Grace Fu, 04 January:
"When I made the decision to join politics in 2006, pay was not a key factor. Loss of privacy, public scrutiny on myself and my family and loss of personal time were. The disruption to my career was also an important consideration. I had some ground to believe that my family would not suffer a drastic change in the standard of living even though I experienced a drop in my income. So it is with this recent pay cut. If the balance is tilted further in the future, it will make it harder for any one considering political office."
From what is writtten, she is basically saying without the high pay, and its a hard job, she might not want to continue being a MP or Ministar of wat ever..
what misunderstanding is that???
Hey, can all in this forum add in the joys and benefits of being a Singapore Minister?
My thoughts are:
1) Fully paid travel, 1st class,
2) Fully Paid Hotels, Presidential Suite
3) Free security escort,,and on overseas travel, get security escort + Convoy travel etc, that is travel in style and not on MRT.
4) Free state dinners etc local and overseas,,so sure got super duper good food.
5) These benefits extends to spouse and family as well.
6) Children serving NS are treated as White Horse (extends to whole company mates too) and no need to worry if kenna tekan too much etc, and better food and treatment,,and after BMT get cushy job.. or if go OCS,,its white horse treatment too
7) lots of expenditure can be classified as job related expenses, like make over, expensive branded dresses,, kate spade hand bags..I mean official function surely they wont wear stuff buy in normal stores right?
8) get to rub shoulder with the higher ups in society,,so sure got external benefits what..
anyone else have other stuff to add?
we should also calculate how much all these 'benefits' cost tooo...sure more than 1 million a year..
