http://yoursdp.org/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:02:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://yoursdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3063#josc16209 Communism has never lived long. It requires a selfless man and that's a creature that still has never evolved. What people must do and what is done is simply to harness self-interest in order to serve the greater good by creating wealth. And that is what Capitalism has done to the urban parts of China etc. However, communist government owns everything including human and civil rights. This is why the government can kill or jail those who don't fit the definition they have chosen. Similarly, fascism is equally applicable to the latter sentence. Now Capitalism has to be watched closely because greed and self-interest are dangerous things but they are the only things that have the necessary force to continue to generate the wealth to allow us to survive. The pendulum of history maybe swinging its position. We live it regardless of what ideology one has. But there is not much point going back on something many have tried before. greyheyn Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:41:14 +0100 http://yoursdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3063#josc16208 Dear Dr Chee, thank you for speaking up for the ordinary Singaporean who is voiceless and has no rights in his own country. You are the conscience of our land which is ruled by leaders who have lost their moral compass and conscience. Clear eyed Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:54:17 +0100 http://yoursdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3063#josc16207 @tencents - The problem with Singapore is that the widening income gap; the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. This wide income disparity is unacceptable in a first-world nation. Also, the percentage of poor people is higher than other 1st world countries. Some people struggle to compete for jobs with foreigners, while others experience their problems only when they start to retire, because the CPF holds their hard-earned savings by letting them withdraw only a few measly hundred dollars a month. vipersonic Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:12:00 +0100 http://yoursdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3063#josc16206 My Burma friend told me, there is no hunger in Burma, every one got food to eat but in S'pore if you are jobless and no money,you eat grass.I wonder the advertisement calling us Singaporeans to donate $2 for the lego...for those jobless and retrenched,but is the pap govt helping these people, why call us to donate, instead the millions dollars ministers should donate 50% of their pay for 6 months to help this so called lego campaign. tewniaseng Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:29:30 +0100 http://yoursdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3063#josc16205 Please tell me where in the world where there are no such pitiful sight? It pains my heart so everytime I see this in Singapore, New York, Beijing, London and yes, even Tokyo where people pick cans from the rubbish bin, collect cardboards and eat leftover food from lavish restaurants. If there is indeed such a place, let me know, so I'll want to retire there. But I guess not in any capitalists society in the world. Actually, I've come across such a place before --- a village in China where residents harvest bamboos and bamboo shoots for a living. They live on a meagre income, but everyone got food on their table. So there ... communism works eh? tencents Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:12:35 +0100 http://yoursdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3063#josc16194 The problem of exploitation of workers is real and all around us. It is sad that many better-off people, still caught up in their own happy world, fail to realise the sad truth in Singapore. Just because we're better-off financially doesn't mean we can turn a blind eye to those suffering. They are, after all, our fellow citizens. Perhaps Lee Kuan Yew has got one thing right, that is we have not yet become a nation. vipersonic Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:24:10 +0100 http://yoursdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3063#josc16188 Bravo Dr Chee! Newton Heath Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:03:46 +0100