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17-01-2015, 08:10 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
My wife and I were debating whether to go to a relative's house for dinner when the following article caught my attention. (The weather's still freaking cold with the weather man predicting another snowfall for the coming week.)
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The Straits Times, January 17, 2015 page A11
Govt should be the last recourse, not the first
Mr Lee on Singaporeans looking to the government to solve all their problems
"We have to take a somewhat detached view of issues so that when issues come up, our first instinct is not (to have the) Government do something about it.
Whether it is a problem with rats in the neighbourhood, whether it is a problem with feeding of birds and therefore other vermin turn up, whether it is a problem with neighbours upstairs, downstairs, the Government should be the last recourse, and should not be the first recourse.
Residents' committees (RCs) and the neighbourhood committees of course do a lot of work. But there are many other groups which get together and look out for their interests.
For example, when we have a new HDB neighbourhood precinct and people are beginning to get ready to move in, before any RC is formed, there is already a Facebook group, and they will share information about where to get the best curtains, which interior decorator is good, who gives you good value, who is to be avoided and when to get together to go and see the new MP and ask for something which is not fixed.
But actually, you ought to organise to get things done, not organise to ask the Government to do things."
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?198222-LHL-chides-Sinkies-for-asking-govt-to-eradicate-rat-problem&goto=newpost).
My wife and I were debating whether to go to a relative's house for dinner when the following article caught my attention. (The weather's still freaking cold with the weather man predicting another snowfall for the coming week.)
*******************************************
The Straits Times, January 17, 2015 page A11
Govt should be the last recourse, not the first
Mr Lee on Singaporeans looking to the government to solve all their problems
"We have to take a somewhat detached view of issues so that when issues come up, our first instinct is not (to have the) Government do something about it.
Whether it is a problem with rats in the neighbourhood, whether it is a problem with feeding of birds and therefore other vermin turn up, whether it is a problem with neighbours upstairs, downstairs, the Government should be the last recourse, and should not be the first recourse.
Residents' committees (RCs) and the neighbourhood committees of course do a lot of work. But there are many other groups which get together and look out for their interests.
For example, when we have a new HDB neighbourhood precinct and people are beginning to get ready to move in, before any RC is formed, there is already a Facebook group, and they will share information about where to get the best curtains, which interior decorator is good, who gives you good value, who is to be avoided and when to get together to go and see the new MP and ask for something which is not fixed.
But actually, you ought to organise to get things done, not organise to ask the Government to do things."
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?198222-LHL-chides-Sinkies-for-asking-govt-to-eradicate-rat-problem&goto=newpost).