Refuting Ms Sim Ann, Senior Parliamentary Sec and PAP’s scholar
Dear Ms Sim Ann, I refer to your 22 Dec 2011 Straits Times article. You compared the Swedish government spending nearly 50% of GDP to the Singapore government spending 17% of GDP. There are two adjustments you can make so that the comparison is fairer. First, almost 18% of Swedish government expenditure comes from social contributions...
More light on social assistance figures needed
I refer to the Today's report “More calls to ComCare hotline” (Dec 16), on the spike in calls for social services over the past three years, from 7 per cent of calls in 2008 to 20 per cent last year. This seems odd, if viewed with the recent survey findings that six in 10 low-income families choose to manage without outside...
Call it what it is: Flooding
From a "once in 50 years" event, flooding is now expected in almost every heavy downpour, reducing our first-world roads to a wet mess. But in "No floods in Orchard Rd, just 'ponding': PUB" (Dec 24). this was referred to as "ponding". It would be sad if we resort to word usage to dissipate the impact of these floods. We have...
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