Leadership and meritocracy,
Talents by assumptions worth millions,
Confucianism and Asian values,
To give good presentation,
Never short of ideas or talents,
Always upgrade and restructure,
That is the way to meet change,
Hope, dreams and long-term good,
People told to swallow pills of pragmatism,
Double-tax on lands for economic value,
No subsidy except from market value,
Triple-tax on vehicle to solve road congestion
After excise, came COE and ERP,
Robbing the rich to pay for the poor,
Good arguments will justify their own end,
Then Asian crisis, Asset collapses, and recessions
Assumptions tumble, talents fumble,
True test of men and leaders,
Shew in crisis and recessions,
Behold citizens told of large world problems,
Or citizens' own lack of training and external forces,
All beyond control of talents worth millions,
Talents came back strong with broad brush,
Soon as the world economy gets better,
Talents, confucisn and Asian values grace another day,
Assumptions of leadership stronger as ever,
Elites multiply and look good for another day,
To explain underlying problems unsolved,
Like the 20 major policy errors
As fundamental problems of some other causes,
Talents say again citizens were out of jobs,
Becasue of lack of training and other causes,
All problems have their causes and assumptions,
As World has changed and problems there will be,
Talents of assumptions regain worth in millions.