PAP spars with 3 opposition parties in live Singapore TV debate, gets into heated exchange over SDP's 'false strawman'Clockwise from right: Vivian Balakrishnan, Jamus Lim, Chee Soon Juan, Francis Yuen and moderator Jaime Ho from Mediacorp in a live televised political debate July 1, 2020. Screenshot from Mediacorp TV via TODAY
To Lim, he asked whether WP considered the trade-offs that come with the plans laid out in its manifesto.Turning the tables on him, Lim asked whether PAP has evaluated the efficacy of its policies, particularly over the S$93 billion the government had pledged through the four Budgets this year. The second segment was when things got tense as Balakrishnan debated with each of the other three men. For each time, two of them were allowed to ask one question of each other and respond. Referring to Chee as a person with whom he has had “many disagreements” in the past, Balakrishnan asked him what is the total bill of the schemes that SDP is proposing in its manifesto.
This is just a tiny amount of what the PAP Government signed off on the four national budgets this year, and that SDP is not a “tax and spend” party that Dr Balakrishnan accused it of being during the last election in 2015, he added. Calling his defence a “cheap shot,” Balakrishnan said: “For the record, we will never have 10 million, we won’t even have 6.9 million. The government doesn’t have a target for the population.“What we want is a Singapore core that is demographically stable, able to reproduce ourselves, able to create opportunities and jobs for ourselves and able to stay as a cohesive whole.
“We think that for every dollar of national income, Singaporean workers already receive an insufficient amount — 42 cents. Compare that to 55 cents in Japan and much higher in other high-income countries,” he said. Balakrishnan then said that Singapore is funding the Covid-19 crisis budgetary packages from its reserves and not burdening it on the country’s next few generations.
Yuen also questioned the time frame that the Government has set in delivering the promise of creating 100,000 new jobs, as mentioned in Mr Heng’s fourth national budget in May, as well as the nature of these jobs. 'Denying PAP a blank cheque'
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