How to trust PAP and Public Institutions when there are INHERENT PROBLEMS giving rise to their ZERO/ LOW PERFORMANCES ? Quote Ngiam Tong Dow – How PAP Ministers’ millions dollar salaries AFFECT their performances. We should develop our public hospitals, instead of running them down, so that doctors will want to stay on and not leave once they get higher qualifications. The issue is whether our hospitals can cope with the rising number of foreign patients coming into Singapore. We shouldn’t buy trophies. The best thing is to train our own people and give them the experience. Sometimes, I think our present Cabinet spends money on frivolities, and staging the F1 is my “favourite” example. When you do not have money or there is no food in your stomach, your priority would not be Singapore’s soft power. I’m not saying we should be miserly, but we should spend our personal money and public funds wisely to benefit most people. In the early days, Lim Kim San and Goh Keng Swee worked night and day, and they were truly dedicated. I don’t know whether Lee Kuan Yew will agree but it started going downhill when we started to raise ministers’ salaries, not even pegging them to the national salary but aligning them with the top 10. When you raise ministers’ salaries to the point that they’re earning millions of dollar, every minister — no matter how much he wants to turn up and tell Hsien Loong off or whatever — will hesitate when he thinks of his million-dollar salary. Even if he wants to do it, his wife will stop him. Lim Kim San used to tell me, “Ngiam, if you want to leave your job, make sure you have enough walkaway money.” When the salary is so high, which minister dares to leave, unless they decide to become the Opposition party? As a result, the entire political arena has become a civil service, and I don’t see anyone speaking up any more. The Civil Service has definitely become tamer, which is not good because we need a contest of ideas. The difference is that no one wants to make a sacrifice any more. The first generation of PAP was purely grassroots, but the problem today is that PAP is a bit too elitist. therealsingapore/content/ngiam-tong-dow-healthcare-f1-and-politicians
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:37:54 +0000
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