You can't take wealth with you when you check out so what's the point . The PAP should forget about trying to create wealth. It brings neither happiness nor contentment.
The PAP should concentrate instead on creating a just and fair society where everyone is provided with the basic health care, a good education, a pension in old age and an environment where everyone wakes up in the morning looking forward to a fulfilling and meaningful day ahead.
Simplistic and wrong.
The government of any country must foster entrepreneurship, constantly pursue policies that maximize job creation, build sound infrastructure for economic and social activity, and establish laws that protect property and individual rights. These are the conditions that lead to what we term "wealth creation" at a national level. Wealth creation (in addition to border security, law enforcement, and management of international relations) is the fundamental responsibility of every government. To ask a government to "forget about wealth" is a contradiction to the very basis of governance.
The PAP should create an economic climate where each Singaporean has a fighting chance, not the current situation where monopolies are not only condoned but fostered, where property owners squeeze out small time hawkers and businessmen with exorbitant rentals. Reagan's "trickle down" economic works only to some extent. The government must proactively level the playing field by keeping its prying hands out of private enterprise and actively stamping out economic rent-seeking wherever it occurs.
The issue is not just about waking up each morning and feeling fabulous. It is about living in a just society where all stratas of the economic scale are taken care of equally.
Indeed basic health care and education is the responsibility of the govt. But beyond that the govt has many other duties to its citizens, and part of those duties include fostering a democratic, fair, and free market economy for all participants from the simple taxi driver to the big CEO.
