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Why PM Lee had to choke back tears
PM Lee’s plea for support which saw him almost choking to hold back tears at one point, is the culmination of decades of failed PAP policies. Going forward, PM Lee and the PAP think that the only way to build a future for Singapore is to import foreigners and artificially grow the population, even though their policies thus far have resulted in overcrowding, massive congestion, ruthless job competition that leaves Singaporeans stranded, and a strained social fabric. It need not be this way.
In the 1970s, the PAP under then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew implemented the “stop at two” policy to control Singapore’s rapid population growth. They had every reason to do so. The huge number of babies looked set to overwhelm the fledgling economy. But the PAP went too far with the policy.
As a result of their drastic miscalculation, by the mid 1980′s, the situation had completely reversed and the problem became one of plunging birth rates and a sharp decline in fertility rates. The PAP had failed to take into account that as the economy matured and standards of living rose, people would naturally evolve to produce fewer babies per family.
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