Ultimately, it's about what happens to ordinary people...

Tom Friedman's trenchant commentary on winners and losers in the new economy, posted in my Feb 15 blog entry, needed to be complemented and fleshed out by a human story, on the price exacted of people struggling at the bottom. It came in this NYT piece, published in TODAY (Feb 18):

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Over to local issues, like many other Singaporeans, I found an MP's idea of a defence tax on non-Singaporeans rather bizarre. Former nominated MP Siew Kum Hong gave voice to my very thoughts in his well-argued letter, also in TODAY (Feb 18):

Here's the link:

http://www.todayonline.com/voices/beggaring-neighbour-does-not-make-me-rich