My Final Say (Just my own opinion on this GE)

Tomorrow is the Cooling Day and every voter will be making or re-evaluating their decision to support the incumbent. My mind is already made up and honestly, I have evaluated and re-evaluated my decision throughout these 2 weeks. I am  just fickle like that. But I am very glad that my right to vote is not taken away from me. But I shouldnt be, glad i mean, because my right to vote should be constitutional, inherent to me being a Singaporean. But that is not the reason why I am writing this.

I love my country and I acknowledge the achievements of my government. We (our country) have come so far because we have good people in the government. And of course, we also have ourselves, or at least our parents, grandparents, great grands to thank for. To have a good government but no people is like having an intelligent brain but no limbs, no body, nothing gets done. So, I think, if we have not been giving credit to ourselves (our ancestors) than we should, and not be hoodwinked into believing that what we have achieved is due solely to our capable government and that we will all perish if the incumbent gets kicked out.

This election brought up quite a few unpleasant and unflattering things about my government that I am sorry to say- quite damaging to their reputation and credibility in my heart. People make mistakes, no one is flawless, no one is perfect unless he be deity. So while i will not be the first to cast stones (anyway, if you frequent FB, you will realised that I am not the 1st, not the 2nd, not the 3rd, not the 100th etc.) I would like to ask, why only own up now? If for some reason, you dont believe that you made a mistake, then good for you, stay your ground. If you think you made a mistake, admit sincerely and hope for forgiveness, but dont do it now... it will only come across as being pretentious and flaky and worst still- scheming. My PM, you deserve my respect for apologising in public but now is really most inappropriate. And your team, if you are sincerely about owning up to your mistakes, and really seek forgiveness, why, oh why did you embark on a personal vendetta against another party that has a differing opinion?

I think, we need more transparency and I say this because i realised that whatever I know, is because you have told me so, and whatever I do not know, is because you didnt tell me about them. I am fed what you think I should know but I would rather have a buffet and choose what I want to know from everything that you should have laid on the table.

While our education system may be found wanting when compared to better systems out there (on earth or in space), I believe we are educated enough to be given more freedom to exercise our own judgement and media should facilitate and enable us, not restrict us. It is really really disgusting to me, to see how bias our media is.

Let me briefly touch on the issue of money. It is simple, I will never have enough, but what you are getting seems like way too much even to me. Money is a mean to an end, and the ends are houses, cars, family, children, children education fund, medical fund, retirement fund, vacation fund and ultimately some kind of happiness. You are paid so much, and I just want you to convince me that you deserve that kind of pay. I dont want to compare, I just want to ensure that I feel satisfied that my pay is so different from yours because you do so much more than me. Even if you ace your KPI of GDP growth, have you collected enough "well dones" and "good jobs" and solve and resolve the problems of your people?

I think the root of the matter is clear, I am less contented about my life which is and should be a red mark in your performance. And I guess there are some people like me out there. And then, there are others, who see people like me around them and feel injusticed and they have a strong voice and the courage to stand up and bring up my unhappiness. I salute them because they are the underdogs, they have to fight harder, they have to overcome inertia, and still face unfair biasness from the media.

My government, I wish you would wake up from your idea (grins) and smell the rubbish stench in the air because something is roting (or maybe there are too many skunks in your party). I am thankful for all the good you have done but you have to realise some mistakes have negatively (and to some others, greatly-negatively) impacted my life and others and you just brushed them off aside until today when you needed our votes.

This isnt a Boy-Girl Relationship, this is not a Mother-Child Relationship (Oh ya, Happy Mothers' Day to all Mommys!), it is a rational, objective and logical relationship between the leaders who have power entrusted to them by the people to look after the best interest of the people, and the people. And in all these rallies and speeches and interviews, you have not convinced me that you have our best interests at heart in your words as well as action. So, that's that, my Final Say.


Things about my government that I am uncomfortable about:
1. Lack of transparency
2. Fighting Dirty (Threats, Bribes, Lies, Well placed Sorries, Scare mongering...)
3. The undeserved (large) part of their salary
4. Not providing enough in transport/facilities/ housing with the influx of FT
5. Allowing cost of living to overshoot wages
6. Allowing some less deserving to contaminate the talent pool of our government
7. Not admitting to their mistakes until it is too late
8. Poor-management of peoples' hard earn money
9. Keeping peoples' hard earn money from them
10. Not listening