Typo la -_-"
Anyway I just received this in my email
If the President's
salary is $4.2m, what about the PM's,MM's,SM's and other ministers'
salary ? Well, I suppose as good planners, they must pre-empt
and quickly increase their salary before the next recession caused
by the spike in oil price on account of the turmoil in the
Middle East.
This Should Make
You Puke
March 11th, 2011
| Author: Online
Press
While the
whole wide world braces for the impact of price increases in oil,
food and commodities, Parliament has quietly moved to increase the
selected president’s salary to $4,267,500, a hefty 20.8% quantum
jump of $890,700. That’s double the percentage increase of the
financial assistance package for the poor, which was recently
adjusted from $360 to $400 per month.
If you
haven’t spewed your morning coffee yet, listen to this. Minister
Thaman proposed the change for “recruitment of an additional staff
officer to support the work of the Council of Presidential Advisers
and a butler manager to meet increased demand for butler services,
and the high variable payments on account of a strong economic
growth”. We know from Tom Plate’s account that Lee Kuan Yew has two
staff just to provide hot towels for his aching bones, but are
there so many butlers there in the Istana that they need a “butler
manager” to supervise the servants? It’s bad enough to read of
“higher variable payments”, Tharman also uses the term ‘”ad hoc
spending”. Does the national budget also have a YOG styled “other
costs” accounting entry?
Tharman
tried to downplay the gross abuse of public funds by saying that
the total expenditure for the “Civil List for the President of the
Republic of Singapore” will be the same as the revised 2010 figure
of $11,605,000. What he did not say to the public is that the
original 2010 figure was $10,354,700. Why and when was the number
“revised” by $1,250,300 to $11,605,000? Just in time for the 2011
budget?
By the way,
while sky rocketing COEs are threatening the affordability of cars
for those who need to drive for work purposes, these guys have also
decided that the president needs a new office car. Are we even on
the same planet?
.
The amounts given
below are correct before yesterday's announcement of an increase in
President Nathan's
salary
Top 30
Highest Paid Politicians in the World (Information obtained from
the internet)
Clean sweep by tiny Singapore to be in the
Guinness Book of Records!
Top 30 highest paid politicians in the world
and they are all from
Singapore.
(All
amounts exclude
bonuses.)
1. Elected
President SR Nathan - S$3.9
million.
2. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - S$3.8
million.
3. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew - S$3.5
million.
4. Senior Minister Goh Chok Thong - S$3.5
million.
5. Senior Minister Prof Jayakumar - S$3.2
million.
6. DPM & Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan
Seng - S$2.9 million.
7. DPM & Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean
- $2.9 million.
8. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo -
S$2.8 million.
9. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan
- S$2.7 million.
10. PMO Minister Lim Boon Heng - S$2.7
million.
11. Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng
Kiang - S$2.7 million.
12. PMO Minister Lim Swee Say - S$2.6
million.
13. Environment Minister & Muslim
Affairs Minister Dr Yaccob Ibrahim - S$2.6
million.
14. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan - S$2.6
million.
15. Finance Minister S Tharman - S$2.6
million.
16. Education Minister & 2nd Minister
for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen - S$2.6 million.
17. Community Development Youth and Sports
Minister - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan - S$2.5
million.
18. Transport Minister & 2nd Minister
for Foreign Affairs Raymond Lim Siang Kiat - S$2.5
million.
19. Law Minister & 2nd Minister for Home
Affairs K Shanmugam - S$2.4 million.
20. Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong - S$2.2
million.
21. PMO Minister Lim Hwee Hwa - S$2.2
million.
22. Acting ICA Minister - Lui Tuck Yew -
S$2.0 million.
23 to 30 = Senior Ministers of State and
Ministers of State - each getting between S$1.8 million to S$1.5
million.
Compared to
other Countries' Leaders:
Donald
Tsang Yum-Kuen - Hong Kong
(S$716k)
Barack Obama - United States
(S$555k)
Nicolas Sarkozy - France
(S$441k)
Angela Merkel - Germany
(S$420k)
Gordon Brown - UK
(S$387k)
Taro Aso - Japan (S$337k) Total of all 6:
S$2,856,000
In other words, even our one
DPM has higher salary than all of the above leaders combined
!!
Means our
DPMs are more able than all the leaders from the 6 biggest world
economies combined. We must be thankful to have such talent
!!!!
