SG Govt operates like corporate so
they only look at final result.......rather than looking at the
social outcome.
I agree with you on this. Most of our PSC scholars had been trained
in this manner and had not place priority on the social angle, and
believed that somehow it will 'all fall into place natuarally'.
While none of us citizens will want Singapore to be a welfare
state, paying higher taxes, but there is a need to ensure these
officers pay more attention in that sector and do make serious
attempts to balance it out.
I dont have any solutions to do so, thus our civil service needs
the best and brightest, if possible, more sensitive, to serve and
not run to the financial sector and lavish themselves on high
incomes and neglect the very society whom had given them the
opportunity to excel in life.
Social responsibility must be taken seriously at ALL levels in
the employment field, from the worker to the bosses to the
ministries.
As for MNCs, it is a fact we need MNCs. Post independence, the
richest Singaporeans were bankers and landowners such as Mr. Ng
Teng Fong. Do you think Mr. Ng would create SIA, which needs a
whole lot of different skillsets to manage, let alone have the kind
of money to run an efficent and hi-tech operation such as SIA and
not one like the languishing MAS flying fleet? I sincerly doubt
so.
Are the govts then to just simply use our $100 million then in
our kitty, and give it to any Tom, Dick, Harry to run it or set up
industries, the way Malaysia is now being accused of cronyism and
corruption? No, its better elected representative be held
accountable for our funds.
Growing Singapore companies take time. It isnt going to happen
overnight, as our market is small and no single local company can
survive on our own market alone, with no resources to sell even,
and have the sufficient capital to go global.
The govt's direction is the only way to go for now. First they
venture out with elected or accountable representatives onto the
world's stage with our massive collective society funds, make them
profitable, then sell it to our local talents. This is one way to
'entreprenuerise' and grow our Singapore brand.
There are other ways I suspect. But certainly not for local
talents with their small capital and market base to set up shop.
Good and chest thumping only for a while but suicide later on
extended unsupplied lines, causing massive unemployment later.
We have best be realistic. We are a nation of no resources
except for a tiny port. Our best resources are our people, whose
forefathers were only peasants and coolies, and it would take time
to groom them up to be on par with the best in the globalised
world.
Do be patient and give encouragement. Bear the unbearable for
now. There is a future for our nation, which had constantly improve
itself, not out of nationalism, but for survival, and within a few
more generations, we may even conquer the world, the
way our youngsters had proven themselves better than others of
the world in the academic fields and military
prowess in competitions or attachments.
patient.......?
I thought u should know.... The govt civil sectors are only
concern with 1 aspect generate enough capital to finance SG budget
and macro consumption. There is a complete lack of
instrumental resources to aid in growing medium sizes local
companies.
That is why you always see coment about Singapore lack of
Domestics Demand.
Govt had crowd out private local talent by paying
higher salary. While local medium companies does not have the
capital n resources to expand beyond its turf this is the
biggerest draw back. But most of all Talented enterprenur.
MNC are only short term solution, all govt did was connect
all the short term curve to look like a long term growth. That is
why you see ripple effects across the entire generation across
all specturm of career that is why you see
Singaporean leaving left right center.
Unlike the Korean or the Japanese, Singaporean
are not ethnically binded, socially there are limited self
help support group to aid in helping local companies grow and
expand oversea. At the end of the day Singapore owned companies
will always remain in Singapore.
Just do a simple excercise....Go to IE and ask for a list of
Singapore companies that venture all the way to the West.....u will
only find a handful and most of them are state owned
enterprise.
So at the end of the story...we get who we Vote.