Sunday, August 06, 2006

Singaporeans views towards the government?

adapted from hardwarezone.com forum....

"at the IMF , i bet our IMF representatives will be boasting to the foreign delegates..You know har... we can anytime anyhow increase our taxes and fares and tariffs and we dont get riots, labour strikes or any mishap, our current administration is too good at handling our people... to us, they are just cows... we milk them for whatever they are worth and their "moo" cannot hurt us..thank you 66.6% of fools"

"U all dun blame the MIW (Men in White) lah. Wanna blame then blame those 66.6% for voting the MIW into the room. Thanks to the 66.6%, all the charges are up up and UP ! Transportation settled. Water and Power also settled. Next up---GST and also up the CPF age, wait till 65-70 then can touch ur CPF $$$.I'm one of the 33%, too bad gotta suffer becos of the rest"

"For a MIW brainwashed zombie of cause this is not a mind-boggling concept. If the MIW one day try to tell you that eating **** and drinking urine is healthy and good for the nation, you might actually buy it too. Oh! Wait. They already done that with new-water.First of all, if this is a free market when there is avid competitions, then of cause they can try to chase away their customers with the aim of making more profits if they wanted to. Because for every one cent they raise, they risk sending potential customers into their opponent arm.But we are talking about a public services, some more one that is protected and with limited or even no competition. Under this kind of environment, your concept is just bull**** because profits is always gaurantee as the customers had no other real alternative.When your beloved god in white first wanted to privatize the public services, I don't know whether you are too young back then to recall this, one of the many promises is that they would be opening up the market for more competition, which they claim they cannot do if the public transport is still being run by the govt. So by privatizing the services, it actually lead to cheaper fare and yet improved services as more competitors come in. But alas, Sinkaporeans are well-known for having amnesia, so I am not surprised if many had already forgotten all the beautiful picture they painted about privatizing the public transports decades ago. Now we should all wake up from the matrix and realized it is never about having competition that would led to cheaper fares and better services for us peasants, but rather another opportunity for guarantee profits for the shareholders"

"...Competition is the one that creates value to end consumer. With competition , each player is hard pressed stretch the profit but maintaining proportional stretch with services to end consumers rendered. Ideas beneficial to limit cost and bring repeated customers via service will be formed and conceived. This will fit the "make profit and increased benefit to consumer " paradigm as brought about by businesses.competition must bring forth choices , only with choices can consumers benefitanyway just off topic , anyway can competition still bring no choices? actually i think can , but it only happens in singapore. No where else in the worldIMO one of the silliest decision to create competition was the SBS transit taking NEL line to foster competition. If u visiting a relative in bedok , will u think ..." mmm , SBS provide low cost and good service , i think i go punggol and take a seat in the park"if u live in tampines and work in city hall , u take the SMRT E-W line. no matter how good and cheap NEL line is , u wun take it. IMO this is rank 1 of the silliest way to create competition. "

Practically we are living in a conspired society.. end of story.

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