Which younger ministers have abilities to solve problems?
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Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan was held up as one of the promising younger ministers or new blood and was appointed by ex-PM Goh Chok Tong to be in charge of remaking Singapore.
During the Annual Conference on Remaking of Singapore in 2002 at Suntec, I as one of the audience present raised the question : "Minister, the major issue of great concern to citizens at this point is the rising costs of living. What do you intend to do in the remaking of Singapore to address this problem?"
His reply: "Costs have many components. There are the fixed cost and variable cost. The government has no control over variable cost like imported goods and services."
Instead, in one of his public speeches, he retorted : "Do you have a solution to rising cost of living?"
So being one of our promising younger ministers and being in charge of remaking of Singapore, he was without doubt given the opportunity to do something to reverse or modify some past policies which caused rising costs of living in the face of dropping wages and structural unemployments e.g. double charging and profiteering by HDB and many GLCs on lands and assets which were already paid by citizens through all sorts of creative accounting.
He simply avoided the issue and denied problems by asking people instead to give him solutions.
Has he any record to show that he has succeeded in remaking Singapore or the economy to date?
Now being the minister in charge of community development is he prepared to take up issues brought up by the youths of today or is he playing safe to safeguard his own career.
If he is the minister in charge of community development surely when PM Lee decided to donate his salary increment to charity after feeling remorse about the uproar created by the public over the ministers' million-dollar pay again, he should have demonstrated his spirit of community bonding by donating his undeserved salary increment to charity as well.
What kind of ministers do we have today, really? -
The poodles are elected or pushed up without any mandate by being obedient and sleeping during the house meeting.
The poodle in question have already a red carpet laid for him to be a million dollar poodle.
Why would any young poodles want to risk their salary for a bunch of pesky peasants ?
What if any of their comments made the old man angry ?
They will be condemned in hell forever.
So, why would any poodles be bothered about the people problems since they are not even affected by the rising cost as most of their expenses are paid for by the people ?
If the people are still bearing the naive thinking that the poodles in office are there to serve them, they better go for a brain scan.
They have given miserly "progess package" but to be robbed back in a few months time with some "official" price hike.
The poodles are only interested in more ways to rob the peasants of their miserable salary to fatten their bonus, dividend and their salary.
It is a chain reaction for all the big and small poodles as they used the SOP answer of "never raised the price since 19XX" to increase their price.
So, for the thread starter, do not doubt the poodle's abilities to be a kingpin blood suckers, but, when it come to problems, it will be:
"The people CAUSED all the PROBLEMS, so the PEOPLE should SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS"
Their primary role was never to solve problems, but to increase profit and be a good dog. -
Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan was arrow to sit in many committee
due to his working attitude,
he used to ask many question .
now the GOV put him solving question.
without more people asking question.
what question Vivian need to solve or provide solution? -
Yet despite the wretchedness of the situation with increasing number of elderly picking empty bins for three meals nor being able to see a doctor for illness, Minister Lim Boon Heng has the cheek to pretend all is well with the elderly who he thinks has enough monies to last from 55 to 65. So he was proposing freezing these elderly's final measly portion of retirement payout to 65. More elderly then will be congregating food outlets for empty bins then there is no doubt.
To him these elderly could collected empty cans have no problems and should wait till 65 to collect their final measly minimum annuities to last another few twilight years before breathing their last breath of this earth.
What kind of ministers do we have today? -
As I have mentioned in my earlier response, the million dollar poodles was never tasked to solve problems cos they cannot empathise with the peasants since they dun even take a bus or MRT in their life.
They will never see the peasants picking tin cans or peasants sleeping on the streets as these people would be cleared off when the poodles visit the town.
The poodles will be treated like a duke, welcomed with lion dances and applaused by their own bunch of lackeys.
Even they are aware of the tin can picking aunties, they would labelled them as people with poor retirement planning.
So, stop harboring any hopes of the poodles or the anti-poodles pussy cats to do anything.
We have two pussy cats in the house, they are also not even making any seriously noise or feedback to the recent hike. -
lim boon heng is from the PM's office. It is definitely the lee hsien loong who gave him the task to do so. that lee hsien loong wanna do this I guess is to ease his conscience, make himself look good so they can rest assured and go ahead to extend withdrawal of CPF to 65 year old.Originally posted by robertteh:Yet despite the wretchedness of the situation with increasing number of elderly picking empty bins for three meals nor being able to see a doctor for illness, Minister Lim Boon Heng has the cheek to pretend all is well with the elderly who he thinks has enough monies to last from 55 to 65. So he was proposing freezing these elderly's final measly portion of retirement payout to 65. More elderly then will be congregating food outlets for empty bins then there is no doubt.
To him these elderly could collected empty cans have no problems and should wait till 65 to collect their final measly minimum annuities to last another few twilight years before breathing their last breath of this earth.
