Fear-Mongering Over Tariff Fallout Rings Hollow Without Hard Data
The government's latest alarm bells over a supposed economic fallout from Trump’s renewed tariff wars come across as more political theatre than sound economic reasoning. The timing, with General Election 2025 just around the corner, makes the messaging appear less like prudent governance and more like a calculated effort to sow fear among voters.
If recession warnings are to be taken seriously, they must be backed by solid data—comprehensive analysis of trade flows, affected sectors, and projected GDP impact. Hand-waving about "economic headwinds" without specifics is unhelpful at best and disingenuous at worst. Voters deserve better than vague doomsday scenarios.
And even if there is merit to the concern, shouldn’t the government, with its vast resources and highly paid experts, be leading the charge with contingency plans? Isn’t it the core duty of any competent administration to anticipate, prepare, and steer the country through potential crises? Or has the government simply been caught sleeping at the wheel?
Ultimately, leadership is not about sounding alarms; it’s about showing the plan. If the risks are real, where is the response strategy? If there is none, then perhaps the real issue isn’t the tariffs—but the lack of preparedness from those in charge.
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Look,China has more at stake.
Still,XJP keeps his cool and whack Trumpy Orange Squash.
Sg leaders so panicky.
Whose fault?
At most,do more trading ex-USA.
Surely got other trading partners after drafting so many FTAs?
If not,FTAs for what?
Just to dump “FTs” here?
KNN,claim glory very fast.
Push blames lagi faster?
If cannot perform already,let oppo sgs take over lah.
Why KPKB?
Abolish GRC!
GRC BREEDS MEDIOCRITY.
DOUBLE CONFIRMED.Look at these panicky boy$ ,from HSK TO KEE CHIU and PM Wong.
If USA disappear tomorrow,PAP ministers don’t know what to do,is it?
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井底之蛙,死到临头还不知道!
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We MUST stay UNITED with WP. All the other Ps are in disarray. That include the white P. 4G is outdated. We should have 5G and 6G.
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Now that we know that Trump is using tariffs game to play the stock market, time for Voucher Wong to solve real problems.GE 2025 he and StayTuned Sim Ann will co chair the HDB 99=Zero Task Force.
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Every sinkie dream.
General kee Chiu to lead a team to take back Aljunied.
Or talk-big OYK.
Guess too many chicken in pap.
Hence another suicide squad.
Losers like keechiu love to stand where there are plenty of needy merderka-pioneer.
Hence Voucher-forever Party
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Of course – without the Glorious Regime, their Communist Island will not survive the trade war. Also we must take all the future jabs or go to jail, if not they will jab us anyway.
Prepare for GST to go to 15% soon. If you are somehow still miraculously employed then ask yourself how many days you need to starve to make ends meet.
Maybe $inkies can become maids and drivers for FT who have multiple houses locally and overseas. Unless you want to join other Regime voters looking through the garbage of these FT for some relief.
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GE was called weeks after Sept 11.
Weeks after lky died.
When COVID was at its worst.
FEAR is papigs modus operandi
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The five-day trip, during which Xi will visit Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia, is also a timely and critical one for boosting the confidence of countries in the region and providing more certainty for regional economic development amid the chaos brought by the United States’ launch of a tariff war, they said.
Why Xi not visit Sg? Because $g Dig$$ni$$ty too high?
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Highly paid idiots have no clue of what to do, just blah blah blah.
No matter high you pay an idiot, they just don’t know what to do, it’s so obvious.
Alternatively, just pay a smart guy reasonably well, they can out-think with better ideas.
So, every minister with million dollars pay will only know how to cry father and cry mother.
THIS IS SINGAPORE!
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Update on the Covid “Vaccines”
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/14/update-on-the-covid-vaccines/
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There has been a saying economically: if the United States sneezes, the rest of the world will catch cold!
Now that there are a mad guy , using the leverage the US is having to run amok, the rest of the world is suffering.
Not many countries have the guts to stand against the tyrannical behaviour of the mad man. Besides Canada, European Union and the people republic of China, more than half of the world countries went to “ kiss “ the mad man’s axxxxxx!
Singapore, being just a red dot, we could not do much to change the behaviour of the most powerful country in the world. Fortunately, we have a very good PM in charge.
The speech delivered by our PM on the issue is succinct, timely and to the point, the speech clearly explains the problem we are going to face and the approach we can adopt. Not retaliate but seek consensus from our other trading partners, regional groups etc.
