What are the hallmarks of a good government ? Certainly I count competency, transparency, accountability, empathy and compassion as essential attributes of a good government.
May I ask Mr Wee the following questions:
Where is the competency when a dangerous terrorist Mas Selamat is allowed to escape from his lockup and still remain at large today ?
Where is the accountability when the Minister in charge did not step down to take responsibility for this atrocious error and get his subordinates to take the rap instead ?
Where is the transparency when the PAP Town Councils are still reluctant to reveal their extent of losses of public funds in failed investments ?
Where is the empathy when the pay of our ministers are going through another round of hike at the end of the year at a time ordinary Singaporeans are feeling the pinch of a slowing economy ?
And where is the compassion when a majority of our elderly population are still working well into their twilight years because our government prefers to spend billions of dollars to bail out foreign banks ?
My fellow Singaporeans, this is the government we have. A government which tramples upon our rights, take us for granted, lead us by the nose, never listens to us, insist we follow their orders with flagrant disregard for our feelings and at the end of the day, dare to ingratiate themselves as a “First World” government and demand us to pay them the highest salaries in the world.
Read full article here:
http://wayangparty.com/2008/11/11/when-it-comes-to-politics-competition-is-good/
May I ask Mr Wee the following questions:
Where is the competency when a dangerous terrorist Mas Selamat is allowed to escape from his lockup and still remain at large today ?
Where is the accountability when the Minister in charge did not step down to take responsibility for this atrocious error and get his subordinates to take the rap instead ?
Where is the transparency when the PAP Town Councils are still reluctant to reveal their extent of losses of public funds in failed investments ?
Where is the empathy when the pay of our ministers are going through another round of hike at the end of the year at a time ordinary Singaporeans are feeling the pinch of a slowing economy ?
And where is the compassion when a majority of our elderly population are still working well into their twilight years because our government prefers to spend billions of dollars to bail out foreign banks ?
My fellow Singaporeans, this is the government we have. A government which tramples upon our rights, take us for granted, lead us by the nose, never listens to us, insist we follow their orders with flagrant disregard for our feelings and at the end of the day, dare to ingratiate themselves as a “First World” government and demand us to pay them the highest salaries in the world.
Read full article here:
http://wayangparty.com/2008/11/11/when-it-comes-to-politics-competition-is-good/
