Scroobol is swinging from a broad definition of communism and sometimes selectively to suit her agenda . .Perhaps flipping through some pages of our local history could help us to see through her obfuscation .
This is where the matter of Goh Keng Swee is of importance.Goh was first and foremost a unionist along with K.M.Bryne,G.Kandasamy ,Ismail Rahim and etc. who all played a leading role in the formation of PAP--Emphasis on all being trade unionists.Only than they became aware that trade unions has to operate in a framework determined by politics.So why not play politics and form a political party itself.There ! you have the seeds for the birth of PAP.It was only in 1953-1954 that LKY came in contact with unions of public employees as a legal adviser and thereafter slept together...
Now look at how Goh's pattern of thoughts changes--First as a unionist fighting for more and more and than when in the seat of power.
In 1959 the PAP government had found itself in charge of a Singapore of one and a half million persons, 75 percent of them Chinese, and half 16 years of age or younger. As Goh said at the time, "What is regrettable is that the parents of Singapore in the past sixteen years have been so prolific in their capacity as parents that they have created a problem of terrifying dimensions." With overcrowded slums, large numbers of unemployed, and youth coming into the labor force at the rate of 40-50,000 a year, Singapore, as Goh clearly recognized, was "no place for normal socialist economic planning."---(--Note the direct contradiction of the present PAP policies which places the onus and responsibility directly on the local parents for not producing enough babies and uses that as an excuse to flood Singapore with foreigners.)
Than Goh said later in a speech to the Economics Society "Modern ideals of liberalism, egalitarian ideals, welfare state concepts proliferate trade unions whose main purpose is to get more pay for less work.will not work for Singapore"
This is where the matter of Goh Keng Swee is of importance.Goh was first and foremost a unionist along with K.M.Bryne,G.Kandasamy ,Ismail Rahim and etc. who all played a leading role in the formation of PAP--Emphasis on all being trade unionists.Only than they became aware that trade unions has to operate in a framework determined by politics.So why not play politics and form a political party itself.There ! you have the seeds for the birth of PAP.It was only in 1953-1954 that LKY came in contact with unions of public employees as a legal adviser and thereafter slept together...
Now look at how Goh's pattern of thoughts changes--First as a unionist fighting for more and more and than when in the seat of power.
In 1959 the PAP government had found itself in charge of a Singapore of one and a half million persons, 75 percent of them Chinese, and half 16 years of age or younger. As Goh said at the time, "What is regrettable is that the parents of Singapore in the past sixteen years have been so prolific in their capacity as parents that they have created a problem of terrifying dimensions." With overcrowded slums, large numbers of unemployed, and youth coming into the labor force at the rate of 40-50,000 a year, Singapore, as Goh clearly recognized, was "no place for normal socialist economic planning."---(--Note the direct contradiction of the present PAP policies which places the onus and responsibility directly on the local parents for not producing enough babies and uses that as an excuse to flood Singapore with foreigners.)
Than Goh said later in a speech to the Economics Society "Modern ideals of liberalism, egalitarian ideals, welfare state concepts proliferate trade unions whose main purpose is to get more pay for less work.will not work for Singapore"
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