That's why we need bill clinton as our leader,all we need is a extremely charismatic,smooth talker to forge relationships with other countries that's all we need,even negotiate with the north koreans.but forget that for a sec,let's overlook arse loongs personal failures as a politician and a diplomat.what is the most important factor about a country is its economy. Singapore economy under goh keng Swee and Albert winsemius tutelage has thrived,they have managed to weaved together a economic vision that compliments and drew on Singapore's strengths and weaknesses,his foresight and vision was legendary as he correctly identified one area after another that could boost singapore's economic prosperity.however later on,under gct and Leehl,they begin to draft a different sort of economy,a dystopia of sort,one that drew on over reliance on foreign labour,thus negating the local workforce it sought to serve in the first place,it sought to promote Singapore as a tax shelter tax evasion hub of sorts,overdependance of construction sector to boost its GDP,mass immigration to drive up consumption,and focusing on rent seeking activities,it order words,lhl sought to maximise short term profits as much as possible rather than long term growth and development of Singapore's industries and sectors.even engaging in grey activities and sub ethical economic practises that enraged other countries like Australia and Indonesia and China.
Now if lky was the economic mastermind behind Singapore's economic success why did he not seek to warn gct and lhl? Winsemius died in 90s or 00s and goh keng Swee god knows when.surely u would consult the grandmaster of economics Greenspan I mean LKY if u needed help.assuming LKY was the true Oracle.One of LKY's biggest mistake was thinking a bunch of technocrats,academics,scholars and theoretical physicists could run the country,he was wrong.he may be the ultimate bullshitter but ultimately it was his team and albert winsemius that made singapore a success.what makes america so great was its entrepreneur drive,its business obssession,its insatiable greed for money and profits,its capitalistic instincts of the americans.......even one hundred and fifty years ago,the europeans commented on americans were far more capitalistic and entrepreneurial and profit driven than any culture they have encountered in europe.
