Lee Hsien Loong Quotes
I think every administration has a settling-in process. And there's always an adjustment between what you can say during a campaign and what you find are the possibilities and the imperatives when you win the election and you enter the Oval Office.
Lee, Hsien Loong. "HARDtalk, Lee Hsien Loong." Interview by Stephen Sackur. BBC, 28 Feb. 2017.
See {626594} for Polk’s negative view of delegation of any authority or responsibility.
He was referring to the Controversial regulations issued in the 2nd week of the Truimp Administration.. It was the first acttion by President Trump that involved managment and operation of something. It was very badly handled where the epople who had to impliment it in many cases didn't have the same interpretation as the White House. And then the White hosue reversed their interpretation of various aspects when they realized that there were some unanticipated consequences. Not all the government employees agreed with the policy and the usual coordination throughout the government and there was no oppoprtunty for the middle managers to lead their subordinates in implementing the policy. As Baker observed, Government is very different from business and Trump never had any business experience. In American history, there had only been one other President was a wealthy and successful businessman--Herbert Hoover--and he had his difficulties.
When President Trump was campainging for the Presidency he was constanly telling the voters how he was going to freform the tax system, and made it seem that it would be very easy if he had a Repuiblican Congress. He won and had the Republican Congress he wanted, but he was still having difficulty. The great difficulty for all leaders is that almost all Ameicans are in total agreement that the tax code is to comples and unfair. However, there is enourmous divergence and disparity about what should be done to make it fairer and less complex. What is a loophole for one taxpayer is a necessary accomodation to fairness and public policy for another. Every single suggested change produces people who are agisnt it, Sometimes it is a majority and other times a very passionate or rech and powerful mionority.
Lee Hsien Loong is a Singaporean politician and former army general who has served as Prime Minister of Singapore and secretary-general of the People's Action Party (PAP) since 2004. He was deputy prime minister to Goh Chok Tong from 1990 to 2004 and finance minister from 2001 to 2007. His wife is Ho Ching, the CEO of Temasek Holdings.
