Government looks after all S'poreans: PM Lee
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has emphasised that at the national level, the government looks after all Singaporeans, regardless of ethnic groups.
Speaking in both Malay and English at Muslim community organisation Jamiyah's 80th anniversary celebrations, Mr Lee said this is done through the provision of high quality social services, such as housing, healthcare and education, to develop Singaporeans' potential and to prepare Singaporeans for good jobs.
Mr Lee said the government has been managing social challenges across the board, regardless of race, language or religion.
"This national approach has worked well for us. All communities have progressed with Singapore including the Malay/Muslim community. People have made achievements based on merit and fair competition, so that every Singaporean can take pride in their accomplishments and progress and we have strengthened the Singaporean identity as we have improved our lives together," said Mr Lee.
"But at the same time, while the government works at the national level, we recognise that each different community has its unique needs espacially in the social cultural fields," he added.
Turning to Jamiyah's contributions to Singapore, Mr Lee said it has made a valuable contribution to the progress of the Malay/Muslim community.
It focuses on education as a foundation for social mobility and set up the Jamiyah Kindergarten and the Jamiyah Business School.
It also operates homes for the less fortunate, like orphans and disadvantaged children, substance abusers and destitute seniors, besides providing free services such as medical care, marriage counselling and legal aid.
The prime minister also added that while Jamiyah's focus remained on the Malay/Muslim community, its programmes are open to all, regardless of race, language or religion.
It has had long cooperation with the Buddhist Lodge, and also many joint initiatives with Catholic Archdiocese, The Hindu Endowments Board, Central Sikh Gurdwara, and the Taoist Federation of Singapore.
Mr Lee said this reflected the emphasis on inter-religious harmony, as this strengthened racial and religious harmony, which are important in Singapore's multi-ethnic society.
Mr Lee added that Malay/Muslim organisations like Jamiyah will continue to evolve and he has urged the organisation to stay abreast of changes, and review its programmes to stay relevant to the community.
He said with more Malay/Muslims succeeding in their careers and becoming PMETs, Jamiyah should craft programmes to take advantage of their skills and energies and involve them more, tap their time and expertise to do the projects and guide the younger leaders of the community.
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haha. who believe?
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60.1% believe....
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not interested to know.
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Dont like that leh.
Mai lai mai lai.
Everyone come move to USA. Quality of life is goodererer.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
haha. who believe?
I am a belieber.
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Believe me and my bonus will be 1000 times.
Or else you will be fixed.
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i see the PM is trying to diversify into comedy
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i wonder if lhl does drugs or do heroin or opium???he may be high when making the speech.
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question is not whether got do drugs or not
its should be how much he smoke to make a speech like that
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Originally posted by laurence82:
question is not whether got do drugs or not
its should be how much he smoke to make a speech like that
i wonder why he bother to make such a speech ?one side it says the government.....and the other side he seems like he dont really have full control of the government and shun it if anything goes awry.if he is confident he would say' i and the government" or "we" and not solely the government as a term and object of reference distancing himself if anything goes wrong with the government..he is making a speech only Puyi would make.
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He is a figure head that no one listen, care or follow.
Not his fault.
Just have to blame the stark that who brought him.
He could be one math professor boring his students in NUS.
Too bad, his policy that have shown that all of them are profit and money driven.
As to who are the singaporeans that he is refering to, only he himself know.
Actions speak louder than words.
You have said the same thing for 12 years.
We feel being "taken care" off.
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
He is a figure head that no one listen, care or follow.
Not his fault.
Just have to blame the stark that who brought him.
He could be one math professor boring his students in NUS.
Too bad, his policy that have shown that all of them are profit and money driven.
As to who are the singaporeans that he is refering to, only he himself know.
Actions speak louder than words.
You have said the same thing for 12 years.
We feel being "taken care" off.
TAKEN CARE OFF--------ripped offjacked
turned into monkey's uncle
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its time to finish us off
where is the finishing move?
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are we in a better society compare to 20 years back?
we have lost all our values
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Originally posted by laurence82:
its time to finish us off
where is the finishing move?
checkmate -
if my **** is long enough, it can twist over and **** my own ****
haha, pls fill in the blanks
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We are a "better" society compared to 20 years ago.
