Vivian: $387mil for YOG, I will do it again! $300m to stop floods? Expensive, cannot!

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It has to be karma that Vivian Balakrishnan, notorious for his gutter politics during the May 2011 elections, has ended up dealing with drainage gutters. In all probability, he won't be any more successful than Yaacob Ibrahim, the cad who lied about acts of gods and blocked drains, they are both made of the same political mold.

This chap is putting off the construction of a much needed diversion canal to relieve the overflowing Stamford Canal, because it would cost between $300 and $400 million ("in the long run, these need to be done," he is quoted saying). But he did not hesitate to waste $387 million on the YOG debacle - food poisoning and fake certificates of appreciation for local volunteers, free hospitalisation and R&R for the foreign one - and even boasted to a reporter he'll do it again anytime ( "I felt it was money well spent").

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2012/01/hear-it-from-experts.html
 
Re: Vivian: $387mil for YOG, I will do it again! $300m to stop floods? Expensive, can

You must read between the lines and understand this guy.

Vivian is very poor in budgeting. He under-budgeted YOG and the total cost of YOG is 4 times his original budget.

So if Vivien now says that fixing the stamford cannel will cost $300 million, tax payers must be prepared to pay 1.2 billion for the project.
 
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Re: Vivian: $387mil for YOG, I will do it again! $300m to stop floods? Expensive, can

300 mil is small sum la. Extend the CPF withdrawal for another year generate more than that Liao.
 
Re: Vivian: $387mil for YOG, I will do it again! $300m to stop floods? Expensive, can

You must read between the lines and understand this guy.

Vivian is very poor in budgeting. He under-budgeted YOG and the total cost of YOG is 4 times his original budget.

So if Vivien now says that fixing the stamford cannel will cost $300 million, tax payers must be prepared to pay 1.2 billion for the project.

Ha ha.........
Later flood prevention over run cost by nearly 4 times and have problem like crane topple, accident..............like too many thing happen in YOG.
 
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