Wasting talents – I dunno what to say

Looking at the generals and commissioners stripped off their uniforms, medals and stars and in civvy in the hawker centres and MRT stations, like selling ‘ma piow po’ is quite pathetic. I just dunno what to say. These are highly trained men where millions have been invested in them to be fighting fit soldiers and policemen, and now they are asked to peddle something that they are not trained for. Do we have so many talents to spare, to take them from their professions to do something that is Greek to them, or something they may not have the temperament for? The move from the uniformed organizations to politics required a total change in personality and style, from authority to servitude, or at least during an election. Now they have to salute to everyone in the streets.

The lost of talents would include losing good medical doctors, lawyers and the professions, with no guarantee that they would do well in politics. Many have proven to be life fish out of water.

Do we really want to do this, to make a fool out of very good men and women, having invested heavily in them  and seeing them excelling in their profession, only to be lured into a profession that they may not be cut out for?

Look at them carefully, after being in the commands of armies and police forces and now begging the men in the street, forcing a big smile so uncharacteristic of their experience and profession, and asking strangers, please vote for me, please vote for me. What a pathetic sight to make them do it. Really, this is a good career change?

At best, the govt would gain a good politician but the forces or professions would lose one of their best. At worst, the professions would lose the service of one of their best and the govt gains a dud, a misfit. We have seen them, talking nonsense without knowing it and achieving nothing in politics, making an ass of themselves.

What a shame! What a misallocation of good and limited talent that we needed so badly. Is this a clever thing to do?