Mindef budget is going to ballon!

[laksaboy]

Do you why Singapore has 'not enough money' for pertinent social welfare needs?

This is your answer.

Whenever it comes to increasing the military defense budget, no questions are asked. National security and the so-called patriotism that comes along with it are sacred cows.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[winnipegjets]

Do you why Singapore has 'not enough money' for pertinent social welfare needs?

This is your answer.

Whenever it comes to increasing the military defense budget, no questions are asked. National security and the so-called patriotism that comes along with it are sacred cows.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I would like to see how they costed it. How could a few hundred bucks dished out to some reservists and creating a voluntary force cost that much?

 

[frenchbriefs]

Do you why Singapore has 'not enough money' for pertinent social welfare needs?

This is your answer.

Whenever it comes to increasing the military defense budget, no questions are asked. National security and the so-called patriotism that comes along with it are sacred cows.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

patriotism?singapore has patriotism?more like a way to siphon out more tax dollars to crony contractors and defense companies.

how the fark a organisation that serves no real function in the real world have such a burgeoning budget?any department in a company that drains so much resources and carries out no purpose has to be cut....regardlless of the imaginary benefits.

 

[bic_cherry]

Mindef's budget is going up to $20 billion next year as a result of this nefarious scheme.
How they arrive at $4.5 billion is anybody's guess.

Wrong
S$4.5 billion over 10yrs is just $450million per year increase only.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

Thank you for the upz. Sorry for the double post, got too worked up after reading and also after half bottle of Hennessy.

In that case I must go and "up" that bottle of Hennessy too.

 

[Equalisation]

red colour ?

 

[steffychun]

Do you why Singapore has 'not enough money' for pertinent social welfare needs?

This is your answer.

Whenever it comes to increasing the military defense budget, no questions are asked. National security and the so-called patriotism that comes along with it are sacred cows.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

WP Gerald Giam has asked questions but generally agrees with NS.