Are you going to buy MM Lee's new book?
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Are you going to buy MM Lee's new book?
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all along i never buy or read lky books
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just piece the quotes printed in ST the past few days and u get the whole book oredi.
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If you are one of them, you will pay $10000 to buy.
If you want to save money, you can borrow it from the library.
If you want the key points, just read the print from the press for the past few days.
If you are not interested, save the money for yourself.
For me, it will be the real hard truth if BBC are interviewing him and printing the book.
But, that will never happened as he cannot handle a real interview and hard questions.
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he will never appear on BBC hardtalk because he is a coward.
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buy his book ?
he'll have to pay me to read it !
and then i'll shit on it and return it to him
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It will be on the press for the next two weeks so that the stupid singaporeans will flock to the bookstores to buy it.
This will enable it to climb the 10 bestsellers in the stores.
This will give the old man some face.
That is what all the wayang is about.
It will be a shock for the old man to find out that no one want to buy his book.
It will be "Hard Truth" for him to accept.
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i can chip that money to buy an additional can of good abalone for CNY....anyway how much is the book?
it is said u will live to regret if u dun buy it.............but i think i will regret more without good abalones....oredi so busy buying all the CNY goodies........where got time for politics...
'p
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i can always read it in the NLB reference section....sooner or later....
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I don't think I will be able to tolerate MM Lee's new book.
Too much rubbish stuff. I barely finished his two volume series on Singapore, almost vomited blood at the flat out lies and propaganda bullshit and shameless self praise.
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Let foreign journalists do his biography, albeit unauthorised. That would be nice. With internet, he won't be remembered the way he wants to be.
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After his death his reputation will be attacked like hell.
Japanese collaborator, fake chinese, anglo dog, liar, racist bastard, autocrat, suppressor of chinese culture - everything will come out after that old bastard dies.
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After his death his reputation will be attacked like hell.
Japanese collaborator, fake chinese, anglo dog, liar, racist bastard, autocrat, suppressor of chinese culture - everything will come out after that old bastard dies.
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Your clone account cannot edit to your original account lah.
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The TRUTH about how long the PAP will last
Today’s (21 January 2011) Straits Times headlines “Will PAP last?”. This is how MM Lee sees it:
” If the decline in standards happens gradually, an opposition of quality will be launched. The public can sense it.” – MM Lee
He does not see a problem for the PAP in the next 10 or 20 years. The issue for voters, as he frames it, is the quality and talent of men the PAP is able to recruit. …so PAP will stay in power as long as it has top talents and does not split up. I don’t believe this is true and I’ll tell you why.
Warren Buffett once said that if people are not doing what you want them to do, you do not want them to be motivated or highly talented, you rather have them lazy, incompetent and unmotivated. Do you want leaders who are highly talented at making you cheaper, better and faster? …highly talented and motivated at increasing the influx of foreigners…highly talented at finding ways like increasing the GST to increase the govt surplus. What is more important to voters is whether their interests will be served by the men they vote into parliament. The video clip in the previous posting, shows RP’s Tony Tan explaining the issue is not whether the PAP can design and implement policies as they have the competence to do that. The real issue is the intent behind the policies. Even if the PAP remains as competent and qualified as it has been, once people believe they are not acting in their best interests, the PAP will be voted out.
In past few years, much of the trust people have for the PAP has been eroded….I’ll take you through a number of examples and after that reveal another reason why the PAP is in a more precarious position that most people think in the coming elections.
Just after the last elections, the PAP govt raised the GST from 5% to 7%. GST is a regressive tax that hurts the poor much more that the rich. The poor have to spend a greater portion of their income on living expenses than the richer folks. In order to get the people to accept the GST hike, the govt told ordinary citizens that the primary intent behind the hikes was to help the old and poor[Read the budget FAQ here]. Many would accept the hikes if the poor people were helped. However, most Singaporeans know from the past that GST hikes were usually done to make up for shortfall in the corporate tax cuts. For example in the 2003 budget when GST was hiked:
“4.3 From YA 2003, I have decided to cut the corporate income tax rate from 24.5% to 22%. This 10% reduction will save businesses $700 million a year.
4.4 Also with effect from YA 2003, the top marginal personal income tax rate will be cut from 26% to 22%, with corresponding cuts in all income bands. This will reduce the tax payable by most taxpayers by 13% to 16%, saving them $620 million every year.
