TR EMERITUS

Last week, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong encouraged parents to nurture “intangible but essential values” in their children, so they show care and concern for classmates and fellow citizens. He was quoted saying, We must also understand the world around us, feel a sense of nationhood and community that we are one people,... 

Click to enlarge But won’t. Because it’ll go against one of LKY’s Hardest Truths: S’pore should not have supportive social systems and institutions thereby making it easier for people who don’t or won’t work hard (But do you want cybernuts living off yr money and dissing you and the govt for not giving them more... 

I read the news about the trial of an elderly woman who used Lee Kuan Yew's name to cheat an elderly petrol pump attendant cum cleaner of more than S130,000 in a decade. As sad as it is, I am able to empathise with many of our hardworking, law abiding but utterly gullible elderly citizens. I live in a mature HDB estate with...