Hypocrisy in PM Lawrence Wong’s message of success
June 29th, 2024 | 
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It must be the biggest guff ever uttered by a prime minister that can be the apex of hypocrisy.by a stateman. How can a sane (maybe questionable) PM Lawrence Wong spout such egregious crap in his message of emphazising the need for a broader definition of success in Singapore to move away from the SC's - cash, car, credit card, condominium and country club - citing their adverse effects.
What kind of abject hypocrisy is that when the prime minister and his cohorts are wallowing in luxury with their obscene astronimical pay while the plebeian Singaporeans are struggling with a high cost of living? PM Lawrence Wong has not even touched on the neccesity of reducing the obscene ministerial pay when there is now a torrent of of demand to start looking into the urgency of modifying down the astronomical ministerial salaries which PM Lawrence Wong may ignore at his peril.
There is a very caustic article in the Independent Singapore website today by Academic Prof Donald Low of Hong Kong University which calls out PAP's hypocrisy, blatant double standard and self-righteousness which he derided as contemptible..He does not mince his words in admonishing the PAP to stop its preaching and talking down to the people and check its hypocritical holier-than-thou attitude. Prof Low was the Associate Dean executive and education at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore before he resigned in 2018. He now teaches at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
His pungent critique covers the period from Lee Hsien Loong as prime minister and extends to our parvenu prime minister Lawrence Wong who started promisingly as an iconoclast but seems to slide into disorientation, especially on the critical matter of reducing he obscene ministerial pay. He seems to be enraptured by Lee Hsien Loong's affluent luxurious livelihood and the thought of relinguishing it is now an aversion to him, notwithstanding whether the queston of plundering the people's wealth can be a denouement into something more ominous now or in the future to force the hands of PM Lawrence Wong to concede to public demand.
Yoong Siew Wah
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5Cs are beyond most Singaporeans’ dreams.
New Success: 3F
Food voucher.
Free vege (from you know where, see BBatok)
Free labor contribution (how many food trays have you returned?)
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Sticks and stones. He knows he is untouchable. History and the electorate are on his side.
The Regime will still get 70% of the votes, at least. And laughing all the way to the bank(s). Ask the $heeple not to do this, and they will say “oh no – who will save us from CoVID?”.
Accept that the vaxxed $inkies are doomed and will be gone in a few short years. What does it mean to be a $inkie anyway? Nothing that can’t be replaced.
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$M Lee will tell sgs to go chase that rainbow.
But,in truth,the rainbow turns up to be a LIMBO.
5Cs is now a taboo except if you are of the PAPpy block.
Actually PAPpy$ have 6 C
They want to CONtrol in addition to the 5Cs.
Whatever,the daft sinkies will never learn.
Daft sinkies love to get $crewed,the deeper ,the more shiok?
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A quote attributed to Gandhi is the most relevant explanation to the answer of the question “what does utopia look like”. When asked what he thought about the overpopulation and poverty of his country, his reply was, “The world is big enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyone’s greed”.
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The Cs were the subject of discussion amongst some members of the public.
Can’t recall which political leader ever promised everyone to have that.
The party which produced that kind of gugu leaders would have gone down to the dirty drain long ago.
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Dear Yoong,
Did you receive free medical health care and treatment ?
Can you tell us the truth ?
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High Yearly ministerial Pay effect On Cost of living Result in Inequality SYstem.
Under the pappy HYPOCRISY system it will have a direct or indirect effect on cost of living & as a result the rich gets richer as the system favours the rich & the poor gets poorer widening the wealth gap.
The plebeian Singaporeans continue to suffer!
Will you leave it to fate or have faith that the pappy system can be changed?
VOTE FOR CHANGE AT THE UPCOMING GE!
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Dear Yoong,
This is what your democratic ROC Taiwan 40% President Lai say:
Please take low wages and take it as doing charity
https://youtu.be/V7sxLM0Nd3o
All pro democratic supporters please heal the call of a democratic 40% President.
Be Cheaper, Better and Faster.
Democratic Ukraine Zelensky had no more soldiers to fight the Russian troops.
