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i strongly disagree with Mr. LSL regarding the import of foreign talents in sports. If i remember correctly, he said something like this in his chinese national day speech: China has 1.3 billion people, singapore has 4 million people, which is 300 times as singapore's population. that means singapore will get one olympic medal when China gets her 300th. And then he tried to use this argument to justify the government's effort in importing foreign talents to represent singapore in her sports arena.
frankly speaking, i thk his argument is damn flawed. Not only that, how could a prime minister of a nation say something which was so defeatist? how can a prime minister not have faith in his own people, but instead, tries to somewhatjustify his mistrust in his people? instead of encouraging his people to work and train hard to bring glory to the country, he is providing excuses for his people to slack off and increase their reliance on other people. what a defeatist.
let me give an example. i just watched the 1.5km olympics final, the participants are mostly from developing countries, like kenya, bahrain (i am sure many of you havent heard of this name before), south africa, qatar and morroco. i am sure none of these countries can beat singapore in terms of economic and social advance. okay, in the end, one of the Bahrain runners got first (that's when i come across this country). and out of curiosity, i wiki about Bahrain.
Not to my surprise, it is another ulu country. but on further reading its info, what surprised me was its size of population. singapore's population rank 115th in the world, while Bahrain rank 159th. Bahrain only has 1,046,814 people. well, that is only 1/4 of singapore's... maybe these figure mean nothing to you, but there is one thing i am sure, Singapore's olympic medals are not 4 times as Bahrain's.
At this point, i don't think i need to elaborate my viewpoint any further, you know what i want to say already. i just don't understand why a prime minister can make such a xxx argument.
singoreans, hope you all can prove him wrong man.