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FTrashisation - FAP Traitors is Playing with Fire!
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
http://www.cscollege.gov.sg/Knowledg...Reflection.pdf Reflections on Thirty-Five Years of Public Service: From Espionage to Babies By Eddie Teo On 30 November 2005, Mr Eddie Teo retired as Permanent Secretary (Prime Minister’s Office) as part of the scheme to renew public sector leadership. Mr Teo spent most of his 35 years in the public sector in the Security and Intelligence Division and for several years he also ran the Internal Security Department. He was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence from 1994 to 2000. He then became Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). At PMO he tackled a diverse slate of national issues ranging from encouraging Singaporeans to have more children to National Education. What follows is an edited version of Mr Teo’s farewell address to the Public Service Division and the Civil Service College in November 2005. In February 2006, he will become Singapore’s High Commissioner to Australia. .... Population Issues In PMO, I have also been given jobs that my previous jobs did not prepare me for. For instance, trying to persuade Singaporeans to marry and produce babies. When this was first announced, a journalist friend, who is single, emailed me to wish me luck. She said that I would find it more difficult to raise the total fertility rate (TFR) than to go to war. She was right. After all the goodies we gave out in the last five years, the TFR dropped last year and this year it is likely to rise only a little from 1.24, well short of the replacement rate of 2.1. I guess one could argue that if we had done nothing, the TFR could have dropped even lower, below 1.24. Experience elsewhere seems to suggest that we should temper our expectations. A comprehensive RAND study on the population problems of European Union countries concludes that government policy is likely to slow down the fall in fertility rates, as opposed to halting the fall or bringing them back to replacement level.1 The saving grace for Singapore is that unlike countries like Japan, we can fall back on immigration as a solution. If Singaporeans still do not produce the babies we need, we will have to rely more on foreigners and new citizens to top up our population. Increasing our population through immigration is a delicate exercise that requires deft political handling and public servants must be aware of the social and political issues that have to be addressed. But we may have no other choice as our population continues to shrink and age. If we succeed in attracting more foreigners to become citizens, we have to ensure that they are properly integrated and share Singapore’s core values. Otherwise, we may end up with all sorts of political, social and economic problems which could tear our nation apart. However, if the change is well-managed, we must also be prepared to accept a Singapore which is very different—a more diverse, vibrant and cosmopolitan Singapore, enhanced in its creativity by the richness and depth of a variety of cultures and individuals. Israel is one rare example of a society that recently struggled with absorbing Russian and Ethiopian immigrants but has survived the traumas to emerge richer for the experience. Many European countries have not done so well and are only now waking up to the need to better integrate their immigrants. Another task I have had is to establish a sustainable structure to get many government agencies to work together in engaging overseas Singaporeans—students, businessmen, professionals—so that the Singapore diaspora can continue to contribute to Singapore and some will eventually return. We must stay in touch with them and show them we care if we do not want to lose them for good to other countries. We must put in at least as much effort and resources to engage Singaporeans abroad as we are in reaching out to foreigners. I am happy that agencies have moved from a position of benign neglect to one of keen interest in this subject. its political masters. If its reputation is tarnished as a result of the constant bashing of public servants whenever things go awry, no selfrespecting, bright Singaporean will want to join the public service, no matter how attractive the pay. By convention, public servants do not defend themselves when they are criticized and vilified. If the complaints against them are fair, they should own up, apologise, endeavour to do better, and move on, or move out if the mistake is very serious. But if they are attacked unfairly, public servants depend on the politicians to defend them and speak up for them. Some younger public servants have pointed out that this is happening less frequently nowadays than in the past. Given a more demanding and vocal public, public servants ought to expect more complaints than before, and we will have to establish a new balance which acknowledges the quality of our public service while recognising its shortcomings and the need to constantly improve. Foreigners and new citizens appreciate that we have a first-class Public Service, one of the best in the world. It is only Singaporeans who seem to doubt it. One of the challenges ahead is to realign perceptions so that our Public Service is regarded by all—Singaporeans as well as non- Singaporeans—as first-class. => No wonder the FAP Traitors are so fervent in giving FTrash freebies cos the FTrash are able to sayang their lumber 1 ego, unlike the 'ungrateful' SGs that they are actively sabotaging and trying to replace! Any more doubt that Traitors are running the country now? 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