All pro democratic supporters please fly to Ukraine frontline to spill blood and died for your Americunt ma$ter of Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights.
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GCT: I promise all of you a Swiss standard of living.
(Daft sinkies: Yes, let’s aim for the moon!)
LHL: We will have a better tomorrow.
(Daft sinkies: Yes, we still got a bright future.)
LW: Let’s lower our expectations.
(Daft sinkies: ……..)
Hahahaha!
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It is not the PAP that needs to change, it is us who keep voting them in.Since GCT legislated paying himself and his cabinet $3m we have approved it by voting them in without fail.So why keep complaining after it is done? Want a change? Do it at the ballot box. We already know that we do not have a government acting in the State or Citizens’ interest. If you elect them in again, pay for all increases because that is their governance style. They will not establish a living wage as our elderly are considered liability and a burden to the State.
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Free petrol (scoop from the sea; no need go Johor)
Free lucky ‘f*cks’ for gays @ Hong Lim Park (1st prize: MPs from pariahment/oppos)
Now that makes 5 Har, Har? Har!
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1G did not promised any C. They just did what they were elected to do and they did it. Whatever they have done, we can still witness it till today!
2G promised Swiss standard of living. Till now I only see PAP’s MPs and Ministers have those living. Citizen just sucking thumbs.
3G no promises, just auto-pilot. Kept welcoming the rich, did not matter if the money was clean or not. Taking the easy way of governance.
Now the 4G telling citizen to forget about the 5Cs. It is only just dreams, all going up in smoke. All the Cs are for themselves. You can see it yourselves even if you are blind.
GE is coming. For the younger voters, ask yourselves are you better than your parents or grandparents?
I belong to your grandparents’ era, under the 1G. I have changed from a 3-room flat to a 5-room flat and later changed to 5-room premium. My mortgage were paid up years back. I have changed car 3 times.
My education level may not be as high as yours now, but I changed and found jobs easily. Now, even with your overseas degrees, you find it so difficult to land a job!
I paid for my child’s overseas university education, not loan. If not for the parents’ connection she would be difficult to find a job. And now she find it so difficult to pay for her BTO.
So think and ask, you are supposed to be better than your parents, are you? You can change this by voting wisely. Do you want to depend on vouchers to survive?
For your info, there was no vouchers before. In fact, there were salary cut for everyone, even for Ministers!
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I like to share a truth,in fact,two.
One,when Lee Ah Long was PEE-M,in defence of his nonchalance toward the plight of poor and elderly ,he told YOUNG HIGHLY EDUCATED SGS that the G cannot render “more social assistance” to the needy and elderly sgs as that would INCREASE THE FUTURE TAX BURDEN OF THE YOUNG SGS.
ALMOST 100 PCT OF THESE EDUCATED YOUNG SGS BOUGHT PM Lee’s EXCUSE.
Young sgs were heard telling their ageing parents that they (their parents n other elderly sgs) must CONTINUE TO WORK as they cannot depend on the G to give them “too much” social assistance as that would add to the young sgs’ tax burden!
Meanwhile,across the table where i was seated for dinner,a young sg who boasted aloud a while ago that she was drawing a big salary as a “REGIONAL MANAGER” of an MNC,waited for her mother to “foot the bill” saying her “credit card” has got some issues???
The loving mother obliged.
Then again, when G announced BABY BONUS for young sgs,the young suddenly kept quiet about ITS EFFECT ON FUTURE TAX BURDEN?
ALSO,WHEN G RAIDED OUR reserves to fund generous furlough even for MULTITUDES OF NON-sgs EXECUTIVE$ (Including INTRA-COMPANY FT-transferees who arrived just before the $100B Covid budget),YOUNG SGS KEPT QUIET AND PROBABLY THOUGHT SUCH RESERVES RAIDED FOR FURLOUGH WILL NOT INCREASE TAX BURDEN?
A PER CAPITA OF $23.5K WAS CLAIMED TO BE THE GRANT PER SG BUT MANY RETIREES AND JOBLESS SGS GOT ONLY $600!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $22.9K that those who received only $600 EACH were short-changed by none other than our very own G?
