Class consciousness
Some of the sad responses to Professor Lim Chong Yah’s suggestion of trying to close the disturbing income gap in the country betray the underlying truth about such matters: That it is in the interests of the elite and moneyed class to justify why this cannot be done. Among the protests against common sense suggestions include...
Crossing the line
There are many lines that need to be crossed for things to be made better. For some it is daunting and means ‘crossing the Rubicon’. Recently, it was the attempt to cross the ‘Buffett line’ (or impose the ‘Buffett rule’) which the corporate-owned American congress stopped Obama from doing. The US is predictably prevented...
The problem of bureaucratism
The most amazing thing about the discourse around the recent government committee recommendations on procurement problems of the bureaucracy here is two-fold: first, that it may have been a problem for some time and it seems that only recently this has finally come to light. The general public will draw its own conclusions as...
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