Current - as in the Year 2009 ?
Current Prosperity ?
What prosperity - when we are in a period of recession ?
What prosperity - when the majority of Singaporeans are still
struggling - some with two jobs to survive, and young graduates
cannot even afford to get married before 30 years of age ?
The current status quo has been ongoing since 1987 - when he
began griping about Singaporeans marrying late, marrying down, and
not producing enough.
If LKY loses another few 100 Billions from overseas financial
adventures, we will end up back to 1957 - when he first took over
the State Government with an empty Treasury left by then Chief
Minister Lim Yew Hock.
I guess it is with your definition of prosperity.
I consider that easy access to food, water, relative social
stability(jobs for one, though that is changing with the economic
crisis) and medical attention as the hallmarks of prosperity.
I won't say internet is a need, but it is handy to accquire
information and knowledge.
Any more than that is being greedy, and extremely vague.
What more do you want? You certainly have more than what you
physically need, that is certainly better than the 1
billion that did not have access to clean water and the 2
billion without electricity.
Singapore has remained secular despite being surrounded by pre
dominantly Muslim nations (though i suspect that would change with
the strength and wealth of Christianity here).
Your issue with Singaporeans marrying late is happening across
Taiwan, Japan, HongKong, Shanghai..etc. As long as it is a highly
urbanised population, it is an existing problem.
We often argue that our youths are leaving the country because
of the PAP, if not for my family i would have considered the same.
However, Singapore is still responsible for making us attractive as
immigrants in other countries, for the access to higher
education and facilities.
I may disagree what is happening now but i could hardly ignore
the fact that it is given me the opportunities to access
information and knowledge that allowed me insights on how the
world works.
Your stance has always been that LKY's very existence and
has from the moment he took office, suppress our full
potential and that any leader could do a better job. My
question is impending our potential to what? Is there a
physical example of what you think we could have become?
Would i agree or even want the example you give? Would i agree
with your interpretation that it is better?