(1) A bias for action
(2) Close to Customers
(3) Autonomy and Entrepreneurship
(4) Productivity through people
(5) Hands-on value driven
(6) Stick to the knitting (never acquire a business you do not know how to run)
(7) Simple form, lean staff
(Cool Simultaneous loose-tight properties. (both centralized and decentralized)

This has been the common characteristics of successful corporations and perhaps to a large practical extent of government too.

Let the oppositions ponder over this program of change we are talking about and come up with their best practical vision for change.

One example is the PCF-PAP relationship with regards to kindergartens. Political parties cannot form their own kindergartens – unless they deposit a few million dollars with the govt.

Of course, this effectively alienates the opposition parties. Coupled with the limitation on political donations (set at $5,000 per year limit for anonymous donations), only one political party is able to run kindergartens.

While I applaud youths taking part in grassroots activism, I would be more heartened if youths look at the various biases and unfair rules and try to call for changes.

Grassroots activism, if only sanctioned and approved by the PAP govt, will not allow spontaneity and creativity. Not to mention diversity as well – something which the Remaking Singapore initiative was suppose to encourage.

Regards,
Andrew Loh

I am just contributing my two cents’ worth or ideas. Fortunately for the internet, there is a rising awareness among citizens of their right.

The first criterion of a successful government is perhaps the quality of the people. If people are weak and only preoccupy themselves with their own rice bowl and keep promoting government’s propaganda just to be given some positions or advantages all will have to suffer the consequence one day.

That is perhaps why people are about to lose their own retirement CPF quite soon as they are no longer a factor to reckon with and been long taken for granted by a all-powerful government which could simply proclaim people’s CPF as their own monies to solve their own CPF fiasco.

A systemic political agenda for the opposition perhaps will answer to their problems now and it is not too late to adopt one.

PAP’s political or governing philosophy is in the final analysis despite all the claims to the contrary is “to tax, recover costs of governing with whatever means at their disposal in the name of avoiding welfarism and hoard taxes, as surpluses enabling them to do as they like like buying votes with material benefits which perpetuate their rule.

Opposition parties do not yet to come up with any governing philosophy.

If oppositions are to to take over the rule from the PAP they should make known their governing philosophy such as ” to tax reasonably to provide for basic needs and services without profiteering on such services and maximize whatever tax monies they collect and surpluses created to benefit the people e.g. building up their retirement funds, medical needs and lowering costs of living and creating jobs for the citizens.”

Monies spent on foreigners and foreign investments under such a governing philosophy will be eventually returned in the form of endowment funds to support various needs of the people, job creations and lowering costs of living or doing business”

In this way citizens will be looked after and monies from taxes and surpluses will be put to good use where the mouth is instead of being spent on extravagant projects, self-rewards or lost in overseas unwarranted self-glory ventures like shin corp or suzhou which do not truly benefit the people.

Given this alternative governing philosophy, any opposition party wishing to form the government on such agenda will easily accepted by the people who will no doubt support such wisdom.

When the day comes, there is no doubt that PAP will lose its power which is basically one of enriching themselves and the elites and talking about rewarding talents and keeping themselves indirectly.

Such an opposition will find its thinking miles ahead with ability to energize and motivate people as they will treat people as the centre and all policies and will put monies and taxes to good use instead of rewarding only the rich and controlling people’s freedom and undermining democracy to perpetuate their self-centred control philosophy.

The ulterior motive behind all the CDC, RC, etc was part of the total scheme of ruling party to depoliticize, co-op any one with intellectual abilities and set up machinations (grassroot) in order to contain dissent and independent views for their own control purpose.

Go and ask party insider whose idea was it to control political process in this manner and you will know many youths are being used of.

You will end up with no result if you try to change the status quo from inside. You will only end up heart broken if you go any further deeper.