Aljunied voters will regret choosing WP: MM Lee

Dear MM

I have a story to tell. It is about 2 aunties selling Chee Chong Fun at a coffee shop where I live at the Bt Timah area.

Aunty A has been selling chee chong fun for many many years as the only stall. Her chee chong fun tastes nice. And because hers was the only stall, residents had no choice but to buy from her. But she had become not so friendly towards her customers after all these many years. Her attitude was like 'so what? if you are my customers!' Furthermore, the chee chong fun from her stalls had remained the same over the years, except for the higher price!

Then, recently, another aunty, call her aunty B set up a stall selling tim sums, which also include chee chong fun next to her stall. Her stall also sells a variety of tim sums and her service is so far so good.

We were worried at first for aunty B, since she is new and has to face aunty A. The incumbent aunty A was rather hot temper and unfriendly. At first, we thought there will be conflicts and rivalry between the two.

Fortunately, we find out that aunty B stopped selling chee chong fun out of good will and regard for aunty A. But she continues to sell her tim sums. We noted that business has been good for her. But then, we still continue to buy chee chong fun from aunty A.

Then we also noted that aunty A has also become more friendly and caring towards her customers. Gone were her arrogance and negative behaviour. As customers, we are happy over such outcome.

So, as can be seen from the above, competition is good at all levels. If not for aunty B, we would still have to bear with aunty A. We now have more choices for our meals, and both aunties are happy working side by side.

As in politics, since the opposition has some very qualified and serious minded candidates, I hope that they should be able to go into Parliament. It would be good for the nation, the people and also for PAP.

The PAP may have done well previously, but of late it cannot be denied that there were mistakes that the PAP would have hoped never happened. What good will it be for a nation if the people as a whole is unhappy and stressed up?

Dear MM, you were also once in the opposition, I am sure you know what it was like to be in the opposing camps. Opposing for the sake of opposing is surely unwise and uncalled for.

But any respectable political party should be ready to stand up to scrutiny. I hope the ruling party should be brave enough to reflect on this and accept challenges and alternative voices in the Parliament.

While, in some democratic countries, the parliament can be noisy place to be in. But then, just like in Taiwan, the ruling party and the opposing party both have their fair share of large group of supporters.

The crowds at their political rallies were comparatively sizable. This obviously is not the case in Singapore. I was at the PAP's rally and also at the WP's rally last evening and I just wonder why the huge different? What now, with the Internet and Facebook etc?

It cannot be assumed that Singaporeans go to opposing rallies because they are just curious. I for one will not waste my time if they are not worth listening to. The PAP should not deceive themselves by ignoring the people's voices. Singaporeans of today are different from that of the past. Any political party wishing to survive should bear this in mind and be ready to serve with humility and good grace.

Come the 7 May, let the people decide. For me as an ordinary natural citizen, I have already made up my mind. I will vote for the team that I feel is not only capable but also humble and caring. More importantly, they must want to serve the people sincerely. Material gains mean nothing when a people's soul is lost, and a nation's reputation is just on infrastructures like IRs and what nots. Good Lucks to the candidates who deserve to win.

Hello LKY, u think we do not know that property prices are fixed by the PAP? And you want to threaten us by lowering property prices? What happens to your meritocracy? Are you saying that you purposely makes propery prices high so that the common people suffers?

Not to say 1 FM, Minister in PM office, blah, blah, we had 1 PM, 1SM 1MM and 79 other minister from PAP 'taking care' of Spore, see what happened last 5 years.....

Is an Hougang house in LTK ward's really cheaper than PAP? If yes, I would like to buy the one in opp ward. I've seen LTK's ward before, it don't loose out to PAP's. And I heard the conservancy is cheaper. Can somebody verify for me? If it is true, LTK is delivering better value than MM himself.

BTW, when MM Lee started as an opposition, didn't he said to voters:"I will shout for you in Parliament.". I dont think he said anything about his track own record then, for he has none also.

