February 1, 2013
Political suicide vs Demographic extinction
Like many Singaporeans, I would also prefer to have a smaller population of foreigners in our Singapore but ……
We are facing the crisis of our lifetime. Our citizen population will halve every two generations. This is a serious ‘long’ term problem and the only cure is more babies. But the real emergency is not babies, but ageing. That is why the population will increase in the short term before the inevitable decrease in the long term.