This particular incident is only the tip of the iceberg don't
you see?
If this Chua scholar case has been highlighted 39 years ago, and
the highly promoted meritocratic assumption that scholars will
solve all our problems could perhaps have critically debated in
parliament, some of the problems we are currently struggling with
could have been avoided.
The principal assumption of our leaders is our various scholars or
madarins are the highly educated elites or scholars and will solve
our problems on the sole judgmental belief by our one-man leader of
their possession of a piece of paper or academic grades.
Had there been an thorough debate on meritocracy, Singaporeans
could have uncovered such talent or leadership assumption as
rubbish and too narrow-minded placing the future of the judgmental
fate of one man or a few scholars.
Many of the current problems were easily traced to this narrow
judgmental approach of over-relying on scholars which at the end
may be to serve the political agenda or interests of the incumbent
party in power.
If Chua has assumed position of importance without being checked in
time now, we may end up having our future decision makers of his
like causing future racism conflagration and conflicts.
Our many scholars are being employed at high costs but as witnessed
in the Asian financial crisis and last two recessions, they were
helpless and unable to do anything except to wait out the world
economic downturn to save our jobs.
It is clearly proven that our scholars have yet to come up with
cohesive national master economic plan aimed at providing
coordination and guidance to all including university researches,
investments incentivisation and upgrading our economic
competitiveness. Look at the 20 problems of autocracy as posted in
another thread.
They have totally failed to solve the problems among others such as
bureaucracy, non-implementation of growth triangles and
non-implementation of value-adding economic plans .
Singapore has run up the whole civil service wage costs to three
times of what it used to be. Just compare civil service's direct
costs with the outsourced costs in recent tenders, and it will be
very clear that civil service has been over-blown to sky-high
prices and costs beyond imagination. But everything is hush-hush as
no figures will be released on such comparisons.
Everything in terms of salary administration and exclusive
remuneration and reward schemes for scholars appeared to be
conducted in an irrational manner against established pricniples or
industry practice.
Many of you will probably remember ministers telling the people
back in the 1980s that pensionable civil servants were outdated
practice and therefore pension schemes for civil servants were
abolished and converted to CPF schemes to lower costs and increase
competitiveness.
However, irrationally and within a short time after abolishing this
civil service pension scheme, in a 180 degree about-turn a pension
scheme out of the blue was introduced to pay ministers at 2/3 of
last drawn salaries for life after two terms of office on the
ground that this will induce good people to come forward to stand
for election and become ministers as if the ministers did not know
that they were at the same time trying to GRC to stop potential
candidates to stand for election or to serve the country.
MM Lee still believed in the old theory that scholars and high pays
to ministers and senior civil servants will solve all our problems.
He went around recently to tell the Malaysian ministers that it is
better to pay MPs and Ministers high salaries to avoid
corruption.
The facts speak for themselves that benchmarking the ministers'
pays to the highest earning boss-worker category based on some
pre-conceived and the about-turn in re-introducing the outdated
pension schemes to pay the retired ministers and MPs for life, were
major mistakes of his presumptuous leadership.
Consequently the golden handshakes to the ministers and MPs would
be a big burden on the economy as it would be costing national
coffer some S$1,000,000,000.00 as posted earlier in relevant
thread.
Assumptions or judgementsl governance is clearly without
accountability and devoid of transparent processes. Such a
governance has caused Singapore dearly with complete sheet of wool
pulled over citizens' very eyes. The decision on casino was also
made on one-sided presentation of job creations without giving
corresponding job and investment losses due to negative impacts as
posted in the relevant thread. This kind of leadership assumption
is based on the over-simplistic that "without casino the economy
will be worse off".
No wonder the Nalaysian PM Badawi was quick to rebut MM Lee's
presumptuousness that Malaysians don't believe in the crap about
high salaries as a means to check or prevent corruption. He said
integrity is the most important factor and that is what counts in
Malaysia.
So it is clear that our leaders have totally forgotten such factor
or quality as integrity and have told the world that in our system
ministers are vulnerable to corruptions.
Perhaps it is the people having no opinions which is at the end the
primary cause of our system. They have unthinkingly allowed our
presumptuous leadership leaders to make all kinds of policies or
decisions without the rightful checks or accountability to the
people.
No wonder Rmmul's Law says that a government is most likely to
murder its own citizens offering the least resistance ...Think
about the risk of accepting the cure-all meritocratic assumptions
that has already brought us the high costs of the whole government.
Can citizens be so easy any more to allow this kind of assumptions
without opinions. How to save its future from such assumptions and
solve our many problems ..if there is still a future. 
(Chen JiaHao corrected to Chua, mistake
regretted)