U mean to tell me Tin Pei Ling was involved in designing the MRT System? OMG
Please lah. U want to blame, blame the right parties involved. LTA design the transport system, Minister of Transport approve the system. That's where you should be blaming. Blaming everyone in the government is ridiculous. Chiam and Low were also part of Government when this was implemented, should we also blame them for not saying anything? Of coz not.
And it depends on Murdoch's involvement in the Phone Hacking, did he know about it and approve of it? If not then yes he should not be blamed I thought it was stupid in the first place to question him. They should be checking on the pple below to assess his involvement before charging him.
If I went tandem Skydiving(which I didn't, I wasn't strapped to any instructor for the dive) and the chute failed to deployed the pple to look for is obviously the guys who pack the chute since I'm assuming the instructor is dead. U think they will blame the pilot of the plane that took us up meh?
When pple reporting to me screws up. Or pple under them screws up, I get scolded/punished coz it's under my responsibility. U think they should sack the CEO, CTO, COO or board of directors coz one of my guys screw up? Of Coz not!!!
Your stupid logic is LTA screw up = so Transport ministry = Transport minister screws up and coz he is part of PAP that means PAP screws up which is stupid. By this kind of stupid definition I can also say Opposition party screw up coz no one stop them and all the voters screw up coz we voted them in.
The blame stops somewhere. Obviously the blame has to stop with pple who are actually involved in the entire process.
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bro...the reason why one pay big money to the head honchos are because part of their job is take responsibilities for those under them- whether or not they are in knowledge. They are supposed to know, period. Thats why they are paid big bucks.
the world is full of examples - Watergate cause Nixon's downfall, collapse of arthur anderson, how many Japanese PMs left due to cockup of their ministers, Tiger Australia CEO has to leave due to current shit - his fault? , numerous. And this Murdoch scandal, Cameron's position is in jeopardy - due to his links with the police chiefs who indirectly responsible for not opening the files.
When MSK escaped, the minimum that DPM Wong shld have done is to step up and apologised. He did not.
of course, when you say, to a certain extent those high up are responsible depending on extent of the mistake made. But in this case of unhappiness of the transport fares, the minister of transport needs to be playing a big role. the rest of those not involved - like Mr Lim shld refrain from speaking about it - in what capacity is he tokking about it?