ously
not for leisure i feel about this at
and i'll say like
who would have been elected singaporean bla bla bla bla bla where you know if
you know it's it's
purposeful care totally in the market of this type of thing
so anyways
and first of all just broadly speaking
it's kind of astonishing to me that if you're app
personal liberty libertarian you're looking at singaporean mean you're
talking about a country that
has definitely had a lot of success but has the type of social controls and
social policies that i think
anybody listening to this show
uh... and certainly hosting show
are not comfortable with amina add the hold you know getting i came to as a
punishment thing
is not annette
uh... you know
people getting the death penalty for you know having uh...
a gram of marijuana i think it's as little as that is actually possible or
certainly incredibly stiff sentences uh... you know you basically have one
party rule
uh... since the founding of modern same for the quiet you ran the country for
three decades and by
you know i i read his book lee kwan yu as a book called from uh... third-world
the first world
he did a very effectively in a lot of ways but this is no like
choke on bond resident my personal liberty type of leadership here folks so
first of all it's just get that establish snappy delusional about that
and in addition to this disturbing
what i would actually is agree pretty disturbing record on civil liberties
human rights
libertarians lee kwan yew
has a
the other
commitment
which
you might find very disturbing and that commitment of him in the singaporean
government has been
to work against
social inequality
well yes
last week in new york times
immediately
justice st louis of course the great
economics professor columbia
wrote a piece
called singapore's lessons for unequal america
retarded discoveries you few questions or kal
singapore's had the distinction of having prioritize social and economic
equity while cheating very high rates of growth over the last thirty years
and and expanding annex an example par excellence that inequality is not just a
matter of social justice but if you cannot performance
societies with fewer economic disparities perform better
not just for those at the bottom of the middle but overall
here are a couple of waste sina four is delivered
on social at woody
and now libertarians are going to get frothing assim at the mouth as soon as
you first here at this for sense but butts listen to the whole thing
first individuals were compelled to take responsibility for their own needs
for example through savings in their provided prep pervaded provident fund
around ninety percent of singaporeans became homeowners
uh... compared to about sixty five percent in the united states since the
housing bubble burst in two thousand seven
singaporean but listen to how this was done
the singaporean government intervenes in the distribution of pretax income
to help those at the bottom rather than in the united states does at the top
it weighed in gently un bargaining between workers and firms
tilting the deference
tilting the balance toward a group with less economic power the workers in sharp
contrast united states
where the rules of the game has shifted away from labor
and toward capitol especially during the past
for up past three decades
singapore um...
crated governments that were universal but progressive well everyone
contributed or took personal responsibility those who were well off
contributed more to help those at the bottom to make sure everyone could live
a decent life as defined by what
by what's a pain singaporean society at the states and its development could
afford not only
the page not only does pay their fair share for public investments
they were asked to contribute even more
the neediest which
i have to ask it's stunning to me fit anybody's even working thing
i mean they've been so disincentive eyes through these tax dollars going to pay
for the media's
and forthrightly singapore
uh... has heavy investment in education
and scientific research
uh... an education including paying for some students to study
world
so libertarians basically you have a government forcing you to set aside
savings
universal health care and education programs that are paid for through
progressive taxation
act
you can even spit on the street
let alone
smoke a bowl
that news from singapore free start
everything is in singapore
their risk ratings and being anymore and well
graded by end of all that you have any also are protecting environment through
government which is another preacher uh... with meanwhile
he acute mi
more
napping
but what do you think about that this kind of my beloved like everyday i write
you know for example excerpts wouldn't report of the few people health care and
i've always
i studied singapore little bit i've always know their off-base but this just
like lease it out
like the wreckage of that your president obama said ok every american needs to
save a certain amount of our their income
and worli which wants the government
savings account
to create universal health care system and it's really a b progressively index
of the poorest will get of the most essential property there would be en
masse demand of people
holding up signs that say doberman heads off my whatever government-funded
programs
certainly
that's exactly right kit