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Read 'President must engage govt in economic policies: Tan Jee Say' from our blog SingaporeScene on Yahoo!. Presidential candidate Tan Jee Say said on Thursday that a President who wants to be an effective unifying figure must engage the government on its economic policies. This is because the curre...
I am wary of his stance. He is striking at the roots but his ideas as I could remember from the hustings of the last GE weren't clear enough. Will they work? But this isn't the point. He would never be able persuade the sitting government. These stuff is for debating in parliament and not the Presidency because it will damage the performance of the duties of the President. Very simply the President and the government would be seen as two opposing forces. How will he unify us? How will he gain the cooperation of the civil service, which will naturally be uncooperative and try to withhold info from him. Singapore would be divided between the President and the Government camps. This is ridiculous.
I am unhappy with every candidate. He better explain with examples how what he has suggested can be done.
Every candidate tries to do too much! That's not the mark of wisdom. For my children's sake, think Yoda. Remember how Yoda thought and acted in the first episode of the animated series, Star Wars: the clone wars.
Wisdom is less doing and more positioning. Superior wisdom is about positioning oneself to make that nudge, that makes the difference. That's why the President doesn't need that much executive power to do his job. As most people aren't wise, but at least with common sense, it is a tall order to ask us to choose wisely and well.
I fear freak outcomes. You see, I don't have the wisdom.
"You see, I don't have the wisdom"
ReplyDeleteConcur. The parliament and cronies now are now incapable of checking the govt and raising and follow up important issues for fear of retaliation of who-know-who, who will then ? So let's break away the tradition and rationality in this case of having to debate in parliament (wow lah, didn't we know that our parliament is circus and wayang all along ?), and use other means to achieve them, not that I have the wisdom. At least can try rather than do nothing like useless nathan who has no quell to earn millions and do nothing.
I don't blame you to think this way since our Emperor has programmed lesser mortals to think one way and so has setup boundary and checkmate already. So to counter the regime that we have to step into territory unthink and untry of in first place ! We have to stay unpredictable and apply guerrilla tactics to achieve it our objective. If Tan Jee Say just follow the rules setup by dictator, how effective can he be ? If ex-president Ong had just follow Lee, how can he be a good president ?