PM donate salary to "SUitable GooD Causes"?

• tigersushi

  15 Apr 07, 16:33

  I refer to the official transcript of PM Lee's speech, quoted on NewsRadio 938.
  
  I quote from the website:
  
  Source: http://www.938live.sg/ListDetail.aspx?Editorial_ID=18309&SubCategoryID=1&Diff=0&Catgrp=News&Start_Date=20070411
  
  "To make it quite clear why I'm doing this and also to give me the moral standing to defend this policy with Singaporeans, I will hold my salary at the present level for five years. The government will pay me my full salary because that is the way the system will have to work. But for five years, whatever the increase in salary above the present level, I will donate to suitable good causes."
  
  I am baffled just what exactly do these Good causes refer to?. Why would PM use "suitable good causes" and not simply use "for charitable causes". Hence, the purpose of his donated salary cannot be defined as solely for charitable causes, as it is being mis-represented by major international press which carried this piece of news.
  
  Lets discuss what some of these Good causes might be?
• ditzy

  15 Apr 07, 16:34

  Errrr, his pension fund?
• drawer

  15 Apr 07, 20:55

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Errrr, his pension fund?

  LOL,sarcastic enough,i like that.
• <Precious>

  15 Apr 07, 20:58

  He's proving to be a rather slimy fella. Better get him to clearly define wad are "suitable good causes".......... Otherwise he can justify them any which way he wants and leave us all lan lan............