"Governing power is derived from the people i.e. direct referendum or by means of elected representatives of the people."
However you want to define democracy, is it a known fact that our government's projects and so called inititatives are fueled by the tax payers money, higher COE, new distant fares, night parking doubled and the list goes on. Maybe we should stop requesting for rebates, for subsidy, for new facilities and be content with what we have. But really can we? Humans are all greedy and lazy to a large extent. It's difficult to fight against these two evils that we encounter everyday in our lives.
Recent Today's headline on 4th August read as "Why S'pore must 'robustly' defend its courts, police force EmailPrint Why S'pore must 'robustly' defend its courts, police force". The first word that came to my mind was " Propaganda". We wonder why the newspaper Today is free.