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Dear Mr Ho Kwong Ping, I refer to your 19 Jan 2011 Straits Times column. You said the pragmatic genius of Singapore's political pioneers was to broaden the middle class massively and to co-opt the working class into adopting middle class lifestyles and mentalities. This you say is the socio-economic revolution you have searched... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 16 Jan 2011 report on the public response to MM Lee's new book. It is inappropriate to refer to MM Lee as Singapore's founding leader as Singapore was never founded by MM Lee. Mr Cheo Ming Shen's referral to MM Lee as being the equivalent of Singapore's Nelson Mandela is also terribly wrong.... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 13 Jan 2011 report on Mr Lim Swee Say's arguments against the minimum wage. Mr Lim says that a person earning $800 per month is more likely to lose his job if the minimum wage is set at $1200 when the employer can only pay $1,000. This is not necessarily true. For service sector jobs like waiters,...