Dhana: GKS Said No to Oil Refinery on Sentosa. Lucky!

[makapaaa]

Would he have slapped the Familee TRAITORS for importing FTrash en masse to leeplace Sporns?

 

[elephanto]

Once again, the variance between your headline & content bring out the chuckles ....

Indeed, there are schools of thought & there are timeless values vs practical realities ....

LKY & GKS may start off with selfless service, freedom from repression as similarities, the hypothesis that GKS will disagree with much of PAP's present day policies remains a hypothesis.

I dare say, with his largely Victorian values of old-school public-spirit, he would have found the sky-high-salaries-to-attract-political-talent argument distasteful in its present state.

He may or may not agree to full transparent disclosure of GLCs for security reasons, but he will NOT condone the alleged horrendous losses incurred by Ho Ching's Temasek Holdings or Tony Tan's GIC. He would have raised HELL - to think how hard he worked to produced his first budget surplus of S$1m in 1960.

He was against wastage - whether financial or human as in the alarming school dropout rates that led him to use streaming to reduce dropouts. Other egative side-effects of streaming, sorry can't have yr cake & eat it & rise above it, don't bitch about it - would be his advice as he sought to raise the profile of ITE & vocational education by leaving Dr Tay Eng Soon as its chief advocate.

Goh is not perfect. But my take is his character flaws are less visceral than LKY - a man who seems to have no love for fine arts & sports in contrast to GKS the renaissance man.

Goh is more loved by the people.
But for LKY, he loved being 'feared' - otherwise he would lose his self-esteem.

 

[Ramseth]

But for LKY, he loved being 'feared' - otherwise he would lose his self-esteem.

"If nobody fears me, then I'm meaningless!"
Guess who said that?

 

[elephanto]

"If nobody fears me, then I'm meaningless!"
Guess who said that?

TRUST you to have the elephantine databank, rams !

 

[Goh Meng Seng]

Well said. That is why I say PAP nowadays is pretty shameless. They are actually honouring a man whose values and spirit they have discarded long time ago. It is time for them to reflect upon their own doings else, it is really pretty shameless to try to ride on the past greatness of a man like Dr Goh KS while doing exactly opposite what he had manifested during his time.

Goh Meng Seng

Once again, the variance between your headline & content bring out the chuckles ....

Indeed, there are schools of thought & there are timeless values vs practical realities ....

LKY & GKS may start off with selfless service, freedom from repression as similarities, the hypothesis that GKS will disagree with much of PAP's present day policies remains a hypothesis.

I dare say, with his largely Victorian values of old-school public-spirit, he would have found the sky-high-salaries-to-attract-political-talent argument distasteful in its present state.

He may or may not agree to full transparent disclosure of GLCs for security reasons, but he will NOT condone the alleged horrendous losses incurred by Ho Ching's Temasek Holdings or Tony Tan's GIC. He would have raised HELL - to think how hard he worked to produced his first budget surplus of S$1m in 1960.

He was against wastage - whether financial or human as in the alarming school dropout rates that led him to use streaming to reduce dropouts. Other egative side-effects of streaming, sorry can't have yr cake & eat it & rise above it, don't bitch about it - would be his advice as he sought to raise the profile of ITE & vocational education by leaving Dr Tay Eng Soon as its chief advocate.

Goh is not perfect. But my take is his character flaws are less visceral than LKY - a man who seems to have no love for fine arts & sports in contrast to GKS the renaissance man.

Goh is more loved by the people.
But for LKY, he loved being 'feared' - otherwise he would lose his self-esteem.