Well, opp does have the following record:
- did NOT loose millions in investments from the sinking funds
- did not let Mas Selemat escape
- did not let those lost billions in GIC and Temesek go unaccountable
- did NOT overload our roads, MRT, buses with people
- did NOT suggest our old folks to go Malaysia to die
- .... (the rest i will not repeat again.)

You make me feel good voting opposition.

MM Lee,

Can I ask, when you first started, what track record did you have? And when you first started, you sounded so humane and humble. But look at you today, and what you've just said! This is typical 'arrogance' after so many years in power! Your words 'The only way people learn is when they have to pay a price. From time to time we may lose, and the voters pay the price,' and 'if Singaporeans are that fickle, they will have to pay a price, the hard way'.

For goodness' sake, old man, don't be so condescending! You talk as if you were the only one in the whole world who is not fickle, who is smart enough that you don't have to pay a price!

If Singaporeans are fickle, it's because of all your fickle policies that turn us into what we are today! If Singaporeans have to learn that hard way, it is because we have voted you and your group of highly arrogant ministers into power, only to pay yourselves the highest salaries in the world, yes, indeed, more than first and developed world's salaries! But what do you offer? Ninth rate accountability! Mas Selamat's escape is one; flooding in Orchard Road is another! Then there is the utterly absurd over-spending of the YOG of S$200 million, from the original budget of S$100 mil to S$300 mil. There is the loss in so many of the investments and yet no head rolled!

Maybe if we vote in the opposition, they may need sometime; but at least they are coming forward with passion, with an attitude and humility to serve! Yes, if they one day become like you, the PAP, we too will vote them out!

For now, Singaporeans! Stand up for Singapore, not for PAP! Stand up for our rights! Stand up and sign the PAP the strongest signal that we want them to stop, review, reevaluate what they've been doing! For so many years they refused to heed the voters' voices. This is the time for change!

All that the PAP know what to do is: before election, give out goodies of a couple of hundred dollars; talk about plans for the estate; talk about 'we will look after you', etc. But once the election is over and we vote them in, that's when we'll have to return the goodies through GST raise, pay for all the plans they promised they'd give us, and then we'll have to 'look after them' by giving them even higher salaries! Why? They say we have given them the mandate. By voting the PAP in all the past years, the PAP has become so arrogant that they simply took our votes as a mandate not only to rule, but to change the constitution, to raise their salaries, GST, redraw electoral boundaries, and to ensure it will get harder and harder for any dissent to take place!

Now is the TIME FOR CHANGE!

Just a different perspective: how do we know if we had voted the opposition into parliament and forced a coalition government 20 years ago, we might not have been far better off today?

Singapore will not collapse! We the citizens of Singapore will not die just because 3 GRCs, and half the SMCs go to the opposition! The opposition know if they don't perform, they will be kicked out in the next election.

DON'T, DO NOT worry, Singaporeans! The PAP will make sure they continue to service you even if they lose! Look at Hougang and Potong Pasir! Why not get one opposition MP and the services of two?!

So vote the WP into Parliament in Aljunied! Vote the NSP in Marine Parade! Vote, vote and vote the opposition in, before it's too late.

Let me say this, if the opposition loses badly, the PAP will say this is the most hotly contested election since independence and yet the people have voted them in. Therefore, they will act decisively against the opposition. They will twist and turn the little words and phrases used by the opposition during the campaign to sue them in court and bankcrupt them. They will act decisively against Singaporeans as a whole!

Good luck to us all!

Singaporeans used to treat his words as the gospel truth but less so now. Perhaps he still strike fears into the older generation but the younger generations are fearless! Luckily there's no one else in the PAP that is capable of striking fear into the people. I truly believe PAP will decline once he's gone.

MM LEE .... why are you playing the FEAR factor again.

If we vote the PAP, will you really will take care of our interests.

