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23-08-2015, 10:30 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
“I started wondering: Were they standing as Members of Parliament, or angling for posts as Chief Social Worker in Jurong GRC?” Ms Chua said.
Indeed, are our MPs mere do-gooders or santa clauses who are on duty all year round, to be called on to grant whatever wish we have?
And it is not just the PAP Jurong election team which has presented themselves as potential town managers and social workers.
Almost every PAP press conference or media scrum to introduce its candidates is accompanied by promises of upgrading programmes, or new amenities, for the estate.
It has become such that questions have been raised not only about the roles of the MPs, but also if the candidates are not appropriating the work of public servants (such as those in the Urban Redevelopment Authority or the Housing and Development Board) as their own.
This itself would be rather dishonest – to pass someone else’s work off as one’s own.
Did the PAP candidates sit down with these public servants, prior to being announced as the party’s candidates, to discuss these estate plans and programmes?
Or were they just simply regurgitating what the URA or the HDB had already planned for each of their estates?
Another question which has risen is how the PAP itself seems to have u-turned on its own principle, espoused by its chairman just last year....
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015...r-santa-claus/ (http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/08/chua-mui-hoong-is-right-your-mp-is-not-a-social-worker-or-santa-claus/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?213586-Chua-Mui-Hoong-is-right-–-your-MP-is-not-a-social-worker-(or-Santa-Claus)&goto=newpost).
“I started wondering: Were they standing as Members of Parliament, or angling for posts as Chief Social Worker in Jurong GRC?” Ms Chua said.
Indeed, are our MPs mere do-gooders or santa clauses who are on duty all year round, to be called on to grant whatever wish we have?
And it is not just the PAP Jurong election team which has presented themselves as potential town managers and social workers.
Almost every PAP press conference or media scrum to introduce its candidates is accompanied by promises of upgrading programmes, or new amenities, for the estate.
It has become such that questions have been raised not only about the roles of the MPs, but also if the candidates are not appropriating the work of public servants (such as those in the Urban Redevelopment Authority or the Housing and Development Board) as their own.
This itself would be rather dishonest – to pass someone else’s work off as one’s own.
Did the PAP candidates sit down with these public servants, prior to being announced as the party’s candidates, to discuss these estate plans and programmes?
Or were they just simply regurgitating what the URA or the HDB had already planned for each of their estates?
Another question which has risen is how the PAP itself seems to have u-turned on its own principle, espoused by its chairman just last year....
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015...r-santa-claus/ (http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/08/chua-mui-hoong-is-right-your-mp-is-not-a-social-worker-or-santa-claus/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?213586-Chua-Mui-Hoong-is-right-–-your-MP-is-not-a-social-worker-(or-Santa-Claus)&goto=newpost).