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To: RKBA Democrat
In fact, what makes it amusing is that the source of this observation is the leader of the tiny city state of Singapore, who transformed this barren island into the highest income non-oil state in Asia, surpassing both Japan and the US:
As I have been saying, there is no unity among white Americans. The old splits of education, class, sex, religion, city-country, and of course North-South still divide whites, and that is the basis of most of our politics. The Republican Party is white, sure enough, but whites aren't Republican. This will presumably be less and less the case as whites head for minority status. At some point the fact of impending minority status will sink in, and whites will begin to sink their differences and circle the wagons. At some point the Lee Kuan Yew principle will take over. I've quoted it before, and I'll quote it again, because it's very quotable in this context. Quote from Lee Kuan Yew, who was Prime Minister of Singapore for thirty years, and the power behind the curtain for a further twenty in that very successful city-state, quote:

In multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.

End quote.

From Zero Hedge, it appears that Singapore surpasses us not only in terms of average income, but also average wealth. And they appear to have surpassed us in average wealth a decade ago:


54 posted on 11/09/2012 5:12:17 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei
I'm here in Singapore now, where I got to watch the election results last week from a safe distance. Singapore has plenty of poor people, but their quasi-socialistic health care and social security (CPF) systems are expertly managed, free of American-style corruption, and serve to keep the standard of living for the very poorest at a much higher level than in the USA. At the same time, Singapore's government is very pro-capitalist and the high-end here is ultra high-end.

The difference is competence - Singapore's authoritarian government has it in spades - our own, allegedly democratic government does not.

85 posted on 11/10/2012 3:36:09 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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