Re: What Makes A Country Tick? Its Leaders Or Its People?
- From: kingkong <hahaha@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:05:35 -0700
Singapore is such a strange country these days.
Public sector "outsource" their jobs to the private sector and they get a pay rise while private sector performing their jobs are constantly on being threaten with salary cuts, penalties and bad performance ratings.
Minister and 60,000 civil servants will received a combined wage increment of S$214 million while 200,000 people get less per person from the S$400 million whole workfare thing.
In Parliament, it is easier to for civil servant to get a salary increase of S$500,000 than for a a welfare recipient to ask for an extra S$30 welfare payment.
The irony is the govt is perpetuating and stratifying the wage and social divide when they are talking about something else.
me_dawiseguy@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The old man's rantings and ravings in Pariahmen the other day, got me.
thinking as whether it's the people or the leaders, that makes a
country great or insignificant.
The old man implied that in S'pore's context, he and his 'yah' men was
the reason behind the island's development from 3rd World to 1st
World, in 1 generation. If he and the 'yah' men are not paid
millions, they will lose the motivation to run the country well, poor
performers will take over & overnite, S'pore will revert back to 3rd
World status, or the 'SE Asian situation', as he puts it....
I beg to differ, hor. In the final analysis, it is always the people
that MADE THE DIFFERENCE, not the leaders.
S'pore is the world's busiest port becoz those people at the docks,
worked long hours at slave labour's pay; endured restructuring, job
cuts & pay cuts when new port rivals showed up in the neighbourhood.
Post-Separation S'poreans gave up the right to strike and other basic
human rites, worked long hours, in lousy conditions at lousy pay, just
to get MNCs enticed into setting up shop here.
And in every economic crisis that had descended on S'pore, it is
always the people who had bore the brunt. It was always the people,
not the leaders, who suffered unemployment, loss of income, evaporated
savings. And, when the economy recovers, the people have to take a
backseat while the leaders helped themselves to the benefits first.
Outside S'pore, me see the same thing. The Germans, the Japs, the
Koreans oso turned their war-torned countries and destroyed economies
(much worsed, compared to S'pore's 3rd World beginnings) into 1st
World nations. And they did it in 1 geberation oso.
No doubt good leadership and good fortune are important factors in the
rise and fall of nations. But in the end, it is always the people
that makes the difference between success or failure.
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