It says much of the psyche and financial security of Singaporeans that the drawdown of our natural reserves - forests and woodland - attracted so much heat and attention, while the drawdown of our financial reserves for the second year in a row went largely unremarked.
And yet there are similarities in both these sets of actions that should attract attention.
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