President paid annually $2.5million to cut ribbons
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Mellanie Hewlitt
22 Feb 2005
Singapore Review
Million Dollar Mini$terial $alaries - The Rea$on$ Again?
In light of the recent Singapore Budget 2005, we recirculate below discussions
as a comparison to how much singapore's million dollar ministers have
"contributed" to the country.
a) Is there a budget for Singapore's million dollar ministers?
b) Is there accountability and transparency?
c) Who authorises ministerial pay increments and are these approving authorities
once removed from duress and influence?
d) How are these increments justified?
e) If these salaries are performance based how do you measure the performance of
a million dollar minister?
f) Does the general public and voting citizens feel these million dollar
salaries are justified?
g) Where is the dividing line between legitimised corruption and legitimate
million dollar salaries?
h) Do these million dollar ministers have values which represent those of the
average Singaporean?
The list of questions is endless but there are still no convincing answers.
Read on and decide for yourselves.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sg_Review/message/1360 -
2.5 million x 5 yrs = 10 million.
WAH better than doing any BIG BIG business leh...... !!!!
Keep telling citizen to be humble and take minimal salary while they have big big increment.. great!!!! -
The citizens of Singapore think that the ministers are getting too expensive . Outsourcing is clearly the way to go.