Singapore has no need to practise welfarism or giving monies to
the citizens. Why is this so?
The problem of not having enough monies for all the government
departments to spend is actually caused by excessive spending due
to past habits of spending on budgets talked about for years even
by PM Lee.
But what has he done to solve such a serious problem?
It looks like he is always talking about talents of his ministers.
But which ministers can really be credited for coming up with
solutions to such a problem.
There is hardly any attempt by the post-65 or younger ministers to
solve such a wasteful problem.
One possible solution is to reward any budget left-over or
surpluses over the mean for 5 years with points from which
departments concerned would be entitled to have certain percentage
increases in performance bonuses.
In this way, the civil service can then develop higher level of
creativity and entrepreneurship and people at the end will truly
benefit from savings and look forward to less taxes and fee
increases.
Now all the budgets allocated will simply be spent despite years of
talking about such inherent human tendencies to over-spend
citizens' monies because of wasteful budgeting process.
No wonder the Auditor General had to be confronted with revealing
so many losses and malpractices after the NKF saga as people are
now wondering whether there are similar cover-ups and other
problems are being caused by wrongful practices due to lack of
accountability under the autocratic system.