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Why Singapore Thrives While the UK is in Constant Decline
Tilak’s Substack ^ | 13 Apr, 2025 | Tilak Doshi and Peter Coclanis

Posted on 04/14/2025 6:13:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 04/14/2025 6:13:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I wish our congress would read this article.


2 posted on 04/14/2025 6:14:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The UK has no Leadership and will soon be controlled by a Cult


3 posted on 04/14/2025 6:17:46 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Singapore....Nice and sunny with jail term for leaving chewing gum on the floor and death penalty for drug users...illegals deported and jail for second offence
Some penalties involve caning

UK...none of the above.

4 posted on 04/14/2025 6:32:57 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeon<p.s)
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I never saw graffiti in Singapore.


5 posted on 04/14/2025 6:40:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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WAAAAAAYYYYYY before 2008. Think 1945! It looked and behaved like sh*t when I lived there in 2003. I left as soon as I could.


6 posted on 04/14/2025 6:42:14 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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The United Kingdom United States has been in managed decline since 2008. The dismal performance of the British US economy -- characterized by slow growth, low productivity, and stagnant wages -- has been the subject of much analysis in recent years..."

Kind of does have a familiar ring to it.

7 posted on 04/14/2025 6:44:16 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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demographics, too, have consequences


8 posted on 04/14/2025 6:59:49 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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One of my friends worked there for ten or twenty years for a major bank. He loved living there.


9 posted on 04/14/2025 7:05:15 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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demographics, too, have consequences

True. And UK is becoming a third world muslim country. They will soon be like some of the poorest nations in Africa.

10 posted on 04/14/2025 7:07:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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True. a handful of the Moslems are sane, intelligent, and relatively peaceable. And some go into useful trades and professions. But the mass of the Islamic invasion are destroying UK. Great Britain (and USA and France and several more western nations that have let the invaders in en masse) are headed straight down to Perdition. France and a couple more are already lost causes. It is so sad.


11 posted on 04/14/2025 7:15:03 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Singapore, coming out of a hostile and violent “multi-culti” colonial and independence history, has sought unity and worked hard to create a national unity - based on Chinese culture above all - but open to Indian and Malay minorities.

The UK has done the exact opposite - it is destroying its once unified and homogenous culture, in the wicked marxist name of “diversity.” It seeks disunity.


12 posted on 04/14/2025 7:30:54 AM PDT by PGR88
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I spent vacation days in Singapore in 2016. Tour guide told us there are no unemployment benefits in Singapore. All able bodied persons are required to work until reaching retirement age. Result is unemployment rate is near zero.


13 posted on 04/14/2025 7:40:11 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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To: rlmorel

Yes, the US could use some of Singapore’s ideas on acting like civilized human beings. There have been shootings daily recently. So many across the country that the Chicago numbers have gone to the wayside. Protesting that the sun rose this morning will be next. Enough with the protests. Why should ordinary citizens need to check where the protests will be in their city so they can take an alternate route to get their kids to school. Not that schools are any safer.

We both need to boot the illegals and lock down the borders. And stop the money flow. Illegals should never have received a dime of US taxpayer dollars. $3500 EBT, luxury hotels with maid service, cell phones, health care, education, etc.

The money also needs to be cut on SNAP. The maximum monthly SNAP benefit for a four-person household in Texas is $939. Remember the $939 SNAP is 70% (70/30 split) of the $1350/mo the government thinks it takes to feed a family of 4. That is 3 TIMES MORE than this household’s food budget, which we usually stay under, so thanks to us not living off steak and lobster so others can, grrrr. Duh, of course, they can sell their “food stamps” for 50 cents on the dollar since the beginning. With homemade breads and yogurt, yesterday’s breakfast was yogurt and oranges, lunch was egg salad sandwiches and dinner bbq chicken buns so nothing exciting but decent enough and stayed well below $3.75/day/person budget. If we can do it without batting an eye, certainly an EBT family can.

The maximum monthly income for a 4-person household to be eligible for SNAP in Texas is $4,125. Excuse me?!? We’ve never seen a monthly income of anywhere close to that much but are doing just fine. I cobbled together the Inauguration Congressional Luncheon with what we had at the house (no steaks or truffles and substituted fresh crabcakes with imitation crab) for $3/plate including dessert and had enough leftovers to make a $0 veggie soup the next day. Can’t imagine the cost we taxpayers forked over for that meal so no wonder they hand out $$$ willy nilly. I would love to make the menu for Congress’ dining halls for a week.


14 posted on 04/14/2025 7:41:15 AM PDT by bgill
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Diversity works fine in Singapore. Population is a mix of Chinese, Indians & Arabs. 1/3 of workers are foreign. Anyone causing trouble is promptly reported, never allowed to return and earn high wages in Singapore. Result is everyone behaves.


15 posted on 04/14/2025 7:44:16 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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There are no food stamps in Singapore. Able bodied persons must work.


16 posted on 04/14/2025 7:46:06 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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Lots of gobbledygook above.

Singapore has become rich because of things that have nothing to do with people or management or governance.

It’s geography.

For 100s of years, ships going up the east coast of Asia from Europe and India have generally stopped for provisions, fuel, whatever, and they stop in Singapore because of the great harbor. Money comes ashore with crew on liberty and to buy those provisions.

100s of years. They would have to screw up horribly to NOT be rich. It was almost inevitable.


17 posted on 04/14/2025 7:51:55 AM PDT by Owen
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Cause Singapore is full of realistic Asians who got taught a huge lesson from jap occupation the Brits missed

And now weak whites in Britain are allowing minority interlopers who actually are a smaller % than here extract a pound of flesh from them

They at least a big chunk of white Brits are pathetic

Similar to self hating neurotic white libs here

Something like that


18 posted on 04/14/2025 7:57:19 AM PDT by wardaddy (The Blob must be bled dry)
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IQ. Britain is full of Indians (the smartest came from the 50s to the 90s) Africans Pakistanis and other humanoids. The kalergi plan in full effect. The broom to sweep away Edom, if you will. But something tells me the chicoms /WEF are perfectly fine with this for different reasons. These freaks will inherit the earth.


19 posted on 04/14/2025 7:58:42 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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Liberalism always has failed; Conservativism always has succeeded.


20 posted on 04/14/2025 8:10:12 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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