The govt's hypocrisy

[Confuseous]

2) When we have more scandals of the public service involving hundreds of millions of tax payers money, why is the government attempting to undermine the crimes? The Straits Times reported that a report will be made public to show that the number of fraud cases by public servants are ‘consistent’ throughout the years. To me, if each scandal is to involve so much money, one fraud is one too many. Lee Kwan Yew said before that he has absolutely ZERO tolerance for corruption. As such, should we even tolerate a single case? Sure, there’s always the ‘human is prone to error and temptation’ reasoning but please don’t even bring this up. By bringing this up, it only goes to show the lack of sincerity and resoluteness in admitting to the incompetence of the government. As a citizen who pays taxes, I am not interested in the ‘consistency’ of fraud cases involving public service officials. I am more interested in how can this be solved, how can monetary control issues be tightened, and whether the money lost can be recovered.

If the number of fraud cases are ‘consistent’ over a number of years, it only meant one thing. There are loopholes in the system and the government had failed to tightened it throughout the years. This spells incompetence. I mean, what else can it imply? Why would any company or organization continue to allow such frauds to happen over and over again? Is it because the ministers don’t feel the pinch since they continue to collect their millions?

Don’t go around defending saying there is nothing the minister can do. If there are loopholes, only the ones at the ministerial level can tighten, especially when the recent cases involve the top officials of various agencies, including the supposedly upholder of justice CPIB. Unless of course, they can well benefit from these loopholes as well. As the ones overseeing the government, the ministers have the responsibility to look into this issue to ensure such cases do not happen again. Isn’t there supposed to be some kind of multiple approvals and controls when it comes to money? And most importantly, why isn’t such fraud uncovered during audits by the AGO?

-http://sgpublicpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/hypocrisy/

 

[Leongsam]

Having zero tolerance does not mean that there will be zero cases. Those with character defects are always at risk and need to be weeded out one crook at a time no matter how long it takes.

In the meantime, the importation of foreigners to take the place of these crooked Singaporeans takes on a greater urgency.

I agree that fraud cases should not be consistent. The rate should be going down and the way to ensure that this happens is to improve the quality of the people hired by the civil service by increasing the proportion of new citizens within the ranks of the public service.

LKY was right about Singaporeans going soft and no longer willing to put in the hard yards. It seems that there are a growing number who want the trappings or wealth without having to work for it so they simply help themselves to money that isn't theirs. Hopefully this problem can be put to bed when new citizens with a better work ethic take over positions of responsibility.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

Having zero tolerance does not mean that there will be zero cases. Those with defective genes are always at risk and need to be weeded out one crook at a time no matter how long it takes.

In the meantime, the importation of foreigners to take the place of these crooked Singaporeans takes on a greater urgency.

I agree that fraud cases should not be consistent. The rate should be going down and the way to ensure that this happens is to improve the quality of the people hired by the civil service by increasing the proportion of new citizens within the ranks of the public service.

This is ostrich thinking. Do you not see that the best foreigners are choosing to go to first world countries like the US, the western european countries, Australia, and New Zealand? Singapore only gets the half-baked rejects who cannot make it elsewhere, or who merely want to use SG as a stepping stone to build up a resume before getting on board with the rest of their colleagues in the western nations. Giving new citizens and foreigners a greater role in civil service and the political space is only begging for disaster to happen. What kind of values do they bring? They are not going to bring first world values to our system. They are going to bring 3rd world mentalities.

 

[freedalas]

Having zero tolerance does not mean that there will be zero cases. Those with defective genes are always at risk and need to be weeded out one crook at a time no matter how long it takes.

In the meantime, the importation of foreigners to take the place of these crooked Singaporeans takes on a greater urgency.

I agree that fraud cases should not be consistent. The rate should be going down and the way to ensure that this happens is to improve the quality of the people hired by the civil service by increasing the proportion of new citizens within the ranks of the public service.

Wrong again, Leongsam. The way to bring down the corruption rate is for the PAP to stop its own greediness and being money faced. It is the PAP insatiable appetite for more and more that has influenced the civil service mindset as well, and to the extent we now see of very high profile corruption cases. As the chinese saying goes "When the beams are crooked so would be the pillars". If the PAP seriously wants to arrest the corruption trend we are witnessing, it should look at itself first, and search their souls as to what sort of negative values it had been imparting. In Singapore, any thing that goes wrong has its source with the PAP.

 

[Leongsam]

it should look at itself first, and search their souls as to what sort of negative values it had been imparting. In Singapore, any thing that goes wrong has its source with the PAP.

The government doesn't impart values it is parents who impart values. If Sinkies have lost their morality, the fault lies within the family.

Anyway this is water under the bridge as the next generation of singaporeans will be of superior stock as they are children of the more resilient new singaporeans who have a far better work ethic.

 

[winnipegjets]

LKY was right about Singaporeans going soft and no longer willing to put in the hard yards. It seems that there are a growing number who want the trappings or wealth without having to work for it so they simply help themselves to money that isn't theirs. Hopefully this problem can be put to bed when new citizens with a better work ethic take over positions of responsibility.

They are just learning from their master. The difference is that the masters know how to 'legalize' it while these goondus, while scholars, violate the law of the land.
One less scholar, $68 million saved.