National Day Rally Speech 2008 by PM Lee summarised points
August 23rd, 2008 by ALVIN SOONG
I try to summarised PM Lee’s speech in the National Day Rally Speech 2008. Understanding the economy movements would help us understand the economy better and help many others in their personal social and financial wellbeing.
In the speech, PM Rally’s Speech was summarised in following key points:
To the Chinese in his Chinese Rally Speech:
- Tackle inflation costs of food, oil, ERP etc ($5000 given to 3 room families, energy saving lamps etc)
- Pressure due to influx of Foreign workers, New immigrants and fear of insufficient jobs
- Getting more singles to get married and encourage more babies (eg by giving more maternity benefits)
To the Malay in his Malay Rally Speech:
- Increase in self-help among Malay educated to enphasis on education and building up the community (esp dysfunctional families), eg Medaki Funds
- Rebuilding mosques
To all in his English Speech
PM Lee has mentioned a no. of issues. I extracted and condensed his transcript for those who wishes to read more. The most important thing he would want Singaporeans to know: While building careers is important to most, Mr Lee’s plea to Singaporeans to also put emphasis on marriage, on family – “Make these your priorities, have a full and happy life.” He said.
Pls look and download the 3 transcripts (the Speech in English is the longest – more than 40 pages)
National Day Rally Speech 2008 transcript (English)
to-the-chinese-prime-minister-lee-hsien-loongs-national-day-rally-2008.pdf
to-the-malay-community-prime-minister-lee-hsien-loongs-national-day-rally-2008.pdf
