Punggol East By-Election coming ? MP steps down

[pirate]

MMM:

pirate:

[quote=\"MMM\"]It's funny.... there was once that I brought the kids for enrichment lessons at katong area. It was raining and we only have WP umbrella in the car.... I got stares and felt kind of conscious....

Which part of Katong? Mountbatten SMC, Marine Parade GRC or Joo Chiat SMC?

that is complicated leh with all the doodle lines.... it's either MP GRC or Joo Chiat SMC....[/quote]Joo Chiat SMC got high chance of turning blue next GE. So can wave that WP umbrella there. :siam:

Marine Parade GRC... I don't know. :stompfeet:

[Rational_Parent]

pirate:

Joo Chiat SMC got high chance of turning blue next GE. So can wave that WP umbrella there. :siam:

Marine Parade GRC... I don't know. :stompfeet:

JC SMC could also be absorbed into one of the neighbouring GRCs. So its too premature to be forecasting now. Maybe you get stared because the WP umbrella is unique in some ways?

[octoberbaby]

sinoboy:

Maybe next month either gst or 1m more people help to pay you choose.

No leh, 1M more FTs come also no use. Logically suppose to be decrease, but it is reverse formula.

[pirate]

Rational_Parent:

pirate:

Joo Chiat SMC got high chance of turning blue next GE. So can wave that WP umbrella there. :siam:

Marine Parade GRC... I don't know. :stompfeet:

JC SMC could also be absorbed into one of the neighbouring GRCs. So its too premature to be forecasting now. Maybe you get stared because the WP umbrella is unique in some ways?

Wait absorb into the wrong GRC and the whole GRC goes Aljunied how? Joo Chiat can only go Marine Parade, Aljunied or East Coast. :slapshead:

[ngl2010]

pirate:

Rational_Parent:

[quote=\"pirate\"]
Joo Chiat SMC got high chance of turning blue next GE. So can wave that WP umbrella there. :siam:

Marine Parade GRC... I don't know. :stompfeet:

JC SMC could also be absorbed into one of the neighbouring GRCs. So its too premature to be forecasting now. Maybe you get stared because the WP umbrella is unique in some ways?

Wait absorb into the wrong GRC and the whole GRC goes Aljunied how? Joo Chiat can only go Marine Parade, Aljunied or East Coast. :slapshead:[/quote]Won't be wrong lah... There should be many checkers... Had Joo Chiat been cleaned up already? I thought it was the main grouse a few years back?

[pirate]

MMM:

ngl2010:

If transportation company de-privatized (anyway the govt is paying for new buses), which means that no need to earn profit, would the current profit earning be enough to cover the increase in the drivers' salary? Anybody can roughly calculate?

Another that LTK mentioned last night (which dh has always been saying to me) is also those gas company. With privatisation, the govt will no longer have control if the private sector wants to increase the charges, etc... maybe these are some of the critical areas that should not be privatise in the first place ?

It is not as straightforward as LTK say.

A part of the profits of these 'privatised' public transport/utitilities/landlord companies go to the Govt via Temasek etc if these remain GLCs. These dividends then become part of the Govt revenue, which is then spent on whatever govt needs to spend money on. It is not as though all these profits go into some black hole.

If there is no more profit, govt revenue will drop accordingly. Then govt will have to look for money somewhere else (like tax!) or have to cut down on govt spending.

Ultimately, yang mao chu zhai yang sheng shang. The real question is not whether 'privatisation' of these public services is good or not. The real question is how to balance the $$$ with the public service.

Of course, other parts of the profit that does not go to Temasek goes somewhere else, like local and foreign investors, and CEO and other executive pay...

[octoberbaby]

Let the whites clean up joo chiat area first before 2016 GE . Clean swee swee, turns to shade of blue

[pirate]

ngl2010:

pirate:

Wait absorb into the wrong GRC and the whole GRC goes Aljunied how? Joo Chiat can only go Marine Parade, Aljunied or East Coast. :slapshead:

Won't be wrong lah... There should be many checkers... Had Joo Chiat been cleaned up already? I thought it was the main grouse a few years back?

If you are referring to Joo Chiat Road, apparently it has been cleaned up so well it is no longer part of Joo Chiat SMC. :rotflmao:

[concern2]

pirate:

ngl2010:

[quote=\"pirate\"]Wait absorb into the wrong GRC and the whole GRC goes Aljunied how? Joo Chiat can only go Marine Parade, Aljunied or East Coast. :slapshead:

Won't be wrong lah... There should be many checkers... Had Joo Chiat been cleaned up already? I thought it was the main grouse a few years back?

If you are referring to Joo Chiat Road, apparently it has been cleaned up so well it is no longer part of Joo Chiat SMC. :rotflmao:[/quote]On GRCs, although a bit side-track here, this video has MP in it....interesting looking back, especially with the 'good standing' comment.
Also interesting to see some familiar faces here from the last GE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcpuGUZkBI

[ngl2010]

I am thinking of economies of scale… Why do we have SMC instead of all GRC? Many MPs mean can help each other and admin staff can also be more productive, right?