You see,if more young educated sgs get screwed out of tbeir jobs,i will celebrate with teh tarik.
These self-centred young sgs deserve to be screwed!
Sg is no more for trublu sgs as could be easily demonstrated by the many ANTI-CITIZEN PUBLIC POLICIES including HOW OUR SGS’ RESERVES are BEING DISTRIBUTED???
HDB AT $2M means MORE PRs will be laughing their way to thr bank and probably laughing their way across the Causeway or even to India and Phillipines.
Elderly sgs kena bought at such high prices just becos they are forced to DOWMGRADE BY THE HIGH COL N DEPLETION OF LIFE’S SAVINGS.
And,MND MINISTER COME N BLAME these dowm-graders instead of REFINING HDB POLICIES TO ASSIST THESE ELDERLY CITIZENS FACING SUCH ESCALATED COL INCLUDING MEDICARE???
So,tell us the PUBLIC POLICIES ARE NOT BENEFITTING PRs and other alien$ at sgs’ grave expense?!
Blame sgs like elderly for “pushing up” prices?
Oh,come on lah,be more original!
Daft,all daft from G to educated young sgs .
LKY was saying the truth at Charlie Rose.
We are all daft,no exception,gahmen and people.
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FR, YOU tell us the truth.
Did you receive free medical health care and treatment?
Don’t run away. Answer NOW. Don’t hide.
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”New shuttle bus service to serve residents in Marine Parade GRC, MacPherson, Mountbatten”
Whose tax payers monies are being used for these free shuttle.
Why are these constituencies so special?
GE 2024 has nothing to do with it?
A lot of free vouchers and what-not appearing before election. expect more.
Are the papigs MPs paying for these from their own pockets?
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The voters have changed. Changed for the worse.
Compare the 4Tan’s election and last yr election. The good voters have disappeared. Died off. 12 years is a very long period for old folks. The new voters are hopeless.
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When Dr Goh Keng Swee was Education Minister, he expressed in private his concern that social inequality would result in social unrest, and that moral education was aimed at avoiding that via appeasing the have-nots. I said to him that government remuneration policy was adding to the inequality, and he replied that talents would leave and go elsewhere if not paid those high salaries. I then mused that perhaps morality might also effect in talents choosing to remain despite lower but fairer salaries. After all, talents who should be wiser and more educable, should respond to moral education better than the masses Dr Goh hoped to appease thereby.
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Minister for Education
In office
12 February 1979 – 2 January 1985
Biden met Putin in the 80’s.
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Same old response that one is tired of repeating. “You get the government you deserved” Young want easy life like those ‘influencers’ (4 days week/work from home), don’t want to married. Supports same sex marriage. Expect other people’s children to look after them when they’re old (f*ck them!)
Old covet ‘CDC vouchers & any thing free’ There you go – your SINKIES!
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As far as the ministerial salary is concern, nothing will change.
The only change will be higher and higher, not cut.
This, together with “blood transfusion” and “free vouchers”, is their winning formula for the next few decades.
Voters are goons, even if oppositions propose to cut pay if elected, the the result would be forgone conclusion. Goons will be asking why they should vote for “cheap” candidates…..?
Either way, just pay and pay more taxes, but better to have more “colors” in parliament then just one or two.
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Do not pity or give any help to the older generation. They are the rotten core of the problem always voting in the familee. Let them get their well-deserved karma. Soon their loving children will follow in their footsteps.
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Free Rider. Come here now. Explain why your masters giving free service.
“From June 30, residents can register for the service via the app TongTar Riders, which will generate a barcode that they must scan upon boarding a bus. ”
And, explain why they are forcing the use of phone, which according to you, is exploiting child labor.
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脱离现实，只会乱想乱说，危矣哉！
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@Harder Truth
Not all.
In fact WP would not have won AJ if nit for older sgs.
When those older sgs moved house or passed on,the percentage of WP with PAP (despite a weak PAP team compared to GY n team) kept reducing.
Go check yourself.
Many seniors who lived at AJ moved to Sengkang area.
What about other GRCs?
So far no decent outcome?
In fact,MANY YOUNGER EDUCATED SINKIES WHO MARRIED PRs(foreigners) increasingly voted for PAP.
