Since when have we been treated as a “family” ? Let me recall…….NEVER.  Case of more like Master and Servants,  and no prize for guessing who are the servants, even though these pigs called themselves Civil SERVANTS.

i would like to quote our late President Mr Ong Teng Cheong, a truly man of integrity. Fights all his way for his people . There is no way to bribe him with high salary money, nor status, but his heart only truly for his people!!

Can any of the ministers in the cabinet including the PM ever be able to live such a high standard example like our LATE PRESIDENT MR ONG TENG CHEONG! HE IS TRULY THE PEOPLE’ S PRESIDENT!

WELL LIKED AND WELL LOVED BY ALL THE CITIZENS IN SINGAPORE ! AND I BELIEVE ALL SINGAPOREANS ARE WILLING TO COMBINE ALL THE DAFT MINISTERS PAYS + PM+PRESIDENT PAY ALL JUST GOES TO OUR LATE PRESIDENT MR ONG TENG CHEONG!

WHOM HE DOES NOT SERVE HIS PEOPLE WITH MONEY OR EVER ASK FOR INCREASE OF PAY OR EVEN STATUS, THAT HE EVEN TRY TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS IN QUESTIONING THE RESERVES, THIS IS CALLED THE TRUE CAPABLE ELITE SCHOLARS!!! WE NEED THIS KIND OF LEADERS!!! NOT THIS CURRENT RULING ONE!! ALL ARE FUCKING PIGS AND DONKEYS!!

THEY SHOULD BE VOTED OUT!!!

1.) They are the ones that has a big pay raise all along not the citizens. They should consider themselve bloody lucky to be in Singapore or they will face numerous riots and rallies.

2.) The should wake up on spending tonns of citizens money to invest when the economy is not doing any good. They said we are doing well, “YES”, only for the PAP and Temasek and not the public.

3.) Please wake up! It’s the peoples money you are playing with and the salary are from the citizens. So any deision that you want to do, have the public support first. It’s like a company or family; any decision will have to be fully consult before a final decision takes place.

Mr Low Thia Khiang’s peanut-banana example says it all for me. It best illustrates the so-called absurdity you were referring to with regard to the rationale for raising ministerial pay. Like you said, not point quarrelling over such absurdities. You should have been here before the “official” announcement.

Yes, he said “your….our”.

You can see it here.

Whether it’s a slip, I’m not sure. :)

Regards,
Andrew
theonlinecitizen

Denial is an often employed strategy.

It’s known as being “touche”.

Noblesse Oblige anyone?

Young PAP Says:
March 28th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

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Wah, these fellas have gone from spamming to having a no-spam policy. Dun understand leh. Anybody know where the spam came from originally?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Time to temper focus on monetary rewards

I REFER to the report, ‘Govt must close pay gap to retain talent: PM Lee – Pay for staff Grade 1 has slipped to 55% of benchmark’ (BT, March 23).

While it is important to retain talent, we may need to temper the focus on monetary rewards. Otherwise, we may inadvertently be setting an unhealthy example for Singaporeans in general and sending an undesirable message to our children – that money is everything.

In this connection, Singapore has been ranked 130th out of 178 countries for happiness, 40th out of 41 countries for libido, 30th out of 35 countries for courtesy, fifth in the world for prisoners per capita and 105th in the world for income equality.

Has our over-emphasis on monetary rewards led to us being unhappy because we spend too much time and effort chasing more and more things and money – at a cost of having little time or energy to have sex, an uncaring attitude towards others and an inclination to commit illegal acts to get rich quick, resulting in many offenders?

Recent remarks by the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy – that ‘Singapore should stop trying so hard to be world class, simply because it already is’ – may be instructive. We may need to pay more attention to trying to improve those ‘soft’ areas in which we are far from world class – like happiness, libido and courtesy.

Singapore seems to be particularly good in the economic arena, but Third World in the non-economic arena.

Perpetuating the strategy of paying more and more to keep civil servants may be self-defeating. As a small country, we will find it increasingly difficult to compete with bigger, more developed countries that can offer higher pay, perks – and a better lifestyle to boot.

Perhaps we should shift some of the emphasis to the honour and duty of public service, contribution to our country and the pride and joy such service brings – which no amount of money can buy.

Our founding ministers, like our Minister Mentor, worked tirelessly for very little pay to take Singapore from Third World to First World status.

If the most senior civil servants who are now earning $1.21 million a year need to be paid $2.2 million to want to stay, I think there may be something wrong with the values we are teaching in our schools, our homes and our society at large.

Furthermore, benchmarking pay to the top echelons of private sector professions may not be appropriate, because civil servants do not have to face market competition, technological obsolescence, shareholders, investors, etc.

Finally, as long as our parents tell their children to aspire to be scholars and civil servants, entrepreneurship may never flourish in Singapore, no matter how hard we try to promote it.

Leong Sze Hian
Singapore

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This is not about the politics of envy. It is the principle of it that we are highly opposed to. We do not believe that ministerial pay is grounded in the discourse of inordinately high remuneration in comparison to other legislators and cabinet members in other nations that have to face challenges e.g taking the flak for declaring war, large-scale regional politicking and worrying their heads full of OECD, G-8 and other mechanisms of governance of the North.

Who’s going to be envious of a Minister in Singapore anyway? Definitely not me. I don’t think I construct a basis of existence and self-worth based on others’ presumed opinion that we all yearn for their pay. Money is not the endgame option, and it should never be.

When transport fare increase, they pit it against other world transport fare. When come to salary, they pit it against local job market. And even then the statistic of those paid for top professional see to be those of only ELITE !. This tell me that our ministers and gahmen are damn ELITE. To hell with elite, we welcome idiot instead !

YOung pappies, how much they paid you per month that you sell your soul, dignity, morality to the white devil ? Oh, I forget, you probably get pay rise soon. No wonder, cronies of the cronies flock together.

Honestly, what I feel is not envy, but pity for those who claim they are envied. Because they think they are the only ones who can lead, which is highly debatable given the kind of election system we have.

Really capable people do not have to resort to inappropriate use of power and access to funds to force the votes out of the people. So, there, it is not envy. I would be too happy to have the best leaders and pay top dollar for them. But I am just not convinced they are the best and therefore deserve to be paid exhorbitant salaries.