What kind of ministers do we have today?
lee hsien loong is definitely not the one who solves problems, instead he creates problems for the people. Can't think of any young minister who has abilities to solve problems. Young ministers solving problems for the party to reach their target they will and are capable, but to solve problems to care for the people, I doubt!!! -
When you were the PM, you had the once-in-a-lifetime rare opportunity to do something for the country by recognizing the root cause of problems like rising costs of living by reversing or modifying wrong government policies such as double charging on lands on housing or basic services.
The double charging on lands by HDB in sale of low-cost housing at market prices has been exposed by the public without any credible replies from the HDB or Minister Mah Bow Tan to this day. Mah Bow Tan seems to be avoiding this issue.
So if being the ex-PM, he did not have the courage or ability to check on wrong policies that caused the perpetual rising costs of living thereby undermining the growth and vibrancy of the domestic economy, how could he now offer any good advice to younger ministers when he himself obviously had miserably failed to do so.
So one by one the young ministers will copy his example by keeping quiet about the whole issue hopefully people will forget them over time.
Is this sort of leadership the younger generation wants to have nowadays in the age of globalization.
Do we want to see such pretensions repeated ad nausem in Singapore political evolution? -
One person cannot solve the problems.
They have tonnes of commitees and task forces to 'brainstorm' . -
Brainstorming is a gathering of top talents who singly cannot solve a problem, but together can decide that the problem cannot be solved.
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Hi TS.
Sometimes I wondered when will you get tired of going on and on and on and on complaining about our ruling party.
I get tired of reading your posts. To me, it's the same thing posted under different categories. Just how many times had you mentioned the overpaying, HDB overcharging, undeserving ministers, their below par capability, etc etc??
Sigh... -
it depends on whose problems you are referring to.
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wait till they get older
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wrong forum.. lol sorrie =XOriginally posted by crazy monkey:wait till they get older -
Yah!Originally posted by crazy monkey:wait till they get older
The seniors will give them the tried and tested template for problem solving.
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Robertteh wants to remind as many Singaporeans as he can about the PAP's faults. He is passionate about what he does. He cares for Singapore.Originally posted by airgrinder:Hi TS.
Sometimes I wondered when will you get tired of going on and on and on and on complaining about our ruling party.
I get tired of reading your posts. To me, it's the same thing posted under different categories. Just how many times had you mentioned the overpaying, HDB overcharging, undeserving ministers, their below par capability, etc etc??
Sigh...
Speaker's Corner would appreciate if you could contribute your opinions, instead of displaying this apathetic and spiritless behaviour here.
It is already sad enough that today's young generation are like that, surely we do not wish to see another one like yourself here. -
when has the speakers corner become a whiner's corner ?Originally posted by Rock^Star:Robertteh wants to remind as many Singaporeans as he can about the PAP's faults. He is passionate about what he does. He cares for Singapore.
Speaker's Corner would appreciate if you could contribute your opinions, instead of displaying this apathetic and spiritless behaviour here.
It is already sad enough that today's young generation are like that, surely we do not wish to see another one like yourself here. -
Kindly clarify what you mean.Originally posted by crazy monkey:when has the speakers corner become a whiner's corner ? -
By our political leaders' standard you are now defaming fellow citizens for speaking up on NKF by calling them whiners?Originally posted by crazy monkey:when has the speakers corner become a whiner's corner ?
Rather than being whiners I would consider them to be our freedom fighters or heroes because with them speaking up for us against wrongfulness of such CEOs, there will be brighter future for their fellow citizens and even your own children and your children's children. So think again before you call them any more names like whiners or quitters.
I salute them for having the courage despite the heavy handedness of leaders to expose powerful CEOs for wrong doings who might otherwise today still be staunchly defended by powerful leaders' wives. -
The political party is but just one party but the members are numerous.
The topics may be similar but the target in every thread is different. The TS ‘executes’ one member after another, in strict rotation.
It has to be fair and just.
If there’s more than one party, I'm sure the ‘execution’ carried out by the TS will be the same, starting with the majority party, then follow by the next, again in strict rotation...I repeat, only if there's more than one party.
The ‘execution’ has to be continuous to serve as a reminder because the public’s memory is short. -
All the while, you've been shooting the wrong people.
Singapore practises a top-down system. All policies, no matter what, will go through the PM's hands before going down to the citizens' level.
We have no idea what the ministers are thinking at all, what we are able to see, is only the PM's ideas.
It's only during debates that we are able to see and hear their ideas, but how many policies of theirs are implemented?
Things are not to be looked on the surface only. The way Singapore works, only serves to make a lot of people to take the blame for a lot of things. Remember how the pay rise of top civil servants was linked to civil servants.
There are lots of civil servants, but not all are top civil servants. -
Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
If you are still talking about benevolent dictatorship being good for the country that was history.
All the while, you've been shooting the wrong people.
Singapore practises a top-down system. All policies, no matter what, will go through the PM's hands before going down to the citizens' level.
We have no idea what the ministers are thinking at all, what we are able to see, is only the PM's ideas.
It's only during debates that we are able to see and hear their ideas, but how many policies of theirs are implemented?
Things are not to be looked on the surface only. The way Singapore works, only serves to make a lot of people to take the blame for a lot of things. Remember how the pay rise of [b]top civil servants was linked to civil servants.
