Let mei mei tell you all lah, you people so called intellectual
uncles are all living in your own intellectual world, giving
intellectual comments and critics about the ruling party, but on
what basis do you known about why our minister are getting high
pay? Is it because you all are Jealous, envy or in the very poor
lower 10% singaporeans? So what if our Ministers get the highest
pay in the world? If this is the constant arguement to comment
on our Minister, you can go on for the next 10 years and you can
come here again and said our ministers' pay is very high again,
nothing changed?
Maybe its because the minister's
pay is part of government expenditure and places a burden on the
people? Maybe its because of the "honest mistakes" they make? Maybe
its because their salaries are not in-line with politicians from
other countries, even the superpower and other great powers? Maybe
is because of the perception that the money can be better spent on
other areas like healthcare, welfare etc.?
So what? rich dun need to die ar?? Rich got rich problems, poor got
poor problems ya. And most of the time, rich got more problems than
the poors. The most problematic for the rich is when they are going
to die...full of problems. Just like my grandfather.
Not really related to the issue.
But there is alot of difference when survival is an immediate
concern vs insecurity vs who is going to inherit the wealth after
passing on.
Let do the reverse psychology, (hope no one will vomit) Aren't
we proud that our Ministers are getting the highest paid? Can
anyone said that money is not a motivation factor? So, who is not
greedy? and who is not corrupted? Every countries govt is
corrupted, it just a matter of how much??
Money is a motivation if its
variable. As in not guaranteed. Why should we be proud that
our ministers getting the highest pay? Are we putting a flag
anywhere? Its a government expenditure where the burden is placed
on the people.
LKY studied Confucianism, he is not confused, he understand that
to achieve the basis of human perfection inorder to create a great
nation, you need to start from the very base, and that very base is
you, a person. If you not straight or well nurtured, your family
will be messy, and that inturn, turns your nation into
chaos.
He understands that a perfect person will ultimately bring in a
perfect and strong nation. But to create a perfect person, you need
to factor in many perks and opportunities, instill in for him
patriotism so that he is happy with what he had and will
produce the goods for the nation in his utmost ability. Therefore
he put in a lots of emphasis on Education to mould a person,
provide him with more then enuf funds(paid) so that he can function
and concentrate on his work without much distress from external
environment. In this way, Singapore progress.
If you are talking about "yi ren
wei ben". The question becomes what is the word the "ben". Is it
"yi ren wei gen ben"(for the people). or is it "yi ren wei zhi
ben"(the people as capital).
As "perfection" is subjective,
maybe you would like to tell us your idea of a "perfect person" and
a "perfect nation". You talk about perks and opportunities, given
the influx of foreigners, which increased competition for jobs and
suppress wages, maybe the perks and opportunities are for a select
group of people. Education did not teach me to be patriotic. IMO,
it taught me to be rational. Comparing apple to apple, are you
suggesting that the ministers in other countries are under much
distress due to lower pay in comparison to their singaporean
counterparts?
If you look around other most of other countries, you see many
corruption, some even daylight robbery, I am not saying that we dun
have corruption, humans are easily bound to corruption, cos greed
is nature in human instinct. And corruption does not mean only in
monetary term, even a flavor, is also a corruption. LKY understands
all these, so inorder to lower corruption and obtain a good
Govt, he pre paid the Minister extra compensation, so that
when a Minister is being offered for corrupiton, he/she will think
thrice? Understand or not...Uncles
Xiu shen, chi jia, zhi guo, ping
tian xia". Your essay does not suggest that they actually "xiu
shen"ed. And, are we paying them to prevent them from doing
something they might do?
*lame simple
illustration*
Me to angel "give me some money or
i'll kill you"
so you should give me the money?
or should you take other preventive measures? do you go to the
authorities?
To tackle a drug trafficking
problem, do you legalise the drug, or do you make harsh
laws?
"end illustration*
Of cos, its not to say the system
does not have its merits, if such a scandal happens, the impact can
range from "honest mistake" to threatening the stability of the
country (especially if it involved external nations).
If he can do it and he did, what more can you say. Yes, you can
downgrade him to pig or wolve, but he did it, that is the most
important. Just like my boss, he always said in the backlane
board meeting "I dun care if you
are my daughter or staff, and I dun care how you do it,
but if you can deliver the goods without any problem, u got future,
otherwise, you are history"
That is something a boss can say,
not a leader of a nation. a
boss can change his employees, a leader cannot change his citizens.
Even when a boss says that, at most it can only be a slogan; a mere
flag to fly. A daughter will always be given more
opportunities/tolerance than a staff. FYI, in the early years
of the USSR, their GDP growth rate is very high, at the cost of
gross inefficiency(i.e they use more resources to produce a unit of
good). The cost of delivering goods is an impt
factor.
