Dr Vivian slammed critics of PAP’s FT sports policy as being “small-minded”
June 23rd, 2010 | 
Author: PAP minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan has lashed out at critics of the PAP’s “FT sports policy” in an unusual outburst during a youth forum yesterday.
He was responding to a question posed by a Singapore Institute of Management student who asked for his views on the need to engage foreign talent in local sports.
Dr Vivian appeared to be provoked by the seemingly innocuous question by launching a tirade against his critics by calling them names such as “small-minded”, “unfair” and “very, very selfish.”
“I believe that the survival and prosperity of Singapore depend on our remaining an open society – a society able to attract and absorb and integrate talent of all shapes, sizes, races, languages, religions, countries. In other words, do not judge people simply on where they are born,” he was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.
The PAP’s policy of spending taxpayers’ monies to lure foreign sportsmen and women to represent Singapore at international competitions has not gone down well with many Singaporeans who feel that the money should be better spent to nurture local talents.
Though the Singapore women table-tennis team beat China at the recent World Championship, the response from the ground has been lukewarm as the three players are all born in China and became Singapore citizens only lately.
Many netizens poured scorn on the “hollow” victory with some describing the match as between “China Team A versus Team B” and expressing their disgust at the PAP using money to “buy trophies”.
The pro-foreigner Dr Vivian was quick to defend the China players by claiming that some of the table-tennis players “have spent more than half their lives in Singapore.”
‘To deny them the right to call themselves Singaporean is very, very selfish. It’s very unsportsmanlike… They have made great sacrifices to be here,” he added.
However, a quick check on Wikipedia revealed that the trio who representated Singapore at the World Championships – Sun BeiBei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei obtained their Singapore citizenship only in the last five years with Feng obtaining hers in 2008 just before the Beijing Olympic games.
While Singapore should remain open to foreigners, Dr Vivian seems to forget that it is the duty of the elected government of the day to take care of the citizens first and NOT foreigners and immigrants.
Dr Vivian unveiled a mega $10-million Community Integration Fund last year to make the immigrants feel welcomed, accepted and happy in Singapore and yet when he was asked by a fellow PAP MP Dr Lily Neo to increase the monthly allowance for destitute Singaporeans on Public Assistance Scheme in 2007, he retorted:
“How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?”
Such callous comments coming from a multi-millionaire minister being paid for by Singapore taxpayers is not only small-minded, but very unfair and selfish as well.
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Mr. Balakrishnan
Does Singaporeans “small-minded”, “unfair” and “very, very selfish.” change the fact that these athletes are foreign born and bred and are here to make a living?
What has these athletes have to do with “the survival and prosperity of Singapore”? Two different subjects aren’t they?
Mr. Balakrishnan, you are making yourself very unpopular by insulting Singaporeans who are entitled to their quite or vocal opinions. Just remember that you will be asking Singaporeans for their vote very soon.
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Pundahmanan?
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He said that they have made great sacrifices to be here…..he stupid or what. They came here simply because they have much to gain here then from where they came from. These pple are not stupid u know.
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This foreign trash action party FTAP seems to enjoy insulting voters and calling them names.I think they wish to be voted out.
Its MINE taxpayers money and I do not like the way you are squandering it on f-trash–simple as that.
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Vivian is very angry because he instinctively knows that this student from SIM probably is a regular reader of Temasek Review. He is lashing at you the readers and specifically wish to let you know that you are “small minded”, “unfair” and “very,very selfish”
The following quote extracted from this article shows what PAP truly believes in.
The PAP is reaffirming their commitment that they are going to replace all the useless citizens of Singapore with foreigners. They are also telling you that you are being con into serving National Service because you are born in this country. They won’t ask foreigners to sacrifice but still make you fools to give your utmost and blame you for not sharing the highfalutin concepts of PAP. Singapore does not belong to you lesser mortals, it belongs to the PAP.
Soon after the forth coming election, they will plan to remove the country of birth from your NRIC. You lesser mortals will not need to fill up your country of birth because it is really not necessary.
The country is filthy rich and could afford a mercenary army to fight for us consisting people of different countries so don’t think you are important at all to the PAP.
