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Are we unconsciously pushing our children into forced social activism?

When PM Lee spoke about his plan for our children at the National Day Rally last Sunday night to assure parents, I find it a little troubling as to why he is not addressing some of the pressing challenges that are already plaguing our children over these past years. Just a few months ago, we have the Monica Boey‘s incident...

Spend $100 billion to deal with climate change?

I agree that we need to deal with climate change. I am not sure if we need to spend $100 billion to achieve this goal. What I know is that we have another goal that is more urgent and more immediate. We need to bring down our cost of living. We can bring it down by more than 7%, if we abolish our GST immediately. We are facing...

Instead of Hot Air We Need to Talk About Where the Money’s Gone

State media lost no time in branding PM Lee’s plans announced at Sunday’s National Day Rally (NDR) as “ambitious”. Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they since their whole raison d’etre, apart from making money from Singaporeans through their media monopoly, is to act as LHL’s year round re-election committee,...