We have the highest composition of millionaire.
We have more high speed car zooming on the street to enhance better road safety.
We have two world class integrated resort to spend your retirement years.
We have the most cheapest labour population per land area.
Every one own a smart phone and owe lots of debts.
We have the highest paid leaders compared to the rest of the world.
We have a world class political system that any Kee Chiu and Kate Spade can become a leader.
The rich are severely protected from staying in the changi villa when they commited any crimes.
Last of all, we are one of the biggest goon to spend $1 billion dollar to build a high maintenance and white elephant garden in which we have paid to build but still have to pay to go into the "people's garden".
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I believe when he miss out the important point here. Lesser Mortals and dogs are not consider as Singaporean. Since the elites call us Lesser Mortals, and when other address us as dogs, the elites agree. Therefore, it is not the govt job to take care of the those consider as Lesser Mortals and dogs.
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
We are a "better" society compared to 20 years ago.
We have the highest composition of millionaire.
We have more high speed car zooming on the street to enhance better road safety.
We have two world class integrated resort to spend your retirement years.
We have the most cheapest labour population per land area.
Every one own a smart phone and owe lots of debts.
We have the highest paid leaders compared to the rest of the world.
We have a world class political system that any Kee Chiu and Kate Spade can become a leader.
The rich are severely protected from staying in the changi villa when they commited any crimes.
Last of all, we are one of the biggest goon to spend $1 billion dollar to build a high maintenance and white elephant garden in which we have paid to build but still have to pay to go into the "people's garden".
Agree with the issue with the garden, I had work/stay in couple of different countries. And over there, it is quite common that as a foreigner (even I pay taxes and in someplace as foreigner the tax rates is higher than the local there), I need to pay the fee to enter most of the garden whereas it is free for their local. Guess when he mention that govt take care of singaporean. He miss out the point that there will be better treatment for elites and FTs. -
He will look after you if you pay your bills and tax for his bonus.
If you have no money, you will be "taken care" of by his lawyers.
The "You die, Your business" motto still stand.
Enough of his nonsense.
It is for the PRs that he is speaking to.
The local have know too much of his nonsense.
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Originally posted by QX179R:
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has emphasised that at the national level, the government looks after all Singaporeans, regardless of ethnic groups.
Then why the PAP go and suppress the mother tongue dialects of the chinese in Singapore and made the peranakan and eurasian english as dominant language in Singapore?
Advantage goes to peranakans and eurasians, disadvantage to chinese, malays and indians.
Nothing but a pack of lies.
"This national approach has worked well for us. All communities have progressed with Singapore including the Malay/Muslim community.
People have made achievements based on merit and fair competition, so that every Singaporean can take pride in their accomplishments and progress and we have strengthened the Singaporean identity as we have improved our lives together," said Mr Lee.
Tang found himself not merely participating in politics, but running for election. His reasons for this decision were very much based on his concerns over what was happening to the Chinese community and other minority communities, in Singapore.
Non-English speaking Singaporeans, including Chinese, Malays and Indians have, he says, been discriminated against unnecessarily under the PAP policies, particularly, for example the Chinese-educated, the Buddhists, the Taoists, the Hindus and the Muslims.
The discrimination, he says, takes various forms: Nanyang University was restructured; there is no Chinese-language business paper; there is discrimination in the intake of university students, in the engagement of university lecturers and school teachers, in the manning of positions in the army and police forces, and an absence of representation of the non-English-speaking Singaporeans in the decision-making process and in many top government posts.
These are just a few examples...
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.sg/2006/05/feature-on-tang-liang-hong.html
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
He will look after you if you pay your bills and tax for his bonus.
If you have no money, you will be "taken care" of by his lawyers.
The "You die, Your business" motto still stand.
Enough of his nonsense.
It is for the PRs that he is speaking to.
The local have know too much of his nonsense.
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it all sounds like:
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Originally posted by laurence82:
its time to finish us off
where is the finishing move?
Fus Ro Dah.