After all said, I reiterate that the forth coming election is a walk over where PAP will be your permanent governor hereafter on polling day. Since you don’t have citizenship, your voting is not needed anymore.
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So these sports men and women made huge sacrifices to come here to give glory to Singapore? Let’s face it. They come here because their home country refused to support them. They come here for the chance of winning and gaining personal glory and cash (if they win). Do you call that “sacrifices”?
Our NS boys giving two years of their lives to NS are SACRIFICES. The NS boys’ families’s giving support to the NS boys both mentally and financially for another 2 years are SACRIFICES. The NS boys who have died in the course of training are huge SACRIFICES. Notice the difference, $M Minister?
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Just becos singaporeans hold differing values regarding important sportsmen to help Singapore win a medal here or a medal there does not mean that Singaporeans are ’small-minded’.
Singaporeans are just more dignified;they rather prefer to win by their own efforts and what’s wrong with that?
Don’t this govt promote ‘meritocracy’ or it’s more like hypocrisy?
Do you casually see singaporean workers for instance,going around faking qualifications in order to win that job?
But,on the other hand,many are the FTs who get jobs with fake degrees and work resume.
By all means,go ahead and recruit sportsmen to win glory for you but please spare the citizens from your lame blaming.
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Only defensive guilt ridden divas lash out. Simple.
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same old story, same old person, same old response. Just a sad disappointing person now.
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The minister as usual has got it all wrong. Singaporeans are not saying don’t bring in foreigners. We are saying
a. Bring in foreigners but have local born Singaporeans as your first focus. Not the other way round.
b. Bring in those who can really stay and contribute. Not just use Singapore as a stepping stone to elsewhere.
c. Manage the intake gradually to ensure assimilation and ensure they have common characteristics to smoothen the process of assimilation.
The logic that the PAP uses to justify its foreign talent policy is childish and inane. For example,
a. If some foreigners are good than all foreigners are good.
b. If some foreigners are good than more foreigners is even better.
c. If you have any objections to the foreign talent policy, you are a traitor.
d. If foreigners can help the country is some ways, then they can help save the nation and our future.
e. We should welcome foreigners, because we are all initially of immigrant stock.
The minister is only reciting what his masters have told him to say. Does he really believe in it? What happened to the rebel image that he flaunted in the past? Has he sold his soul for a few pieces of silver? How on earth do they not feel the anger and frustration of the local born citizens at the foreign talent policies of the PAP? We will give the answer at the ballot box. This is one time when history won’t repeat itself!
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We have so many foreigners came into S’pore to be ministers and others. Is Vivian is also one of the “foreigners” like Koh Boon Wan, Lee Bee Wah, Shanmugam…..etc?
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Dear Mnister,
instead of sending a probably hoped for message of “righteous anger” at misbehaving and out-of-line (in YOUR opinion that is) Singaporeans, your outburst just comes across as small-minded, petulant and vindictive and yes, unfair.
You call upon Singaporeans “not to judge” so readily, yet you yourself are doing that very same thing of us, the very people who put you there in the first place, so at least even if you do not LISTEN to anything we say, we are still entitled to express our own opinions.
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Ka Nee Naah…
HEY VIVI BALEKAMPONG! WHERE IS MY FREE FOOD DELIVERED TO ME AND MY RENT-FREE ROOF OVER MY HEAD? I’M STILL WAITING!!!
ALREADY SENT MANY EMAILS TO MCYS, BUT NO REPLY TO DATE! WHY? TOO BUSY FINE DINING WITH FOREIGNER PING-PONG PLAYERS AND ORGANISING WATER SPLASHING PARTIES WITH THE $10 MILLION IZIT?!?!
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sg gov is like an old sugar daddy with CPF$ to splurt on a cina female like Feng & Lee instead of blood family.
I have never heard of a china whore who falls head over heels in luv with a sg ah peh with no CPF$…have you?
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VIVIAN BALEK KAMPUNG!
