2
and half years passed since the last GE and it is about time to do an assessment
on how the govt had been doing. The massive housing problem has started to show
some result. The backlog of housing needed has temporarily been transferred to
the waiting list of units under construction. I won’t give credit to this as it
was a self created problem due to bad management. In fact the govt should
apologise to all the home buyers who ended up paying very unreasonable high
prices. The fear of a runaway housing price has been removed. But the price is
still high as it is still hovering at near its peak after more than doubling or
tripling in the last decade.
The train continues its routine breakdown and disruption of services like a new normal of the 3rd World. Maybe we are having too many foreign engineers running it and so this is the standard to be accepted.
The
huge influx of foreigners is still in the country and still growing. The number
of cheats caught was more like a token, like they said, a little wayang. The
FCF and paying an Indian company to check on Indian certificates is looking
more like jokes.
Medical
cost is continuing to rise, shortages of doctors and hospital beds have reached
an epidemic proportion to some critics. University places are still going to
foreigners, including millions of dollars being thrown at them when the money
could go to our children and saved their parents from selling properties to
finance their overseas education. The wastage of our top students going into
medicine and replacing them with questionable medical professionals from
questionable institutions will show its ugly consequences as a matter of time.
Has
anything changed? Some ministers were seen working very hard with some results.
Some were working very hard with no results. Some dunno what they were busy
with. Some were all noise and no substance and attracting ridicules. Some were
looking after dogs and pets and foreigners rather than citizens. Some were
chasing after pampers. Some disappeared, never seen nor heard even in
Parliament.
How
should the report card be written? The apologists will give it a big A to be
accompanied by the big bonuses to be shared. It will be a matter of who would
get more rather than who would get less? Unfortunately this will be a well kept
secret and no one will be wiser. One thing for sure, the public courts of
justice will pass their judgement comes 2016 using their own criteria of
measurement.