rant 1

“… the  government will continue to engage its citizens in decisions…”

I was just staring out of the blank space as usual on my bus home when this was said by the reporter on Channel 5’s news on TVMobile. Note that I was using a pair of IEMs(In-Ear Monitors), so it technically wasn’t possible for me to pick up any nuance of noise. But sadly, my ears had to crave for such irrittable nonsense that caused me to remain bothered for the next three days.

When had the government “engage” its citizens on its decision making ?! Heinous! I may not have a perfect memory but recently I still remember the casino and integrated resort debate, raise of GST and the 377A issue.

Of these, the first 2 are major items that concern our bread and butter and yet their form of engagement with the citizens is patronizing. They simply let the people debate to their deaths in coffee shops. Fineto. Since when had they seriously taken the people’s views into consideration ?

Man, I remember the quote from the SDP, “XXX are the running whotes of XXX”.

Fill in the blanks youself.

~ by saveourselves on August 24, 2007.