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From a BE page:
Teo Chee Hean has accused the Workers Party of engaging in flip flop over the issue of ministerial pay. Let's see how the PAP and PM Lee have flip flopped and avoided tough questions in the past:
1. On Mas Selamat's escape: "What to do? It's happened." (Lee Hsien Loong)
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20080309-53470.html
2. On food poisoning at the YOG: "In a massive operation like this, from time to time, problems will arise." (Vivian Balakrishnan)
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1075888/1/.html
3. On the great Orchard Road flood
"But I don't think it's possible in Singapore to expect the place to be completely free of floods." (Lee Hsien Loong)
"Some things are beyond (that); it's an act of God..." (LKY)
4. On high ministerial salary
"I say you have no sense of proportion; you don't know what life is about." (LKY)
5. On the Geylang Serai mass food poisoning which affected 154 people and led to 1 death:
"The number of food poisoning cases in Singapore is very low..." - - Andrew Tan, CEO, NEA.
6. On the stagnating service standards of Singapore in international ranking:
"Improving service standards is like running a marathon, where Singapore sometimes heads the main pack of runners and sometimes lags behind the lead runners."
- Lim Swee Say. What happened to claiming to be world class?
7. On the YOG budget:
"We got the initial estimates of the money to be spent on the YOG wrong."
- Vivian Balakrishnan, and this only came after repeated dodging using the excuse that YOG was good for the Singapore brand.
8. On GIC's $50b loss:
"Temasek and GIC are long-term investors, and should be evaluated as such."
Former Minister of State for Finance, Lim Hwee Hwa.
Long term investors? Even as we speak, Temasek has offloaded its shares in some Chinese banks; the same shares that were bought less than 8 months ago.
9. On overcrowding in trains:
"At 1,600 passengers per train, the MRT passenger density will translate to about 4.9 passengers per square metre, which is significantly lower than the actual loading density of 7.0 passengers per square metre experienced on the Tokyo metro." (LTA)
10. On the frequent breakdowns:
"I dare say train breakdowns are unavoidable." Lui Tuck Yew
11. On its laissez-faire approach to pay TV market that saw World Cup fans paying $90 for subscription to watch the event:
"Competition (between Singtel and Starhub) has helped widen the choice for viewers..."
Ling Pek Ling, MDA Media Policy Director, ignoring the fact that this "competition" has led to a bidding war under a duopoly.
12. On the $1.1b grant to SMRT and SBS despite the fact that they are privatized listed entities:
"So none of the $1.1 billion will go towards profits of the public transport operators. It will be ring-fenced, their accounts will be scrutinised." Tharman Shanmugaratnam, without giving substantive explanations on how to ring fence and scrutinize. And by the way, is it a nationalized or a privatized model??
from a certain john Rawls in theonline citizen facebook post
Teo Chee Hean has accused the Workers Party of engaging in flip flop over the issue of ministerial pay. Let's see how the PAP and PM Lee have flip flopped and avoided tough questions in the past:
1. On Mas Selamat's escape: "What to do? It's happened." (Lee Hsien Loong)
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20080309-53470.html
2. On food poisoning at the YOG: "In a massive operation like this, from time to time, problems will arise." (Vivian Balakrishnan)
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1075888/1/.html
3. On the great Orchard Road flood
"But I don't think it's possible in Singapore to expect the place to be completely free of floods." (Lee Hsien Loong)
"Some things are beyond (that); it's an act of God..." (LKY)
4. On high ministerial salary
"I say you have no sense of proportion; you don't know what life is about." (LKY)
5. On the Geylang Serai mass food poisoning which affected 154 people and led to 1 death:
"The number of food poisoning cases in Singapore is very low..." - - Andrew Tan, CEO, NEA.
6. On the stagnating service standards of Singapore in international ranking:
"Improving service standards is like running a marathon, where Singapore sometimes heads the main pack of runners and sometimes lags behind the lead runners."
- Lim Swee Say. What happened to claiming to be world class?
7. On the YOG budget:
"We got the initial estimates of the money to be spent on the YOG wrong."
- Vivian Balakrishnan, and this only came after repeated dodging using the excuse that YOG was good for the Singapore brand.
8. On GIC's $50b loss:
"Temasek and GIC are long-term investors, and should be evaluated as such."
Former Minister of State for Finance, Lim Hwee Hwa.
Long term investors? Even as we speak, Temasek has offloaded its shares in some Chinese banks; the same shares that were bought less than 8 months ago.
9. On overcrowding in trains:
"At 1,600 passengers per train, the MRT passenger density will translate to about 4.9 passengers per square metre, which is significantly lower than the actual loading density of 7.0 passengers per square metre experienced on the Tokyo metro." (LTA)
10. On the frequent breakdowns:
"I dare say train breakdowns are unavoidable." Lui Tuck Yew
11. On its laissez-faire approach to pay TV market that saw World Cup fans paying $90 for subscription to watch the event:
"Competition (between Singtel and Starhub) has helped widen the choice for viewers..."
Ling Pek Ling, MDA Media Policy Director, ignoring the fact that this "competition" has led to a bidding war under a duopoly.
12. On the $1.1b grant to SMRT and SBS despite the fact that they are privatized listed entities:
"So none of the $1.1 billion will go towards profits of the public transport operators. It will be ring-fenced, their accounts will be scrutinised." Tharman Shanmugaratnam, without giving substantive explanations on how to ring fence and scrutinize. And by the way, is it a nationalized or a privatized model??
from a certain john Rawls in theonline citizen facebook post
