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Going extinct is no fun : Comments

By Michael Cook, published 15/8/2012

Singapore's greatest threat is from its own imploding birth rate.

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Michael Cook is of course a full time propagandist for opus dei, and the Mercator websight is a propaganda vehicle for opus dei which, along with other right wing "traditionalist" outfits now controls the political and cultural agendas of the "catholic" church.

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Posted by Daffy Duck, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 8:50:54 AM
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Singapore is hardly going extinct. The locals are simply reacting to the fact that the place is massively overcrowded. Just try and buy a car in Singapore, its only for the rich.

This sounds to me like more Catholic spin, to encourge people to keep breeding like rabbits. We know what happens when they do. Just go and ask those poor souls living on the Manilla rubbish tip etc.
Posted by Yabby, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 9:06:55 AM
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I have to question the assumption that the population of Singapore is somehow ceasing to be. While this may be the view of Lee Kwan Yew, it is plain to those who do not share his chauvinist and racist views that the population of Singapore is merely changing in composition.

Were the government prepared to allow the thousands of workers who travel daily to work across the Malay Straits to actually live in Singapore, or to stop discouraging Singaporean nationals from pursuing relationships with non-Singaporeans, the birthrate might also look rather different, and healthier.
Posted by Salay, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 9:50:07 AM
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About the only good think you can say about this silly article is that it was not written by Malcolm King.
Posted by michael_in_adelaide, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 10:00:40 AM
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Pretty much standard 'play the man' opening comments from the Adelaide Hills NIMBY fringe dwellers. I too doubt Singapore is facing extinction but at 1.1 births it has a major problem. It's the same problem that faces many western nations - falling birth rates and ageing population.

The anti-people lobby want to cut Australia's population - which is slowing down rapidly - by cutting immigration (race card), erecting tariff walls (Menzies solution) and Canute like, roll back the forces of globalisation. It's no wonder Dick Smith can't get his political advertising placed in News Ltd newspapers.
Posted by Cheryl, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 10:18:27 AM
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This article is nonsense. Singapore was a fine place when the population was 2 million, not long ago. If the population reduced to 2 million again, that wouldn't be a tragedy for Singapore. The tragedy is for the young Singaporeans at present who would like to have families, but, because of the Government's fetish re population growth, can't afford to find somewhere to live.

Meanwhile, of course, the country wouldn't go extinct - the birth rate would recover if the population reduced and it became affordable.
Posted by jeremy, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 10:37:23 AM
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