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a mere few FT who won medals for sg is his pride… whereas sporeans who bled, sweated, died while serving & protecting the nation went unmentioned…
Dr…? tsk~ tsk~
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Blaming and slamming the citizens and not seeing and understanding their point of views only shows how close-minded the minister is. One needs to convince to win the people over, not lay blaming. When one is ‘chosen’ to lead the country, please at least show shome leadership. I’m glad you are in my GRC…
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One in five of the 52 athletes under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme RETURNED to their native countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Sports_Talent_Scheme
PM Goh posed a question to Singaporeans in 2002 – Are you a quitter or a stayer?
We want Singaporeans to stay, yet at the same time we promote the idea of foreign athletes having quit their native countries to represent us just for sporting glory using various rewards. Worse, some of these athletes eventually quit Singapore to go back to their native countries…. See More
Does it make sense?
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“small-minded”, “unfair” and “very, very selfish.”
Is he talking about Lee Kuan Yew?
Ha ha ha!
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> At every GENERAL ELECTION, there is no shortage of PAP fear-mongers who will “warn/threaten” that S’poreans voting for the Opposition will be “voting in a Dud Government which will do Singapore in” (to quote that Bloody Old Man).
> THIS IS WHAT WILL ACTUALLY “DO SINGAPORE IN”:
The AAA (not top credit rating, but Arrogant Autocratic Authoritarian) PAP Political Mindset of:
“WE know all! WE know best! WE are always right!
WHO are you, poor peasant of Singapore, to QUESTION us (much less CRITICISE us)?”
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Kojakbt:
June 23, 2010 at 7:45 pm
How are you? You got mobbed by Myanmese the past few months?
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Hey, i thot Goh Chok Tong wanted Singapore to be in the World Cup 2010.
Ah Goh must have forgotten about it. FT or no FT, still no Sg in WC 2010.
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The PAP Ministers have always been afraid to reveal the amount of money that they spend to get the job done – not for the Town Councils, nor even to the late President Ong Teng Cheong who asked for the amounts that he need to watch.
How much has the PAP spent to get these FT Sports men and women to be Singaporeans ?
If this amount spent to compensate these FT will still require a huge sacrifice from them, has the amount been insufficient ?
When the PAP Government refused to spend any amount to support Singaporeans in dire straights during the 2004 to 2005 recession – that saw thousands being retrenched – it is thoughtless for Dr Vivian Balakrishnan to call Singaporeans “small minded” and “unfair”.
Is there any fairness on the part of the PAP when it spend near to nothing on the elderly Singaporeans – who had given the better part of their lives to build Singapore to what it is today ?
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan belong to the supposedly 3rd Generation leadership – who got into his position by the backdoor politics, and yet he has the cheek to treat Singaporeans with such disdain.
Arrogance is now personified in all the PAP statements and remarks.
It is clear that the PAP is now a Pro ALIEN Part and no longer a Party acting in the interest for Singaporean People.
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“do not judge people simply on where they are born,” he was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.”
We are not judging them, they are just taking advantage of the situation. We are judging the PAP by their policies and we are judging you, Vivian, by the things you say.
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atobe
same everytime lah and in everything.
last time they revealed the TLC and GIC losses,they got no choice,ya?
many tulan singaporeans read about it in international newspapers like bloomberg and grapevined around.
then,they boh-pian,quickly admit.
two scores really.lose big money one thing,still want to cover up.
and,continue to draw high salaries.
i must tell my son study harder and become President Scholar,then he can go ahead and fumble later?
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@MBA
Not only are we not in the World Cup, we almost didn’t get to watch the matches, thanks to the extravagant antics of Singtel. But thank you still PAP, I now watch the football at the kopitiam because I can’t afford the connection charges. I now consign the promise by GCT and MBT of Singapore’s participation in the world cup to the dustbin, together with the promises of a Swiss standard of living, more good years, the golden age, freedom, democracy and all the bull shit fed to us over the last 50 years.
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Dear VB
You been thoroughly small-brained by PAP politics. Gone are your brilliance during the JC debate! You have lost your small testicles to speak out against the tyrants because you have been cloned into a typical PaPPie!!
Shame on you!
and shame to your children when they are old enough to think on their own!!
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>How are you? You got mobbed by Myanmese the past few months?
