Are our leaders visionary?

[ksgd0717]

Khaw : PAP Must Find Ways To...

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PAP cadres have to be mentally prepared for Brunei, Thailand or the US.

 

[neddy]

Tough question to answer. Need to give a historical narrative, bits and pieces assembled here and there for an interpretation.

The Old Days
As the story goes, LKY and his team invested heavily in infrastructure, attracted sophisticated (albeit fair-weathered) MNCs to set up industries in town with tax breaks, and created national industries where there are none. This was the Golden Age of Singapore, an Age of Industrialization and Prosperity forever etched in the minds of old timers. "A chicken in every pot, a roof over every family" was the order of the day.

The formula worked well until it didn't. Old Man Lee hurriedly passed the baton to the US-trained (as in University of Singapore) economist GCT, who shall be remembered for overseeing ministerial/civil service pay rise, privatizations and bestowing royal honour to *lowborn* MPs from RI. "Animal spirits and the invisible hand shall save us all", says he.

But alas it wasn't quite enough.

Visionary is if LKY ask for technology transfer and build up local industries - in case the fair-weathered MNCs leave. That is why China is smarter.

 

[moolightaffairs]

To link Bushy beside anything connected to the word visionary is vocab diarrhoea. good thing American presidency is limited to 8 years.
Tony Blair another shit stirer touring the world now asking Western countries to gang up and stand against China while happily ripping off chinese idiots paying $1000 dinner.

present day visionary.. Alan Greenspan... too bad not politician..

your signature is from 笑傲江湖right?