BABY BONUS ETC.
LOLLY-$UCKERS ALL!
But what you said is partly correct.
There are seniors especially civil servants who continue voting for PAP.
CHEERIO.
ONLY WAY TO KNOW THE TRUTH IS BY STATISTICS.
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Ok. Here’s my explanation. A good government is like a responsible families head, if you had saved enough and had surplus, then you can plan for extras that your family will benefits.
Again, different person had different definition of enough.
And why need to register? This is to ensure that there is enough passengers to fill the bus before it is being despatched and also to filter out bad passengers who register but never turn up.
This I had already explained in length to Relax. Go read it up yourselves here
https://www.tremeritus.net/2024/06/14/will-pm-wong-address-singapores-astronomical-ministerial-salaries/
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So,who is not hypocrite at all?
Anyone better than LW among them.
WP not hypocrite?
No one is perfect.
We just try to be the best we can.
Give him time.
At least he won’t be worse than you-know-who.
So,stop cowpeh and give the man a break.
Bet you,he will be much better than the one before him.
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This is very true young people leech from their parents. In this Thai movie, this 30 years old good for nothing son only play game and contribute nothing.
From my experience with 2 Poly intern attached to me, I agreed.
HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES
https://youtu.be/HrVX_nHNIUA
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The population of SG doubled in 30 years (from 1990 to 2020) when the native fertility rate is way below 2. Today 1 in 2 daft sinkies are foreign born. You are preaching to people who are grateful and constantly reminded that they must be loyal to the country (and by association the party) for giving them a good living. Many of these new citizens ended up not having children themselves. Why? Because of all the anti-family policies! It’s pointless, this is a country geared towards self-destruction.
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Evil family abuses intellectually disabled woman for over a year. They should be stoned in public.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/over-17-years-jail-for-woman-who-abused-family-friend-till-near-death-state
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Instead of addressing the inequality and poverty of those at the bottom; these politicians look forward to wealthy post-government lives themselves. Maybe this dynamic might help Mr. Wong understands why many people drop out of a society where the hardest-working members are also the poorest.
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I am here. I never hide.
I don’t work in the Civil Service. What do you think ?
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Talk rubbish lah..
Go check your reply to Relax and see if it is applicable here. Rubbish.
A gov as a family head? More rubbish.
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Free labor contribution (How much rubbish have you collected?)
Kallang resident, 66, spends 8 hours a day picking up rubbish around estate, says it’s a form of exercise.
Five years ago, Kallang resident Looi starting picking up trash left under his block whenever he was free.
After retiring in 2023, he decided to dedicate even more time to keeping the community clean, spending eight hours every day picking up litter around the estate, reported Shin Min Daily News.
The 66-year-old man, who lives at Block 467 Crawford Lane, credited his younger sister as his source of inspiration.
Ineffective (cannot clean well) town council praises him.
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Don’t hide. Don’t twist words.
Just answer yes or no.
Did you receive free medical health care and treatment?
It’s the exact question, word for word, that you asked someone here.
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Prices of Everything has gone up and away.
It is time to honestly assess how much of such price increa$es is due to “SUPPLY CHAIN” and how much of such price increases is actually due to “PROFITEERING”.
IT IS,in truth,NOT JUST “NORMAL”(NATURAL) PRICE INFLATION coming from Supply and Demand factors.
It is “GREED INFLATION”.
The $KY IS THE LIMIT.
Who cares,just KEEP PU$HING PRICES UP.
IF THE G CAN DO IT,WHY CAN’T WE?
INFLATION IS NOW “$KY-FLATION”!
Just KEEP AIMING FOR THE $KY,eh?
Who cares?
You,me or the GREEDY PIG$ ?
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It’s so hypocritical & non-sensical that SRFreeRider is trying to explain pappy constituencies giving free rides to residents which also have plenty of foreign workers who will benefit more!
Better to use the money directly to help the needy seniors!
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How can there be free shuttle service for Marine Parade residents but not in other estates. Who is providing and paying for the service? Pappies afraid they are going to lose Marine Parade? Singaporeans must know that the PAP will continue to pay high salaries to themselves and inflict more financial pain on us once elected.So the CDC vouchers are to mislead the voter into voting them in. Please don’t fall for it.
