tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539995.post115993731052319339..comments2023-11-05T17:53:13.405+08:00Comments on Singabloodypore: Sympathy, not brickbats, for LKYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539995.post-1160139882925379712006-10-06T21:04:00.000+08:002006-10-06T21:04:00.000+08:00The other DPM , Wong Kan Seng, should also go ...w...The other DPM , Wong Kan Seng, should also go ...who is the cause of the BIG embarassment to our county - and should give way to younger leaders. <BR/><BR/>The way his Home Affairs Ministry mis-handled the public relations during the IMF/World Bank meetings.<BR/><BR/>It is so sad for all of us, Singaporeans when we tried to put on our best, and YET..........it is all undone by misguided scholars, bureaucrats and the DPM himself.<BR/><BR/>Frankly, there are more illustrious ministers who can take the lead. <BR/><BR/>Remember another fiasco...when Wong was the Foreign Minister during the Flor Contempcion case (she was hanged for murder of another maid) and how our foreign affairs was mismanaged and our High Commissioner to Philippines had to be recalled for his own safety; and how our SIA planes had to turn around with the same crew returning on the same flight. (for their own safety).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539995.post-1160015679909927402006-10-05T10:34:00.000+08:002006-10-05T10:34:00.000+08:00STARS IN YOUR EYES?Each one of the above is an ele...STARS IN YOUR EYES?<BR/><BR/>Each one of the above is an element in the ruling scholar intellectual elite class that has controlled and dominated since 1965. <BR/><BR/>As a government they have shown little respect for the wisdom and basic rights of the ordinary guy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539995.post-1160007638187332212006-10-05T08:20:00.000+08:002006-10-05T08:20:00.000+08:00I have a more pragmatic issue: as long as he stick...I have a more pragmatic issue: as long as he sticks around, the younger ministers cannot shine<BR/><BR/>for example, Teo Chee Hian is the 2nd assistant secretary general of PAP, and normally he would be the 2nd DPM; however, LHL found it hard to ask Jayakuma to retire; similarly, it was hard not to offer SM to GCT, who, even if he wanted to leave (and of course GCT wants to stay), he could not say no without implying that LKY should not stay; so they end up all staying, preventing younger ministers from getting promoted<BR/><BR/>further, those with new ideas dare not raise them without being sure that the older guys would approve; all those promising future stars end up just keeping quiet<BR/><BR/>this situation could last another 10 years, 20... the old guys really ought to invent some other roles for themselves; go and do charity work like bill gates and warren buffett; create a senate; design retirement homes for themselves on the beach in sentosa...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539995.post-1160002806509446102006-10-05T07:00:00.000+08:002006-10-05T07:00:00.000+08:00CLINGING ON TO THE PAST?The 1965 views of MM have ...CLINGING ON TO THE PAST?<BR/><BR/>The 1965 views of MM have no place in 21st century Singapore today. <BR/><BR/>They show a failure to understand the enormous political, economic and social changes that have swept through our world in the past few decades. <BR/><BR/>It is indeed a challenge now for the elite to cling on to restrictive, authoritarian political power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com