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Paying high salaries to top professionals to entice them to serve as PAP leaders has long been a government strategy. In the past it worked but in today’s changed environment, less so. "Parachute leader", Major-General (NS) Chan Chun Sing - people who were taken from army barracks or an executive suite and turned... 

部长职位通过非选区议员身份出租，的确证明行动党知道未来的大选，将会有更多现任部长落选。因此，需要通过非选区议员这种变通，来出租部长职位，填补空缺。 组屋出租和部长出租有啥不同? 包租公包租婆不能理解，政府让他们把组屋出租，赚取租金，为何跟部长职位出租给非选区议员有什么关系？难道，这些出租部长还会把议员津贴分给包租公包租婆吗？不是的。他们的共同点是行动党的变色龙政策，政策改变后的结果。 这50年来，行动党的变色龙本色一直都没有改变。为了目的，什么原则，什么基本的理念，都是可以改变的。因此，组屋从居者有其屋，发展到今天组屋出租，这里面就可以创造不少经济利益。包租公包租婆赚的是租金，政府赚的可就大了-... 

I refer to Joseph Stiglitz’s recent article in the New York Times. Stiglitz holds Singapore up as a model of how to achieve rapid economic growth while prioritizing social equity and income equality. He even goes as far as say that Singapore demonstrates that reducing income inequality is a necessary condition for rapid...