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Yar.... tot Mr WKS is looking after the talent?
There has been a number of discussion on insurance, CPF and the ability to look after oneself. These are recurring themes in this forum and other forums as well.
My sense is that Cabinet ministers follow a remit where they look after a particular function within the wider remit of the Govt where the focus has been on Singapore rather than its citizens.
So we have great airports, roads, subway, port, and pretty much well ahead of most countries including 1st world countries.
But when it comes to local human capital, little or no investment,very little oversight unless they commit a crime or do something socially irresponsible etc. They expected to fend for themselves. The last big initiative where human capital was concerned was 4 decades ago when Lim Kim San led the monumental task of housing the citizens in affordable homes with ready mortgages and good facilities like Hawker Centres.
It is time that a Ministry be created to look after Singapore local human capital. To invest in our own and groom them over the years. Not to run government departments, the SAF or GLCs but to help develop a society that is gracious, highly skilled and integrated - back to a nation.
The current ministry under Chan looks after the less fortunate and welfare cases and therefore not suitable.