Lee Kuan Yew: "I say without the slightest remorse that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made the economic progress if we had not intervened on very personal matters: who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit or where you spit, or what language you use. Had we not done that and done it effectively we would not be here today.”

Lee Kuan Yew: “Will Singapore be around in 100 years? I am not so sure. Whatever the choices are, I am absolutely sure that if Singapore gets a dumb government, we are done for. This country will sink into nothingness.”

Lee Kuan Yew: “Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I spent a whole life building this and as long as I’m in charge nobody’s going to knock it down.”

Lee Kuan Yew: “The success of America lies in its dynamic economy sustained by an uncanny ability not just to produce the same with less, but to constantly innovate.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32012346

Not losing any sleep here.  Many East Indians because of their skin color (in his country)  suffered under his rule. I heard that he knew Arthur Chung in University.  I don't know if that was true and I don't care. 

I am not so sure about that. A good Indian friend of mine back in my Manchester days came from a Singapore Indian family worth US$100 mill at the time. They made their money in Singapore. Also know of another Indian friend who is doing quite well as a university prof.

Dig deeper TK, dig deeper  and you will see the amount of racism against East Indians that went on in the society when that person ruled the country. 

Lee Kuan Yew tried to lift the lot of his people rather than calculate what he could seize for himself

Posted By Staff Writer On March 27, 2015 @ 5:04 am In Letters |

Lall: "He was a man, a leader who looked to see how he could lift the lot of his people, instead of searching and calculating and lusting for what he could seize for himself."

Which leader in Guyana this statement best applies to?

Guyana is rapidly approaching the level of corruption one sees in Equatorial Guinea under Teodoro Obaing and in Angola where they have created a defac to "royal elite" while the nation goes poor and minus the very basics.

The concern of the PPP is not with the people. It is concerned with the enrichment of their friends, family and familiars. We are are at the same levels of poverty and non productiveness everywhere. Only a few rise above the dirt and those few do not get far outside of the help their family provide them to build nice homes.

We are bootstrapping no industry to service our basic needs. We are becoming dependent on the inferior products the Chinese dump in the society, seconds sent home from the US and other places and creating a dependent culture that exists only as a market for others. We are creating no productive capacity in the society but rapidly building up an racially balkanized underclass and a small indian elite