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I'm sure there will be a number of unemployed S'poreans who are willing to cook fishball noodles for money. In the end I think, however, these bosses don't have a choice because of high business costs. If the rental and supplies cost a lot already, then wages will be the ones they will target to...

Well, I've always been suspicious of claims by people that by increasing defence spending, we will help the economy overwhelmingly. I mean, historically they aren't wrong- but times have changed since WWII when factories could employ thousands of men and women to make propeller fighter planes...

Its all very well, until you realise the money spent helps American defence companies, and not ours. The jobs created by Boeing and Lockheed, located in the US, won't somehow trickle down to here(even if it does, its almost nil). What we need is more jobs here right now, and not there.

How many people can we hire as regulars before it becomes a pain on taxpayers money? Don't forget that the wages of regulars in the armed forces also come from taxpayers money. There's only a certain amount of bombs, ships, F-15s and what not we can buy; and then, the government will also need...

They don't even want to send some of their best touted men to work in tandem with our allies from Oz, Canada, Thailand, the US in a real anti-piracy exercise(which means actual combat) in hot spots around the world..so what do you expect from raw people who has never even experienced pirate...

That's what I said in the Kopitiam thread: And to note: many countries are giving tax credits- longer term- in order to encourage small businesses to remain open and to allow the private sector to at least remain viable. Singapore seems to be doing too little, or doing another round of...

Didn't he make that infamous sexist remark about girls and their hairstyles? That's all I can remember of that chap. Whether does it says it all about him is up to you guys.

If Osama Bin Laden were so scared of F-15 jets, wouldn't he had stopped 9/11 plans from being approved for execution? The fact is that terrorists are not scared of F-15 jets and military hardware. Once you have occupied a soft target with real weapons, and with real, living hostages, no-one...

We can buy them- but that means the government will need more of our taxpayers money. If they cut money for their pork barrel projects, and include more money for counter-insurgency measures, and national internal security, I don't see why can't we have some weapons as this. But it has to...

While I only know that while Republicans have accused Democrats of increasing taxes on small businesses when they have no proof to state so in the Obama budget, I think the PAP is actually guilty of saying one thing and doing the exact opposite. If especially Kopitiam is owned by a government...

I'm simply shocked at the antique, Cold War mentality of the SAF. They can spend all of our cash on their toys, but if they just collect dust and only be used once a year on the 9th of August, its nothing more than political pork money for the SAF top brass. Good for those folks in the US...

Any strategy by any party to focus on ideological purity, and not on winning a majority of votes in the long term, is a losing strategy, period. I mean how did Barack Obama win? Win all the blue states, liberal and democrat and hope to win Florida or Ohion in a whisker at 4am on Nov 5th? Get...

To be sure, there will be blogs written by bloggers who are racist. If people hadn't realised that, then I don't know what else to say. But it is also true that some of these blogs aren't read by many people, if at all. This is because more Net-savvy youngsters and older net surfers...

Hmmm..but President Obama was elected in November 2008 while this crisis was in the making way back in August 2007, and even before that because of deregulation and the Bush tax cuts for the rich. In this respect, blame should be laid upon the Bush administration, and in some cases, in the...

They are a bipartisan website and hence if some do have balanced criticism of all opposition parties and of the PAP, then its warranted. Legitimate arguments are fair game, as long as its of professional reasons and not of personal. I can't say for other sites, honestly because of these two...

Lim Swee Say is a very poor speaker. Half the time he argued the job credit scheme against Mr. Low, he phrased his argument very poorly. There's a certain sense of awkwardness when he tries to argue, I feel. He just can't put his point across and when he does, he's very clumsy. And his...

Apparently, the Economist has a different idea. LKY is living in his own fantasy land, and that's why I'm appalled to see him putting his own self-interest first instead of the country's own, by thinking of a snap election before he becomes too weak...

F22 fighter jets are expensive and inefficient. It has only 63-66% reliability. Defense Secy Robert Gates is thinking of scrapping the F-22 program in favour of having more modern versions of the F-16s and F-15s. The US army will have only more money to expand the numbers in all three armed...

Are you sure this is the latest stuff out of his mouth? I tried to google "Lee Kuan Yew" just now and I can't find this article. This speech from the Air show could be possibly from last year's show- and if so, it was way before Lehman Brothers broke the camel's back. Of course, if it was...

I think its important to note that in a non-partisan blog like The Online Citizen, its main purpose is to offer a site where non-PAP people, and pro-PAP people, and politically neutral people can come together and produce articles of interest, that provoke awareness and thought. Its main...