Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:
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]
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.
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)
