Talents, leadership and meritocracy,
By assumptions worth millions,
Clothed in Confucianism and Asian values,
To add the fizz to Leadership by presentions
Assumptions never run short of ideas or talents,
About good life and higher standards of living
Promises to deliver Swiss standard of living,
What with restructuring to value-adding economy,
People filled with hope, dreams and long-term good,
People told to bite the bullet or pills of pragmatism,
Bear the pain to pay double on lands already owned,
Triple charges on vehicle to beat traffic woes,
Paid the excise, came COE, paid the COE came ERP,
Pay and pay and never short of reason for fee increase,
Through corporation of transport, medicare and utilities,
To tax and recover all costs through creative accounting,
Till businesses go bust and citizens suffer joblessness,
Asian crisis, Asset collapses, and deepest of recessions
Leadership and talents by assumptions,
Put to test by crisis and recessions,
Behold citizens were told crises world phenonmenon,
Nothing to do with leadership or assumptions,
Citizens should not be choosy, and should upgrade training,
All factors were beyond control of million-dollar ministers,
At long last the world economy turns the corner,
Talents, leadership, Asian values quickly recover,
With loud assertions of leadership as strong as ever,
That without leadership there would be chaos,
That high costs of living is not a problem,
Over-40s educated unemployed was a structural problem
Scant were mention of NKF or 20 major policy errors
None was mentioned of lack of technology minister
Capable of broad-based education, or mass knowledge application,
In short this rest leadership by assumptions worth by the millions.