Talking Point – A special moment

I caught a couple of minutes of Tuesday’s Talking Point programme in CNA. I couldn’t remember what was the exact title of the discussion but it was all about public transport and how to improve it. The local counterpart Sinkie expert was a professori. And when probed, he gave the standard govt reply of all the shortcomings and excuses that we have heard for the last century. Oops, I am exaggerating.
 
One particular hilarious moment was the question of whether it would be better to nationalize the public transport system and then came the parroted answers, it would become inefficient, the operators would skive and lack the motivation to improve the quality of the service, service quality would fall. Basically it would just rot. They forgot to say that the operators or management would become marbok or would be waiting for bribes or else would not work. In short, once it became a public service run by civil servants they would all forget about working, about responsibility, about excellence, and spent their time drinking kopi. And nothing could be done to them. No one will be watching over them to kick their asses.
 
The Hongkie expert roared into hilarious laughter on hearing these. He was shock into disbelief that such stupid arguments could be uttered in public by supposedly respectable people and professionals, including very top people. I squirmed too.
 
How silly can Sinkies be to believe in such craps? The instant and spontaneous reaction of the Hongkie expert only showed how stupid Sinkies are to allow this nonsense to be repeated over and over again and for stupid people to say it again and again without knowing how stupid they sounded. Didn’t they know they looked silly saying it?
 
So? Never mind. It is group think like they said.