3 PMs for S'pore
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One vote to Dr. Lily Neo. Not because she is pretty and charming but because she has the heart.
She has the heart to speak up despite running the risk of being ticked off by her party elders.
But apart from her too many of her fellow PAP MPs are too afraid to speak as they should on the ministers' salary benchmarking issue.
One however is not enough. May be we need at least twenty who could match Inderjit Singh or Dr. Tan Cheng Bok or Tan Soo Khoon.
She probably was one of a handful allowed to be chosen because there is no choice otherwise the whole parliament may become a total charade and a total switch off for Singaporeans.
The rest were just waiting to get favors from supporting their supreme leaders as otherwise they do not stand a chance for promotion to million-dollar parliamentary secretary or junior ministers.
Our leaders have yet to learn from Deng Xiao Peng who is prepared to take a back seat and let the younger leaders really take over and run the country with collective leadership and teamwork.
Deng has left behind an enduring legacy which is now helping China to surge ahead where leaders truly support capable ministers without power play and people and government are working as one to overcome many problems. -
Don't hold your breaths. There will be 4 PMs soon. One more when Lee Hsien Loong retires in 10 years time.
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In S'pore.once a PM,whole life has to be PM.It was started by LKY.
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If S'pore has 3 PM (PM,2nd PM & 3rd PM),we set a example for other countries.Those big country esp. China can have several presidents to run the huge country.That would be our contribution to the wrold.No joke!
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For big country if you have more than 1 head. It would means to have civil war. the military will have several joint chiefOriginally posted by PRP:If S'pore has 3 PM (PM,2nd PM & 3rd PM),we set a example for other countries.Those big country esp. China can have several presidents to run the huge country.That would be our contribution to the wrold.No joke! -
Tell me this is not about self serving to hold on to power and draw millions from taxspayer. Is it not? Do you see Bush father become senior president or president mentor after finishing his president terms?Originally posted by PRP:In S'pore.once a PM,whole life has to be PM.It was started by LKY. -
What a disgrace.Originally posted by hawkeye1819:Don't hold your breaths. There will be 4 PMs soon. One more when Lee Hsien Loong retires in 10 years time. -
Even there were more than one PM,only one of them would be offically the head of the govt.The others are 2nd PM, 3rd PM .......Originally posted by Arapahoe:For big country if you have more than 1 head. It would means to have civil war. the military will have several joint chief -
In China,altho Deng Xiao Ping had retired from his post and his succesor took over,he still wielded the highest power behind the scene.It is a bit similar in S'pore.But it is quite open & official here.
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Who would be the 4th? Can suggest ? Surname izzit Lee one?Originally posted by hawkeye1819:Don't hold your breaths. There will be 4 PMs soon. One more when Lee Hsien Loong retires in 10 years time. -
This sounded like we are communist country. Are we communist? He questioned people about sense of proportion, now creating this new positions which seems quite ridiculous, should the people question him on sense of shame?Originally posted by PRP:In China,altho Deng Xiao Ping had retired from his post and his succesor took over,he still wielded the highest power behind the scene.It is a bit similar in S'pore.But it is quite open & official here. -
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. -Thomas Jefferson
If people start to have special privileges you might see some people might be staying in political power even at 100. Why just not end special privileges which makes better sense? -
For big countries,they really need more than one PM.For small country like us, we need only one PM. But due to special circumstances,I suggest 3 PM for us to replace the existing situation.
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Since there are 3 ministers do the PM job, the salary for each of them should be 1/3 of the PM's salary.Another idea is each one gets 1/2 of PM salary,so the total pay for 3 of them would be 1.5 of the PM salary.
3 'PM' won't like my above opinion but i say it out of fairness.However, PM & MM have a rich wife and SM has a wife who is a lawyer.So perhaps they wouldn't mind so much of getting lesser pay. -
Some people have to stop this. Singapore belongs to Singaporeans not some chap's family business.
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I was at Orchard last weekend thinking it is now the Great singapore sale, probably I can get good discount on my shopping list.
I went to Paragon, there was a sports shop on one of the upper levels. I wanted to get a can of tennis balls. And the shop had a big sign saying 20% discount store wide. So i ask the Prime sales person, is the stated tag price before or after discount? she says BEFORE. Afterwards as I was paying for the item at the cashier, the Prime sales ask the Senior sales person, is the stated price before or after discount, the senior sales said its AFTER. I ask him, is he sure? He said yes, and just to enforce that the indicated tag price HAS BEEN discounted, he ask his Mentor sales person, forcefully says, this price indicated is AFTER discount right! The Mentor sales guy says yes, AFTER.
Smelling a rat, I decided not to buy from them.
Another day later, I went to CCK and they had the same chain sports store there there and the same similar can of tennis ball on sale and the price indicated was 20% cheaper than what I saw in paragon.
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Originally posted by hawkeye1819:Don't hold your breaths. There will be 4 PMs soon. One more when Lee Hsien Loong retires in 10 years time.
