How many Mayors do we need and can they create jobs?
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Our politicians appear to have been suffering some kind of megalomania - the need to prove their supremacy and do big things.
As long as our median wages of lower 80% of the populations have suffered drastic drop in their wages when compared with early 1990s, and property values have dropped thirty percents from the peak their leadership cannot be said to be a success.
Reason - too much conceptualisation by too many idea men. The real talents wanted by the people to lead them out of this morass is dynamism, action and implementation abilities which are mostly left to the middle and lower rung with the top missing in action.
That is why we are over-spending on all the mayors and town council megalomaniac cooption, machination and depolitisation manipulation of population and on creating more wasteful MM and SMs when there are a full strings of scholars below to do useful works. That is why we keep pushing up cost of living by charging higher and higher fees with all the ironriceblowers being CEOs and chieftains with a big gap in middle management actions unfilled and unattended.
In a soccer game, common sense would tell anyone that it is not strikers or forwards that score goals but in our system we have so many forwards without the midfielders to back them.
Ask any ministers what had happened to our many economic restructuring to value-added technology-driven model and how are they going about to create a cosmopolitan and inclusive society they will give you a blank stare. -
Already created 5 jobs for 5 mayors ....
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High paying job some more, with perks.
They will also need PA staffs and runners....... more office spaces and equipments.
More Wayang ceremonies and campaigns for varying policies....
All with tax payer money to no end -
Firstly, Jobs can be created if the government can be fair to us singaporeans. Foreign talent have become the talk of the town. Chinese nationals are getting permanent residence too quickly and its easy for them to gain it quickly and also convenient for them to get jobs. We Singaporeans are searching newspapers daily without any job. However, our 80 cents have been spent daily without any reply from interviewers. In factories, Malaysians dominate the production industries causing singaporeans to get retrenched. What is the reason behind it? Is the government doing anything? They have been passing bills around regarding job security and jobs being created. Are those bills being destroyed or disappeared? Where is the fairness among foreigners and our people of Singapore?
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If Mayors cannot create jobs or help to provide us with alternative voices in parliament, they will be just a sheer waste of people's hard-earned monies.Originally posted by bila_prem:Firstly, Jobs can be created if the government can be fair to us singaporeans. Foreign talent have become the talk of the town. Chinese nationals are getting permanent residence too quickly and its easy for them to gain it quickly and also convenient for them to get jobs. We Singaporeans are searching newspapers daily without any job. However, our 80 cents have been spent daily without any reply from interviewers. In factories, Malaysians dominate the production industries causing singaporeans to get retrenched. What is the reason behind it? Is the government doing anything? They have been passing bills around regarding job security and jobs being created. Are those bills being destroyed or disappeared? Where is the fairness among foreigners and our people of Singapore?
What people do not need is more and bigger government to control all aspects of our lives.
Haven't they already co-opted the PA and grassroot organizations to make them part of the party machinery to serve the party's grip of political power?
What we do not need is to elevate PA, grass root organization through Town councils and Mayors to make these people's organizations serve them for political purpose.
Disband the PA, grassroot organisations, Town council and Mayors and there would be no loss to Singaporeans.
Use the saving resulting from such egoistic self-centred organizations to improve the life of ordinary Singaporeans, lower our costs of living and all our property values will move up again. -
Originally posted by robertteh:
Why make property values go up? You have to live in a home right, so the cheaper the better, right?
Use the saving resulting from such egoistic self-centred organizations to improve the life of ordinary Singaporeans, lower our costs of living and all our property values will move up again.
Instead, we should have more productive assets that pay more.
We should have comprehensive avoidance of double taxation agreements (at the individual level, ie without punitive 30% + withholding taxes on our investments) with highly innovative and technologically advanced countries with high rates of return on capital so that income stream is continuous and capital returns enormous.
High property values especially for State and HDB assets means Sg Gov cleans up our liquidity and power - derived from financial independence. -
my tots tooOriginally posted by Dogtor:Already created 5 jobs for 5 mayors ....
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If we are to set up something alongside the MPs system of government called CDA, Town Council or Mayors, we should ensure that there is no overlapping of roles and duties with that provided by the MPs, the government departments like PA, Ministry of Youth, and Community Development and ministries.
Singaporeans among the middle to lower income groups have been going through a tough time from 1970s with citizens retrenched, wages dropping and MNCs and many businesses pulling out due to high costs of operations etc.
As a government, it must be aware of such high-cost problems and our gradual losses in economic competitiveness.
