Saturday, September 5, 2015

GE 2015: Reminder, we need Oppo MPs

I am busy and tired. Three days ago I caught this article from the NYT about China preparing for their giant parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. I quote from there as follows:

On Wednesday, the police began imposing widespread restrictions to prevent ordinary Chinese from viewing the festivities in person. City residents have been told to watch the parade on state television. Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City have been closed since Aug. 22, frustrating many tourists.

Managers of apartment buildings along the wide avenue leading to the square ordered residents not to welcome visitors, open their windows, stand at balconies or take photographs. Closings across the city wereso widespread that many hospitals said they were shutting down non emergency services.



The Chinese government is well known for their draconian ways. The state is far more important than its people. Now if they were a democracy the people will never accept this, but as a democracy they will have other very challenging problems I am worried if they can successfully overcome. Just look across the straits to Taiwan for what you can reasonably expect. In lesser ways the PAP government is also like the CCP until it backfired on them on pain of losing votes.

I just blogged about my disappointment with the WP. They are the foremost opposition party. Looks like we have to wait longer for an alternative superior to the WP to emerge. I do not know how it will come about except that there must be a deep desire for this, and that it will be spearheaded by the young. Perhaps some of the brightest among the young will split from the WP to form a better and more honest party? Only time will tell.

I have confidence in Singaporeans. As a people like everywhere we are an disorganized bunch of energy and intelligence from which we must throw up leaders who an organize and lead us.
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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2015 at 11:15 PM

    I think you should reserve your doubts on WP inability to manage TC.
    How much do you even trust that the handover accounts are in order, without an operating software to begin with?
    If lets say one day an Oppo team were to take over the govt, is it acceptable to you if the MOF remove your accounting software and give you a whole data dump to manually sort it out, how many years do you it will take to figure out all transaction and auditing? Then extend it to GIC or Temasek?

    I also recommend to start paying attention to SDP. My bets are on these two viable parties. The rest can play fiddles and fringes.

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    1. PengYouSeptember 6, 2015 at 7:13 AM

      You should just go ahead and vote for the opposition. The experience would be helpful to you.

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    2. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2015 at 10:44 AM

      The men in white NEVER mis-managed???

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    3. PengYouSeptember 6, 2015 at 10:56 AM

      Why do you ask the obvious? Of course they do and make too many mistakes to count! I have so many blog posts criticizing them.

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    4. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2015 at 1:09 PM

      Peng You, since everybody mis-manages and the ruling party has done so on many more occasions pertaining to issues of national interests (well documented in your blog posts), simply on this point alone, should it not be common-sensical for the man on the street to vote oppo?

      The oppo mis-manages on the municipal level (obviously because they are only at that level at the moment ) and the ruling party mis-manages on the national level

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    5. PengYouSeptember 6, 2015 at 1:35 PM

      I won't go so far to say the mis-manage but would assert that they make many mistakes and there is a lot of room for improvement. Also I don't document their mistakes very well. For that, there are many blogs who do it better. Theirs is better researched. I only have time to recall them from memory or if I am lucky, the info I wanted happened to be in front of me.

      Perhaps if you give it to the oppo to run this place, they will make even more mistakes. How so? We can never be 100% right on something like this but this is reasonable test. The abilities of the oppo to rehearse in their minds and hearts various policy options is more limited than the PAP. Don't we all do what-ifs, thought experiments etc., first before we make a decision? Oppos are not as able to do this than the PAP. Problem with the PAP is that their hearts are not in the right place, but in the last few years they have tried to make up for that. We will never know if they do it because they are forced to or it is from their hearts. I think it is likely to be a mix of both depending on which minister or MP.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2015 at 9:33 PM

    maybe you like to take a look at this piece
    http://sg50election.blogspot.sg/2015/08/3-must-know-secrets-about-how-ahpetc.html?m-1

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    1. PengYouSeptember 8, 2015 at 10:31 PM

      Thanks! LOL! I found myself quoted in comment by one of the readers.

      An issue like this one cannot rely on others. Gotta to do the hard work of mining the facts and trying to make sense of them.

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