PM LEE, mentioned that he will keep the HDB affordable, please do tell us how? Mr MAH when I saw him sitting next to MM LEE during the interview, he just kept quiet. If PAP, does has a plan to keep the HDB affordable, please tell us how and not just by saying that we will keep it affordable. To the PAP, what is affordable pricing? Maybe S$500,000 is still affordable which we just need to extend your loan period.

Please don't keep saying HDB will be affordable, we want to know HOW?

Talk is Cheap, everyone of us can say anything, but will you forget us after the GE 2011 is over.

I am not against anyone here, but let the ALJUNIED voters decide and not using the FEAR factor.

FYI, I have been staying at Pasir Ris-Punggol for the last 15 years, I did not even see my MP walking at my area, ask me who is my MP, I also don't know.

Deng Xiaoping knew when to step down. Jiang Zemin knew when to step down. Hu Jintao, Zhurongji knew when to step down. Dear MM Lee, the mark of a great leader is to know when his work is done and know when to take the final bow.

One cannot bully the People of Singapore into giving the PAP its mandate. The essence of politics is to send the best people who can best serve the People into Parliament. No party has monopoly on talent. Times change, situations change, people change, parties change. When the party no longer meets the mandate of the people, then it is time to change Parliament by sending into Parliament the best people to manage our country, our nation Singapore. And if these people do not come from the PAP, then respect the wishes of the people of Singapore, even if you disagree with their choice.

Singapore belongs to Singaporeans. And if Singaporeans did not know what was best for them, they would not have voted you and the PAP into power since 1959. Dear MM Lee, you were a man for the times but those times have changed. The ideas that worked for Singapore back when it was a fishing village with nothing to lose may not work today. The country needs new infusion of good ideas to keep it going. And it is not the preserve of the PAP. And indeed, it may not even come from the PAP.

The People of Singapore know when the party has failed them. And mature thinking Singaporeans worried about the long-term survival and growth of Singapore know that the current one dominant party rule is ultimately destructive to the survival of this nation. It is time to have a First World Parliament where issues affecting the lives of the people are debated intelligently. We have just seen a Parliament with 2 opposition MPs, 8 to 10 PAP heavyweights, and 70 to 72 PAP makeweights dissolved. A Parliament made up of a compliant confederacy of dunces is not in the best interests of the People in Singapore. Anybody who doubts that has only to look at Tin Pei Ling, Foo Mee Har, and Dr. P. Do you mean to tell me that these are good and worthy candidates to enter Our Parliament as MPs? Can they be compared to the senators of the USA? Tin Pei Ling? Foo Mee Har? Dr. P? Seriously? I must be daft to believe that. And somehow, you question Dr. Chen Show Mao, whose credentials would put most PAP ministers in the shadow and be the envy of most USA senators. Somehow, Dr. Chen is to be regarded with suspicion while Tin Pei Ling isn't? I must be daft to believe that.

You harp on descending property prices if the opposition parties were to be voted in. Surely this is a short-sighted short-term view and appealing to the base instincts of people. A far more interesting question would be the sustainability of property prices. Anybody who plays Jenga knows that the tower will eventually collapse as you remove bricks from the base to build a higher tower. And the pricing of our properties, even public housing like HDB flats, is a parallel to the game of Jenga. Uppermost in our minds is: When are prices going to collapse? Another regional crisis? Another global crisis? And then what? It's the opposition's fault?

The Time is NOW to grow the future of Singapore. Singapore has been in a state of arrested development politically for too long. It is time for the child to grow up.

Dear MM Lee, let the People of Singapore speak and whatever the outcome, respect their decision and let us deal with the consequences. Do not have contempt for the intelligence of the People of Singapore. Believe it or not (and whether you believe it or not has no relevance to the outcome), the People of Singapore are far far more intelligent than you give them credit for.

Use your brain.
Have a heart.
Pluck up your courage.
Do not cower in fear.
Stop the rot.
Vote in the best people for a First World Parliament that put the People of Singapore first, numbers and statistics second.