This shows the leadership have done their part well in advance, understand the problem, therefore could manage to tells us the truth, the possible impact on us and what we need to do at the first instance.
The PM’s statement is short, it is possibly because many sinkie have attention deficit disorder and could not understand any speech longer than one minute. Likewise, many sinkie might not know the ghamen has since working very hard on it.
The worst is some immediately jumped out and said this was fear mongering. Probably people who choose to say so know the ruling party very well, knowing that the ruling party will be able to solve the problem and sinkie land will, under the leadership’s hard work, sinkie land will be much better after the crisis.
Our PM and his team are just brilliant and have the welfare of the people in their hearts. We feel fortunate to have them.
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siah suay.
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Economic Recovery after pandemic not following script.
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@Xi is best
Well said.
Xi is head and shoulders above Orange Head.
China will trump over Trumpee’s MAGA.
Xi shows his superior statesmanship.
Like America,Sg needs good leaders,not Groupie-thinker$$$ who take easy way out by COLLECTING MORE MONEY from peasants to squander even on OUT$iders.
Vote SDP and PSP,PAR,RDU AND ALL OTHER OPPIES.
Even if oppo wins 5 or 10 GRCs,it is no big deal.
So,why hesitate?
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They have no plans. Their plan is whine and scream that the end is near then ask the daft sinkies to give them a blank cheque so that they can save everybody. But once they got a blank cheque as usual they will just shake legs.
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Not GE yet so many plp out here.
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@ Why Xi not visit Sg?
And why Xi muz visit Sg ?
Sure he visit our neighbours hes invited and welcome ? Or 不请自来 ?
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@ 井底之蛙,死到临头还不知道!
er.. 你是指执政党 or 在野党 ?
还是 Xi or DT ?
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PM Wong will make all the oppo to loose their deposits in the coming GE !
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If all the seats go to the Oppo, a little bit for each of them but none goes to PAP, all sinkie will have to brace for impact—————clear looongkang in our neighbouring countries.
This is not fear mongering, this is reality!
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OYK should go take back Aljunied.Left as a very frightened chicken.
Kee Chiu must take back Sengkang.
Both wants to be Pm.
Now show your mettle.
GE 2025 is a report card on last 5years of pinkie screwups
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When a ship is hitting iceberg, will the lookout just ring the bell? Will the captain change course?
If change course, based on a ship’s compass – 90 degrees? 180 degrees? 270 degrees? 360 degrees?
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Trump tariffs very likely caught PAP scholars with their pants down.
They are probably more busy improvising their masterplan to woo/strike fear in voters’ hearts and minds than dealing with the economic chaos created by the Trump administration.
Gone are the simple days of releasing video footage or summoning Opposition members to court for a fine/jail before election year.
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Vote for @Dr Chee.
If Dr Chee is voted in,PAP minister$$$ will not simply shake off national issues like High COL,OVER-CROWDONG,etc.
Dr Chee is much feared by complacent PAP LAW-maker$.
A Dr Chee is worth ALL OF THE CHIAK LEE BER PAP MPs.
WHY BOTHER TO VOTE IN SO MANY EXPEN$IVE USELESS MPs at $16K per pax when ONE DR CHEE IS MORE EFFECTIVE ?
SGS,WAKE UP!
IS MS POH ABLE TO BE THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS BETTER THAN DR CHEE?
YOU DECIDE WISELY AND HONESTLY.BE FAIR TO YOUR CONSCIENCE.
And,Prof Paul Tambyah is surely ways better than the part-time PAP BANKER MP,YES?
So,there you are.
Easy peasy,you already have 2 SOLID OPPO SDP MPs for next GE.
No need to scratch your heads like blind sheeple.
BE THE SINGAPURA PEOPLE!!!
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那顶帽子,谁适合谁戴上。
你要也可以试试看。
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Pap manifesto GE 2025 is asset enhancement..To make 50 year old hdb to be worth 2million dollars.
StayTuned Sim Ann and pm wong will chair the task force. Mahboh tan and peanut will be special advisers.
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To those on the thread, who have praised LW’s actions, just a question, have you taken a look at his choice of the Committee he has set up to address the Tariff. His choice of DL,JT, CHT,NCM etc shows that he won’t be able to address the fallout from the Tariff as it has become a bigger problem because of the increase in the population nos. COL going to skyrocket out of our imagination levels due to the past actions of the PAP. They have made it worst for us.So please vote for the Opposition where there are people who have worked in the private sector and will be able to handle this professionally. The PAP are all cut from the same cloth.
