And indeed, why does this even merit much discussion? TYS has been a made a political scapeboat because he has brought embarassment and unwelcome analogies to the govt's current belt tightening drive. Pple make much of the "timing" of his article (which by the way, does not actually mention how much the holiday costs - leave that to prurient journalists), but ignore the fact that he could probably have been flamed with the same logic no matter when the article were to be published. After all, it would only take another fool to point out that "S$50K can feed a poor family for 3 years" to make this whole circle spin all over again, boom times or no - as though poor pple form the natural priorities of all singaporeans at all times.