Greta75
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
Are you sure you live in singapore? Singapore is not a democracy it is a republic. The u.k. is a constitutional monarchy not a republic. The ruling party in singapore has been in power since singapore became independent how can that be?
The ruling party were in power because we voted them in. I love our ruling party, and so does many Singaporeans. Only the loud minority who are bitching about them on the internet because they are selfish people who cannot see big pictures and want individual benefits that will not benefit the country as a whole, but when it comes to votes, the votes does not lie. Every year, they are my choice for the vote. We are almost crime-free, safe, clean, jobless rate at 2%, 70% own their homes, poverty is almost non-existence, our government budget is 300 billions in surplus, debt free, and low income tax. They are probably one of the better government of the world who did most things right. I don't envy USA for their government at all, or Europe. I am happy with most things around here. The only thing I do not like is lack of freedom of speech and expression, but such small sacrifices are worth in exchange for not having the terrible poverty that exists in the US. And also for reasonable reasons, especially back in the days where most were uneducated and wrong words could incite racial riots and internal strife. When you are poor in Singapore, it means, you still have airconditioning, TV, Computer, roof , cellphones, and have to take public transport to work. When you are rich, it means, you drive fancy cars and live in fancy house. Poor people gets to rent homes as low as $24 a month. All this from a zero natural resource country, where our only resource are our people. Yet can make enough jobs for everybody. We are so tiny, 6 million people in a place where it would just take 2 hours to drive the circumference of the whole country.
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There seems to be plenty of evidence that the ruling party has kept power by less than ethical means. How can you live there and not know the form of government,why chewing gum was banned, why the ban was partially lifted under pressure from the wrigley chewing gum punks via bush senior?
Chewing gum was never banned, selling of gum is banned. What evidence do you speak of? PAP was voted in to power even before independence. They were voted in, they ran elections and were voted in. They didn't like slaughter a bunch of people to make themselves rulers of Singapore and tell people obey them or die. And it was our ruling party who secured our independence from the British.
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Not in great britian nor in singapore does democracy exist...not then,not now, and possibly not ever.
Okay, so you are saying UK is run by dictatorship. If you think UK is run by dictatorship, then I guess Singapore is run by dictatorship too. There ya go. Depends on your definition. Will any British citizens clarify this? British people believe they are a dictator-runned country?
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The reason the law was put into force was that young punks would use chewing gum to obscure the sensing mechanism that opened and closed the doors on the new metro trains. The other issues of littering had existed for years without any ban on chewing gum. But when the new metro system was shut down by the vandals with chewing gum the govt took action. It was a "money" decission.
Still littering, just that years ago, they didn't have trains to litter in. PAP had a good plan, and things had to be implemented in segments. I can't see how this is a money decision. Who wants public transport efficiency to be delayed over gum? No commuters will be happy if they are late for work. It's just common sense and having the guts to implement something so radical and be the butt of jokes around the world.
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Singapore is an island the last time I checked and about half the size of los angeles.
Which does not change the point that we can secure our borders, it's impossible for the bad guys to get hold of any guns in Singapore, unless they rob a policeman, and USA has not found a solution to secure theirs. That's just a matter of fact. All, nowadays, all our gun deaths seem to be policemen using their guns to commit suicide in public toilets, shooting their own heads. Gambling addiction and debt.
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Logically the "bad guys" would rely on the simple math that something like 99% do not c/c.
Well, I highly doubt the numbers of non-gun ownership is 99%. But as you say, I don't live there, and the very few US friends I have that I visited there all own guns.
< Message edited by Greta75 -- 10/23/2014 9:24:08 PM >
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