We need debate. We need alternative voices. We need competition. People of Singapore, if not NOW, when?

We had already paid a price for the last 20 over years and now it's time to change. It's the hard truth. Some joker like you should had long retired from politics which I can still hold good impression of what you had done to Singapore. Now, you can do is just by isolating others with your so called upgrading fund and claimed that Hougang property price is just falling. What you are trying to teach the young is that, so long anybody or country is willing to give you good benefit and carrots, it's time for you to be a traitor and betray your country. Is that what you means. I respect those that are staying there voting for the opposition, not tainted and above all, loyal. I think it's time to leave your comfort zone and not be attracted by short term reward, look at the bigger picture and long term yield. Happiness is something that money cannot buy.

We, the people of CIN KAN KOR ( hardship sufferings )
Pledge ourselves as one IGNITED ( full of fire )
Remember, vote ALL THE OPPOSITIONS to come in i.e. 7 May 2011 and you
will never regret !

it's threatening!!!

No parties will ever have a track record if they are not given a chance even for the first time to prove themselves. I think we have to be fair.

Dear MM Lee,

You have my utmost respect for being the founding father of Singapore. Without you, there would not be the Singapore we have today. We have no doubts of all the contributions and sacrifices you have made during Singapore's developing times.

However sadly to say, the PAP today is not comparable to the PAP we used to have under your leadership. You warned us to be very cautious and not to vote to the Opposition at the spur of the moment. You also claimed that the Residents in Aljunied or in any other GRC would suffer should the Opposition win the election. How can you be so sure that they are unable to perform if you deprive them of a chance? Do not forget that the People gave PAP a chance ever since Independance to serve from scratch. We were united and determined to work things out then.

With that, I would like to ask you a question, MM Lee. Did PAP did a good job in this case? Let me quote you a few examples:

1) The escape of a terrorist Mas Selamat ( Note: The minister-in-charge only apologize recently, which is years later just to get more votes for the election. If this happens to the civil servants, do they have a chance to apologize or would be sacked right away? Are there any justification for your people?)
2) The flooding of Orchard Road
3) The exhorbitant prices of HDB and landed property
4) The high expenses of living (COE, ERP, GST...etc)
5) The huge salary payout of the ministers (without much justification and not in proportion to the GDP growth and population)
6) The sudden influx of Foreign Talents which caused the Locals to lose their jobs or take a pay cut.
7) The overspending budget at the recent YOG

Ask the residents. Did they regret voting for the PAP? From the massive turnout at the rally of WP in Aljunied, I believe you should have the answers. Therefore before you gave your kind warning to us, I really hope you can re-look into each and every of the Portfolio of your Cabinet minsters.

From,
A patriotic citizen

i can't believe i'm seeing this news!
a good government would never threaten their citizens!
i would have voted for you, PAP, now i won't!
i'm so disppointed, to think i use to defend you!

with all due respect to MM, if it's true what is reported by Yahoo, I can't help but feeling like your statement sounded more like a threat than an advice.

Who like to be threatened??? What will happened if he is being threatened?

THERE YOU HAVE IT IN ESSENCE

THE POLITICS OF FEAR - IN ESSENCE AND PLAYED TO PERFECTION.

NEED I SAY MORE!!!

the great old one has spoken (note they are not in CAPS - bcos what he says does not
matter to the YOUNG ones anymore. AT least I hope it doesnt.

if it does then we will see another generation being CONNED by the PAPPIES.

Indeed. i am willing to pay the PRICE (ive already paid so MUCH under PAP.
im willing to pay the price under the OPPO as well. I mean how much more will they take
that the PAPPIES havent taken already.

Live to regret??? i dont tink so. anyways its only five years. If they truly SUCIK, i can always
vote back the PAPPIES and write it off as a lesson learnt. I mean how much more can they drain me after all that the PAPPIES have drained from me.

