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Budget 2009

The Tharman Promise

3 Mar 2009
- TOC: Reform Party Budget Forum
- Singabloodypore: Reform Party Budget Forum [Vids]

20 Feb 2009
- My sketchbook: President Nathan’s press interview

19 Feb 2009, Nathan said Yes
- Yawning Bread: Nathan fluffs his reserves explanation
- Sgpolitics: Full of generalities but short on specifics: President S R Nathan’s (unofficial) guide to rubber stamping
- Gerald Giam: Greater transparency needed for Presidential decisions
- TOC: “My loyalty is, first and foremost, to the people of Singapore”
- groundnotes: Unlocking reserves
- Feed Me To The Fish: 11 days or 56-man hours? Let’s hear it from our Presidents
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Why I said yes, sir.
- Sg Enquirer: Flawed Job Credit Scheme benefits employers more than workers

16 Feb 2009
- The Lycan Times: Budget 2009
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Depressionomics SOP needed

13 Feb 2009
- Making History Relevant: Why S’pore shouldn’t have handouts

11 Feb 2009
- The Kway Teow Man: The Road to Hell
- The Legal Janitor: Education for economics illiterates

10 Feb 2009
- Siew Kum Hong: More thoughts on Jobs Credit scheme
- The Kway Teow Man: The Untruths About Jobs Credit!
- Feed Me To The Fish: Is Singapore Cracking Up?
- Making History Relevant: Why S’pore should keep GST
- Mr Wang Says So: $330, One Youth and a Minister
- TOC: Together we save jobs?

9 Feb 2009
- Yawning Bread: No need to know how President uses his second key, says government
- TOC: Deliberations of President shrouded in mystery
- a blog day’s work: A reversal of roles?
- Gerald Giam: Trust, but verify
- StaticVariable: Track Record
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Subterfuge and Survival

6 Feb 2009
- Feed Me To The Fish: Ms Denise Phua, will you shave your head?
- Singapore Alternatives: Will Subsidies to Companies help save jobs?
- ThinkingNectar: An Alternative Jobs Credit Implementation [Thanks Chin Yong]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Govt Help - What it is really like..
- TOC: Sylvia Lim’s Budget speech - are we depleting our current reserves?
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Sensible suggestion but was unfortunately shot down
- Military Life: Money Got Enough: Defence Budget Increases by 6% Despite Recession
- Sgpolitics: NSP Budget Response 2009 — Extensive But Not Comprehensive

5 Feb 2009
- Singaporean Skeptic: That is why we need more opposition MPs in Parliament
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Disappointed with the Budget Debate
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: About Jobs Credit Scheme
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Ganging up on Low Thia Khiang
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: Why SDP “alternative” budget will not work?
- Making History Relevant: SDP Version of S’pore Budget 2009
- Sgpolitics.net: A consolidation of my views on Budget 2009
- a blog day’s work: Can a news agency swap an online article at fancy?

4 Feb 2009
- Endoh’s Dungeon: One man’s dream - Today’s a reality
- Feed Me To The Fish: Job Credit Scheme is a Misnomer!
- groundnotes: Job Credit scheme: False dilemmas aplenty
- TOC: Workers’ Party MP questions effectiveness of Job Credit scheme
- Siew Kum Hong: Budget 2009: Speech on Budget Statement, 3 February 2009 [Vid][Thanks craven]
- Sgpolitics.net: Parliamentary Snapshots — 03 Feb 2009
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The TRUTH about Jobs Credit!
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: so we invested in other countries more than we invest in our own

3 Feb 2009
- The Kway Teow Man: Jobs Credit Explained
- Sg Enquirer: One week after the Budget, even GLCs are retrenching

2 Feb 2009
- Big Talk Singapore: Singapore Budget 2009
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Budget Discussion
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Budget 2009 is not pro-people
- Sgpolitics.net: Singapore’s economy: Has the Government been caught with its pants down?
- Sgpolitics.net: Budget spending not transparent, SDP proposes alternative 5-point plan

30 Jan 2009
- Newsintercom: Not a Defensive Budget
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Resilience Package dwarfed by bank investments
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Why worry about setting a precedent to tap on reserves?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Small Change Needed in the Budget
- TOC: S’pore’s best budget ever but please help with HDB arrears
- Singapore Social Activist: Governing a ‘First-World’ Country with ‘Third-World’ Mindsets – A Response to Singapore Budget 2009 (Resilience Package)

29 Jan 2009
- Making History Relevant: “Vital to raise exports”

28 Jan 2009
- The Kway Teow Man: On the Budget
- The one dimensional island: The “Mother” of all Budgets
- TOC: Thus spoke Shanmugaratnam
- SgPolitics.net: Will the use of past reserves set a precedent for future drawdowns?
- Kaffein-nated: Singapore Budget 2009: Wage Credit
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Not a budget Budget
- Feed Me To The Fish: Dipping Into Reserves Is Resilient?
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: low-income workers need encouragement to stay employed
- SgPolitics.net: Will our business-centric budget benefit GLCs and big businesses more than consumers and working class citizens?
- Alamak: Channel NewsAsia flip-flops again
- The Void Deck: TVD’s Picks: Budget 2009
- My sketchbook: The key to the Reserves

23 Jan 2009
- Sgpolitics: My take on the key highlights of Budget 2009
- Singapore Alternatives: What is Lacking in Budget 2009?
- Information Read By Me: Something New + Time to Move On [Thanks Jaunty Jabber]
- Yummy BBQ Chicken Wings: Sg Budget 2009: Like that enough meh? [happy holidays bbqchickenwings]
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: The “Resilience” Package: Together, let’s upturn the downturn!
- Anonymous_X: Singapore Budget 2009 — 25 points of what you need to know about Resilience Package
- Budget 2009: Budget Speech 2009 [Official Release]

22 Jan 2009
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Hope over fear, Singapore!
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Budget 2009, a foreword
- Singapore Alternatives: Budget for Crisis of Confidence

21 Jan 2009
- SG Entrepreneurs: What to look out for by businesses in Budget Speech 2009 [Thanks Bernard]

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