Ngiam Tong Dow stirring up a storm?

Perhaps the opportunity wasn't available, may be it was just inconvenient, Ngiam Tong Dow should have reminded readers how LHL rue that it is going to be harder to recruit political talent (sic) going forward because election outcomes are more uncertain. My reaction to that is these are exactly the wrong people to become ministers! These are fair weather leaders. How to trust them?

Many of us even from a distance feel this to be true. Now we have someone who had been in the thick of it admitting as much.

Furthermore what Ngiam explained here dovetailed perfectly into what the psychologists and economists have learned about skewed incentives paying top corporate honchos.

Perhaps we solved the problem of attracting smart people to serve in government but we are being self defeated by the solutions at the same time.

Here is one very important line from the interview. Ngiam said,

"I think they don't feel for the people; overall there is a lack of empathy"

Hits the nail on its head. A matter of time the policies from such people will be rejected by voters. They are uncaring, suspicious, brutal and they hurt. Every mistake is for the long term good but what a nebulous long term.

Transcript of full interview at SMA.org

I don't think the government will respond to this interview. Good luck to them.






Update: October 11

Is there a back story? Who knows? I was wrong to think that the government would just ignore this, which I feel is the smarter thing to do. They must think too many of us are still kids and cannot judge for ourselves. There are always quite a few who can and their numbers are growing.

Quick on the heels of Ngiam's clarification we got this from the PM.