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Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 17 Apr 2011 letter by Ms Jolly Wee. Ms Wee says it is getting more difficult to get the right people into government and this would make securing Singapore's future less certain. Like most people, Ms Wee believes that it is the government that secures the country's future. But if we look at... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 14 Apr 2011 article by Mr Daniel Yew. Mr Yew points to the near shutdown of US government services as an example of checks and balances checkmating the government itself. But the example is not quite valid because at the end of the day, US politicians avoided government services shutdown and... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 18 Apr 2011 report on new PAP candidate, Mr Chan Chun Sing. Mr Chan confines himself to Southeast Asian history to show that states of Singapore's size rarely survived beyond 100 years. He gave the example of the Lanfang Republic, which survived only 107 years before being swallowed up by Dutch...