PM Lee's apology comes too late: Opposition

When we complain that GLCs are marginalising the small businesses for government tenders, they say the GLCs can deliver best value and quality.

When we say foreigners are taking away our jobs, they say foreigners are here to create jobs.

When PMETs cannot find jobs, they say degree holders refused to be security guards.

When we complain about the huge income divide, they say, it is a worldwide phenomenon.

When we complain about long waiting time and high cost of health, they say other countries envy our system.

When we say HDB flat is unaffordable, they say it is affordable if you pay over 30 years or more.

When we say we have little left for retirement, they say, we will push back the retirement age.

When we says Ministers are the highest paid in the world, they say, corporate CEOs earn much more.

When we says COEs does not ease road congestions, they say they will build more ERP gantries.

When we say buses and MRT are too crowded, the Public Transport Council say they are satisfied.

When we say you are not comparing apple to apple, they say Singapore is unique.

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In short, it is 官字两个口. We will never win an argument when you have a master and slave situation. The people has no say in a one party government!

I can count with my 5 fingers which ministers need to be SACKED.

An insincere apolo----. Last mininute desparation display. They are good for increasing everything that caused inflation: Their only solutions is to increase all charges to solve a PROBLEM. Any TOM,DICK & HARRY can do that job. INCREASE:

1. PUB CHARGES
2. MORE ROAD GANTRIES TO SOLVE TRAFFICK CONGESTIONS
3. MAID LEVY
4, MORE CHEAP FOREIGN LABOUR TO OUST/RETRENCH SINGAPOREANS
5. HDB HOUSING PRICES BEYOND THE REACH OF NEWLY WED COUPLES
6 THEIR SALARIES BY LEAP AND BOUNDS IN MILLIONS.
7. STAMP DUTIES ON PROPERTIES
8. TRAFFICK FINES
9. GST
10. COE'S
11. CONSERVANCY CHARGES
12. MRT CHARGES

Will they apolgise if there are no oppositions in this election?

Mr Lee, I salute your courage to admit that your party has committed errors but that apolo---- isn't enough to sway me from the hammer. The people have voted your party into power election after election but we only get humility and acknowledgements of wrong-doing in the DAYS (not even weeks or months) prior to elections.

MBT says housing is affordable. HUH?

Tin Pei Ling says education & costs of living are cheap. WHAT? Even more ridiculous is her statement that the govt is NOT responsible for the divide between the rich, ordinary and poor.

Ignorant & disconnected isn't even enough to begin to describe this affront to us as citizens.

So to me, that apolo---- seems like a huge farce in the face of the gravity of the situation.

This also goes to show that all the more the opposition is required in Parliament to make the ruling party account for their policies.

Mr. Lee thank you for admitting that our immigration policy is a mistakae. We the younger generation singaporean see the current immigration policy as a national threat. At the rate we are taking in foreigners soon the entire country would be diluted. Your ministers have performed badly at handling immigration policy. They should have looked at other options to handle workforce issues instead of taking the easy way out by injecting the countrys population with growth foreign steroids. The damage has been done. Just look around you. Your ministers have changed the face of the country in 5 years. These is simply not acceptable. We, the younger generation have been watching from the sideliness, how the country has been slipping into the hands of foreigners. We Singaporeans see our home and way of life under threat. I think a stronger opposition is a must in parliament. We need more people to question your policies instead of having them rammed through in parliament. I will unfortunately still vote for the opposition as I want more voices in parliament.

PM Lee , so sorry , we cannot accept your apolo----
It is too little , too late
Damage done is too big.
To prevent further damage being done , We , Singaporean have
to vote for the Opposition to " Save " Singapore

just a word of encouragement to you....i will vote for you this time round from my heart but sorry to say....for opposition with my CARD....hahahhahahahaha

Can you trust this party?

At the beginning of the election campaign, this party

1) use upgrading plans to entice voters to vote for them, hundreds of millions dollars (coming from where?? dare not answer, could be your CPF because they intend to raise the retirement age so that they can keep huge sum of your money for more years, could be a raise in GST, could be doubling the intake of foreign workers hence making Singapore very competitive, with workforce for example security guard is of age 25, willing to work permanent night shift, drawing salary of S$900 per month, etc..thereby more worker levy, company make more money, government land sale continue to rise...etc..)

and IF YOU DONT VOTE FOR THIS PARTY, NO UPGRADING FOR YOUR ESTATE, your HDB will de-value quickly......THREATENING YOU....and members of this party even say it EXPLICITLY ...LOUD AND CLEAR

2) senior member of this party EXPLICITLY WARN voters will have 5 YEAR TO REPENT should they vote in the other party....

3) party head can arrange exclusive TV programme (more than an hour) to have casual chat with selected voters on TV, still sound very confident, very assertive that thus far everything done is for the GOOD of the citizens, not giving in anything, not sorry for anything, no major mistakes, no apolo----, the country is steering in the right direction, JUST THAT Singaporeans DO NOT UNDERSTAND, and that Singaproeans being short sighted, NOT PATIENT ENOUGH to wait for the true benefit to be revealed to them...

