20060706

1100 hrs July 6th 2006

You really have to

give it to

Lee Kuan Yew.

All he needs to say

is no credible opposition

and you find Swingaboreans

parroting him,

"I would like to see

opposition in parliament

but how to vote for

opposition?

No credible opposition

available"

They all tell me.

Let's take a closer look.

Early this year,

the government bought

Shin Corp in Thailand,

which ultimately resulted

in Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra

stepping down

as the Thai public

took to the streets

for Thaksin not paying taxes

from that personal windfall sale

to the Singapore government.

Haha, and Singapore government

dare talk about credibility.

Anyway,

the Shin Corp stock

have lost 40%

of its value,

or S$2.5 billion

in about 3 months.

Hmm, how credible.

I remember,

when DBS bought

Dao Heng Bank in HK,

everyone said

it was over valued

but our credible government

said it was "fairly valued".

5 years later,

these credible guys

wrote of S$1.1 billion

in Dao Heng Bank.

The credible government

semi-conductor business,

Chartered Semi-conductor

have lost over S$1.7 billion

in the last 5 years,

and over 90%

of its stock value.

Any fund manager

would have been fired,

but not Ho Ching.

These credible guys

bought 62% of Global Crossing

and lost close to S$1 billion

in the last two years.

Fuck credibility.

They say

you pay peanuts

you get monkeys.

We pay millions

and we get donkeys.

You don't even need to pay a monkey

a million dollar ministerial salary,

for the monkey to lose

billions of tax payers money.

I can bet you,

the monkey will do

a whole lot better

than your million dollar

minister too.

If this is credibility,

I'd take no credible opposition

anytime.

Just how much worse

can they get?