An opinion piece from a Washington Post columnist on Wednesday praised Singapore‘s public policy achievements, citing the country as a shining example the United States could learn from.
The writer, Matt Miller, is a fan of Singapore’s “benevolent dictatorship”, and listed several areas which impressed him in spite of the island nation’s anti-gay laws and denial of press and assembly freedom.
Citing Singapore as a “policy wonk’s paradise”, the weekly columnist on economic and other domestic policy issues highlighted Singapore’s stunning economic development and also former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s enforcement of anti-corruption practices.
Singapore’s transport system also impressed Miller. Apart from running “the world’s best airline” (Singapore Airlines), the city state, he said, also boasts gorgeous subways, electronic road pricing that is “every wonk’s dream”, and ample parking spaces in the city.
On the issue of housing, Miller states that in the U.S., “public housing means ghetto”. However, praising Singapore’s national strategy of helping locals own their own homes, he cited that 80 per cent of people live in public housing and almost everyone owns their homes.
Miller also highlighted Singapore’s fiscal strength, praising the Central Provident Fund model, stating that it helps build up financial assets that can be used to assist locals in buying homes, covering medical expenses and preparing for retirement.
While admitting that “Singapore is hardly perfect”, with its long-ruling People’s Action Party getting too complacent and out of touch, Miller provided his readers with the biggest take away from his column:
“While Americans fight endlessly about “big government” vs. “small government” yet do nothing to meet our biggest challenges, Singapore has ignored ideological claptrap and focused relentlessly on what works… Singapore thus stands as the leading modern example of how government as pragmatic problem-solver can dramatically improve people’s lives.”
Is Singapore a model for other countries?
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Is Singapore a model for other countries?
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to other countries yes
to ourselves no
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Natural.
We want to copy them, they want to copy us.
London has Congestion Charge, that one copy our ERP.
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economic model yes perhaps while country is developing gender policy biased towards females - do you want? socio-psychological framework - totally lack emotional and sensitivity quotient
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Originally posted by winsomeea:
Is Singapore a model for other countries?
Yahoo!
Newsroom – Thu, May 3,
2012An opinion piece from a Washington Post columnist on Wednesday praised Singapore‘s public policy achievements, citing the country as a shining example the United States could learn from.
The writer, Matt Miller, is a fan of Singapore’s “benevolent dictatorship”, and listed several areas which impressed him in spite of the island nation’s anti-gay laws and denial of press and assembly freedom.
Citing Singapore as a “policy wonk’s paradise”, the weekly columnist on economic and other domestic policy issues highlighted Singapore’s stunning economic development and also former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s enforcement of anti-corruption practices.
Singapore’s transport system also impressed Miller. Apart from running “the world’s best airline” (Singapore Airlines), the city state, he said, also boasts gorgeous subways, electronic road pricing that is “every wonk’s dream”, and ample parking spaces in the city.
On the issue of housing, Miller states that in the U.S., “public housing means ghetto”. However, praising Singapore’s national strategy of helping locals own their own homes, he cited that 80 per cent of people live in public housing and almost everyone owns their homes.
Miller also highlighted Singapore’s fiscal strength, praising the Central Provident Fund model, stating that it helps build up financial assets that can be used to assist locals in buying homes, covering medical expenses and preparing for retirement.
While admitting that “Singapore is hardly perfect”, with its long-ruling People’s Action Party getting too complacent and out of touch, Miller provided his readers with the biggest take away from his column:
“While Americans fight endlessly about “big government” vs. “small government” yet do nothing to meet our biggest challenges, Singapore has ignored ideological claptrap and focused relentlessly on what works… Singapore thus stands as the leading modern example of how government as pragmatic problem-solver can dramatically improve people’s lives.”+1 to Anti gay laws. Everything else is a mistake not to be repeated.
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The other governments should learn from ours on how to milk dry it's citizens of $$
eg.
COE (You can't get better than this man -_-" and it only have a 10 yr shelf life!)
CPF (You mkt it as the citizen's savings and make it impossible for them to take back their money)
HDB (You make them believe they own the shoebox apartment)
ERP (Road congestion has never been a better excuse)
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Singapore’s transport system also impressed Miller. Apart from running “the world’s best airline” (Singapore Airlines), the city state, he said, also boasts gorgeous subways, electronic road pricing that is “every wonk’s dream”, and ample parking spaces in the city.
Talk what cock?
Do you agree with the points raised by Matt Miller in praising the Singapore model?
I think Matt Miller can go to hell.
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Originally posted by mancha:
Natural.
We want to copy them, they want to copy us.
London has Congestion Charge, that one copy our ERP.
our courts and education are modeled after the english for obvious reasons.
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The author clearly doesn't have a firm grasp on reality.
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Another sucessfully model that Singapore created for the world are Maths Problem Sum Model Drawing, Corrective Work Order,National Service, GST, ISA,Canning, banning of chewing gums and other "contraband", $100 Casino Entry Fee and Char Kway Teow in our garden city.
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Nope. I don't.
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Originally posted by Jacky Woo:
our courts and education are modeled after the english for obvious reasons.
Education system, there were two, one was based on the british colonial education system and was used to train colonial privileged elites. Lee Kuan Yew is a peranakan, he was trained in this system.
The other was the chinese education system, modelled after the KMT system in China.
That one was destroyed by Lee Kuan Yew for being a political threat to PAP rule.
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No.
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Is Singapore a model for other countries?
No mother fucking way.
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pee arse leh cool