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LKY Glorification Thread - Post 23 March 2015
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Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
Yes, yes... keep milking those sympathy votes eh? Good luck.
Yes, yes... keep milking those sympathy votes eh? Good luck.
Re: Suzhou is a success, Mediacorp says
If they would lie about Tunku Abdul Rahman and LKY's job during the Japanese Occupation, what makes you think they wouldn't fib about Suzhou?
The controlled mainstream media is going on overdrive to shore up his legacy. And the brainwashed dimwits are offering flowers and prayers.
If they would lie about Tunku Abdul Rahman and LKY's job during the Japanese Occupation, what makes you think they wouldn't fib about Suzhou?
The controlled mainstream media is going on overdrive to shore up his legacy. And the brainwashed dimwits are offering flowers and prayers.
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
Hey ASSWIPE,
You are NO longer a Singaporean. Go VOTE MY ASS. OR SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Hey ASSWIPE,
You are NO longer a Singaporean. Go VOTE MY ASS. OR SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
Your enthusiasm is noted.
Monopoly does no good to consumers... applies to governance of a country as well.
Some opposition members in the Parliament will ALWAYS benefit Singapore a lot more good than none. Lots of examples on this point esp. since the last election.
Hope that the SingFirst team will gain some mileage in the coming election.
http://singfirst.org:
Your enthusiasm is noted.
Monopoly does no good to consumers... applies to governance of a country as well.
Some opposition members in the Parliament will ALWAYS benefit Singapore a lot more good than none. Lots of examples on this point esp. since the last election.
Hope that the SingFirst team will gain some mileage in the coming election.
http://singfirst.org:
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
Should vote in the Opposition for one term and let the shit bunch here experience real pain in their rear ends when the country goes to ruin
Should vote in the Opposition for one term and let the shit bunch here experience real pain in their rear ends when the country goes to ruin
Re: Suzhou is a success, Mediacorp says
LKY should have stayed back in Suzhou and gloat about his success there. Anyway, he was gone a long time ago mentally. His passing only lessens his suffering he was going through.
LKY should have stayed back in Suzhou and gloat about his success there. Anyway, he was gone a long time ago mentally. His passing only lessens his suffering he was going through.
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
Interesting thought but too risky.
“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you’ll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... and your asset values will be in peril, your security will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people’s countries, foreign workers.”
Interesting thought but too risky.
“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you’ll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... and your asset values will be in peril, your security will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people’s countries, foreign workers.”
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
Yah, I even heard that talk that..
GST is to help the POOR!
We need to pay the white scums highly to prevent corruption!
And the latest...that they had not had a PAY INCREMENT FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS!
GO FUCK OFF!
Yah, I even heard that talk that..
GST is to help the POOR!
We need to pay the white scums highly to prevent corruption!
And the latest...that they had not had a PAY INCREMENT FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS!
GO FUCK OFF!
Re: Ah Neh FT loves LKY
oso ah nehs like Shanmugam, Iswaran, Hri Kumar, Davinder Singh, Indranee Rajah. ad infinitum
oso ah nehs like Shanmugam, Iswaran, Hri Kumar, Davinder Singh, Indranee Rajah. ad infinitum
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
I speak as an observer.
With the demise of Harry Lee, the PAP may not hold the admiration and respect he held over the voters who cast their votes in PAP (Harry's?) favour. No one else in the party (or politics in Singapore) has been able to manipulate the electorate and position him on such a high pedestal as accomplished by LKY. I'd say the whole cabinet is a group of "yes-men" fortunate to ride on Harry's reputation, including LHL, who would not be where he is if not for daddy. From now on, it is uphill for PAP to maintain her top-dog position. Whilst the opposition parties may not yet have build a team to form a government, it is left to the PAP to lay a road for Singapore's future, which they have no idea of what to do for the future. Below is an article from a foreign newspaper; I am sure most readers will agree with it.
