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20130321 HDB showed a Direct Sure Key to Singapore Success

20130321 HDB showed a Direct Sure Key to Singapore Success http://bettersingapore.blogspot.sg/2013/03/20130321-hdb-showed-direct-sure-key-to.html Today, former Chief Executive of HDB, Dr Liu Thai Ker shared the history of HDB at the Ministry of National Development Auditorium. This is an important sharing at a critical moment. It is so important because today, we are at a junction of where is Singapore heading. We have been prospering, our policies, strategies have been admired, even emulated by many around the world.  Yet in the name of growth, we have abandoned the key institutions, the core principles that bring about our success. Key Mission of HDB - provide affordable housing for all, latter, when HDB succeeded in doing so, HDB developed to provide better housing for all. One singular body with  clear mandate,  without competition,  yet able to be efficient, expedient,  decisive in achieving the objectives,  good lon...

20130320 Why 3PM Must Immediately Step Down

20130320 Why 3PM Must Immediately Step Down http://bettersingapore.blogspot.sg/2013/03/20130320-why-3pm-must-immediately-step.html This is not about giving priority to Singaporeans as General Tan Chuan Jin is saying. After decades, the 3PM is still not able to create jobs suitable for a first world nation's citizens, all literate, many college graduates. You read 3PM concluding speech on the White paper, he said we need the foreign talent to come to do construction, to take care of the old age, and he pause, paused.. He does not know what type of jobs other than these domestic expenditure jobs he can create. These jobs do not help our export, do not earn income for us to buy water, rice, ikan billis, never mind about petrol and spares for SMRT. These increase our import of sand, cement, steel... These speed up bleeding our wealth for more construction workers, nurses... More cheap labors, angry cheap labors, going on more MC, turn up late for work, sit on cranes after ...