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09-09-2015, 05:40 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
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Pretty Vivian ~ walking down the street ~
"Frankly, I think that’s an old issue and nobody on the street has asked me about it but just for the record so that you’ll understand this was an inaugural event.
We decided to bid in August 2007, we had to submit the bid by November so there was a preliminary estimate. One, two years down the road it became very clear in order to organise an international sporting event at an Olympic event in Singapore (it) was going to cost us more than $300 million. I took that revised budget, went back to cabinet, (the) cabinet approved it and we did not overspend. The expenditure on the YOG was within the approved budget.
I think you can argue about whether or not you should have hosted the YOG – you want to argue that, that’s fair enough. It’s a fair debate. But to accuse me of overspending is patently false.
Anyway I’m not really interested in bringing up old but the point is it’s these throwaway comments like “oh you’re overspending you have no morals.”
If you want to have a debate, you debate about whether or not you want to have an event on that scale and that cost.
But the most egregious personal attack is that two weeks ago I warned of the danger of dishonest politicians getting into parliament and pretending to work for free. The video is available online. Anyone who bothers to go through it will know I’m talking about politicians. But they have distorted it and said “you see, he is denigrating the work of volunteers who work for free”.
If you paint me out as someone who doesn’t appreciate volunteers, that’s malicious, deliberate and false. In fact it borders on dishonesty, because they know. I’ve pointed out the video and the post to them. Paul Tambyah (SDP candidate for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC) pretended to do a slight clarification I think yesterday."
Sauce: http://mothership.sg/2015/09/vivian-...jeng-jeng-yog/ (http://mothership.sg/2015/09/vivian-balakrishnan-takes-on-chee-soon-juan-sdps-policies-and-jeng-jeng-jeng-yog/)
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Today 5:03 PMhttp://sgtalk.org/mybb/images/mobile/posted_0.gif Post: #1 (http://sgtalk.org/mybb/Thread-Vivian-on-YOG-again-It-s-OLD-ISSUE-NOBODY-ASK-ME-ON-STREET-CABINET-APPROVED?pid=1282866#pid1282866) lambo (http://sgtalk.org/mybb/User-lambo) http://sgtalk.org/mybb/images/buddy_online.gif (http://sgtalk.org/mybb/online.php)
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Pretty Vivian ~ walking down the street ~
"Frankly, I think that’s an old issue and nobody on the street has asked me about it but just for the record so that you’ll understand this was an inaugural event.
We decided to bid in August 2007, we had to submit the bid by November so there was a preliminary estimate. One, two years down the road it became very clear in order to organise an international sporting event at an Olympic event in Singapore (it) was going to cost us more than $300 million. I took that revised budget, went back to cabinet, (the) cabinet approved it and we did not overspend. The expenditure on the YOG was within the approved budget.
I think you can argue about whether or not you should have hosted the YOG – you want to argue that, that’s fair enough. It’s a fair debate. But to accuse me of overspending is patently false.
Anyway I’m not really interested in bringing up old but the point is it’s these throwaway comments like “oh you’re overspending you have no morals.”
If you want to have a debate, you debate about whether or not you want to have an event on that scale and that cost.
But the most egregious personal attack is that two weeks ago I warned of the danger of dishonest politicians getting into parliament and pretending to work for free. The video is available online. Anyone who bothers to go through it will know I’m talking about politicians. But they have distorted it and said “you see, he is denigrating the work of volunteers who work for free”.
If you paint me out as someone who doesn’t appreciate volunteers, that’s malicious, deliberate and false. In fact it borders on dishonesty, because they know. I’ve pointed out the video and the post to them. Paul Tambyah (SDP candidate for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC) pretended to do a slight clarification I think yesterday."
Sauce: http://mothership.sg/2015/09/vivian-...jeng-jeng-yog/ (http://mothership.sg/2015/09/vivian-balakrishnan-takes-on-chee-soon-juan-sdps-policies-and-jeng-jeng-jeng-yog/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?215572-Vivian-on-YOG-again-quot-It-s-OLD-ISSUE-NOBODY-ASK-ME-ON-STREET-CABINET-APPROVED&goto=newpost).