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Translated by Tan Lee Chong (Original article by Eugene Yeo here) 海峡时报在2009年3月5日发表的文章题为“竞选的代价”，政治通讯员李雪莹(音译)评论反对在不久的将来举行竞选因它会分散政府对经济的注意力。   “为了竞选，甚至一个短期的竞选，国家将会在很多方面花费：... 

By Jeremy Koh, Guest Columnist In my previous article, I wrote about the recent reports published by the media giving an erroneous impression of the abundance of jobs in the labor market for Singaporeans. CNA reported today that this year's retrenchment figures are likely to bust the record of 29,000 jobs lost in 1998 during... 

NOTE: The following is a spoof of the original article below When the ruling party and civil service claimed they needed their exorbitant executive salaries to attract 'talent', we all laughed to think the 'best and brightest' were needed to destroy the economy and drain the reserves. What actually did the job was greed, which...