Id rather be drained by some other OPPO than by the same old PAPPY.

From Father to Son they have been 'HELPING' US and everytime they HELP us we seem
to end up PAYING more. its about time they STOPPED helping us. Just ask them to HELP
themselves and leave us ALONE to lead our SIMPLE lives.

so PAPPIES, STOP helping us. we will HELP ourselves.

we have been taken on a ride (a very LONG ride) all these years, voting you in and depending on
you to help us. Instead we are taken as suckers and now you bring in FT to screw us in the back
YOU are GREAT. thanks for the RIDE PAPPY/ I think ill hop on the NEXT BUS.
you can keep your MRT. Ill go for the OPPO

Dear MMLee

I live in Aljunied. I felt so sad after reading what you have said to the peoples of Aljunied. I have been voting the PAP for the past 3 GE...but no...not this time round...Why?

Why?
No it is not because of the various failures of the PAP for the past 5yrs that decides my vote. Those failures do greatly affected my life. But I too weighs them in terms of the good that they have contributed. I learn to endure. They (PAP) are human too.
No it is not because I have to compete with with the 1000s of FTs in my home land that decides my vote. They do greatly affected my life. But I find ways to manage them like upgrading and getting a diploma in 8yrs of night classes. Then ended up yet taking taxi course and driving taxi then finally managed to get back to employment. I know that polices making some time as a nation we have to endure for a while.
No it is not the rising cost of living that decides my vote. They do greatly affected my life. I understand some elements are due to globalisation etc. some are due to bad policies. But I managed them by renting out a room to FTs and squeezing my family into one room. I postponed my wedding for a year and then postponed to have baby for another year. But Ok I will manage them.

In short it is not because of the hardship that my family and I have to endure or some of the failures of the policies that decide my vote. I do pondered over them carefully everyday. What the ruling party have said and what the opp have said. It is not masak masak as you have said. I dont hate the PAP and I dont glorify the Opp.

But then Why? You may ask!!!
The reason is short and simple and I believe you know why too. Democracy may not be a perfect system but it is at present a better system for the nation. Likewise government with a certain diversification of representation is overall good for the nation even though it might comes with some conflicting issues. You and the PAP need to come to term with it and takes the bitter pill. We have always know the consequences of our votes...only this time round we have come to term with it and take the bitter pills.

Dear MM Lee
Please listen to the voice of the Singaporean.

You and your PAP may find yourself not fighting with the Opposition parties but rather with the Citizens of the nation.
You and your PAP may find yourself not fighting with misguided and ignorant citizens but rather with passionate Citizens of the nation that cries over political immorality and injustice of HDB national programs implementation and suppression of the common people rights with national and political means.

Pls MMLee...dont threaten us again or persecute us in the future. We do note vote only for our own self interest. We vote even if there will be no upgrading plan for the next 5yrs. We vote even if our HDB price may drop. Off course we do not wish for all that, but we have no other choices. We vote to build our nation as well as for our families.

Aljunied will falls to the Opposition for the good of the nation. Listen to the people of Singapore. Work with the Oppositions.

Your humble citizen.

I am not surprised over what MM Lee said. He is famous for his threats. In fact, if the PAP win again, all our heroes in the Opposition camp will get sued by PAP till they cannot take it. That is LKY tactics.

Can we call the police and make a report that someone is threatening us? Isn't it an offense in Singapore to threaten someone?

What track records are you saying MM Lee? Have we given the opposition a chance to serve? No! So if you want to see track record maybe we vote them in and see what track record they will produce. You "look at their track record, what have they done so far" argument does not stand unless we give them a chance to serve.

Ironically, what we want is HDB prices to drop, maybe we take MM LEE advise and elect all Opposition into parliament then maybe our HDB flat can be more affordable.

We re no longer scare of you Mr Lee!!!

Be like what CSM said, 'Vote with your brain, your heart and with COURAGE!!!!!!'