Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:
"If you have a dud minister he cannot hold his ground, you
know in Singapore, you've got to meet your constituents, you've got
to meet the press, you are in Parliament right? You are not just
making a speech at a mass rally
and for this generation, if you
[b]don't pay them adequately and their families suffer,
they will not stay in the job long. They will be forced to pack up
and go back to their private life. And you've lost experience and
expertise, it's as simple as that," said Mr Lee.
They and their family will suffer with S$2.5 million and need S$3+
millions a year?
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"If we are dynamic, we will attract talent, we will grow because we
have more talent. When I say talent, it means people who add to the
dynamism of that society. Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy,
we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the
megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never
hangs because you got enormous storage capacity," said Mr
Lee.
and what about those talents they "chase" away from Singapore
through their policies? and what about those politicians they sue
for bankruptcy?
simply because people disagree with them?
[/b]
Don't pay well so families will suffer. What sort of reasoning
is this? What about those low income who earn such low salary and
their families are the ones who suffer. They the ministers' pay are
how many times more than us and the low income people. Let him be
lah, let him go on to talk. Economy doing well must have increment
and when economy is not doing well - will they deduct their pay.
Anyone knows if they also base on their performance to get
increment or just merely depends on the economy?
Politicians exist to serve the people - and so it is up to the
people of the country to decide and judge how they perform. Didn't
they take into consideration the declining winning percentage of
votes they got during the last couple of elections when talking
about fat salary increment? 
