Over and above S$2 million: NTUC offers condolences

Your dyslexic read­ers prob­a­bly under­stood the last line right away …

Hey, my com­pany donated more than BMS leh… why didn’t you men­tion it? Wait, you mean this isn’t a competition?

And is it just me or did they throw in that the food relief weighed 1.5 mil­lion tonnes so to hope that read­ers will be dis­tracted and think NTUC donated 1.5M dol­lars instead.

I some­times won­der if I am dyslexic? Did you mean FUCKING CUNT?

Again, its not the measly amount of dona­tion that scares me. What scares me it that they’re so damn proud of it!

They would be proud of them­selves whether they are gen­er­ously giv­ing or just pay­ing lip ser­vice. At least con­sider match­ing the public’s dona­tions of the $10 Food Relief Pack­ages, on top of your 1.5-million tones of pack­ages, can ?

Some­one told me that Malaysia is off our aid list ?

tsk tsk. such right­eous anger. read up on coca-cola and pfizer’s recent run-ins with the indian govt and things may become clearer.

just won­der­ing, is fcuk­ing ntuc prof­it­ing from the $10 food relief pack­ages? i have been hes­i­tant about buy­ing them coz i dont think they should profit from this.

Yeah, angry ‘cos it’s like wit­ness­ing some­one seri­ously hurt in a car acci­dent and all you do is throw a packet of tissues.

No I don’t know if NTUC is prof­it­ing from the $10 relief packs.

Any­one know what’s in those packs?

Read on Sammyboy’s that those Food Packs are actu­ally stuff that was expir­ing any­way, and were going to be writ­ten off by them. Dunno if it is true (it IS Sam­my­boy, after all). If it is, wah lau eh.

But I agree that with the Red Cross declar­ing that cash is best, it seems strange to me that NTUC is still doing this in kind.

It is appro­pri­ate for NTUC to donate in kind because even if Red Cross receives cash, they’ll have to pur­chase the same items at a higher price any­way. So isn’t it bet­ter to obtain them at cost price and send it to them? Which is to say, $50,000 can buy alot more food if bought at cost price than if bought from other ven­dors by Red Cross.

I think you should read the arti­cles in Busi­ness Times today to see how S’pore is con­tribut­ing before you get on your polit­i­cal hob­by­horse and call local cor­po­ra­tions cunts.

Polit­i­cal hobby horse? Siao! Read the post again leh.

“Anony­mous” — assump­tions so many I even wouldn’t attempt to unpack all.

“Which is to say, $50,000 can buy alot more food if bought at cost price than if bought from other ven­dors by Red Cross.”

You’ve mixed up RC with the UN agen­cies. And assumed too much about the mastodon of local supermarkets.

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By accus­ing the super­mar­ket of sell­ing food near it’s expiry date, haven’t the oth­ers made assump­tions too? If food is what NTUC is well posi­tioned to donate, what’s wrong with donat­ing food? What per­cent of your own annual income have YOU donated, anyway.

Are you direct­ing that ques­tion at Mr Brown, Anony­mous? I can’t really tell. I can never really tell what peo­ple named Anony­mous are try­ing to say, usu­ally. But I did donate 2% of my annual income.

I think it is point­less to argue or judge based on how much or what is given. Per­haps we should focus on the deed and see the pos­i­tive side of things. Giv­ing is in itself a good deed. There are those who give lit­tle but from the heart and oth­ers who give much with a hid­den agenda. I will also not judge oth­ers by how much I am giv­ing or doing because everybody’s finan­cial respon­si­bil­ity is unique.

The goal to life is happiness.