Greetings from Singapore!

[American Horse]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country. I have been reading a lot about your history. It is incredible. I don't know about you guys but Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father. I also read about the FDR, Reagan and the lot.

Anyway, I thought maybe coming to a forum such as this would help me further my understanding of this great country and also the American people.

Cheers.

Welcome Cyrano,

I expect that you will add a lot to this board. When you get around to it, hopefully you will inform us as to how Singapore has dealt with the problem of the distribution of healthcare. Your country, as you probably know, is economically much more free than ours. People will be fleeing there soon enough.

Cheers!

 

[rightwinger]

Welcome to the boards

 

[rightwinger]

Glad to see you here...welcome

 

[xotoxi]

 

[Cyrano]

Hey, yet another newbie!

You will have to tell us a lot about where you are from. What little I know of the place is way old. Mostly that the place was run for a long time by a "Benevolent Great Leader" who, while kind of anal retentive, actually was a benevolent great leader who did a lot of great things for the place. So bring us up to date a bit!

"Benevolent Great Leader"? His name is Lee Kuan Yew. He is benevolent, yes, but he was also authoritarian, like a tamed version of Mao Zedong. He would not stand criticism of his party, and had naysayers imprisoned for defamation and libel. In your country, you can denounce Obama as a socialist and nothing would happen to you. But if you do it in Singapore, say call Lee Kuan Yew or his party (PAP) party dictatorial, you are very (very) likely to be imprisoned. We have no right to freedom of speech. When we are allowed to criticize the government "in a constructive way", it is because the government gives us permission to not because we have a right to.

He "did a lot of great things"? I'd take that with a pinch of salt. Singapore's economic progress is fast. But I would not credit the him or the government for this. It is the innovative businessmen, who despite our heavy regulations managed to come out tops, that deserves the credit.

 

[Cyrano]

Welcome from Singapore. What a city!! Where all the elevators have video/sound monitors etc lol. Beautiful place.

Thank goodness, not all elevators have video monitors.

Why? what have you been doing in the elevators ?..comrade

Nothing!

The reason the government gave for the installation of security cameras in elevators was because some people pissed in elevators. But not all elevators have surveillance.

 

[xotoxi]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country.

I'd heard a rumor that there was a push by the government in Singapore, to change the country's name to Singasong.

Is there any validity to this story?

 

[Cyrano]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country. I have been reading a lot about your history. It is incredible. I don't know about you guys but Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father. I also read about the FDR, Reagan and the lot.

Anyway, I thought maybe coming to a forum such as this would help me further my understanding of this great country and also the American people.

Cheers.

Welcome Cyrano,

I expect that you will add a lot to this board. When you get around to it, hopefully you will inform us as to how Singapore has dealt with the problem of the distribution of healthcare. Your country, as you probably know, is economically much more free than ours. People will be fleeing there soon enough.

Cheers!

As far as I know, America is probably the freest country on earth. Yes, economically we are freer than you guys but when it comes to political freedom, we are as free as a dog on a leash.

My guess is foreigners who migrate here don't really care for political freedom, i.e., the freedom to speak out against government. They just want a better life, better income, etc.

 

[Cyrano]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country.

I'd heard a rumor that there was a push by the government in Singapore, to change the country's name to Singasong.

Is there any validity to this story?

Nope. Did you make that up??

 

[xotoxi]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country.

I'd heard a rumor that there was a push by the government in Singapore, to change the country's name to Singasong.

Is there any validity to this story?

Nope. Did you make that up??

Yeah...but that would be pretty cool.

I'd pay money to hear the Singasong National Choir sing a song.

 

[editec]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country. I have been reading a lot about your history. It is incredible. I don't know about you guys but Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father. I also read about the FDR, Reagan and the lot.

Anyway, I thought maybe coming to a forum such as this would help me further my understanding of this great country and also the American people.

Cheers.

You're more likely to be misinformed reading this website than informed.

But if nothing else you're likely to quickly understand that this nation is divided into two schools of thought.

Schools whose philosophical idea of how a nation should be run are wildly different.

 

[Cyrano]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country. I have been reading a lot about your history. It is incredible. I don't know about you guys but Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father. I also read about the FDR, Reagan and the lot.

Anyway, I thought maybe coming to a forum such as this would help me further my understanding of this great country and also the American people.

Cheers.

You're more likely to be misinformed reading this website than informed.

But if nothing else you're likely to quickly understand that this nation is divided into two schools of thought.

Schools whose philosophical idea of how a nation should be run are wildly different.

I am quite well read in political philosophy. I understand that the United States is a Constitutional Republic based upon the principle of Individual Rights.

The "two schools of thought" you were referring to are probably Republicanism and Democracy. But currently, the US is based on the former isn't it, although Democrats are in the White House.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Hello

How is the property market in Singapore?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..if you aren't Singaporean you are stuck with condos zoned for foreign ownership....starting at around $1 million U.S....plus a shitload of taxes. I will say this though...I love Singapore and if I had the money I would buy a Condo there in a heartbeat...on Cairnhill Rd. of course.

Welcome Cyrano...I have been coming to Singapore since 1981....

 

[PixieStix]

Hello! I come from Singapore, and I am fascinated with your country. I have been reading a lot about your history. It is incredible. I don't know about you guys but Thomas Jefferson is my favorite Founding Father. I also read about the FDR, Reagan and the lot.

Anyway, I thought maybe coming to a forum such as this would help me further my understanding of this great country and also the American people.

Cheers.

Welcome to the forum

 

[Mr. H.]

He "did a lot of great things"? I'd take that with a pinch of salt. Singapore's economic progress is fast. But I would not credit the him or the government for this. It is the innovative businessmen, who despite our heavy regulations managed to come out tops, that deserves the credit.

Worth quoting.

 

[hvactec]

Welcome to the forum