Many people do not like the PAP. But they are more worried about leaving the government to the alternative parties. They ask - can a coalition of these alternative parties run the government?
I can understand their concern. It is too risky to leave their future and the future of their children to the unknown.
Are we then stuck with the PAP and their bad policies? These policies had made life very costly, very stressful and very difficult to the local Singaporeans.
I will not dwell on the reasons why the PAP pursue these bad policies. Rather, I like to identify what are the big challenges facing the people and what can be done to deal with these challenges.
The big challenges are:
a) High cost of living
b) High cost of doing business causing us to lose out on global competition.
c) Insecurity of jobs for local Singaporeans caused by being replaced by cheaper foreign workers.
d) High cost of health care
e) High stress caused by excessive and unnecessary competition in schools and the workplace
These challenges, who have not been addressed, have resulted in a low and declining birth rate during the past three decades. Our national birth rate is now the lowest among all the countries. I see this as the key indicator of the failure of the policies pursued by the PAP.
How can these challenges be addressed?
We need a new government that can make major changes to the policies of the current government to address these challenges. I believe that we need to make these changes:
a) Abolish GST
b) Reserve public sector jobs for local Singaporeans
c) Help the private sector to be competitive by reducing the cost of doing business and the cost of employing local Singaporeans.
d) Have a more efficient and less costly system of providing health care to the people.
e) Have a transparent and more effective system of managing big expenditure on infrastructure, defense and other types of government spending.
I will be covering these changes in more detail in separate posts and videos.
If a large proportion of voters like the changes and are willing to vote for leaders who believe in these changes, we can minimise the unknown when a new government comes into power.
If the goals are clear, the new government will be able to attract capable people in the public and private sector to implement these goals. If they adopt a transparent approach, they can overcome the unexpected difficulties by using collective wisdom and common sense. It is not that difficult.
I hope that many voters will be wiling to take the risk by voting for leaders who support a clear alternative strategy to the current PAP policies.
I can understand their concern. It is too risky to leave their future and the future of their children to the unknown.
Are we then stuck with the PAP and their bad policies? These policies had made life very costly, very stressful and very difficult to the local Singaporeans.
I will not dwell on the reasons why the PAP pursue these bad policies. Rather, I like to identify what are the big challenges facing the people and what can be done to deal with these challenges.
The big challenges are:
a) High cost of living
b) High cost of doing business causing us to lose out on global competition.
c) Insecurity of jobs for local Singaporeans caused by being replaced by cheaper foreign workers.
d) High cost of health care
e) High stress caused by excessive and unnecessary competition in schools and the workplace
These challenges, who have not been addressed, have resulted in a low and declining birth rate during the past three decades. Our national birth rate is now the lowest among all the countries. I see this as the key indicator of the failure of the policies pursued by the PAP.
How can these challenges be addressed?
We need a new government that can make major changes to the policies of the current government to address these challenges. I believe that we need to make these changes:
a) Abolish GST
b) Reserve public sector jobs for local Singaporeans
c) Help the private sector to be competitive by reducing the cost of doing business and the cost of employing local Singaporeans.
d) Have a more efficient and less costly system of providing health care to the people.
e) Have a transparent and more effective system of managing big expenditure on infrastructure, defense and other types of government spending.
I will be covering these changes in more detail in separate posts and videos.
If a large proportion of voters like the changes and are willing to vote for leaders who believe in these changes, we can minimise the unknown when a new government comes into power.
If the goals are clear, the new government will be able to attract capable people in the public and private sector to implement these goals. If they adopt a transparent approach, they can overcome the unexpected difficulties by using collective wisdom and common sense. It is not that difficult.
I hope that many voters will be wiling to take the risk by voting for leaders who support a clear alternative strategy to the current PAP policies.
1 comment:
High Rent, COE Costs and cronyism are the main obstacles for Singapore Unbelievably, loyal ex SAF cronies, with no industry experience whatsoever, given high positions cum lucrative pay, but fail to deliver results and yet retained, trivializing the sacred concept of meritocrazy pioneered by PAP old guards. Imagine a maritime country with world's largest transshipment centre and the world's second largest container port, but without our own National shipping Line. Isn't it a joke, and after selling off ailing NOL to the French, instantly this Company like magic turns profitable, making the former ex SAF CEO a clown in the shipping industry. Yet he is rewarded with another lucrative post in SPH, hand holding these parasites to such extent. So loyalty pays big, so what if he's an Ah Dou.
How many local tradesmen and garung guni men giving up livelihoods due to high COE costs in vehicle purchases.
So where got hope for our beloved country?
The only pill is to start on a clean slate, nothing venture, nothing gain, status quo is not an option, as it may be game over down the road. The despicable bullying incident of WP Sylvia over GST Debate is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
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