How do we respond On PAP's GE Statements?

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

How should we respond to some of the statements made by the PAP during GE 2015?

The Government has delivered on all its promises to improve our lives. (Lee Hsien Loong)

PM Lee said in his swearing-in ceremony on 21 May 2011:

"I pledge to work together with all Singaporeans to create a just and fair society, which gives all citizens the best start in life, and leaves no one behind. A Singapore which is open to the world yet puts Singaporeans first. A Singapore which excites our young and respects our old. A society that nurtures and inspires the human spirit, beyond material success. Rich or poor, young or old, men or women, Singapore is our home. Here we all belong. Here we can work together for the common good, and share our pride in being Singaporeans."

Has the PAP Government delivered on all (PM Lee's word) its promises to improve our lives?


The Singapore economy is at a turning point. (Lee Hsien Loong)

Interpretation 1. At no time is the economy predictable, as the 2008 global financial crisis showed us. No one really knows whether the economy is at a turning point except with hindsight, unless the PAP Government knows something that it hasn't told us.

Interpretation 2. This is nothing more than a fear tactic. In uncertain times, some people think that it is better to go with the "devil" you know rather than the "devil" you don't. However, the "devil" you don't know may turn out to be an angel.


This election is a serious matter. (Lee Hsien Loong)

Election is not a game — the nation's future is at stake. (Lee Hsien Loong)

All elections are serious matters. Does PM Lee consider that voters don't treat an election seriously only when they don't vote for the PAP?


There is no guarantee that the PAP will form the next government. (Khaw Boon Wan and others)

This is the PAP's usual scare tactic. However, it is unlikely to come about in GE 2015 given the current political landscape but if it does, it is the will of the majority of the people.


This election will be critical. (Lee Hsien Loong)

Voters will be deciding who not only will govern Singapore for the next five years but will be working with the voters for the next 15-20 years; voters will be setting the direction for Singapore for the next 50 years; voters will be determining the future for Singapore. (Lee Hsien Loong)

Every general election is critical because voters will be deciding not only who will govern Singapore but also who will form the opposition to provide the necessary checks and balances on the government and the alternative government in the future when the PAP fails.

Do we really want the government — any government, whether or not formed by the PAP — to set the direction for Singapore for the next 50 years, especially if it is a direction that may prove difficult if not impossible to change in the future?

For example:

▪ We don't want a population of 6.9 million by 2030, even though the PAP government claims it is only a planning parameter.

▪ We want to preserve the Singaporean (meaning citizen not including permanent resident) core in the population and the work force, and this does not necessarily mean that this aspiration is achieved with the 2:1 ratio of residents (i.e., citizens plus permanent residents) to foreigners that has been unilaterally determined by the PAP government.

▪ We do not want casinos in Singapore.

For many years, the PAP was the only party in Parliament. Until GE 2011, there were very few opposition MPs. Has the PAP let the people down? The PAP is its own checks. The opposition's claims of checks and balance is a seductive lie. (Goh Chok Tong)

Has the PAP let us down? Should we depend on the PAP to be its own checks and balance? Just one example is enough:

http://refocusing.blogspot.sg/2015/0...tatements.html


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