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June 30th, 2010 |
Author: Your Correspondent
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/06/30/lee-kuan-yew-im-in-my-80s-and-not-very-good-at-high-tech/
Barely a week after making his latest “forecast” about the future of Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, PAP strongman and Singapore’s foremost “forecaster extraordinarie” Lee Kuan Yew has dispensed his usual “pearls of wisdoms” to his subjects again.
Speaking at a dialogue hosted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy yesterday, the octagenarian leader gave a lecture to his audience on how he transformed Singapore from “third to first world.”
“The problem is to get your people to support the policies which you have implemented. The technology is there, you can buy it, you can do it yourself, but if your people do not cooperate and fit into the First World structure, it will not succeed. It depends on the amount of discipline they are prepared to observe,” he was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.
Lee also touched a raw nerve when he hit out at Malaysia for “squeezing” Singapore when the two countries became separated in 1965 due to political differences:
“The day we became separate from Malaysia, we knew one day they would squeeze us. We set out systematically to exploit every drop of water from the sky. So today, three quarters of the island is a catchment. By the next decade, the whole island will be a catchment,” he exclaimed.
It is not known if Lee’s choice of words will spark strain bilateral ties with Malaysia again.
He ended his speech by admitting (rarely) that he is unable to predict what will happen in 10 years’ time.
“How would I see this place 10 years from now – you got to ask the present generation. They know better. I’m in my 80s and not very good at high tech, and that is what is going to change the world.”
At 86 years of age, Lee is probably the oldest living MP and minister in the world. Though by his own admission, he is not doing much work lately except “forecasting”, Lee continues to be in the public spotlight – he appears in the mainstream papers once every few days, more than any minister.
Lee’s “forecasting skills” do not come cheap to Singaporeans though they are almost always wrong. He is paid more than $3 million dollars a year, more than 5 times the annual salary of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/06/30/lee-kuan-yew-im-in-my-80s-and-not-very-good-at-high-tech/
Barely a week after making his latest “forecast” about the future of Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, PAP strongman and Singapore’s foremost “forecaster extraordinarie” Lee Kuan Yew has dispensed his usual “pearls of wisdoms” to his subjects again.
Speaking at a dialogue hosted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy yesterday, the octagenarian leader gave a lecture to his audience on how he transformed Singapore from “third to first world.”
“The problem is to get your people to support the policies which you have implemented. The technology is there, you can buy it, you can do it yourself, but if your people do not cooperate and fit into the First World structure, it will not succeed. It depends on the amount of discipline they are prepared to observe,” he was quoted as saying in the Straits Times.
Lee also touched a raw nerve when he hit out at Malaysia for “squeezing” Singapore when the two countries became separated in 1965 due to political differences:
“The day we became separate from Malaysia, we knew one day they would squeeze us. We set out systematically to exploit every drop of water from the sky. So today, three quarters of the island is a catchment. By the next decade, the whole island will be a catchment,” he exclaimed.
It is not known if Lee’s choice of words will spark strain bilateral ties with Malaysia again.
He ended his speech by admitting (rarely) that he is unable to predict what will happen in 10 years’ time.
“How would I see this place 10 years from now – you got to ask the present generation. They know better. I’m in my 80s and not very good at high tech, and that is what is going to change the world.”
At 86 years of age, Lee is probably the oldest living MP and minister in the world. Though by his own admission, he is not doing much work lately except “forecasting”, Lee continues to be in the public spotlight – he appears in the mainstream papers once every few days, more than any minister.
Lee’s “forecasting skills” do not come cheap to Singaporeans though they are almost always wrong. He is paid more than $3 million dollars a year, more than 5 times the annual salary of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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