In such a scenario, a caring and entrepreneurial government will ensure that the taxes paid and surpluses belonging to the people are prudently spent in bolstering the country's competitiveness and not splash them on concrete arches, nicer bus stops, more tearing down of buildings to build newer ones.
It should also not try to increase ministries and departments in the like of more CDAs, PAs, MYCD, Town Councils and Mayors when the such functions can be served by existing PAs, HDB, and MPs.
Can one imagine how much of tax payers' monies are being splashed on all such unessential projects that only look good, suppose to improve communication of problems and feedbacks and community development when as can be seen in election 2006 were actually only built to serve the ruling party in increasing its own support.
Therefore I consider that our leaders have lost touched with the ground, failing to understand the unemployment problems affecting thousands and the high costs which cause deep-seated problems to its own people.
The tendency to use the billions to splash on big projects and creating more Mayors to look good from the outside which do not actually create technology start-ups and jobs and lower our costs of living is a wrong trend.
Billions are being lost in poorly evaluated overseas projects in an impulsive manner which could easily be channelled back for technology job creations, long-term economic re-structuring or setting up of endowment low-risk fund to earn returns to lower our high costs of utility and other essential services.
Minimum government can do is to put our surpluses where the mouth is and we will become a properous country in no time.
We have so many scholars now joining the government becoming MPs and ministers. Why not let them look at such tendency to splash taxpayers' hard-earned monies on concrete arches and flower boxes and channel them to re-position the whole economy, lower costs of living and create more jobs. -
the govt allegedly created another 40k jobs.
unemployment now at its lowest.
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haha good one dragg thats a good joke.Originally posted by dragg:the govt allegedly created another 40k jobs.
unemployment now at its lowest.
created 40K jobs... for who? singaporeans or FTs?
Our straits times is never straight with its reports. Its always pathetic ranked 140th reports they generated. -
So far, of all the jobs I saw "created", were mostly cleaning jobs; such as "Restroom Specialist" (which is toilet cleaners actually), and some other fancy hybrid name for jobs that are actually just cleaning jobs.Originally posted by robertteh:Our politicians appear to have been suffering some kind of megalomania - the need to prove their supremacy and do big things.
As long as our median wages of lower 80% of the populations have suffered drastic drop in their wages when compared with early 1990s, and property values have dropped thirty percents from the peak their leadership cannot be said to be a success.
Reason - too much conceptualisation by too many idea men. The real talents wanted by the people to lead them out of this morass is dynamism, action and implementation abilities which are mostly left to the middle and lower rung with the top missing in action.
That is why we are over-spending on all the mayors and town council megalomaniac cooption, machination and depolitisation manipulation of population and on creating more wasteful MM and SMs when there are a full strings of scholars below to do useful works. That is why we keep pushing up cost of living by charging higher and higher fees with all the ironriceblowers being CEOs and chieftains with a big gap in middle management actions unfilled and unattended.
In a soccer game, common sense would tell anyone that it is not strikers or forwards that score goals but in our system we have so many forwards without the midfielders to back them.
Ask any ministers what had happened to our many economic restructuring to value-added technology-driven model and how are they going about to create a cosmopolitan and inclusive society they will give you a blank stare.
Isn't this some form of BRAIN WASHING??? -
Actually, SG still can create a few more positions like:
--- King, Queen, Prince ,Princess, etc
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I think world's postmen will deliver the letters duly if it is addressed to :Originally posted by ObviousMan:Actually, SG still can create a few more positions like:
--- King, Queen, Prince ,Princess, etc
xxxx, xxxx Kingdom of South East Asia or Kingdom of South Seas. -
Nah, let's be realistic.Originally posted by ObviousMan:Actually, SG still can create a few more positions like:
--- King, Queen, Prince ,Princess, etc
Junior Minister, Intermediate Minister, Senior Minister Mentor, Veteran Minister... -
Why not eradicate such positions like minister mentor? Why is he being paid? What does he do in the parliament? Is he going to change lives of Singaporeans? Is he going to get jobs for the unemployed? Or is he going to bring foreign talents to run government firms?
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We can't eradicate the position because he created it. He is being paid to advise and mentor the younger ministers. He already changed the lives of singaporeans. He did change government policies to get uemployment at the minimum. He hasnt brought any FT to run the government firms yet.Originally posted by bila_prem:Why not eradicate such positions like minister mentor? Why is he being paid? What does he do in the parliament? Is he going to change lives of Singaporeans? Is he going to get jobs for the unemployed? Or is he going to bring foreign talents to run government firms?