Three changes needed for Singapore !!

What we need is a Obama who will rise up from the people to ask for Change. The first change needed is honesty and integrity in governing the country for the good of all. Second change is to democratize the laws and regulations, the institutions serving the people. Third change is to return all assets and lands belonging to the people to provide services including public housing without extorting randsom fees and exhorbitant profits to be lost on all the overseas investments by the billions. These three major policy changes are good enough to help us oversome problems with rising costs of living, housing and fair play and justice. No need to ask for more!!! ...................... Leaders should be people who are honest, who are prepared to lead by example. Pappies have been known to be talk-down leaders who deem people as objects for taxing, privatizing and profiteering to enrich the elites and the rich and the foreigners. Now they want to engage citizens in national conversation. Will the leopard change its sspots? If they truly are honest about change, they should start with treating people with respect and not like now as objects for exploitation. The first step is to use lands and assets of people to serve them and their basic needs aand aspirations. This type of taxing privatising and profiteering is sucking up too much monies from the people affecting our competitiveness and economic survival. Suspend all the privatizations on essential services like utility, healthcare, education, public housing, eldercare and childcare. Stop all the abuses and wrongful acts of playing to the foreigners. When we are resilient, foreigners will come to respect us more. Change this draconian wrongful policy of LKY and start serving the people where the mouth is. .................... The root cause of our current economic stalemate is not lack of foreign workers. It is wholesale failure of the government in promoting practical knowledge applications in our education system. If we had taken that route years back we will have many more entrepreneurs in our population to work the economic engine. Today we are becoming a country of educated unemployed with degree holders driving taxis. .................... With positive attitude we could then truly live better and more productive lives and harness the social forces at work. The common way of expressing such a positive attitude is in relation to change, purpose of existence or happiness. Benjamin Desraeli, had observed that “A sense of existence is the greatest happiness”. St Augustine had said: “Happiness counts in the attainment of our desires and in our having right desires” Sereca had said "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person in a certain set of attitudes". George Bernard Shaw had noted that “progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” Robert Louis Stevenson had stated thus: “to be what we are and to become what we are capable of is the only end in life". Mahatma Gandhi, had advised that “we must be the change we want to see in the world” and "if you want something really important to be d one, you must not only satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also". Earl Nightingale had observed that: "Our attitude towards life determines life's attitude towards us". Antoine de Saint – Exupery had stated : “The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but by our attitudes towards them” Thomas Jefferson had held that "Nothing can stop the men with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal" Hence, change is a matter of attitude. There is a force called Tao that rules the universe and our lives. By living with such a force we can live happier lives. However to be positive is not all, we need to interact with people with two-way social exchange, Sun Tzu Art of War and Goleman's EQ-IQ interactions are both practical way of interacting with people. By being positive in our attitude, passionate, persistent, service-oriented, we influence people to add values to relationships for the good of all. Such two-way interaction is in conformity with the Tao Te dualism – doing of the right things. Being positive is one thing. To be able to take the first step is quite another. Peter Drucker widely regarded as the father of modern management had noted that "it is most important to do the right things rather than doing the things right". (an exerpt from book "Forces of Change" by Robert Teh) read www.politicaldiscussions.blogspot.com