Government's traditional key tasks are legislature, judiciary,
laws and order, facilitating of environmental support to create
vibrancy for businesses and investments, provisions of basic
services, telecommunications, information, transportations,
infrastructures, facilities, utilities, medical services, defence,
home security, education, finance, social and cultural development
to support overall needs and aspirations as men do not live by
bread alone.
The day it goes into businesses and tries to compete with its own
private sector, that will be the day it begins to take on a
different philosophy towards costs of living and welfare and
wellbeing of its citizens. That is the day when it has to watch its
own business bottomless pits as businesses might be suffering
losses which at the end may have to be funded by people's
taxations.
NTUC is now in business and has lost control over its original
objectives. It will have to support price increases in insurances
and supermarket and essential items in order not to lose monies. As
it is NTUC has lost many millions in overseas venture. Sooner or
later it will have to rely on increasing membership fees and goods
and services to fund its expansion. Thus government like NTUC will
be neglecting and compromising its obligations to its citizens once
it goes into its own business as businesses have their own
bottomless pits to watch which ordinary civil servants will have
problems in watching.
