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You also took issue with Mr Chen for not showing how to pay for the extra spending he desired. Consider the following requests or recommendations by your fellow PAP MPs during Budget 2012 debate:
•Zainudin Nordin asked for the reduction of living cost beyond rebates and vouchers for older, less skilled workers who are unlikely to learn new skills [2].
•Lee Bee Wah recommended transport concession fares be extended to polytechnic students and better salaries and benefits be given to bus drivers [3].
•Lim Biow Chuan asked for a cost of living adjustment for pensioners whose nest eggs have been eaten into by inflation. He also asked for GST vouchers to be extended to Singaporeans with no income but living on properties with annual value not more than $30,000 [4].
•Ang Hin Kee suggested extending the Special Employment Credit to back-to-work women and ex-offenders while PAP MP Denise Phua suggested making the scheme permanent [5].
•Ang Hin Kee asked for those on social assistance to be rewarded with an extra year of subsidies for successfully upgrading their skills and improving their income [6].
Why didn’t you similarly ask any of your fellow PAP MPs listed above how they intended to pay for the extra spending they desired? Why didn’t you lambast your fellow PAP MPs for never talking about where the money is going to come from but you only lambasted Mr Chen? Why were you so singularly uptight about taking Mr Chen to task when you so easily let off your fellow PAP MPs on the same issue of how to pay for extra spending? There is no consistency in your approach to issues which suggests you are not genuinely concerned about those issues. Were you merely bashing Mr Chen for bashing’s sake? If you at least had a strong case to begin with then that’s still not so bad but you didn’t even have a strong case to begin with.
- http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/vikram-nair-show-me-the-money-chen-show-mao/
•Zainudin Nordin asked for the reduction of living cost beyond rebates and vouchers for older, less skilled workers who are unlikely to learn new skills [2].
•Lee Bee Wah recommended transport concession fares be extended to polytechnic students and better salaries and benefits be given to bus drivers [3].
•Lim Biow Chuan asked for a cost of living adjustment for pensioners whose nest eggs have been eaten into by inflation. He also asked for GST vouchers to be extended to Singaporeans with no income but living on properties with annual value not more than $30,000 [4].
•Ang Hin Kee suggested extending the Special Employment Credit to back-to-work women and ex-offenders while PAP MP Denise Phua suggested making the scheme permanent [5].
•Ang Hin Kee asked for those on social assistance to be rewarded with an extra year of subsidies for successfully upgrading their skills and improving their income [6].
Why didn’t you similarly ask any of your fellow PAP MPs listed above how they intended to pay for the extra spending they desired? Why didn’t you lambast your fellow PAP MPs for never talking about where the money is going to come from but you only lambasted Mr Chen? Why were you so singularly uptight about taking Mr Chen to task when you so easily let off your fellow PAP MPs on the same issue of how to pay for extra spending? There is no consistency in your approach to issues which suggests you are not genuinely concerned about those issues. Were you merely bashing Mr Chen for bashing’s sake? If you at least had a strong case to begin with then that’s still not so bad but you didn’t even have a strong case to begin with.
- http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/vikram-nair-show-me-the-money-chen-show-mao/
