I am as a foreigner always considered Singapore as country of
common sense less affected by distructive leftist ideas of the
modern Western World. And the extraodinary economic success would
be the best protection from populist politians using the idea
of "taking away and divide" to manipulate and use the majority of
weak, envious and unsuccessful.
But even here the voice of anti-establishment (means
anti-successful and pro-unsuccessful) left-liberals becomes
louder. For example, a user ChangeCanHappen writes:
"I'd partially agree with you. But while the normal
distribution is pervasive when it comes to salary earning of a
population, the standard deviation of the curve can be affected
both positively or negatively depending on the government's style
of governance.
As it stands, I'm afraid the standard deviation is already too
great for a country that is supposedly "first class", and may get
even larger if something is not done to correct the
situation.
High standards of living should mean high standards for everyone,
or at the very least, the majority of the population. Not just for
a select few. Sometimes I ask myself: What new significant and
beneficial developments have we seen, since 10 years ago in
1998?"
This sententions come from the main idea of modern
left-fundamentalist propaganda: successful clever and
strong people owe unsuccessful dumb and weak, and the role
of governmet is to take away from successful and devide between
unsuccessful.
In this world nobody owes nobody and any attempt
of forcible redistribution of wealth will lead to socilaism and
economic collapse. You, S-poreans, live your life in perfectly
organised society and just don't realize how lucky you are to had
as a ruler such a talented man. You bash your govenment for high
electricity costs and forget that millions of people die from
starvation, wars, lack of medical service all over the world. Look
at Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, Cuba,
North Korea, Venezuela. This could have happen to your country, if
there were no Lee!
You will live, die and nobody will rememeber you after death, but
Lee Quan Yew will be remembered forever as a
political genious of 20th century, as a visioner, who gave
a new hope to the mankind, collapsing under distructive left
ideology. And the first country to honor Lee will be PRC. It was
Lee who tought Deng Xiaoping how to use all achievements of Western
Society and bypass all traps. Lee's Singapore was an example of the
way out for China.
All these leftist anti-government invectives in the S-pore internet
bashers just show how right is Mr. Lee Quan Yew in his restriction
of democracy...
Now we see from Europe and US that full democracy and universal
suffrage sooner or later lead to socialism. American Founding
Fathers knew that 150 years ago...
Hi Tyler Tim,LKY was an honest socialist who nationalised
villages and appropriated the vast farmlands of landlords for a
pilthy amount so that HDB flats could be sold to Kampong dwellers
at costs plus (land priced at almost free). His son however,
believes in inflation targeting and selling public housing at
bubble market prices minus a bogus subsidy. In years of salary
terms, the price of public housing circa 1960 compared to today is
a world of difference.
Yes, praise the father for being a socialist in the true sense,
earning a low pay but doing the most work.
Unfortunately, his son now is no chip of the old block, earning
the highest pay in the world yet doing the least work to help the
poor. Enjoy the nostalgia of the LKY era by all means, but do not
be mistaken, many of today's PAP policies resemble bait and switch
curse of communism: "some are more equal than others"- the PAP of
today is on its way down...
When once affordable public housing (hpusing 90% of popuoation)
is no longer affordable to the public, can the government still
deserve that much in terms of respect?