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The crucial question: Who gets the most money? Some residents get free rides, but who gets the most money?
It’s the same for food vouchers. Who gets the most money?
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Needy seniors of course will receive help.
but..but..but..but..please define needy seniors
1. needy seniors that lead an honourable lives
2. needy seniors that lead an d**honourable lives. Lazy to work, enjoy lives spending all monies on liquor and womanizing.
https://youtu.be/IEh2ObsgJp0&t=14s
Vote, don’t run away. What is your definition of needy seniors?
I had downloaded this video before YT deleted it. Please download it and share.
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@VOTE,@Trace $
Right.
BTW,free shuttle rides ,if executed with PUBLIC FUNDS,in MP GRC,must necessarily be implemented for all GRCs n SMCs as,well.
WHY IN MP?
People there are generally well-off,on average,compared to estates like Macpherson,for example?
PAP MPs at MP GRC should not apply PUBLIC FUNDS at will.
If is their very OWN FUNDS,it is another story.
So,will we have free shuttles funded by public funds at AJ N HG?
WILL WP GO TO PARLIAMENT AND ASK FOR IT USING MP AS “CLEAR” EXAMPLE,NO PHANTOM EXAMPLE HERE??? NO POFMA!
BTW,it could be observed very clearly that GRCs where “infliential(heavy-weight) ministers ” are MPs,it seems they have better “facilities” and more ATAS public spaces.
WHY?
And,the most $TICKING AND STRIKING POINT IS THIS.
WHY WERE MANY DESERVING AND NEEDY SGS GRANTED ONLY $600 OUT OF A SAID PER CAPITA FRANT(RE:MP TPL) OF SGD23.5K APPROX?
WHY “INTRA-COMPANY FT-TRANSEREES”(NO MATTER HOW FEW THE NUMBER WAS) given furlough of sums MANIFOLD$ THE MISERLY SUM OF $600 MORE DESERVING CITIZENS WERE AĹLOTED?
CAN H$K EXPLAIN THE RATIONAL AND JUSTIFY THE EQUITY OF SUCH A POLICY PRACTICE???
$100B IS A HUGE AMOUNT EVEN BY FIRSTWORLD CO7NTRIES’ STANDARD.
A fraction of the $100B could have been put to better LONG-TERM USE like building “retirement villages” for our elderly and selling the units at subsidised rates?
That would have helped to alleviate the increase in demand by seniors for SECONDARU HDB FLATS which such seniors need to pay HIGH PRICES for in order to secure an unit for shelter.
Imstead,we find all ways to push blames unfairly just to divert attention to the real issues on hand
Do not PRs contribute largely to the escalation in SECONDARY HDB FLATS?
And,if G does not keep pegging PRIMARY HDB FLATS to Secondary Market HDB,would potential genuine buyers choose not to wait since PRIMARY HDB PRICES WOULD NOT BE MADE TO RUN AWAY VIA UNFAIR LONG WAITING TIMES FOR ELIGIBILITY TO PURCHASE?
PUBLIC POLICIES MUST SERVE THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY DESERVING CITIZENS FIRST AND FOREMOST.
HOW MANY SGS GOT IMPOVERISHED AND DISADVANTAGED WHILE PRs and others KEEP BEBEFITTING MORE FROM OUR PUBLIC PILICIES?
GO CHECK THE NUMBER OF PRs who became MILLIONAIRES from “RE-SELLING” THE HDB THEY BOUGHT at much lower prices !
What is GOOD GOVERNANCE/GOVT?
PLEASE TELL us.
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Stop hiding.
Answer now. Truthfully.
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Hahaha… with idiots like you no wonder many Sinkies are easily replaced.
So, the answer is NO.
Typical 10 year series templated Sinkies. Always looking for easy model answer.
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Either you are a liar or you are in the same condition as Biden: forget many things and just talkcock.
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Give you a second chance.
Now, answer truthfully. If you cannot remember, go ask your mother. Or ask your pappy masters.
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