As the debate on minister pay continues, I feel that too much
emphasis has been place on dollars and cents. If we listen
carefully we realized this is a persistent structure problems
facing Singapore, and the current government are unable to
re-solve. (I use re-solve because this is the 2nd salary
hike)
As such we bring up the questions what are the root causes of these
problems.
1) Small GDP ? what have been done over the years to increase
domestics disposable Income, what has been done to help local
enterprise from going global thereby encourage talented individual
to drive private corporate Singapore globally? Other than state own
enterprise?
2) Government cannibalizes domestics resources? over the years
stress upon citizens are increasing thru reduction of CPF, national
service, COE, GST hike, With the salary hike in public sector it
would crowd out even more private resource how does the government
going to lighten its burden when the fact that government is
drawing private resources and argue dependent citizens to its
government?
3) Current ministry and parliamentary system failure to address a
structure problems effectively ? it is clear that with the current
negative reaction by the public the current system is not working,
Have the current 1 party government took the easy way out for the
structure problems? Have they explore and explore all treatments?
Have they done enough review or because it is simply a 1 party
system and New blood required to inject alternative view into the
parliamentary system? Do we need to reform our Ministry and
parliamentary to have a mechanism to drive
4) PAP perception and its role in governing Singapore? With PAP in
the 3rd generation of leadership has national building change?
Survival of national truly question while we move ahead to build
the nation have we forgot why we built the nation in the first
place? What is the mission of PAP? What role it perceives itself to
believe they are truly here to work for Singaporean and not people
work for PAP
