I guess everyone will agree that politicians deserve to have
high salaries (as compared to the average Singaporean). The
problem is... how high is high enough? And how high is too
high?
I'm just thinking... By the
government's reasoning that the world-best politician salaries are
necessary to keep the talents from flowing to the private sector,
most other countries quite possibly have rather untalented,
incompetent leaders.
By the way, does anyone happen to know which one of our
multi-millionaire ministers is a real talent? Or rather,
among our ministers, who (if any) do you consider to be a true
talent deserving of a million-dollar salary?
Paying the best, does not imply you get the best talents, a
monopolised govt dun need to have much talent, afterall, you dun
have to compete, more so with an ever "Yes sir" kind of citizens
who dun oppose to any of their decision and laws making., what kind
of talent are you talking about, even mistake make can be
claimed as honest mistake without any punishment.
Let take an example, the Current Minister of Education said that
the weightage of Chinese in PSLE should be lower, and then the PM
LHL came out and said no, it was never the case, and the MOE
Minister apologised by saying the wrong usage of words is the
culprit...you call that talents?? 5 millions paycheck for both of
them and you call that talent??? and the funniest part is everyone
keep quiet like no mistake was make and some even praise the govt.
OMG! If there is competition, I think they are going to get it, and
the MOE minister can pack his back and go home. In a Corporate
world, if you make a wrong speech, resulting in the mistrust and
misunderstanding of the customer, your competitors will kill you
straight off to point out the mistake, and your boss would have
lost a huge business and end up you getting boot off the office.
But our govt is on mono mode here, no one is challenging them, so
what kind of talent is there to show for...even a kopitiam towkay
also can become a minister.
And if you are PM, who wrote you own and your
ministers paid structure, do you think he will opts for lower
paid??? No. So, he will paid himself high and when he
paid himself high, he also have to pay his ministers high,
otherwise there will be a big gap within the paid
structure.