Whether I get mobbed by Myanmese, Vietnamese, PRCs, Indian nationals etc, my stand on FT remains the same – that is, we are having too many of them here in Singapore now!
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Young, arrogant, not compassionate, dictatorial, commanding, argumentative, abusive, rude, ….. these are some of the adjectives that come across to describe the personality of this million-dollar minister. If Singapore were to continue to have this kind of leaders, the outcome is very obvious.
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Balakrishnan has his point.
But hey, at least the table tennis team did give Singapore some credit internationally…
Unlike people with the name Sinha who go around jacking up property prices…. Or those going to create social problems.
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@Hayoo!:
Referring to VB, it is not what you say, but how you say it. In the case of VB he was flawed in both counts of how he said it and what he had said.
Referring to your opinion of “international credit,” Sinkapore also has the international reputation of being a tax heaven for the rich, and has the highest salary paid to politicians – I am sure these will also make you damned proud.
Third, referring to the ping-pong team, they are given massive amounts of monies for their success. Guess where the monies are coming from? Certainly not from VB’s pockets do they?
Fourth, do you seriously think that when the Sinkapore flag was flying at the medal award ceremony after the mercenary team won, tears of joy were flowing from their eyes with pride or that any tear was that of joy for expecting their million-dollar tax-free cash waiting when they fly back to Singapore?
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This asshole is really small minded,because he forgot he is also a singaporean,and also forgot how he came here to earn millions of $$$$
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With the incumbents – they are willing to put the cart before the house – as to who gets waylaid or who is denied opportunities – nary a care as long as it benefits vested interests lah!
This hapless ”Minister”‘ (in quotes cos he was inducted not elected lah) would do anything, which he is doing now: jettison principles, jettison ethics, delude oneself that intellect is intellgence n the talk-down condescending attitude n … as long as he is seen to be performing that is all that matters; All in all it simply boils down to dollars (no sense, nevermind) and power.
Singaporeans wake up lah – we painted ourselves to a corner by assenting to a one-party system and no amount of whining, cajoling, reprimanding, crowing is going to change anything.
Change can only come about if and when it translates into votes for opposing parties at the polls to transform this perceived inequity
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Can someone tell this Vivian thoroughbred asshole to fuck-off to a foreign country. Since he loves foreigners so much, he can pack his bags and become a foreigner himself.
Problem with this stupid PAP govt is that there are too many ass-holes in the party, and this Vivian has just become another of the party’s never-ending list of ass-holes.
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This Minister is a doctor. He is not unintelligent. It is not that he does not understand that importing sportspeople wholesale and calling the victories Singaporean can only go this far to convince these few people. He is, however, intelligent enough to understand that his current role, which is being a Minister of sports and potentially a higher Minister in future, requires him to show us these principles indeed make sense.
We may not be as intelligent, but we know how intelligent minds think. Also, we start to understand how intelligent minds try to make us think how they want us to think.
Please do not try to expose the intelligence behind importing sportspeople wholesale by not just interviewing Singaporeans, but by interviewing people generally around the world. You might just suddenly realise what the right answer is.
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打肿脸皮充胖子。。。。
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I don’t think many people are criticizing the foreign sportspersons
for coming here to practise their sports, in the process winning a good living and recognition.
What many are criticizing are the downright shortsighted and greedy policies of using money to virtually buy trophies and medals and patting ourselves on our backs for winning for Singapore when the fact remains that the team members are all, or almost all, newly-minted “Singaporeans”. They are bought over with taxpayers money with one purpose in mind and that is to win for Singapore. Such victories are at best hollow and at worst self-deception and totally without merit.
No one, but no one, needs to fool us for we are fooling ourselves.
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i say, how much do you want arrh?
3 meal from the table, 3 meal from my left over or 3 meal crumbs that is thrown on the floor, or 3 meal in tiong bahru market..
i say arrrh, sorry u are poor and for me, we must vote this govt out!
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This discussion is one more time a sign how racist and hostile Singaporeans became in the last years. Foreigner should read meticulous between the lines before they decide to work and live here.
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Oh Vivian (what a nice name for a man)! “Small minded” are you pple who can’t take critics and stubbornly stick to your reliance on FT!
