cabinet reshuffle - old wine in new skin

cabinet reshuffle - good and bad.

good - mah, wong and raymond got sacked for their obvious respective short-fallings.

bad - more than good -

1. khaw go to national development. from what he did in health - shorting people of hospital beds and stinching spending on local doctor education and training and using the pretext taht singapore's health system is the best in the world already. he would be using the same excuse that singapore's housing achievement is the envy of the rest of world, and just sits on its laurel and doing stupid things like cutting down number of newly build units to clear all the stock....hence lengthening the already long queue in the name of achieving efficiency in stock-turns.... like what he did in deciding against building more hospitals in the name of improving efficiency in the medical industry..... bad news for the young first-time hdb buyers.

2. vivian, the snake-head who suddenly turned into an ardent critic of government not in pace with the public(remember how much he was in pace when he answered dr lily neo how much subsidy for the poor?)helming the environment ministry. what will happen? he will be like his old self - twists and turns, getting out of any situation just to avoid pap's rap and without any concern for the people's real plight - orchard rd may not have to endure another flood, but more of singapore's heartland will feel the pinch.

3. shanmugan, tharman taking on two heavy-weight ministry respectively. what does this say about the pap talents? no talent? or too talented? one thing for sure, pap-type of talent is getting lesser and lesser.

4. gan takes on health ministry - another richard-lim calibre not going to come out with any policy that's beneficial to the bulk of singaporeans.

5. new ministers in education and youth..... too much of an unknown.

overall, pm did not understand what the public wants - we want gahmen to give the best to the singaporeans, even though we may already be getting the best comparing with what others are getting in the rest of the world.

bottom-line - do NOT compare with others, just do our sums in what the gahmen get from the people and give back at least 80% to the people.