A thought about Singapore

Dear All

In today's straits time (13 Aug 08), there was a very small article where a foreigner replied to a Singaporean's article on "Why do foreigners hate Singapore?"

One of his comments was interesting, at least to me. He said that Singapore is not run like other countries. Singapore is run like a company. We hire the best possible managers to give us the best ROI. We are the stakeholders, so we get the dividends. Everyone benefits and are paid. The managers are paid handsomely, the employees are paid and the stakeholders are paid. Interesting ya?

Anyway, to come back to the main cruz of the article, the foreigner said "outsiders" do not hate Singapore because hate is such a strong word, but more importantly, they are more concern about other more important issues like bread and butter issues of their own to "hate" Singapore. He asked the Singapore writer not to be so Singapore-centric and think the world looks to Singapore for solutions. Singapore also studies other countries successful systems and try to implement those solutions here. But anyway, that's the side point of this post. Just a new thought for me today I wished to share with you.

Love Theresa