You see Mr Nair, unlike the WP, you can only raise your voice to discuss non contentious and non-urgent issues like those you wrote about in your article. Why not challenge the WP on the big issues like runaway housing costs, the 6.9 million population White Paper, far too relaxed labour laws that has opened the floodgates, rising transport costs and the plight of the poor? Why not challenge your dear DPM Shanmugaratnam on being able to afford a flat at $1000 a month salaries? Why not ask Minister Chan Chun Sing about the fact that nearly 300,000 Singaporeans (that’s nearly 10% of the actual citizen population) survive on $5 or less for their meals daily? Instead of praising MPs for speaking out on Ashley Madison, why not praise MPs and Ministers that want to raise transport fares, who say health costs are affordable and say that the HDB is losing millions? Don’t they also deserve your special praise and support? But then again, isn’t it also true that you must sing from the same song-sheet? You can’t ask the hard questions, because you either don’t know or don’t want to know what is the reality on the ground. As the MP that oversaw Sin Ming, did you ever go to the ‘poor man’s block’ (the 1 room Blk 26) in your ward other than on official business? Do you know that there is still today residents who sleep under the block at night? Do you know that there are some who don’t have 3 meals to eat daily? And if the ‘free lunches that are provided daily by some NGO’ is stopped, there will be some who have to go the whole day hungry? Did you even bother to find all these out when you were the MP who oversaw this block and others in your ward? I think not, instead you are busy on FB to lambast the WP on a non-issue like Ashley Madison and to talk about having electric cars in Singapore: [ LINK ]
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 05:22:59 +0000