Reporter: You mentioned that it took 11 days, this whole process [of unlocking the reserves].. Was that enough time?
Nathan: Yes, yes, of course. I think 11 days was reasonable. If it had to be, it could have been even shorter.
Transcript of President’s Press Conference, Straits Times, 18 Feb 2009
“I asked for all this information about the reserves. It took them three years to give it to me.. they [also] said it would take 56-man years to produce a dollar-and-cents value of the immovable assets.”
President Ong Teng Cheong Interview, Asiaweek, March 2000
“According to TODAY [18 Feb 2009], “The President reiterated that he was not here to judge whether these schemes would ultimately work..”. Not here to judge? Shouldn’t the man responsible for giving the government our money make it a point to judge if the money will be well spent?”
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“A small part of me died with that article, and it simultaneously just proves how our government doesn’t see Singaporeans as citizens, but as workers, to be thrown away when they don’t function as well as before, and as a “choice”, to a foreign land if you can’t pay the bills here.”
Kenneth Koh
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