<![CDATA[Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore]]>http://temasektimes.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/vikram-nair-attacks-chen-show-mao-show-me-the-money-to-invest-in-singaporeans/

[quote]Workers Party MP Chen Show Mao (Aljunied GRC) came under heavy fire from PAP MP Vikram Nair (Nee Soon GRC) during a parliamentary debate yesterday as the latter asked him repeatedly to show him the money to pay for the extra expenditure proposed in his Budget Speech.

Mr Chen had earlier called on the government to invest more in Singaporeans:

“To invest in Singaporeans is to invest in the future of Singapore. It has been said so many times and for so long that the only resource Singapore has is ourselves, that our most important capital is our human capital. Inclusive growth must be built on the growth of our human capital.”

However, Mr Vikram Nair accused Mr Chen and other WP MPs of scoring ‘political points’ by repeatedly asking the government to do more for vulnerable groups without acknowledging what had already been done, criticising him for not having a plan to pay for the extra spending he proposed.

“The one question I have is: what does Workers’ Party intend to do on the revenue side? Is it planning to raise taxes or eat into reserves to pay for all these additional programmes? Because I think the objectives are noble. I am just wondering how you balance it out…,” Mr Vikram Nair said.

He also insinuated that Mr Chen might not understand the reality on the ground as he just returned to Singapore. Mr Chen worked overseas for a number of years before returning to Singapore to contest in the general election last year.

”Let’s do more, let’s spend more,’ (they say), and, of course, they never talk of where this money is going to come from…I think many of us here have been working year in, year out, helping the vulnerable groups, and it is pretty hurtful coming from Mr Chen because he might have held this belief for a long time, but he came back only quite recently to help in this,” he added.

In response, Mr Chen said he is proposing that Singapore run a ‘deficit’ to fund additional social spending, but to “look at the numbers both on the revenue side and how much we hope to make in terms of investments to come to a solution.”[/quote]

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/32687/vikram-to-csm-show-me-the-money-to-invest-in-singaporeRSS for NodeThu, 23 Apr 2026 22:29:20 GMTThu, 01 Mar 2012 03:33:40 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:23:13 GMT]]>

limlim:
Where is he when he is needed MOST!!!!!!....


http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_774330.html
filling out the form to have the payment made?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/724371https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/724371Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:23:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:39:29 GMT]]>Where is he when he is needed MOST!!!!!!....


http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_774330.html

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/724336https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/724336Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:39:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:53:06 GMT]]>

concern2:
LOLMum:



wait, we are talking about csm having real or fake hair right?

:rotflmao: If you want to have fake hair, would you choose to have yoda's hair?


:faint:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723755https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723755Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:53:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:50:21 GMT]]>

concern2:
LOLMum:



wait, we are talking about csm having real or fake hair right?

:rotflmao: If you want to have fake hair, would you choose to have yoda's hair?


:faint:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723753https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723753Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:50:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:21:59 GMT]]>

Way2GO:

Nair's Nigerian's scam Allusion Invites Ridicule.
:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
n now he says he was only joking.
Did anybody see any MPs laugh in parliament when he crack dis joke?
Way2GO! You are so sharp! :rotflmao:
BTW, good to see you here again! :celebrate:

There's a big diff between talking here and speaking in Parliament - you can be tongue in cheek in the former, but not expected to do so in the latter. So I suggest Mr. V should go chat online instead if he likes to joke.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723641https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723641Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:21:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:14:13 GMT]]>

LOLMum:


wait, we are talking about csm having real or fake hair right?
:rotflmao: If you want to have fake hair, would you choose to have yoda's hair?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723632https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/723632Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:14:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:27:33 GMT]]>

Way2GO:
Just thot of another wan ref Nair's Nigerian 'joke':

No Applause? I Retract 😆
:rotflmao:
:rotflmao:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722772https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722772Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:27:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:26:58 GMT]]>

Daddy 😧
Hoping to hear more parliament debates with substance... Rather than all these sarcasm pot-shots...

Can they focus more on the policies and how to improve them?
:stupid: :slapshead:
Agree

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722771https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722771Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:26:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:15:18 GMT]]>Hoping to hear more parliament debates with substance... Rather than all these sarcasm pot-shots...

Can they focus more on the policies and how to improve them?
:stupid: :slapshead:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722668https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722668Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:15:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:18:55 GMT]]>Just thot of another wan ref Nair's Nigerian 'joke':

No Applause? I Retract 😆
:rotflmao:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722649https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722649Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:18:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:59:57 GMT]]>Mister Debater-Lawyer-LawSuit here certainly not scoring points with the population. So much for his Cambridge education.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722639https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722639Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:59:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:59:04 GMT]]>

Lilac66:
Definitely not funny. My hubby and I did not laugh... my DS laughed, but only bec he was tickled by another prog he was watching. 🕺


If Mr V had chosen his words more carefully with more appropriate body language, things would have been better.
Dis guy is a lawyer. Believe me he has chosen his words carefully to ridicule CSM with maximum dramatic effect.
\"Maybe even the Nigerian scheme required you to put $10,000 upfront. But Mr Chen's scheme does not even require a short-term provision. It is not even a deficit for one year. No, no, no. It will pay for itself because it is an investment. “
He is only backtracking by claiming its a joke coz d 'joke' backfired on him.
He is eloquent, has great diction but his speeches so far lacks substance.
IMO, he is like an attack dog, tasked with finding fault with Oppo in parliament;
first GG, now CSM.
Wat concrete contribution has he himself made for SGreans so far in dis parliament sitting?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722637https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722637Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:59:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:56:02 GMT]]>Nigerian govt could sue him for making broad sweeping statements and ask him to produce evidence. :evil: :evil:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722597https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722597Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:56:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:06:50 GMT]]>Definitely not funny. My hubby and I did not laugh... my DS laughed, but only bec he was tickled by another prog he was watching. 🕺


