The Rhetoric
“The PAP will not let you down. We have the resources and the experience to see you through this bad patch.”
– PM Goh Chok Tong, Straits Times, Oct 28, 2001The Reality
“The difficulties we are facing…are due to external circumstances over which we have no control.”
– PM Goh Chok Tong, Straits Times, Nov 15, 2002