Lee Kuan Yew: No amount of engineering can prevent flooding
July 22nd, 2010 | Author: Your Correspondent
It has become a standard modus operandi of the PAP to bring their self-proclaimed “forecaster extraordinarie” to the frontline whenever the ministers found public pressure to great to cope on their own.
Following massive public outrage at the recent spates of flooding which once again exposed the incompetence and impotence of the PAP, PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew is called upon again to clear the “s**t” left behind by his minister mentees.
PAP Environment Minister Yaacob Ibrahim has received much public opprobrium lately for his inept handling of the crisis. Instead of taking responsibility for the flooding and apologizing to affected Singaporeans, he was quick to “tai-chi” the blame to everybody and everything else (including God) except himself.
His explanation for the Orchard Road flooding consisted of a woefully inadequate one-liner:
“The floods are caused by intense storms.”
So pathetic he has become that he even ran out of excuses to defend himself and had to parrot his boss PM Lee’s earlier (equally lame) excuse that “it is impossible to expect Singapore to be completely flood-free”.
It is a view shared by the “peerless know-all” Lee Kuan Yew who is a lawyer by training.
Speaking to reporters yesterday at the Kallang River, Lee tried desperately hard to maintain his cool in the face of mounting criticisms at the dismal performance of his over-paid multi-millionaire ministers:
“How can you say the response is sufficient? But at the same time, whatever we do, when we get extraordinary rainfall like we had recently, no amount of engineering can prevent flooding. There is a limited amount of space that you can dig underground, limited amount of space that you can have run-offs for canals.”
Fortunately for the octagenarian, it was not raining at that time and Kallang River did not flood right at his feet and swept him away.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/07/22/lee-kuan-yew-no-amount-of-engineering-can-prevent-flooding/
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