If Mr V had chosen his words more carefully with more appropriate body language, things would have been better.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722577https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722577Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:06:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:08:13 GMT]]>

mum_sugoku:
LOLMum:

[quote=\"mum_sugoku\"]Interesting development: The Online Citizen posted an article commenting on Vikram's attack on CSM's proposal. In response, Vikram said he's \"not ruling out taking legal action against The Online Citizen\"..


http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/03/vikram-nair-compares-chen-show-maos-proposals-to-a-nigerian-scam/#comments

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/pap-mp-considers-suing-the-online-citizen/id-47353f00


legal fees out of his own pockets or we have to pay?

As I see it, Vikram doesn't have a case, cos he did say that \".. Maybe even the Nigerian scheme required you to put $10,000 upfront. But Mr Chen‘s scheme does not even require a short-term provision. It is not even a deficit for one year. No, no, no. It will pay for itself because it is an investment.\"

So the article is not wrong in suggesting that he was comparing CSM's proposal to \"Nigerian scheme\".[/quote]Nair's Nigerian's scam Allusion Invites Ridicule.
:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
n now he says he was only joking.
Did anybody see any MPs laugh in parliament when he crack dis joke?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722552https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722552Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:08:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:02:10 GMT]]>

LOLMum:
Jasmy:

should be real.


he is not bad looking. like the prince on a white horse, 微风中，头发随风飞起，好一张xxxxx......... or like ekin cheng's hairstyle in the gangster movies (center parting long hair).


Neh, I don't think so, he looks more like a 坏人， like a terrorist. Don't have good impression of him. BTW, off topic a little, I saw my mp ,CSM at my void deck attending a funeral wake 


wait, we are talking about csm having real or fake hair right?




Huh, thought it's Vikram. CSM's definitely real 😂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722550https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722550Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:02:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:34:58 GMT]]>Oops, wrong again. I thought that is Vikram. So sorry, going to sleep liao. Didn’t read properly

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722295https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722295Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:34:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:32:52 GMT]]>

LOLMum:
should be real.


he is not bad looking. like the prince on a white horse, 微风中，头发随风飞起，好一张xxxxx......... or like ekin cheng's hairstyle in the gangster movies (center parting long hair).

😉 :evil:
Sorry, the above message by LOLMum. Copy wrongly

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722294https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722294Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:32:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:31:29 GMT]]>

LOLMum:
mum_sugoku:

Interesting development: The Online Citizen posted an article commenting on Vikram's attack on CSM's proposal. In response, Vikram said he's \"not ruling out taking legal action against The Online Citizen\"..


http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/03/vikram-nair-compares-chen-show-maos-proposals-to-a-nigerian-scam/#comments

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/pap-mp-considers-suing-the-online-citizen/id-47353f00


legal fees out of his own pockets or we have to pay?

As I see it, Vikram doesn't have a case, cos he did say that \".. Maybe even the Nigerian scheme required you to put $10,000 upfront. But Mr Chen‘s scheme does not even require a short-term provision. It is not even a deficit for one year. No, no, no. It will pay for itself because it is an investment.\"

So the article is not wrong in suggesting that he was comparing CSM's proposal to \"Nigerian scheme\".

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722292https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722292Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:31:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:31:18 GMT]]>

Jasmy:
should be real.


he is not bad looking. like the prince on a white horse, 微风中，头发随风飞起，好一张xxxxx......... or like ekin cheng's hairstyle in the gangster movies (center parting long hair).


Neh, I don't think so, he looks more like a 坏人， like a terrorist. Don't have good impression of him. BTW, off topic a little, I saw my mp ,CSM at my void deck attending a funeral wake 

wait, we are talking about csm having real or fake hair right?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722291https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722291Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:31:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:29:12 GMT]]>should be real.


he is not bad looking. like the prince on a white horse, 微风中，头发随风飞起，好一张xxxxx… or like ekin cheng’s hairstyle in the gangster movies (center parting long hair).


Neh, I don’t think so, he looks more like a 坏人， like a terrorist. Don’t have good impression of him. BTW, off topic a little, I saw my mp ,CSM at my void deck attending a funeral wake 

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722288https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722288Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:29:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:17:34 GMT]]>

mum_sugoku:
Interesting development: The Online Citizen posted an article commenting on Vikram's attack on CSM's proposal. In response, Vikram said he's \"not ruling out taking legal action against The Online Citizen\"..


http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/03/vikram-nair-compares-chen-show-maos-proposals-to-a-nigerian-scam/#comments

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/pap-mp-considers-suing-the-online-citizen/id-47353f00

legal fees out of his own pockets or we have to pay?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722279https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722279Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:17:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:05:26 GMT]]>Interesting development: The Online Citizen posted an article commenting on Vikram's attack on CSM's proposal. In response, Vikram said he's \"not ruling out taking legal action against The Online Citizen\"..


http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/03/vikram-nair-compares-chen-show-maos-proposals-to-a-nigerian-scam/#comments

http://news.insing.com/tabloid/pap-mp-considers-suing-the-online-citizen/id-47353f00

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722274https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722274Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:05:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Vikram to CSM: Show me the money to invest in Singapore on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:28:29 GMT]]>should be real.


he is not bad looking. like the prince on a white horse, 微风中，头发随风飞起，好一张xxxxx......... or like ekin cheng's hairstyle in the gangster movies (center parting long hair).

😉 :evil:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722174https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/722174Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:28:29 GMT