4.5 I have decided to raise the GST rate from 3% to 5% from 1 Jan 2003. The increase in GST is expected to raise an additional $1.3 billion of tax revenue per year. ” – Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore Budget Speech 2003[Link]In 2007, the corporate tax which was among the lowest in the world was cut from 20% to 18% [Link]and most Singaporeans who understood the real intent of the GST hike were outraged because it was done at a time when Singapore had the biggest income gap among developed countries and corporate profits as a % of GDP was at record levels. Knowing that the GST hike for the purpose of corporate tax cuts would be unpopular, the PAP tried to get the people accept it by saying it was done to help the poor i.e. they tried to hide the true intent of the policy. They used to be able to do this in the past when they controlled the media fully but today with the Internet, it is no longer possible for them to deceive ordinary citizens. I’ll give you another example before I tell you how the PAP will lose its power.
In 2009, the PAP govt push ahead to implement CPF Life by amending the CPF Act. The rationale given was that Singaporeans are living longer and so on – I’m sure you’re familiar with those arguments. CPF as a retirement fund is a already very strained after all the liberalisation for investment, children’s education and the purchase of HDB flats[51% of Singaporeans cannot meet minimum sum]. During the CPF Life debate, MP Low Thia Khiang came out with a suggestion which many if not most Singaporeans would find reasonable. His suggestion was that since Singaporeans already take most, if not all, the responsibility of retirement, the govt should create a fund to take care of tail end ‘extra longevity’ the govt project Singaporeans will have and do away with more complexity, confusion and further straining of the CPF scheme. It is a policy alternative the PAP will never consider because they will not create a fund for the old using taxes when they use the money to lower taxes for the rich and corporate tax cuts. They would rather pass the burden to ordinary Singaporeans because that is ideologically attractive to them. However, the idea from Worker’s Party hardly leans to the left of the political spectrum. Most countries take care of some, half or all of the citizens’ retirement needs – and most, if not all, do not have the vast resources in the form of sovereign wealth funds and govt surpluses. Yet at a time when many Singaporeans’ ability to retire properly is affected by the severe income gap and rising cost of living, the PAP increased their burden and responsibility when so many other workable policy alternatives exist. The PAP cannot implement minimum wage when all other deveolop countries can. We don’t have universal healthcare (some Singaporeans have to go to Malaysia for healthcare[Link]) when it exists in all developed countries. We have the biggest wage gap and a 3rd world wage structure. For this system that gives them little in the way of safety nets, Singaporeans are asked for huge sacrifices e.g. longest conscription in the form of NS after Israel and reservist duties.
To answer the question of “how long will the PAP last”, the question we have to ask ourselves how did the PAP last so long given the harshness of its policies and system.
People when given a free choice anywhere else in the world will rarely choose a govt like the PAP.- it is so far right on the political spectrum as reflected in its policies. Nowhere else among developed countries do people choose this type of govt and keep them in power when they have a choice. Occasionally they do vote them in for short periods when there is a treat of war or when the economic conditions are extreme but vote them out when conditions improve. The PAP lasted for several reasons. In the earlier years 1960s-1980s, the PAP was actually very popular due to the one-off rapid economic transformation.
Once the rapid economic transformation was over, people naturally wanted an alternative and the PAP’s votes started declining. However, to maintain power, the PAP 1. controlled the media and limited the freedom of people to speak up 2. repressed of the opposition 3. modified the one man one vote system with GRCs and linking votes to upgrading. The control of the media is necessary to hide the intent of policies, make alternative approahces look unattractive and spread its propaganda. Control of the media alone is insufficient and so they repress the opposition to generate a climate of fear to make it hard for a strong alternatives to emerge. Even with these in place, the PAP is unable to halt the decline in support. For increasingly large number of Singaporeans, their support goes to”anyone but the PAP”….they don’t need the opposition to have higher paper qualification or successful corporate careers but are willing to accept someone who will look out for their interests…… something Singaporeans cannot trust the PAP MPs to do anymore – their goal is the development of Singapore Inc not improving the lives of ordinary Singaporeans and in many areas this goal is divergent from the interests and needs of ordinary Singaporeans.How long the PAP lasts depends on how fast they can change and move away from their ideology relative to the erosion of their ability to control information & spread propaganda and repress the opposition. The last 4 years has actually been a lost opportunity for the PAP govt. When Lee Hsien Loong took over from SM Goh, a carrot of change was dangled in front of Singaporeans. In 2004-2006 PM Lee spoke often about change & “remaking of Singapore” raising hope and expectations just as Badawi did in Malaysia when he took over from Dr. M – in 2004, Badawi’s National Front actually collected 64% of the nation-wide vote comparable Lee Hsien Loong’s 66%. 4 years after the elections, Singaporeans discover not much has change – change, if any, was in the direction they did not want – hike in GST, hike in Minister’s pay, means testing for the sick, CPF Life, increase foreign influx, rising cost of living etc. Not only did the PAP fail to remake itself when it needed to, MM Lee came out to remind us how unchangeable the PAP is with his book on “hard truths”.
