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By: Daniel Lee

Daniel Lee — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:05:32 +0000

Clearly, another sign that political competition will give citizens the best outcome for money.

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By: harminder

harminder — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:46:03 +0000

This makes you wonder how efficiently the PAP town councils manage their funds. Are they splurging on unnecessary projects? However, it is hard to judge that because of 2 issues: qualitative improvement and spending per capita.

If East Coast GRC spends $X million to improve lifts, and Potong Pair SMC spends $Y million to do the same thing, any comparison needs to take these into account:
a) which “lift-using experience” is better, and
b) how much was spent per resident- since East Coast GRC is bigger than Potong Pasir SMC, the comparison should be done on a per-head basis (i.e. $X million divided by number of residents in East Coast GRC and the same for Potong Pasir SMC)

By: T T Tan

T T Tan — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:41:07 +0000

Thanks for the insight Gerald! Good Work!

By: Defennder

Defennder — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:37:46 +0000

I just find it very ironic that the opposition wards would do far better job at being cheaper, better and faster than their PAP counterparts.

By: george

george — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:46:38 +0000

Since this is World Cup season, the most apt description of the Grace Fu(ool) report is that
her party has scored a most convincing OWN GOAL.

Elimination is possibly just a match away.

It is not just pork barrel politics when one considers that a govt’s moral responsibility
has to be by the people and for the people.
It fails on both scores – PAP MPs are not from
the people but made up of many self-serving and
often apparently brainless clones who exist to serve their party’s grip on power.

By: Wai Leong

Wai Leong — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:09:49 +0000

The sad thing is that ST came up with its analysis of funds without having to ask a single Parliamentary question…

By: Gilbert Goh

Gilbert Goh — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:50:30 +0000

A good write up on the town council report.

Keep up the good writing.

Gilbert

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