In the long run, it will help the people to attain their
aspirations. Not many autocracies can claim the abilities to
unleash collective creativity of people as the American democracy
has done
Has democracy unleash collective creativity of people of the
Indonesia or India. u keep harping on america and blame other for
pulling in other bad examples. Why doesn't it appear to u tat the
american people is a special case since they have man y advantages
other countries do not enjoy
The tax-and-recover system of governance has gone unquestioned
for years resulting in high medical costs, double-charging on lands
and triple-charging on vhicles. An average household would be
paying under our high-cost policy S$600,000 - S$800,000 over the
working life. Our costs are so high that the domestic sector of the
economy is dying a natural death.
U never really seems to answer the question on how much does the
average Hong Kong or Taiwan or Japanese people pay in their
lifetime to the country. Our costs is high but other nations may
not be better off either
The charging by HDB of flats or shops at market or above-market
prices (HDB arbitrarily fixes its rental at 3 years interval to peg
at highest in locality) has continued to cause losses of
competitiveness to the domestic economy.
Your points is also on how to spend money. It is easy to spend
money like reducing HDB loans, reducing car tax etc. But how to
earn money to replace tis lost ?
NTUC, GLCs, stat-boards or ministries are competing against
local businesses. If there is some objective governance, Singapore
domestic economy still have a chance to survive or do better.
Okie, if u think tat singapore never start off big companies
like singtel, sembcorp, temesek, dbs, ntuc, edb, jtc etc, do u
think singapore will be a better place ? Frankly IMO no. If a man
from private sector starts off trhese companies from singapore, he
will be likely to shift his base of singapore off singapore to
other countries as well. And another phenomenon is it will sprung
off many small or medium companies tat cannot afford to compete
against the other global players as well. Is it a really bad
decision for the gov to manage these companies ?
Once tested like the charity shows of NKF then every department
will jump on the bandwagon and everyone will be told or allowed to
do the same. Conformity is the whole problem. Conformity is less
risk adverse
tat is the problem of capitalism, not political system. if u
sell a fish tat earn u a lto of money, soon u will find a lot of
other companies following u as well. U can see such behaviors in
all countries, whether it is democractic or not.
Hospital fees and medical costs need not be that high if there
is a different and more objective cost structure as suggested by
you and some other forumers
Show me the money. It is easy to state how to spend money u
know... It is a world wide phenomenon tat quality healthcare fees r
increasing. How to stop tat trend ?
Government should stop fighting with the local businesses for
that same pie. I agree with you wholeheartedly on this. The
government cannot never take over the whole of private sector as
the growth engine. If it cannot then the solution is simple- don't
compete against it. Don't suck up all the monies to the government
coffers. This kind of governance will result in killing the
proverbial goose that lays the golden egg.
I don't see the gov opening another breadtalk, osim or
creative...
