Chua Mui Hoong: A PAP spin doctor take on 2009

[sheryllim]

With the economy expected to remain in doldrums in 2009, Singaporeans are bracing up for another round of wage cuts and posssible retrenchments.

The spin doctors of SPH have quickly moved in to offer a silver lining in the midst of the gloom which has developed to enshroud the entire island.

In an article published on page 2 of The Straits Times on the first day of 2009, the incorrigible PAP spin doctor Chua Mui Hoong waxes lyrical over the PAP’s accomplishments for the past 50 years which transform Singapore from “poverty to the bustling metropolis that it is today”.

She went on to illustrate why Singapore will survive the downturn because “the traits that helped it get to where it is today are precisely the same traits that will get it back on a firm footing in the current crisis.”

The comparison is both inappropriate and irrational as past accolades were never an ingredient for future successes. The nature of the crises Singapore face is completely different then and now.

Read full article here:

http://wayangparty.com/2009/01/02/chua-mui-hoong-an-incorrigible-spin-doctor-take-on-2009/

 

[oli9]

History can never be used as a reference for what the future may become. In all things to come, history tells us how proud empires do fall, tyrants exiled or executed & the power of the people will prevail.
Atcually, history teaches us nothing except to remember the achievements of some old foggies & the creation of so-and-so due to some bitter wars of whatever kind.