4) selected hawker food stalls promised that they will not RAISE in selling price for 6 months....

THEN, few days later, somewhere along the campaign (in the midst of the campaign and towards the end of the campaign)

This party starts to offer
1) NO GST HIKE for 5 years (please note that it is conditional: should there is surplus, economy is doing well,etc....)

2) Will SERIOUSLY address the cost of living issue after election

3) Will SERIOUSLY address the selling price FIRST TIME HDB Buyer in the form of higher incentive after election..

4) Assure public that GIC and Temasak fund IS NOT ABUSED, not offering any concrete measure of its transparency and auditability that will be revealed to the public

5) Head of party starts to tell all its party members and grassroot leaders that they are "servants" and voters are "masters"

6) Head of party publicly apologise for anything perceived by the public as mistakes, or wrong doing, still not sure EXACTLY WHAT the APOLO---- IS FOR...just very vague and general, aim to soften the public's resentment and negative image of the party.....

(this apolo---- comes immediately a day where opposition party candidate on behalf of THIS PARTY APOLOGIZED for senior member of this party making comments hurting the malay muslim community, but don't get it wrong, the party head's apolo---- could be on any issue, or on any non-existing issues (that the head of the party feels), because it is targeting at addressing the perception of the voters, because some voters perceived that this party has commited serious mistakes in the past 5 years)

Clearly, this party might have some concrete statistics or surveys done showing that swing voters have more or less decided to vote against this party, that's is why you see a 180 degree change in attitude....

The last thing is, can you trust this party?

Think carefully before you vote....

Is the apolo---- sincere or is it it just because it is too painful to loose the dollars and cents

Top 30 highest paid politicians in the world and they are all from Singapore (All amounts exclude bonuses):
1. Elected President SR Nathan - S$3.9 million.
2. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - S$3.8 million.
3. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew - S$3.5 million.
4. Senior Minister Goh Chok Thong - S$3.5 million.
5. Senior Minister Prof Jayakumar - S$3.2 million.
6. DPM & Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng - S$2.9 million.
7. DPM & Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean - $2.9 million.
8. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo - S$2.8 million.
9. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan - S$2.7 million.
10. PMO Minister Lim Boon Heng - S$2.7 million.
11. Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang - S$2.7 million.
12. PMO Minister Lim Swee Say - S$2.6 million.
13. Environment Minister & Muslim Affairs Minister Dr Yaccob Ibrahim - S$2.6million.
14. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan - S$2.6 million.
15. Finance Minister S Tharman - S$2.6 million.
16. Education Minister & 2nd Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen - S$2.6 million.
17. Community Development Youth and Sports Minister - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan - S$2.5 million.
18. Transport Minister & 2nd Minister for Foreign Affairs Raymond Lim Siang Kiat - S$2.5 million.
19. Law Minister & 2nd Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam - S$2.4million.
20. Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong - S$2.2 million.
21. PMO Minister Lim Hwee Hwa - S$2.2 million.
22. Acting ICA Minister - Lui Tuck Yew - S$2.0 million.
23 to 30 = Senior Ministers of State and Ministers of State - each getting between S$1.8 million to S$1.5 million.
Compared to other Countries' Leaders:
Donald Tsang Yum-Kuen - Hong Kong (S$716k)
Barack Obama - United States (S$555k)
Nicolas Sarkozy - France (S$441k)
Angela Merkel - Germany (S$420k)
Gordon Brown - UK (S$387k)
Taro Aso - Japan (S$337k)

Total of all 6: S$2,856,000

This is the reason all the more we need an alternative voice. If there were no oppositions to 'challenge' them, will PM ever eat the humble pie and apologise? I seriously dont think so.

