Originally posted by robertteh:
Before election, ministers pretended not to talk about ministers' intention to increase their own salaries and getting more free lunches.
The ministers must have thought about it and decided that once they are elected and with power in hand, they can take any amount of salaries as afterthought and no one can stop them even with wrongful benchmarking with lottery winners in the private sector.
So even if there is no such thing as free lunch as Mah Bow Tan always said to HDB flat buyers he could get free lunches - it is a matter of getting them after election when with power in hand there will be no one able to object to such free lunches.
Remember he has got free lunches too when HDB acquired the lands using the people taxations to do so and yet he could sell the HDB flats at market prices less a bit of discount when lands were obtained free from acquisitions and URA already makes big bundles out of these free lands.
I wonder about the 250 unit of 5 room HDB flats which were not sold n HDB
decided to get help from private agencies.