You said FTs made great sacrifices. What about our local athletes? You’ve eyes for pple from so far away but no eye for those near you?
Before you accused us of being “unfair” and “very, very selfish” to the FTs, have you ever asked yourself, as ministers are you pple being “FAIR” to our local-born talents who have trained so hard?
They’ve made as much sacrifices as the foreign athletes but only to see you “VERY,VERY SELFISH” fellas neglecting them and instead buy FTs to take their places in competitions! Your “very, very selfish” craving for medals has resulted in local athletes’ sacrifices going to waste!!!!
Do you call this support for local talent? What’s your objective of nurturing them but not giving them the competition exposure that they badly needed?
Hey, minister! You’re paid millions of dollars to look after the needs of your true-blue citizens, NOT the foreigners!!!!! Do you need any wake up call??????
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Dr Vivian should go back to his medical profession instead of continuing to be a clown in politics! While he has the budget of 10 million for a non-sense activities of integrating foreigners into Singapore society, he has no/little money for the poor Singaporean. Our poor students, without Strait Times Pocket Money Fund donated by the public, will have to starve as they do not have the money to buy food. Why the government not doing their part and instead relying on Singaporean, who have already paid taxes (who is the one who said that the increase of GST to 7% is to help the poor but looks at what is happening now ????) to the government to carry out their duties.
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PAP is pro-foreigner…what’s new? Everyone knows that.
There is no meaning nor worth to be a SG citizen anymore.
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Extrapolating PAP’s mindset:
If we spend a few billion dollars and buy …ahem… offer citizenship to Ronaldo, Messi. Rooney, Drogba, etc….”SINGAPORE” will win the world cup.
Nevermind if the world laugh at us. Singapore would be “famous”…HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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wat to do? every f.a.p ministers treat sgearns as lesser mortals ,let move on
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yeah la… all you poor singaporeans suck thumb.
KNS we do our NS for what man……..
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maybe the student from SIM so bala see him no up….
if from oxford then maybe different
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the good doctor should allow us to use FT as byonet fighting targets practice during NS.
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Yo Vivian bolampa, yr FT pets are not selfish & small minded?
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He is entitled to voice his opinion. However I think he is the one with his head in the sand over the FT sports policy. Others may be small minded but at least they do not bluff themselves. HIs own career is tapering off with portfolios being given to other ministers, therefore he is kind of trying to impress his bosses.
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this doesn’t make any sense… as local born & bred, we have to serve to earn our place in our own country… as foreigners, they can just land on our soil & reap what our forefathers & us sowed…
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Hey Vivian
We want a Swiss standard of living as promised to us many many years ago.
Since FAP cannot produce the promised result, shouldn’t it be alright then to employ potential and capable Swiss public administrators to be cabinet ministers to achieve this result?
I mean, the ministers’ pay here is the highest in the entire world and there should be potential Swiss foreign talents of ministerial qualities would love to have a go at it.
Oh oh ..and don’t be small minded, selfish and unfair about it….we want them …..’cos you FAP cabinet minister have failed …..
(Now you see the logic of your statements?)
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Just wondering, as a Singaporean who has differing opinions. I have just been defamed by this minister, calling me small-minded, unfair and very very selfish. Goodness, why attack my character? it is very damaging to my when i meet friends from overseas. They will think a minister (which has a lot of credibility) has said i am Selfish, unfair and small minded…. how will they trust me and do business with me now. I may have lost business as a result.
Can Singaporeans take a class action and sue him to clear our good name?
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Keep it up guys! Good job student from SIM. The pressure from the upcoming election and from being attacked all over the place is finally getting to them. Keep it up keep it up. Make them slip up more. Must not let up the pressure. Kudos to sites like TR and TOC to not let these over privileged ministers have any breathing space or to regroup. Good to divide and conquer. Each minister is now too worried about his or her own position to group together and their leader has gone AWOL.
Please continue to force the dragon prince to come out to talk. He can’t hide forever. I miss his George Bush moments.
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Dr Vivian, stop showing your arrogant face and talk to Singaporean as if you are our master! We owe you nothing because you have done zero for the Singaporean.
