The secretaries of various functions (i.e. ministers) do not have responsibilities to represent the people who elect them. They can focus on running their departments well. ”

Agree on your point about running their depts well. The ministers’ time is spread so thinly to attend to so many umpteen social functions in the wards they rep, it is a wonder how they could have trime for anything else. There is a human limit to multitasking.

looking at these bla bla bla folks,

not sure commoners tax paid, is it worth?

aiyoyo

1) A Mr K. got in due to his “talents”. He rubs the PM well and is able to recommend his similarly talented … err “large pool of capable individuals”, who soon join him in Parliament. $10K++/mth a piece.

2) E.g. the current STTA saga. Say LBW got democratically booted out by the PEOPLE in next election(?), regardless whether she is really devil or saint. So, loss of a person that got Singapore a silver medal after 48 years with only 1 month at the helm of STTA — read as quick results in short time = very capable leader. To ensure continual success in 2012 games, she get re-appointed back as, say, Sr Sport Minister due to her passion for TT, proven record of steering STTA to an Olympic medal 2008 and whatever good points that got her in Parliament in first place. $14K++/mth, slight EQ/mouth deficient.

Actually that is exactly what is being done in Malaysia. Some of the UMNO losers in the March 08 GE got appointed as Senators, so they could be appointed as Ministers. I believe the woman who lost to Anwar’s daughter was one of them.

Allow me to digress, my fren wants me to ask a question :
Given there are so many talents based on the 81 talents in the house, why none of these join the Alternative party to make singapore Democracy proud and more robust?

Time to have my siesta.

Just like what the people here has suggested, it seems that this is like a move to defend their power position…the way it is, the way they are doing it, we should really just hand them a one party state on a silver platter and we will become like some place a little to the north-west

There’s nothing I can say.

Think about it. If key positions or ministerial position holders are chosen and not elected then General Election is meaningless. We might as well call ourselves Singapore Limited…… and all of us are just employees…. not citizens anymore.

The PAP has always been against checks to be put in place as what MP Low of WP raised it up in Parliament. If PAP has been honest and have high integrity, what is the problem of checks being put in place?

This economic crisis has woken up many citizens, so that is why this big and radical changes going to take place. Singapore is not an unique country from the world, we do not need to dilute democracy to suit ourselves. It is a myth that PAP has been telling everyone that the freedom and rights of HUMAN of the western world do not suit us. We are HUMAN too.

All it shows is that the PAP is a party that has reached a dead end, that it is unable to attract talented and caring Singaporeans to join it and that it is bankrupt of new ideas.

This puts the lie, once and for all, to the MMs thesis that “it is necessary to pay top dollars to get the best brains to join government”. No amount of money will draw some people to join the present PAP government.

The PAP government in 1965 was a different one. Today, it is a different beast.

Gerald,
i assume you mean its already not like that and just that you fear it might become that?