Cheers!
http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Eco...ore-s-single-party-model-a-double-edged-sword
March 25, 2015 5:20 am JST
Singapore's single-party model a double-edged sword
WATARU YOSHIDA, MAYUKO TANI and TOMOMI KIKUCHI, Nikkei staff writers
-- After the end of the Cold War, American-style democracy was touted as superior. The combination of democracy and a market economy that had emerged victorious over the oppressive Communist bloc was considered the key to prosperity.
Emerging countries in Asia seeking to maintain one-party rule turned to an exception: Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.
Another road to growth
The People's Action Party built by Lee has maintained its grip on power for 50 years. Free speech in Singapore is limited, while companies enjoying indirect government investment wield considerable clout.
This school of thought, which prioritizes national survival above all else, has been called "Asian-style democracy." It has met with criticism over human rights issues, but the miraculous prosperity it spawned is undeniable.
In November 1978, then-Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited an industrial zone in western Singapore. The area had been developed under Lee's auspices, drawing foreign investment through tax breaks and simplified regulations.
Deng remarked afterward that he saw what Singapore had gained from these factories built by foreigners. The next month, he took the reins of the Chinese government under the slogan "reform and opening up." The roots of China's turning point from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution to its ascent as the world's factory lie in Singapore.
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore teaches the nuts and bolts of Asian-style democracy. Of its roughly 2,000 graduates, more than 500 have been Chinese exchange students. Many have been promising young bureaucrats. China even now takes cues from Singapore for growth.
Meanwhile, the island of Phu Quoc in southern Vietnam, close to neighboring Cambodia, has been dubbed "Vietnam's Singapore." It has been made a special economic zone, with looser regulations to entice foreign businesses.
Means vs. ends
But Lee's alternative path of growth under single-party rule may not work everywhere.
The big difference between Singapore and such cases as China and Vietnam is that Lee opted for political stability under one party to help create growth, while his imitators consider growth necessary to maintain their existing systems. This reversal of ends and means has created political and economic distortions in countries following in Lee's footsteps.
One example is transparency. Lee hated corruption and immediately ousted any bureaucrats suspected of it. By contrast, graft still runs rampant in many emerging Asian countries. Complex regulations continue to prop up massive governments, hindering companies trying to set up shop.
The openness of their economies differs considerably as well. In the 2000s, many in Singapore expressed alarm over the entry of low-cost airlines. But Lee brushed aside their objections, saying he did not care whether Singapore Airlines lost market share.
The country also has free trade agreements with Japan, the U.S. and China as well as emerging markets. Meanwhile, China and many Southeast Asian countries have been too worried about protecting local industry to properly open up trade.
A warped form of the Asian-style democracy formulated by Lee has spread throughout emerging nations. China's growth is slowing, and Vietnam's has its ups and its downs. An eruption of discontent could threaten stability in these countries should single-party rule, once a means to an end, instead come to hobble growth.
I speak as an observer.
With the demise of Harry Lee, the PAP may not hold the admiration and respect he held over the voters who cast their votes in PAP (Harry's?) favour. No one else in the party (or politics in Singapore) has been able to manipulate the electorate and position him on such a high pedestal as accomplished by LKY. I'd say the whole cabinet is a group of "yes-men" fortunate to ride on Harry's reputation, including LHL, who would not be where he is if not for daddy. From now on, it is uphill for PAP to maintain her top-dog position. Whilst the opposition parties may not yet have build a team to form a government, it is left to the PAP to lay a road for Singapore's future, which they have no idea of what to do for the future. Below is an article from a foreign newspaper; I am sure most readers will agree with it.
Cheers!
http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Eco...ore-s-single-party-model-a-double-edged-sword
March 25, 2015 5:20 am JST
Singapore's single-party model a double-edged sword
WATARU YOSHIDA, MAYUKO TANI and TOMOMI KIKUCHI, Nikkei staff writers
-- After the end of the Cold War, American-style democracy was touted as superior. The combination of democracy and a market economy that had emerged victorious over the oppressive Communist bloc was considered the key to prosperity.
Emerging countries in Asia seeking to maintain one-party rule turned to an exception: Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.
