CPIB: What Is Corruption in Singapore?

When I think corruption, my mind hits Lee and Lee. No, not the legal firm that does HDB conveyancing but the father and son team that were recently guests of honour at the sixtieth anniversary of the CPIB. [Link] and [Link] with the son launching a book on the subject of corruption.

Merriam Webster Dictionary defines CORRUPTION as

a : impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle : depravity
b : decay, decomposition
c : inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means (as bribery)
d : a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct

If corruption is an impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle or a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct, then there isn't much that Singapore can be proud of.

Are the following an impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle or a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct?

• CPIB and Elections Department of Singapore under the control of PM's Office
• No upgrading of HDB lifts and flats if one does not vote what the power demands
• Husband is Chairman of GIC and wife is CEO of Temasek Holdings
• Ministers paid in millions but no minimum wage for citizen workers
• CPF for retirement at 55 delayed ad nauseam with Minimum Sum and Medisave continuously increased without the consent of the depositors
• Subsidised price of 99-year lease-hold HDB flats which makes a mockery of the word "SUBSIDISE"! (A subsidy that profiteers?)
• Resorting to calling Casinos (gambling dens actually) Integrated Resorts
• Maliciously injuring the well-being of Singaporeans by importing tsunami of immigrants without a thought to the infrastructure (homes, transportation, hospitals, etc.) to accomodate them
• Arbitrarily locking up Singaporeans through ISD for reasons beyond the understanding of Singaporeans who believe and trust in a democratic society based on justice and equality
• Starting a national conversation that is nothing but a charmed offensive to divert attention from the challenges at hand. Is it merely a teat to pacify a citizenry emboldened now by frustration and disbelief? The Link here demonstrates the farce that's most embarrassing!

The greatest joke or irony of it all is the current Teo Chee Hian's MHA involvement in the letters between Function8 and Archbishop Nicholas Chia. [Link]

Thanks to Lord Acton, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." we are definitely learning more.

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