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ChannelNewsAsia kept playing the video clip over and over on national television, of Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam rebutting Opposition leader Low Thia Khiang's contention that the Goods and Services Tax is hurting the lower-income group.  Altogether now, let's say it one more time, GST is a regressive tax. While... 

SM Goh SM Goh Chok Tong had asked, quite comically, how many had followed the tragic events in Japan with the tsunami ... and then put into context our floods in Singapore against that kind of disaster. He said:"I am not saying we shouldn't do anything about the flood. But the amount of noise you made with just sporadic flood... 

Well even though SM Goh was comparing durians to rambutans, he has a point about learning from the Japanese. But why doesn’t he tell this to the elites rather than us peasants? The following would have resigned or, bowed deeply asking for forgiveness, if they had had the Japanese spirit – Wong Kan Seng over escape ...