Originally posted by Disappointment:
Aiya, she says too much already. Maybe she would like to live in Timor Leste. Then she dun need to debate.
I mean look at it this way, Lau Lee done a great job for building singapore. Lau Goh done a great job for NOL when the company was not making money. Better still, shipping also not his expertise. But he took up the job and learn from there.
This girl, 17 year old, know about the 1969 roits anot? Do you know that after malaysia granted singapore independece, malaysia wanted singapore to fail so they can take the island back. Do you know Lau Lee that time got to crack his head in order to siam this path?
Do you know about the bukit ho swee fire????? Who immediately made the accommodations for those families who lost their house to the fire.
Everything also got to learn... Lau Lee says that he made a mistake by not allowing Singapore to have a casino, but he admitted it. He also says no race track, he also admitted it was a mistake. So who dun make mistakes?????
Everything got two sided. He can get his pay so high for his contribution.
Do you know that our NSF pay is bigger than the premier in china???
And you think the Progress Package drop from the Sky????
You think USA is the most powerful country in the world? It is because they invented atomic bomb. Thats why they are regard as the most powerful country that able to stop WWII.
USA is also the largest DEBTOR to UN, do you know that????
So what if our PM gets 2mil a year!!!!! Are you not comfortable every day and night at home in your room??? So who provide such housing for you??? Your parents? Also must someone initiaite it then can, right?
Maybe you have not tried the hard life...... thats why you're complaining right now. Free go and read some singapore history, mei mei.
Another of the those one-hit clones perhaps?
You speak as though all singaporeans from the moment we were born should kowtow and pay homage to the Lee family, that they should be perceived as
gods for their unworldly achievements.
'Lau Lee' emphasized, during his robust forum with young singaporeans, that politics in Singapore is about politics of today, daily life and what we have available.
We have schools for our children, a safe and secure environment, a job that puts food on the table and many other things that concern the bread and the butter.
In that case, why have you brought up the issue of religious and racial riots of the 1960s? Why challenge Gayle over issues of the past? Issues that are no longer relevant
today? Are we not discussing about politics of TODAY? Is not that the precise concept of Lau Lee's personal vision of governace?
Dwelling in past glories are the beginnings of decadence, the failure of today's generation of leaders to perform and produce results in the here and now.
To dig up the past as cannon fodder and bask in exploits long ago merely speak volumes of the inept talents and capabilities of our leaders despite their propaganda to the contrary.
They recruit their MP-elects virtually unopposed; they have the pick of the crop, plus they have the added incentive of openly criticising alternative candidates and name-calling; politics of the gutter as proclaimed by Lee Senior from the start.
And they get away with it. There seems to be a lop-sided form of fairness applied: one for the alternatives and one for the ruling party.
So when the issue of pay is brought up, it invariably strikes a chord with most level-headed singaporeans.
What kind of super-scale pay is warrented to protect against corruption? When is it considered too much? What is the formula for calculating a minister's pay? How does our PM justify the dollar value of our ministers and top civil servants?
Worst of all, why are all these items considered OB markers and not open for discussion?
Like upgrading, these are taxpayers' monies being used indiscriminately. Equivalent leaders of 1st world countries earn a pay nowhere near as high as ours; and as Gayle like so many before us pointed out, these countries are just as clean and well-run.
And just so you wake up from your fantasy world, an NSF's pay is peanuts compared to the premier of CHINA. The progress package was our own money being used to subtly and unethically 'buy' our votes. And if you think the success and safety of Singapore was achieved solely on the basis of our 2 million-dollar PM and not the hard work of Singaporeans, then you are surely one myopic citizen.
