Weekly Roundup: Week 09
“..we have to understand that identities exist before policies; no amount of coercion or social engineering can remodel that, but only subvert and suppress it..”
Howard Lee
“Globally, property prices have sunk, in part due to the greatest recession since the great depression and in part due to shrinking lines of credit. This property price paralysis is happening everywhere else in the world.. Except Singapore.”
Percevale
“..the concept of childlike faith (if it is even scriptural) should not apply to man.”
Terence
“Perhaps it is time to question whether excessive government intervention in the economy is the true killer of productivity growth..”
Ng E-Jay
This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
Budget 2010
- TOC: Dissecting Budget 2010
- My Little Corner: Direct Benefits for Households in Budget 2010
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Election Budget?
- Loves all, trust a few, do wrong to none: Singapore Budget 2010
- Asia Military World: Singapore increasing their military budget
- Bloomberg: Singapore to Spend S$5.5 Billion to Spur Productivity [Thansk Gerald]
- TOC: Budget does little to address main issues faced by S’poreans
- Sgpolitics: Just how progressive is Budget 2010?
- The Temasek Review: $7 billion dollar plan to make Singaporeans work “smarter”
- The Temasek Review: Why the hike in Foreign Worker Levy will benefit the govt more than ordinary workers
- Yaw Shin Leong: Thoughts on Budget Speech 2010
- Singapore Alternatives: NSP’s response to Budget 2010
- Singabloodypore: Singapore’s Budget 2010 exposed
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Defence spending 25%, education 21%
- Recruit Ong: Preserving the status quo
- My Little Corner:
