"A minister should be drawing $2.2 million a year or more....But their actual salaries have fallen to 55 per cent of the benchmark, that is $1.2 million, and we have to close this gap."
"While public officers must serve from a sense of idealism and duty and not be motivated mainly by financial reward, they should not be expected to make 'unreasonable financial sacrifices' to be in public service."
- Lee Hsien Loong, Straits Times, March 23, 2007
The government kept saying that we should pay our civil servants higher pay to prevent corruption.So the fact that we have the highest paid ministers in the world (even before the increase),are they implying that every other countries' government be it UK,US,Japan,Australia etc etc are corrupt???Unbelieveable..I guess the government feels that since most Singaporean acts like sheeps,we must have a brain like sheeps too..sigh. - GC
ReplyDeleteImagine,if the majority of Singaporean's wages are pegged to our ministers' pay in comparison to their US counterpart,we would have the highest wages in the world. But alas,while our ministers felt theirs are still inadequate,on the otherhand,they feel Singaporeans' wages are too high although most Singaporean are paid way below their US counterpart..a lot even below US's minimum wages..sad. - GC
ReplyDeleteWho're the first class citizen in Singapore? The foreigners! They stay in private housing while heartlanders in public housing.
ReplyDeleteHow does Singapore pay system like?
2 types:
- Politician's pay: never high is high enough
- Heartlander's pay: Must be less than China