0155. let's face it. our country is filled with some 6 million folks from different walks of live, of different skin colour, blood types, whatever have you but there is a small percentage of this number that earn vastly different amounts of salary from the rest of the population.
i shant mention who, but roughly speaking, it's the people who introduced things like SEE PEE EFF, YEE ARR PEE and use EYE ASS AYE to detain those who go up against them.
oops, im sorry. i shouldnt mention the last component though, cos to me it now means incompetent security act. im sure instead of arresting me for writing this, they would be spending more time either reflecting upon their mistakes or trying harder so that the escaped terrorist finally gets screwed by the long arms of the law.
i dont deny it. this minute island is clean, orderly, generally well fed and what not. but i feel that it's only a PR image the fellas in the white costumes with the fat paychecks portray. if you think harder and analyse deeper... we're not safe anymore and we're not really as good as we'd imagine ourselves to be.
any mrt station may blow up anyday now if you bother to be a tad more paranoid these days. pfft. the men in white should try even harder instead of sitting there putting more zeroes behind their payrolls by leeching off us. i should say, very smart of them to announce and share the bread crumbs with us while they quietly pocket the lard themselves.
damn it, i seriously cant wait to get out of this poophole!
ps: if i could blame them for the friggin' humid weather, i would too!
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we've never been safe-- or that well administered. the civil service has simply been lucky so far, and even then it's got a rather spotty record of rather dubious policies which have ruined a large number of people.
govt services in any country are a bureaucratic mess and very dysfunctional-- from my experience, ours is not any better to warrant such a premium price.
at this price, corruption is definitely cheaper, and in this case more effective because of the feedback from the ground.
it doesn't take a lot of brains/effort/talent to govern a country poorly: even dictatorships around the world can continue operating for decades.
the truth is that our policy decisions are motivated by KPIs for promotion (ie, the number of policy changes enacted when a new civil servant is rotated in), backed by information from google and wikipedia(without verification from official sources), fallacies like 'if X country is doing their ___ like this then we should be doing it too', actions to enhance their future careers outside the civil service, or skewing tender results in favour of the companies they are closest to, and overwhelmingly dominated by bossthink. on the concept of accountability, the strategy is to get as many people to sign off on everything as possible so the blame is diffused throught the system and no one needs to take responsibility. ultimately, the civil service folks don't really care, because what they say doesn't matter anyway and they're just serving out their bonds so they can move on to more lucrative careers.
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