid they will be in a hurry to make suckers out of you. I am forced to conclude that many of their non-elite class supporters are daft. If their brains are not helpful, eating the PAP pudding one day will help them realize this. Because they are on a morally bankrupt paradigm which will eventually fail to deliver. Aren't they already struggling?
Finding willfully messed up computer programs is not exactly difficulty if someone knows where to look.
ReplyDeleteUnless the "mistakes" cannot be found in the log...
Cheers,
Haha, WP have been trying in vain to get the financial info handed over but the PAP cannot, unable and unwilling to "find".
Deleteit's awesome world-class parliament we have been funding for 50 years!!
ReplyDeleteAs a resident of WP's ward, I would understand problems like economies of scale, inexperience in running the estate. However, I expect that they should communicate more with the residents if there are indeed problems. I had expected them to slap the driver hard but do not wish that passengers are taken for a ride too.
ReplyDeleteWP must redouble their efforts to fix this accounting and information system problems. If they can't do it in time for the next GE they must make a progress report to residents. They need to apologize to them for keeping them in the dark.
DeleteThe 7 million dollars now denied to them would be painful. We shall see how the PAP government use this to show how much they care for residents in WP run wards. As rubbish fail to pile up so are they hoping denying them the money would make that happen? The perverse party put their power interests above everything else including those they promised serve, i.e., us.
Leave the PAP alone to accumulate glaring mistakes. I want from them more skin in the game and accountability. They suffer from serious moral corruption.
WP must take the risk and believe that voters here unlike elsewhere aren't stupid and will make the right decision.
Well perhaps an audit of the Bukit Panjang Town Council would be a good start for the PAP to show by example how welll an etate should be run. Their loss in Lehman Minibonds has not been satisfactorily explained to the residents, neither was there any consultation with the taxpayers when they decided to "invest". When you get a bad smell, there must be shit somewhere.
ReplyDeleteIt is so easy to find faults in others when the faults (and more severe and deadly ones) lie with oneself. I believe a most respectable politican/lawyer/leader once said "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time". Can our world-class ministers ever be remembered to say and act as wisely?
ReplyDeleteThumbs up! That was Abraham Lincoln.
DeleteYou got it, Peng Yu. A personality like Abe will remain forever honorably in our history books even among the non Americans. Not sure what we can say of others.
DeleteThe Law Minister accused WP of robbing the man in the street in broad daylight using the flawed figures he provided in his chart.
ReplyDeleteIf PAP is not robbing me, why am I paying higher SC&C than Aljunied residents? Are they making me pay for the junk bond losses of Bukit Panjang TC or is it to pay AIM for software maintenance?
DeleteYou got it, Peng Yu. A personality like Abe will remain forever honorably in our history books even among the non Americans. Not sure what we can say of others.
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ReplyDeleteGE is on Mar 28.
DeleteAnd with the timing of this AHPETC thrashing, the Whities are guaranteed more than 60.1%.
Why? Think about it. People may want opposition in Parly, but seeing how cock up WP is with their management of town councils, if there is a 'surprise' result then will WP be able to run the country (of course they will, there are tons of scholars in the ministries)? In their haste to prevent a 'surprise' result they will over compensate by voting the Whities.
People do get the government they deserve.
What we see is how the PAP has cocked up and tries to fix others.
DeleteSo much fire in parliament - are the ministers aware that the PSI in the eastern part of the island may be going off the roof???
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