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Dear Vivian,
Before you talk about sportsmanship….
your PAP govt should have given FULL support to local sports people first.
If local sports people have failed time and time again,
of course not too many times.
Then moved on to bring foriegn sports talent to Singapore.
You & your ministry did not provide adequate support for locals to succeed.
In fact you want instant glory.
Now I dare you,
How many foriegners will there be, in each country’s YOG contingent.
You go and check, in fact there will not be any,
except maybe Singapore.
Why,
Because each country wants their citizen, their children to do their best first. Then they might opt for foriegners.
You are a liar.
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Tell us the REAL reasons why we need FTs because silly me cannot see any to justify 33% of FTs filling up SG. Calling SGeans “small minded, selfish and unfair” is a good way to let off steam, but Minister, please tell us why HOW & WHY we need so many FTs in such a short space of time to share the pie which SGeans took their lifetimes to bake. 3 FT families BBQ their dinners in their balconies regularly under my bedrooms making my soft furnishing smell permanently of meat, how am I selfish, small-minded and unfair to them? Silly me thought the same terms about them !!!
Calling of names will not solve any problem. I’ll do something constructive like wash my curtains again.
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Sorry, sorry, did not read “FT sports policy”. Yes, very silly. How about rumours of ping-pong Jiawei “has signed on with the Beijing team”? Of course it is small-minded, selfish and unfair to mention our ping-pong SG citizen unless it is in a positive light.
http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/in_the_heartlands/385390/foreign_talent_li_jiawei_abandons_spore_to_join_chinas.html
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“small-minded”, “unfair” and “very, very selfish.”?? That is brain-farting language Singaporeans will find hard to understand. It is not much coherent of comprehension than that fame public exclamation…”we will put food on the table” for the homeless without telling us where that fictional table is to be found for the homeless.
Ouch, did he meant it to be in some fine dining restaurant somewhere to prove he is “broad-minded”, “fair” and “very very generous” of sharing his multi-million dollar pay package with poor, homeless and hungry Singaporeans Lily Neo made an impassionate plea for?
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I remember a young man voicing his mind about master race/elitism and answering his son’s inquisitive question on who and what is he in Singapore.Remember Viv we are Singaporean regardless of race,color or creed.
What happened to that young man????
Are these sports mercenaries worth their salt???or are they here for the money???for those that sink their roots here with families and loyalty I welcome them but what is the ratio??? are the money spent worth it and should there be glory is it a HOLLOW glory or a genuine one in the likes of Tan Howe Liang, Wong Peng Soon,C Kunalan and Fandi and many other tru blu Singaporeans or True Lions.
Why not spent the MILLIONS to cultivate our own and helping the disadvantage and poor, their NEEDS are greater than the HOLLOW victories.We don’t need these FALSE/HOLLOW GLORIES when we have our people struggling to seek a decent home,three meals(home cooked)not hawker,foodcourt or restaurant standard.That in essence is what we Singaporeans TRULY NEED.
Vivien, you are truly a disappointment.
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VB epitomises the ARROGANCE of the PAP.
Instead of listening to the sentiments of the people, VB wants to force the government’s views on the people!
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Bro, why get so upset with those small minded and selfish clowns? Don’t get upset… just get even.
Screw up the YOG big time would be enuf.
Jam up the roads and expressway.
Boycott all those events
Practise this: http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/06/19/how-to-excuse-your-children-from-being-forced-to-attend-the-yog/
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Vivian is nothing more than a puppet whose strings are being pulled by you-know-who to lash out his propaganda. He is just a tool. And a tool needs to be useful so that its master will keep it. Why is it that we so frequently hear this man telling us to embrace the foreigners and not PM Lee?
Somebody got to do the dirty job, right?
Now you know the man behind the curtains pulling the string, are you still going to be swayed by his words ‘cos he carries a baby and gives a megawatt smile?
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this vivian chaocheebye is only good at cocksucking,who ever gif him 20dollars he will suck for that person, so when the p.a.p government gave him millions of dollars just to suck he willingly do it….and we all know pinky loong preference,wonder where ah loong get his sexual satisfaction from….definitely not from his husband,oops i meant his wife
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I couldn’t agreed more with SPH, Chelsea used money to buy silverware
Better Life Drive can be S’pore Citizens
Does that answer the question on FAIR PLAY???