PM Lee, to serve the people on the ground needs a good listening ear and a pait of hands that take actions. Look at the universities today!. YOu imported foreign talent, who came here with a blank cheque to start supplanting our own professors and associate professors. Even at the intellectual level, they get threatened of their rice bowl. These Vice Chancellors U broguth in should be given the duty to groom and train and bring our own Singaporeans up the ladder into world rankings, and after 5 to 8 years....they have done their job, and off they should go. We do not owe them a living for they are well paid! They do their job and thats it. Instead, they bring in all their kakis....U see....this si the same that has happened in the entire Singapore society when U start embracing FTs like though they are God....and your local SIngaporeans are @#$%. Many foreigners had already supplanted SIngaporeans across the spectrum of our workfroce strata....how can U ever reverse this. So the Education Ministry had been administering a wrong policy that had propagated throughout....soon...it will be foreign teachers taking away our Singaporean teachers' jobs....more and more will come. We are crazy, we have lost our Singaporean identity.
On housing, MBT is nonsense. Many of us see him as the God of Misery. He talks like God...he will surely make you feel that as a President Scholar as he was...he is good....but he had proven to bring Your Singaporeans much much misery, from ERPs to Housing....what asset appreciation is there when the peope are poor like @#$%. When they cannot pay the conservancy or the monthly payments because they are jobless and has no more savings, they will lose this asset that is so highly priced that they have to be belabored and enslaved for their lives if they have a job! Again, wrong policy devoid of the heart for Singaporeans.
Mas Selamat Kasturi....a terrorist who would have created lots of injuries and probably death to Singaporeans and others at large. No one at the ministerial level was held accountable to Singaporeans, PRs, Tourists and the world at large. If the minister did not himself took responsiblity to resign, he is no good minister. Esp when in a position in the ministry that holds Justice upper most!
Transport...it was so wrong of the minister to be hitting below the belt of Taiwan and US....saying what their woes in their countries are because of the democracy....he might as well declare that there be NO Election, and declare martial law. It is because of the way the people fight for their country's survival that they are today, survivalists....they continue to improve by leaps and bounds in so many areas. Today, all countries still kow-tow to US...and can we hold a candle to Taiwan in technologies, spin-offs, SMEs that grow into MNCs, global names, etc...all this minister did was increase ERPs even further, and even when we common men who worked hard every day....getting 'zapped' to pay when we GO HOME! Such a minister, devoid of feelings for the citizens, should himself be sent home from the parliament. When road works are carried out on the expressways, and jams are created, U see the ERP fees increasing. A good minister would stop the ERP form working, justify to the PM...that works are being carried...so for this period, no revenue...sorry...but because of this no revenue, he will finish the job in triple quick time. That will show the Singaporeans what the ruling party is made of, and put the money where the mouth is, and drive up productivity...thats what an example we expect from the government.
There are others...but too tiring, we common men and women in the streets can only bring up issues, and our points, but if these fall on deaf ears, we get tired too.
There are minister calibre people in the opposition team, whom can HELP you run this fine country. To continue hearng form your same team who had created all these troubles for the citizens is a big mistake.

Where have you been for the past 5 years, PAP? We had voted for you and lived to repent. Now we don't want to repent again for the next 5 years.

Can't or won't you & PAP ever learn? Transparency and accountabilty, humanity and compassion all grossly lacking! Account for all the losses incurred by GIC, Temasek etc., explain why your wife is still heading Temasek! Explain the factual portfolio of MM, SM etc. Singapore was built by our forefathers through blood, sweat and tears! Not by PAP! Take a huge pay cut, dump/adjust your stupid policies like GST, COE, ERP! Moderate the housing, transport, medical and cost of living through real and meanigful plans, and stop justifying PAP's lousy management - your KPI sucks! Apolodies are CHEAP! Action speaks louder then words! MM got it all WRONG - it is PAP who must REPENT! I've supported PAP for over 50 years - No more! Enough is enough!!! Got it???

This proves that we DESPERATELY NEED alternative voices in parliament. Even with loud alternative voices for 9 days, we see these MIW apologising, suddenly carrying our balls with stating that they are our servants etc. With SUBSTANTIAL numbers of opposition in parliament, the majority of us Singaporeans will be the main beneficiaries, with lower cost of living, no rise in taxes, lower HDB prices etc.

However, the greatest fear is that, Singaporeans only complain and when it comes to D-DAY on 7 MAY 2011, some chicken out and vote for the PAP. And regret after that when prices keep increasing, cost keeps increasing and our wages remain stagnant. and not to mention the CPF Minimum withdrawal age keep rising. I dun need much money to conduct my funeral, rite?

We should blame those who vote for PAP should taxes,prices, cost of living all increase and our quality of life decreasing for the next five years.

Recently, a group of us went to bishan for eatery. Approaching was a group of MIW asking people to support. As courtesy i stood up and shake hand with him. He asked us "pls support us, thank you" " are you staying here ?". i answer " no we are not staying here". To my surprise, he straight away turn his head and walk away without saying any further. Is so realistic, how is our voice going to be heard future... I have no 2nd thought further where to cast my vote...

Does MOM or Union feel sorry to allow an S-Pass holder, not even 'O' level qualified to work as a business intelligence specialist doing 'admin' work in Micrososft Singapore? Pay $3.8K minimum? PAP is corrupted !!!

An apolo---- that comes with excuses is really not quite sincere.

You know what I think? You are sorry because you know the tide has turn against you,your people and your policies.

An apolo---- that comes in the middle of the campaign days seems like a last desparate measure to hookwinked the citizens.

You should have admitted the errors in your policies (Healthcare cost, HDB Cost, living cost etc) before the start of your campaign,and acknowledge that you have the wrong people put incharge.
If you have taken these ministers out before the start of your campaign, we, the citizens, would know you are sincere.

Mr PM, Sir, your apologies just reinforce the concrete idea that we do really need alternative voices in Parliament.

We are very thankful to Yahoo for giving us a chance to voice out our frustrations and grivances!

My dear countrymen, he did not apologize just admitting PAP's mistakes and 'stand corrected' only. I want him and MM Lee to come forward to the rally and say ' We are sorry!'