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Monthly Archives: May 2006

The incompetence of your bureaucrats undermines good economic policy

Thursday, May 11, 2006

This submission on Tomorrow.sg points to a post from Gayle Goh a National Education dialogue in which, if the blog post is accurate, a certain bureaucrat displays utter incompetence, both in public relations terms and in terms of explaining economic policy.
“We have to be realistic. There is a limit to how much re-training we [...]

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Your sophistication stops at calibrated coercion

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

For all their supposed sophistication at managing dissent and controlling the information available to the electorate [here and here], this election has revealed a glaring weakness in the ruling party’s capabilities.
They simply don’t know when to keep their mouths shut.
In particular the one most guilty would be this certain man who’s title is named after [...]

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Its time for you to go

Monday, May 8, 2006

Evidently, your age is starting to show. Your mental faculties might still be as sharp as ever, but clearly you have lost your manners and sense of civility. You sound like an arrogant asshole most of the time, and when you don’t, you sound like a whiny bitch.
Your continued presence is preventing the younger generations [...]

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