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“You have to die for each other” – MM Lee.[Link]
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A blogger on the Internet pointed out that it is rather melodramatic and ridiculous for the MM to ask ordinary Singaporeans to sacrifice their lives for each other when he can’t even get his ministers to accept anything lower than the highest pay for leaders in the world.
“We are a nation in the making. Will we make it? Am I certain we’ll get there? No, I cannot say that….I do not deceive myself for one moment that our differences of race, culture and religion will disappear” – MM Lee.The MM Lee talks about the importance of nationhood and how hard it is to make Singapore into a nation from diverse groups of people…yet is it not the goal of the PAP to import people to grow the population? It is hard for locally born Singaporeans to bond with each other because of cultural differences but integrating hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose numbers will soon surpass that of locally born Singaporeans in a few years is okay?
“…successful transformation from a tiny fishing village to one of Asia’s — if not the world’s — most modern cities…” – [Link]
Don’t you find it strange and insulting that Straits Times reporters write about Singapore being a tiny fishing village before the PAP was in charge of the place? Our forefathers came all the way from China and India braving the dangerous voyage to look for opportunities in a “tiny fishing village”? There are no tiny fishing villages in China and India? Our forefathers had no brains? Just one example of the “truth” they are trying to spread with this new book…the real truth about Singapore in the 1950s before the PAP is found here.
The book is 450 pages thick…..based on the extracts I’ve read, it will impress only those who have lost the ability to think. Along with the myths about the PAP leadership that they want to perpetuate and the justification (more like excuses) for every wrong that the man has been done…(bankrupting and jailing opponents simply because he felt they were ‘duds’) is this distorted view that Singapore’s success is due primarily to the PAP. Today economic miracles are not so rare among East Asian countries e.g. Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan. Taiwan & S. Korea succeeded under authoritarian govts and continued to thrive after they became full blown democracies debunking the myth they could succeed only under strong dominant one party leadership. The book Hard Truths tries to pay up the myth that Singapore has succeeded because of a small group of elites and ideas of one man. In doing so, they tried to washed away the contributions of millions of ordinary citizens who formed the number 1 workforce in the world for many decades – a hardworking workforce that never went on strike, a workforce that accepted low pay, little benefits and long hours. This collection of myths released just before elections are held is a feeble attempt to persuade Singaporeans to continue supporting the man and his ideas….. the longer the PAP cling on to these so-called ‘hard-truths’, the faster it will be voted out….because a growing number of Singaporeans can see through the propaganda and know what needs to be done to have a better future for themselves and their families.
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Lucky Tan
* Lucky Tan is a popular Singaporean blogger who likes to “study the thoughts of Singapore leaders and the laws of Singapore”. His blog is located at http://singaporemind.blogspot.com.
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Hard truths to keep singapore going......it's just self glorification la. I don't believe many of the things he says.
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anyone got a free copy of LKY's latest book ??
can give me ???
i wanna shit on it...........................
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
anyone got a free copy of LKY's latest book ??
can give me ???
i wanna shit on it...........................
YOu sure that your shit will not turn toxic after you shit on it?
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i'll send it back to LKY lor....................
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And then again, there can be said to be three kinds of author. Firstly, there are those who write without thinking. They write from memory, from reminiscence, or even directly from other people's books. This class is the most numerous. Secondly, there are those who think while writing. They think in order to write. Very common. Thirdly, there are those who have thought before they started writing. They write simply because they have thoughts. Rare.
Arther Schopenhauer - On the Suffering Of the World
This old goat book is talking about hard to get a job and stuff like that. Who in the world now doesn't know that? That happened years ago and now he babbling about it like it is his own topic. Is he being senile or what?
He writes without thinking, from memory, memory that is faulty. Jobs are scare, years ago. He must have remember it somehow and used it as a novelty as his own idea.
What's worst, they are actually bootlickers buying up the book for ten thousand dollars! I wouldn't even use it to wipe my pet dog's ass.
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How much is the book cost?
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Originally posted by likeyou:
How much is the book cost?
I think less than $40..
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
I think less than $40..
oh...I will wait for discount.
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I will buy his book.
I wanna see what he write.
January 25th, 2011 | 
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