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If all seats go white, sinkies will have no voucher.
Vote Opp for more Vouchers.
VOV
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One Person Rule (Donald Trump) – United States of America
One Party Rule (PAP) – Republic of Singapore
The difference is in the number of politicans involved when the wrong decisions are made.
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I believe LW & his gang are just striking fear about the tariffs because of May 3.
Anyway, it is a little too late & most Singaporeans got more real issues & concerns that we’d been facing for the last 5 years at least.
So the fear that PAP is trying to instil doesn’t work.
My prediction for May3 GE : PAP 55%-58% of the votes.
I also expect a bit of a good surprise from the oppositions, particularly WP.
PAP can not be allowed to stay in absolute power if Singapore is to be well.
Lets hope.
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You obviously not following the development of the situation.
Our ghamen is alert and fast to respond to the situation. So far what they have done is the optimal response any competent government would have done.
Oppo in Sinkiland have been given opportunities they deserve to advance their agenda, it is up to them to grow themselves.
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我戴老天爷未必愿收.
置之死地而后生, 天无绝人之路.
胜负未分, 言之过早.
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Fear what?
Why fear?
Trump’s tariffs are nothing to fear at all.
What is more fearful is to have a government that does not care and has no compassion for its own countrymen as in “You die,your business”.
Giving vouchers to mitigate joblessness and livelihoods created by BAD LABOUR POLICIES LIKE FT POLICY and pushing up COL is BAD PUBLIC POLICY in itself.
LKY told us: Give a man a fish,he eats for a day.Teach a man how to fish,he eats for a lifetime.
Protecting jobs and livelihoods of CITIZENS is fundamental public policy practice.
Concerted efforts to dump less talented and low productive “FTs” armed with fake or “cheaply obtained” degrees is unacceptable.
But sgs are simply daft to accept such BAD POLICY PRACTICES.
CAN MINISTERS HONESTLY SAY MITIGATING LOSS OF LIVELIHOODS FROM BAD PUBLIC POLICIES WITH “VOUCHERS” IS GOOD AND SUSTAINABLE PULIC POLICY PRACTICE?
So,sgs need to wake up to a nonchalant and complacent and insincere government.
Vote for MPs not based on elite status such as PARTY NAME,JOB STATUS,ACADEMIC STATUS,etc but based more on CAPABILITIES AND MOST OF ALL,SINCERITY AND HUMILITY TO S E R V E the COMMON CITIZENS FIRST.
CITIZENS FIRST( aka Singapireans First) POLICY IS SURELY NOT XENOPHOBIC NOR UBFAIR.
ON THE CONTRARY,CITIZENS FIRST POLICY DEMONSTRATES SINCERITY AND HONESTY TO SERVE OUR OWN PEOPLE.
LOYALTY IS TO THE NATION AS THE CITIZENS MADE UP THE COUNTRY,THE STATE.
A STATE IS USELESS WITHOUT THE CITIZENS.
IT WILL JUST BE AKIN TO A “HOTEL”.
So,OUT WITH ACCUSER$ THAT BRAND SGS AS XENOPHOBIC BECAUSE IT IS FALSEHOOD AND A BETRAYAL,to say the very least,is it not?
A VOTE IS NOT A “TIKAM”.
A VOTE IS A SACRED DECISION FOR THE BETYERMENT OF OUR “PEOPLE,WE,THE CITIZENS OF SG.
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A 10-man committee is as good as a 1-man committee. Their solution is more of the same, to give out $2 vouchers. On the other hand, if they are as good as the pandemic committee, they will take out $100 billion reserve and give a gigantic $600 each to us.
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Because of people like this in the opposition camp, this coming GE the current ruling party will win big!
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Even after graciously hosting the Trump and Kim summit, other the selfie opportunity there was no benefit to Singapore (still slapped with tariffs like everyone else).
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Like paying extra to Taylor Swift to skip Thailand and perform only in Singapore.
Your definition of ‘alert and fast to respond’ sounds hollow like a party echo chamber.
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At the PE, real oppo only 15%. Many real oppo from the last GE had “migrated”.
This GE will be a complete loss for oppo. Say bye to your deposits.
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老天爷不收?
阎王爷必定收!
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Practice makes improvement. But if people still couldnt overcome fear after a few trainings, just wondering how they survive in tsunami and earthquake?
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