Date:13 Apr 07, Friday, 7:00 pm
Venue: Sheraton Towers, Scotts Road, Opal Ballroom
(Newton MRT Station)
Dr Chee Soon Juan will speak at the Public Forum to be held on 13 Apr 07, Friday, at the Sheraton Towers Hotel (see below). He will address comments Mr Lee Kuan Yew made in yesterday's Parliament session, defending the pay increase for ministers.
The Minister Mentor said that Singapore's external trade is 3 1/2 times that of our GDP, surpassing that of even Hong Kong. Because of this, he says, the Prime Minister must be paid $3.1 million and the Ministers $1.9 million annually.
On Friday, Dr Chee will debunk this simplistic statistic and show how misplaced Mr Lee's observations are. Dr Chee will present the complete picture of Singapore's economic performance in recent years and show how bleak Singapore's future will be if we continue down the PAP's path.
In other words, not only are the ministers not indispensable as they would have Singaporeans believe, their inability to tear themselves away from groupthink will lead Singapore down the road to ruin.
It is stunningly disingenuous for the PAP to claim that its economic policies are working and, worse, use them to justify the outrageous pay increments for their ministers.
In addition, MM Lee again made some rather unsavoury remarks about certain governments, in particular, those of Denmark, Switzerland, and Finland. Europe also came in for mention.
With the delegation of European Parliamentarians speaking at the Forum, come and hear for yourselves what the speakers have to say, in particular, Mr Anders Samuelsen, who is an MEP from Denmark.
Do the Europeans need to pay their ministers million-dollar salaries in order for them to lead their countries? Is it true that Denmark can fail and yet be saved by other European nations?
What about Luxembourg? A landlocked country with a population of only half-a-million, the GDP income per capita of that nation is the highest in the world! Did Lydie Polfer, former deputy prime minister of Luxembourg, make the PAP argument that she had to be paid $3 million a year? How did the tiny nation in Western Europe prosper without the type of PAP-dictatorial system?
Don't miss this opportunity to see and hear firsthand what politicians from (genuinely) First World countries think and how they practice democratic politics to achieve prosperity for their peoples, not just for themselves.
So pass the word around and encourage your family and friends to come. Admission is free. See you on Friday!
It will be interesting to attend this forum which I unfortunately am unable to do so being not in Singapore. However I do wonder if Dr Chee Soon Juan will make full use of this Public Forum to appropriately address the comments of Mr Lee Kuan Yew made in yesterday's Parliment session, defending the pay increase, and highlight the issues close to the hearts of the Singaporeans instead of making a mockery of himself as have happened in the past on various occassions.
ReplyDeleteThe various Opposition groups have apparently improved in their credibility since the last election and I for one would not like to see Dr Chee making a mockery of what the Opposition has been building up so far and discredit the work that they have been doing so far.
Would someone please video the forum and post it to one of the free video host sites like YouTube. Thanks.
ReplyDeletePermit not given for this forum...how? Dr Chee, pls don't end up in jail again. Conserve ALL your energy for GE 2011.
ReplyDeletePublic forum set to go on with local speakers.
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