Another road to growth
The People's Action Party built by Lee has maintained its grip on power for 50 years. Free speech in Singapore is limited, while companies enjoying indirect government investment wield considerable clout.
This school of thought, which prioritizes national survival above all else, has been called "Asian-style democracy." It has met with criticism over human rights issues, but the miraculous prosperity it spawned is undeniable.
In November 1978, then-Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping visited an industrial zone in western Singapore. The area had been developed under Lee's auspices, drawing foreign investment through tax breaks and simplified regulations.
Deng remarked afterward that he saw what Singapore had gained from these factories built by foreigners. The next month, he took the reins of the Chinese government under the slogan "reform and opening up." The roots of China's turning point from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution to its ascent as the world's factory lie in Singapore.
The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore teaches the nuts and bolts of Asian-style democracy. Of its roughly 2,000 graduates, more than 500 have been Chinese exchange students. Many have been promising young bureaucrats. China even now takes cues from Singapore for growth.
Meanwhile, the island of Phu Quoc in southern Vietnam, close to neighboring Cambodia, has been dubbed "Vietnam's Singapore." It has been made a special economic zone, with looser regulations to entice foreign businesses.
Means vs. ends
But Lee's alternative path of growth under single-party rule may not work everywhere.
The big difference between Singapore and such cases as China and Vietnam is that Lee opted for political stability under one party to help create growth, while his imitators consider growth necessary to maintain their existing systems. This reversal of ends and means has created political and economic distortions in countries following in Lee's footsteps.
One example is transparency. Lee hated corruption and immediately ousted any bureaucrats suspected of it. By contrast, graft still runs rampant in many emerging Asian countries. Complex regulations continue to prop up massive governments, hindering companies trying to set up shop.
The openness of their economies differs considerably as well. In the 2000s, many in Singapore expressed alarm over the entry of low-cost airlines. But Lee brushed aside their objections, saying he did not care whether Singapore Airlines lost market share.
The country also has free trade agreements with Japan, the U.S. and China as well as emerging markets. Meanwhile, China and many Southeast Asian countries have been too worried about protecting local industry to properly open up trade.
A warped form of the Asian-style democracy formulated by Lee has spread throughout emerging nations. China's growth is slowing, and Vietnam's has its ups and its downs. An eruption of discontent could threaten stability in these countries should single-party rule, once a means to an end, instead come to hobble growth.
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
What I can say about people with "Asian value' who has entrenched themselves far too long in money and power, is that they will NEVER give it up fairly and if they were to be unseated they would destroy whatever they have and take the spoils with them.
That is the type and kind of people that are left, after the kapitan who was the sole figure to keep these people from 'misbehaving' all these time while they are fed to satisfy their greed to keep them obedient.
It could be ' everyone for themselves' not long after the 'Harry spell' has dissipated and it would be interesting to see what would be the outcome of it all after 50 over years of Pappy rule.
What I can say about people with "Asian value' who has entrenched themselves far too long in money and power, is that they will NEVER give it up fairly and if they were to be unseated they would destroy whatever they have and take the spoils with them.
That is the type and kind of people that are left, after the kapitan who was the sole figure to keep these people from 'misbehaving' all these time while they are fed to satisfy their greed to keep them obedient.
It could be ' everyone for themselves' not long after the 'Harry spell' has dissipated and it would be interesting to see what would be the outcome of it all after 50 over years of Pappy rule.
Re: The best way to honor Mr LKY is to vote for PAP
voting for PAP and paying respect to LKY are different issues lah!!
you must have a clear mind!! LOL!
voting for PAP and paying respect to LKY are different issues lah!!
you must have a clear mind!! LOL!
Re: LKY Unites People!
MY balls!
LKY from day one caused Malaysia Singapore SPLIT.
Not because people want to split but sabotaged by selfish foolish incompetent CB LKY.
MY balls!
LKY from day one caused Malaysia Singapore SPLIT.
Not because people want to split but sabotaged by selfish foolish incompetent CB LKY.
Re: Ah Neh FT loves LKY
I think Ms Changmoh loves Singapore more.
I think Ms Changmoh loves Singapore more.
