TR EMERITUS

Tin Pei Ling, the young PAP MP who became notorious for her posts of Kate Spade handbags that surfaced during GE 2011, gave a speech in Parliament in which she claimed that her Government had provided the highest level of support in the world to Singaporeans on a per capita basis. She posted her speech on Facebook and I reproduce... 

Tin's definition of "budgetary support" is the money the government is using to prop up the "economy" as a whole. In other words, it is "budgetary expenditure", which might not largely benefit the individual directly. A more useful comparison with other countries would be to look at how much tax and social security revenue... 

  Phillip Ang * The author blogs at LikeDatOsoCanMeh.      Read More →