Dear Prime Minister,

We citizens of Singapore urge you to PLEASE MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

We DO NOT NEED your help. Every time, you mention HELP, we have to run for cover!!!

Help the poor? Raise GST!

Help traffic flow? Up ERP!

Help passenger service? Up Bus fare/MRT fare!

Help us get taxi? Raise taxi fare!

Help us get good government? Raise Minister and Civil servants’ salary!

Everytime YOU WANT TO HELP, we all PAY FOR IT!!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU…TOLONG(translate: Please) LAH, please, we will HELP OURSELVES, no need your help liao.

We DARE NOT ask for help any more!!!

Sir, most honoured sir, I urge you NOT TO HELP Singapore INVEST also!

Everytime your wife invest, we all lose money! Kao liao, kam siah!(translate: It’s enough, thank you!)

Just let us have a dose of bad governance, like recently the Mat Alamak case, like dat….so far, it is ok, your incompetence, we ACCEPT!

PLEASE DO NOT help us have better security! Wait we all kena PAY FOR
IT!!

I believe ALL SINGAPOREANS PREFER NOT TO HAVE CRUTCH MENTALITY!

I think it is ok lah, please just take your salary and enjoy life ok?

Thank you thank you,

I am very chin chai(translate: easygoing) one, any how any how, no need to help oso can one.

–A Citizen
[from TalkingCock.com]

That’s something really hilarious, i wonder who wrote it. This was supposedly a funny response to the Prime Minister’s National Day Rally, which was just over. [Full transcript of the Rally]

However, this supposedly funny letter, is rather cynical and outlines the attitude of how some citizens actually portray out the government to be. In his rally, he note that the government has actually put much effort into reducing inflation. Realistically, citizens do not and will not see the big picture most of the time.
Many citizens only focus on the facts that hinder or affect their life, a trend very much inherent in our society in Singapore. I am not saying that the government is the good guy, and the citizens the bad guy, it is rather a more focused and realistic approach that the government should take in viewing issues, and work things out from the citizen level while maintaining the bigger picture of the country.
Juggling the micro and macro issues of the country is difficult, but a balance is of necessity.