There are lots of civil servants, but not all are top civil servants.[/b]
Today our ministers are not fighting for independence, freedoms or justices.
They make mistakes but do not admit them for years until recessions hit hard before making some small concessions. They keep taking in the name of talents or retaining talents to justify their past mistakes but have not done any serious or creditable restructuring of our own local economy so much so that today our own domestic economy is dead and we are held hostage by foreigners and foreign investors.
We are now quite empty inside and the present minor improvement of the economy is due citizens' own sacrifice from their own CPF and wage cuts and not due to major entrepreneurial restructuring of the economy by our so-called talents.
The hype of IR or property boom is just part of the natural economic cycle due to external upturns and is not likely to stay for long. What we are seeing is our newspapers' reporting only good shows of all kinds to attract foreigners to come here to cover up the real problems. If our leaders in the face of failures have to resort to replace our own citizens, the newspapers will also report it as a good news. So is such a top-down system still successful today as it was once. I let you draw your own conclusion.
You should know what I mean by the above. It will take too long to go into individual policies which did not work for years and this fact was quite well written and described as "Auto-piloting" by ex-top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow so it has been well proven. With objective and rational analysis you will soon know the truths and stop singing all the praises too early for our top-down system. Only collective leadership aimed at motivating all in practical knowledge applications by all citizens will help us to achieve the next notch of economic competitiveness. (Read ideas on how to use process management to motivate workers to excel at www.managefranchise.blogspot.com) -
If you are still talking about benevolent dictatorship being good for the country that was history.
Today our ministers are not fighting for independence, freedoms or justices.
You are so sure? As I've said, there's no way we are going to know what is going through those ministers' heads as the policies have to go through the PM's hands.
They make mistakes but do not admit them for years until recessions hit hard before making some small concessions. They keep taking in the name of talents or retaining talents to justify their past mistakes but have not done any serious or creditable restructuring of our own local economy so much so that today our own domestic economy is dead and we are held hostage by foreigners and foreign investors.
I'm still reserving some doubts for them, refer to above point.
We are now quite empty inside and the present minor improvement of the economy is due citizens' own sacrifice from their own CPF and wage cuts and not due to major entrepreneurial restructuring of the economy by our so-called talents.
The hype of IR or property boom is just part of the natural economic cycle due to external upturns and is not likely to stay for long. What we are seeing is our newspapers' reporting only good shows of all kinds to attract foreigners to come here to cover up the real problems. If our leaders in the face of failures have to resort to replace our own citizens, the newspapers will also report it as a good news. So is such a top-down system still successful today as it was once. I let you draw your own conclusion.
The hype of IR has not started. They are not even up yet. The statistics from other countries is not an excuse for us to build two casinos. Since it's been decided and there's no way to change that, we will see how it unfolds in the next few years. Property boom, is it really true? You judge for yourself.
A top-down system although is successful, is restricted in many ways. The same reason that make it rise can cause its downfall.
You should know what I mean by the above. It will take too long to go into individual policies which did not work for years and this fact was quite well written and described as "Auto-piloting" by ex-top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow so it has been well proven. With objective and rational analysis you will soon know the truths and stop singing all the praises too early for our top-down system. Only collective leadership aimed at motivating all in practical knowledge applications by all citizens will help us to achieve the next notch of economic competitiveness. (Read ideas on how to use process management to motivate workers to excel at www.managefranchise.blogspot.com)
I don't know which part of my whole message hinted that I like a top-down system. I've never been fond of it, though I admit it has its own advantages. -
everything you also want to complain. write ten paragraph long story somemore. start new topics just to tok abt your process management again and again.Originally posted by robertteh:By our political leaders' standard you are now defaming fellow citizens for speaking up on NKF by calling them whiners?
Rather than being whiners I would consider them to be our freedom fighters or heroes because with them speaking up for us against wrongfulness of such CEOs, there will be brighter future for their fellow citizens and even your own children and your children's children. So think again before you call them any more names like whiners or quitters.
I salute them for having the courage despite the heavy handedness of leaders to expose powerful CEOs for wrong doings who might otherwise today still be staunchly defended by powerful leaders' wives.
if you are not a whiner then wat are you ?
call yourself a hero ?
pui pui
ps : next time your pet gold fish die want to complain that govt didnt provide clean water ? -
I have replied to your assumption that people who complain or brought up problems are whiners. But when they replied you, you are unable to see the logics and rationale of their replies and instead you have gone out of point with further allegation that these people are keeping golden fishes and expecting water to be clean.
Why shouldn't the water be clean for gold fishes since it is the ministers who tell the whole world how clean or world class is their water. -
why you always need to edit your post so many timesOriginally posted by robertteh:I have replied to your assumption that people who complain or brought up problems are whiners. But when they replied you, you are unable to see the logics and rationale of their replies but you have gone out of point with further allegation that these people are keeping golden fishes and expecting water to be clean.
Why shouldn't the water be clean for gold fishes since it is the ministers who tell the whole world how clean or world class is their water.