Minister and PM job in SG may as well be permanent. No way our society will take the plunge and mature into one where we won't just think of the PAP as the only people fit and worthy to rule and lead Singapore.

Back to topic though, gahmen job IS an iron rice bowl job. VERY UNLIKELY for them to retrench on the scale and suddenness of private sector, and if they do it's more because of internal restructuring and changing of operating ideology than because "times are hard".