national day flag entry

On another note, i would like to write about National Day.

One would term it a normal occurrence, for everyone of us to hang out National flags about 3-4 days before National Day. In fact, this is a regularity that has been happening for the past 23 years at least, and one would remember the reports a few years ago, where home owners mistakenly displayed their National flag in the wrong position, upside down, or have several clothes or articles blocking the flag, were fined, and had photos of their mistakes published.

Up to this year. As the days slowly led up to National Day, i note with increasing interest that most people did not bother to hang their pristine, sparkling new National Flags. In fact, looking out of my windows, i only saw 2 flags, and i was supposed to see at least 80.
On National Day itself, i realised that this is not just happening in Jurong area. Everywhere i went, it was the same story. What is happening? Is it really National Day, or was it just me?

Or was it the slew of unpopular policies that has provoked the everyday citizens so much, that they have resorted to 'abstain' from displaying their flags? Perhaps as a form of silent protest, seeing that the ones online and on the media does not help. We know the outcome of the protests; nothing will change their mind once the decision is made(Remember the IR, the ministeral pay issues?).
Throughout the years, we have associated and cross referenced PAP, the govt and Singapore so much that now, Singapore = PAP. Perhaps because of that, not hanging up Singapore flag = not supporting PAP?

At a time when the economy is at its highest, we have seen everything rise except for our own modest salaries. They talked about closing the income disparity gap, but they handed out astronomical bonuses to the top of the civil sector, and a 3-5% bonus for the people at the bottom.

Let’s not touch on the private sector here.
At a time when the salaries at the top rises more than three-fold and the ones at the bottom are repressed just to stay 'competitive'. We need to question ourselves whether this is right, and if these type of policies are what we truly want.

Aaron