Why do we need 2 DPMs and 2 SMs??

[po2wq]

Why do we need 2 DPMs and 2 SMs??

clear evidence of ...

... a lack of self-confidence ... nid 2 kip experienced ard 4 juz in case ...

... current batch of staff is of poor stock ... existing staffs r nowhere near ze quality of yesteryears ... despite paying bigger salaries, u dun manage 2 attract gd enuf talents ...

 

[jw5]

To answer the thread title question, we don't.

 

[soikee]

Disinformation, disinformation, disinformation. That's all you oppos know. You should go and write for the Sinapore Democrats.

The PMO is also a ministry with subjects. With more subjects assumed by the PMO, more ministers are needed. It is the same in Malaysia that is why the de-facto law minister is minister in the Prime Minister's Department.

SM Goh has his own subjects. SM Jayakumar has also got his own subjects. The two DPMs also have their own ministries to run.

Lim Swee Say fills a role which has been filled since the days of Lim Chee Onn - labour leader with a cabinet voice. He could have ben like Lim Chee Onn or Ong Teng Cheong - Minister without Portfolio. But PM Lee decided it would be better to park him in PMO.

Of course if you prefer, PM Lee can split PMO into 6 more ministries. Then PMO need not have so many ministers.

But all this does not matter to oppos. All they want are criticism opportunity.

 

[eQuipment]

small island like this need 2x DPM + 2xSM = unproductive cabinet lor.

 

[Ramseth]

What's in the Prime Minister's Office now:

1 MM
2 SM
1 PM
2 DPM
3 PMOM

9 ministers in PMO.

 

[denzuko1]

The fact that this Wong Kanina Sing still on Deputy Prime Minister role after so much screw ups really makes me boil. It is obvious that the whole reshuffle is changing the soup but not the medicine.

 

[ho_seh_liow]

Japan is also xenophobia but compared to Korea , it is better. Why I say so because Japs are much much more polite than hooligan Koreans. Koreans are rough and rude, if you have not travelled to Korea you will not be able to realise what I say.
Ask ppl who have been here in Korea, pushing, jumping Q, spitting when they walk past you,...etc is considered norm here in Korea.

japan is also corrupted loh and extremely foreigner unfriendly. I know someone who is fluent in Japanese, work in Japan for donkey years but absolutely no chance of getting Jap PR unless he screwed a Jap girl and marry her.

And looking the way the Jap economy is heading...its spiralling downwards.

 

[The_Latest_H]

Also why do we need a President and a PM?

We have a Parliamentary system, so the head of government and the head of state are served by two different people.

Even the likes of India, Australia, Japan, Sweden and the UK all have such a system. The point is that while the head of state ranks symbolically above the head of government, the PM, in some cases like in Australia, the PM appoints the Governor General and the Queen seldom, if ever, disapproves of his choice.

The key here is that if there's a President who's the head of state, he shouldn't be like what the status quo gives him right now. I'm all for an elected President- but I believe the candidates running for the presidency should not be vetted by a council staffed by former civil servants who are also politicised. It must be done by a more independent council, whose members would be drawn from prominent members of the public, including those who are working in NGOs, big and small and social activists who has a lot of gravitas and a good reputation among his/her peers and/or with the general public.

Only then would say 3 candidates will be running for the Presidency..