A Polemical & Partisan Post

Lets blog the real stuff. The undistorted truth. the truth which mr brown himself did not address. The real stuff that riled MICA. The points that caused Bhavani, the proxy of Lee Boon Yang, to attack mr brown.

What really led MICA over the boil was this. All the election predictions of the Opposition Parties are coming true. In the Opposition rallies, they mentioned that after GE06, public transport hikes would go up. Yes, we have that. The main taxi company has raised prices. Expect the other taxi companies, the bus companies and the trains to follow. Higher household electricity prices, another topic raised by the Opposition Parties in GE06, and yes true enough, within less than two months we have it.

Bhavani was distorting the truth when she said that higher oil prices meant these price hikes were inevitable. In the elections, these examples were raised not just to nettle the PAP. They were raised to address the issue of cost of living. Among the parties, probably WP was most systematic in offering counter-plans to address such increases in living costs. These were scoffed at by the PAP. Now Bhavani comes back and says that Progress Package was meant to defray these rising costs. That the Progress Package can last Singaporeans the next 4 years to the next elections to handle these price increases.

Bull shit.

Means testing. now we have an actual example of a Singaporean caught in between this concept of means testing. Dealt an unfair hand by the law of statistics. Rather than address the problem and acknowledge the limitations of means testing, Bhavani attacks the integrity of mr brown. Imagine, when means testing comes into play for allotment of C class hospital wards. A point repeatedly raised by the WP in GE06. what then? Progress Package was meant to cater for this too?

Bull shit.

mr brown was partisan? Hardly. This blog entry is what it means to be partisan. This blog entry tells you that all the PAP rhetoric in GE06 cannot stand scrutiny. This is why they did not dare address nor answer the questions raised by the Opposition parties then, because deep down they knew it was coming true. As Bhavani says, it was inevitable. The point of inevitability is this, what then are you, as the Government of Singapore, as the elected representatives, doing to address this inevitability? this was a question raised repeatedly in GE06 but was met with evasive answer after another. Who then was shirking the responsibility of coming up witb solutions to issues raised? Did these issues go away with the end of GE06? No Bhavani, these issues are still here in singapore, with Singaporeans.

Bhavani wants to talk about being partisan? Why then is HDB, an organisation in charge of public housing for all Singaporeans practising partisan politics, partisan policies? Why are Singaporeans residing in non PAP wards not given equality in treatment? Its not there is no money. Remember the obscene amounts of money dangled in front of hougang and Potong Pasir? the tens of millions? what is partisan politics, what is partisan policies?

The udistorted truth is this. After having won the Mandate to rule, unpopular policies can be pushed through with ease. Raising prices across the board, from transport to cigarettes, can be effected with no political cost.

My father says : the government raises the prices of cigarettes and more people are dying from lung cancer. Why? Because everyone is switching to the cheaper alternative of filter-less hand-rolled cigarettes. That is a fact. who wins? government because at least they earn money. This is true coffeeshop talk. And you know what? Me, a professional with multiple degrees believe him. Maybe thats why they are targetting the coffeeshops too, restricting the space of people who drink, smoke and relax at coffeeshops, because they talk too much and have no concrete solutions. Unconstructive.

This is the ruling party in its naked self. Not the party in the year before GE, when it is all smiles and forgiveness, when it becomes caring and generous. As they lull Singaporeans into forgetting.
This is polemics, this is partisan and I am not ashamed of this entry.

Quote of the Day --

"How strange, I never would have thought the truth would make you angry". Truth she thought. As terrible as Death, but harder to find." -- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle