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Dear SM Goh, I refer to your speech at Marine Parade's National Day dinner as reported by Channel News Asia on 7 Aug 2010. You asked Singaporeans to live the Singapore Dream rather than the 'Singapore Gripe'. You used your own example of how you didn't 'gripe' even though you couldn't fulfil your dream of becoming a professor... 

I refer to the letter by Mr Toh Cheng Seong to Straits Times dated 28 Jul 2010.   Mr Toh has applied the often quoted but rarely questioned rhetoric of the highly competive global economy as reason for denying job protection to citizens. But the global economy is no reason for saying that a coffee shop that primarily services... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to your report dated 20 Jul 2010. It is said in the report that our rapid recovery has vindicated government efforts to diversify Singapore's economy over the last decades. But the urgent need to diversify the economy was made plain for all to see just less than ten years ago with the mass exodus...