better add some points while addressing my post, than to "2 thumbs up" like a courtier !
here: read something to understand better options that can be worked out, without selling out the State to the corporations.
Dear Mian Sahib - Dr Farrukh Saleem
Here let me debunk Dr sahib
Sir, starting in 1841, the government of Canada has been successfully managing a whole host of Crown Corporations including Canadian National Railways, Petro-Canada, Air Canada and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by establishing an arms length relationship and shielding these corporations from political intervention.
This isn't 1841 this is 2013
Other then CBC which is being semi privatized all other corporation listed here have been privatized by the Canadian Government long time ago. CBC which is still under government hands is costing over a billion dollars/yr to tax payers while all other corporation listed above have become tax payers and cannot get a dollar worth of bail out period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Sir, in Singapore the economy is completely dominated by corporations owned or controlled by the government (up to 60 percent of the GDP is produced by government-linked corporations).
some one with more extensive knowledge on Singapore can help out here as i am not into oil and ships or financial services.but last i checked Temasek Holdings which controls Singapore Airlines, SingTel, ST Engineering Is investment company.Temasek has claimed that it is not strictly a sovereign wealth fund, in the sense that it "has to sell assets to raise cash for new investments and doesn't require the government to give approvals"
Temasek Holdings is an investment company owned by the Government of Singapore. With an international staff of 380 people, it manages a portfolio of about S$215 billion (US$174 billion) at end of March 2013,
Singapore is the
world's fourth-leading financial centre, and its port is one of the five busiest ports in the world. The economy depends heavily on exports and refining imported goods, especially in manufacturing, which constituted 26% of Singapore's GDP in 2005. In terms of purchasing power parity, Singapore has the third-highest per capita income in the world.
Singapore economy is free of corruption as much as possible. pakistan is among the highest in the world when it comes to corruption.
500Billion/yr is a lot off money which can be used to bring down our debt and make handsome investment in our kids future by giving them free access to better education.