Furthermore, why would we have run into infrastructure bottlenecks if there had been proper government planning and foresight? Worse still, when we ran into infrastructure bottlenecks, the government’s most energetic response then was to deny that there were infrastructure bottlenecks.
You tried to convince Singaporeans that we were better off by comparing median incomes in the first half of the decade with that of the second half. But when the government grants large numbers of citizenship to foreigners with well-paying jobs, it automatically raises the median income without actually changing the incomes of the rest of us Singaporeans. To be fair, remove all citizens granted citizenship between 2005 and 2010 from your data and we shall see how much our median incomes have actually increased without the boost from our new citizens.
You hoped Mr Giam would consider the facts and be persuaded that in the last ten years, the PAP successfully steered Singapore through difficult times and did good for the people. What you wanted Mr Giam to consider are not facts but half-truths and falsehoods. The truth is that the PAP bungled along from one crisis to another. It made things worse for Singaporeans when it chose to grow at all costs.
- http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/government-seized-chances-for-growth/
You tried to convince Singaporeans that we were better off by comparing median incomes in the first half of the decade with that of the second half. But when the government grants large numbers of citizenship to foreigners with well-paying jobs, it automatically raises the median income without actually changing the incomes of the rest of us Singaporeans. To be fair, remove all citizens granted citizenship between 2005 and 2010 from your data and we shall see how much our median incomes have actually increased without the boost from our new citizens.
You hoped Mr Giam would consider the facts and be persuaded that in the last ten years, the PAP successfully steered Singapore through difficult times and did good for the people. What you wanted Mr Giam to consider are not facts but half-truths and falsehoods. The truth is that the PAP bungled along from one crisis to another. It made things worse for Singaporeans when it chose to grow at all costs.
- http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/government-seized-chances-for-growth/