Anyway, come to think of it, China Professional soccer is wasted
How did Singapore win the Table Tennis World Cup???
1) Hired Foreign Coach (No.1 in Europe or No.1 USA or No.1 Asia)
2) Employ Foreign Fitness Instructor
3) Scout for Foreign Talent Players mix with local players
4) Willing to invest with deep pocket
5) Patriotism Drive
6) Big Reward Drive
7) Personal Drive, wanting to prove something to his wife, children
9) Sport Sponor Income Nike, Addias, Puma
10) President give pressure, Press give press
11) Player sending overesas experience for training attachment
Like that China Soccer Team can qualify for World Cup
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“Small-minded”, “unfair” and “very, very selfish.”???
What about you, Vivien? You are greedy, pig-greedy,
and dirty too!
What you can’t win by fair means you must do by foul.
What do you call buying a China pingpong team to win
titles and medals for you when you are just not
capable of doing so yourself???
Sportsmanship, Vivien? What type of kockamania sports-
manship are you showing when you BUY a team to win
instead of PLAYING to win???????
Walk your talk,Vivien. Don’t just YAK YAK YAK YAK YAK !!!!!!!!!
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vivien’s small minded to think that all this immediate policies of winning is the way to go….
There are local talent out there….if new zealand can have the all blacks… why can’t we even produce asian champions….?
Singapore has no sports culture and will not have a sports culture thanks to vivien and co…
the pap has infected and corrupted everybody’s minds with the paper chase… so that they the ruling class can enjoy the fruits of our labour…
This is why we don’t have another fandi….
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To deny us the right to call foreigners foreigners is very, very stupid.
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PAP should sack Dr Vivian Balakrishnan. IS HE A PRS ALSO PREVIOUSLY. It is a time for a change of govt. If we do not change the govt, There will be 1 mln, 2 mln, 3 mln , 4 mln or such Foreign Talents.
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WHICH HOSPITAL IS HE WORKING IN, PLSASK THAT HOSPITAL TO ALSO SACK HIM. Sack Dr Vivian Balakrishnan.
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I most welcome a foreign talent to coach our local kids to win in sports.
But deliberately using a foreign talent to win sports in the name of Singapore is downright dishonorable, although clearly the big-minded scholar and doctor don’t think so.
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Dear Vivian Balakrishnan,
Since you have used the word “unsportsmanlike“, I would like to say that I have a very different view of sportsmanship from you. I would support locals, even if they lose, more than I will support these table tennis players, who must have chosen Singapore because Singapore gives them the best deal.
Please also urge the Elections office to conduct a free and fair, and “sportsmanlike” elections. That involves disclosing the election boundaries ASAP, and to give them the necessary media focus for Singaporeans to make the right decision.
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PAP Ball-carrier, Lionel De Souza’s letter gets published..again..and again..and again…
http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_545237.html
Jun 25, 2010
Singapore’s talent at integration
I REFER to Wednesday’s report, ‘Critics of foreign talent in sports get red card’.
Kudos to the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Mr Vivian Balakrishnan, for flashing the ‘red card’ at Singaporeans who deride foreign-born talent for bringing glory to Singapore in the sporting arena while donning Singapore colours. I agree that such Singaporeans are small-minded.
Singapore is one of the few countries that can pride itself as being able to integrate and immerse naturalised citizens into its society, thus giving them and born and bred Singaporeans a level playing field in accordance with the nation’s Constitution.
I see no reason why some Singaporeans should grumble about the status of naturalised Singapore citizens when their forefathers had also chosen to migrate to Singapore – a ‘land of milk and honey’, which it still is to this day.
Lionel De Souza
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VivienB’s motto should be
“We don’t play, we just pay!”
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I dont really cared if we will never win another medal; I would rather see the PAP uses the money to help the poor & sick!! Winning all these medals isnt gonna increase national pride, in fact, most of us feel ashamed. I guess it’s just the PAP’s ego that has been inflated here & to be honest, it’s a waste of taxpayers’ money.
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