There is indeed a linkage to our current dilemma, however if you
just take a step back, you can clearly see that the policy of "Stop
at two" was necessary to the blooming economy back then.
What linkage?
Population control was the trendy thing to do in the 70s, so PAP
blindly followed the policy.
The Population Bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
POPULATION
Scapegoat of
the ’70s
The rate of world population growth peaked at some point around
the middle of last decade and has since stalled. Latest estimates
from the UN Population
Division suggest that total world population, which now stands at
just over 4 billion, will touch 6 billion by the end of
the century.
At the very beginning of the 70s it was widely
believed that rapid population growth in the developing world was
the most important cause of continuing
poverty.
The population ‘explosion’, it was argued, was wiping out any
economic development which the developing countries managed to
achieve. ‘No other problem casts a darker shadow over the prospects
for international development than the staggering growth of
population,’ said the Pearson Commission Report on ‘Co-operation
for Development’, published in 1970.
But as the decade progressed this view began to
give ground under repeated attacks from a Third World which was
profoundly suspicious of the convenient Western argument which laid
the blame for poverty at the feet of the
improvident poor.
The counter-argument ran like this. Large families and rapid
population growth are in themselves a result of poverty. In the
absence of social security, unemployment pay, sickness benefits and
old age pensions, poor people need children to look after them when
they are out of work, sick or old.
Secondly, the millions of poor people who live in the rural
areas of the Third World need children to help with the daily
‘survival’ jobs of collecting wood and water and looking after
animals, which commonly take up to twelve hours a day every day and
which children can and do perform throughout the
developing world...
http://www.newint.org/features/1980/01/01/development/
Why is there so
much dislike towards PAP?
50 years see the same fuck face, listen to same fuck propaganda,
everyone will get tired.