if singapore is all about beating third-world countries, then is singapore third-world or first world? Its like you graduate from primary school to secondary school, and you regularly boast about beating primary school kids.

what makes you think the countries want to learn and copy everything from us? Because our government said it? Much as I want to give credit to the government, I am put off by the sheer amount of credit they want to claim for themselves to justify self-enrichment. let’s put things in real perspective. singapore is a small country. policies can be implemented much easily and results obtained much easily. try repeating it in countries which cities are three-four times the size of singapore? since our ministers are so damn good as they claimed, perhaps they can extend their expertise to USA and guide the world out of recession? don’t waste their expertise in telling singaporeans that bus fares are not linked to oil prices.

Beating neighbours could just be a benchmark, like every target you set for yourself, use that to keep ourselves forward.

Thats my opinion.

Singaporeans are slow too change. We just don’t see the need to push ourselves out of the comfort zone.

Back to the topic.

Getting ahead is important, given our size we cannot afford to drop below the rest.

If we don’t it now, are we going to do it when our neighbours wake up one day and say let’s do singapore style. The we will be gone.

Make hay when the sunshines.

the education system further perpetuates being number 1 via the guise of meritocracy. its much a facade. the elites enrich themselves more, because of the monopoly of power and knowledge.

now you now why we need such a huge SAF? the deterrence is really needed. because we just piss everyone off with our arrogance.

and yea you totally need to pay millions to our ministers to keep ahead of our neighbours. and africa. let’s lump all the third world countries together and compare and make ourselves feel good and indebted to the PAP for
being ahead of Somalia and Myanmar.

Time for some thinking change, starting with education. Start by Either abolishing national education or MAKE students think critically about our nation’s history and roots and why they love singapore, not one-sided textbooks that quote extensively from MM Lee’s memoirs as if its gospel truth and denounce opponents of PAP as radical. pathetic.

That’s why the quality of our policies are declining over the years. So as to achieve economic success and increase our coffers monies. Many of these policies are short-termed and short-sighted. Only to change again when they don’t work out.

From education, to transport, to housing, to nearly every facet of our lives, the PAP government has put their stamp so much that you cannot move until you have their go-ahead.

Do I need to pay millions to ministers to implement policies for just beating my neighbours? It is rather pathetic.

Heh,
Kaffein

do we pay them so much only to get ahead of our neighbours?