There are two sides to a coin - one head and one tail.
Under our system, all the laws and rules are made in such a way
that our leaders and the ruling party will benefit from such laws
and rules first before the citizens will presumably benefit.
This system places the party's interest higher than citizens'
interest or aspirations.
Citizens will be brainwashed by the media controlled and used by
the state with threats of defamation to present all policies and
news as if they are benefiting them but not the other side of the
coin which show policies and implementation are benefiting the
ruling party first.
So when they say we must change certain laws or pay our ministers
higher or highest salaries they say that will help us to retain
talents, it will be "Head I win and Tail you lose" again and
again.
So we the citizens have seen after many years we are being
brainwashed into thinking that our leaders are the world's best and
deserved to be paid the highest salaries. The truth is have they
really succeeded in improving our citizens' standards of living to
the world's best or highest. Try to look at the fact by conducting
an independent survey. See for yourself whether our standard of
living has like the ministers' salaries been rising since the
1980s. Citizens are now mostly earning lesser and lesser wages
while costs are climbing higher and higher with lots of
profiteering by HDB and URA and LTA below the budgets with more and
more younger people becoming world's most educated unemployed with
their jobs taken over by citizen-displacing foreigners.
When our leaders say that they must ensure racial harmony, they
will pass laws and make rules in such a way that they will drive
out potential good talents and prevent contending parties to put up
their best candidates.
They will on one side of coin show that GRC is good and will ensure
racial harmony but in effect - on the other side of coin - their
attention is to prevent the alternative parties to present their
best candidates or citizens from using their right to choose the
individual best candidates.
In this way, the GRC will the incumbent party to use its
organizational advantage as to bundle a minister with their weaker
candidates and new faces while the oppositions or alternatives and
citizens will be less able or unable to choose the best individuals
in an election.
When their policies and system of government is top-down and
autocratic we will forever have to listen to all kinds of concepts
and assumptions which are not proven but presented in such a way
that citizens will keep hearing nice-sounding thing that in
globalization we need to retain or attract talents with paying them
higher salaries. But look carefully with their top-down system they
are driving away true and effective talents and yet they can cover
up all problems with such utterances. To the people it will look
like they are the greatest people when world economy or economic
cycle turns to their favor and they could increase more fees and
taxes they are good leaders who increase GST and GDP but in actual
fact the citizens are suffering more and more to give them a better
report card.
The whole benchmarking of ministers' salaries is - on one side of
coin - to attract or retain talents - done is such a way that it
will give our leaders and their own kind the highest rewards.
On the other side of the coin is that should they fail to retain
talents, they will not be seen as failures of the system. They will
be paid the highest salaries and bonuses and no talents is no
problem.