COMMENT: The furore over ministerial pay is gaining currency again

[EunoiaJAYCEE]

It was a jaw-dropping moment, akin to a bolt of lightning from the blue. A first glance at Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong’s comments in a dialogue with South East District residents on 2 August elicited the instinctive response: is this fake news? Did he really say that?

Yes, he really did. “I am telling you the ministers are not paid enough, and down the road, we are going to get a problem with getting people to join the government…now we dare not pay ministers a good wage,” said Goh in a conversation with Braddell Heights resident Abdul Aziz, 70.

And the former Prime Minister (1990-2004) went further, “You are going to end up with very, very mediocre people, who can’t even earn a million dollars outside to be our ministers. Think about that. Is it good for you, or is it worse for us in the end?”

And just like that, the 77-year-old revived the perennial, and always contentious, issue of ministerial pay: just how much is enough? For “very, very mediocre” Singaporeans like myself who do not earn anywhere close to a million dollars, his comments also presented a false equivalence: that high pay somehow equates to a high level of competence.

Goh has since come out to say that he did not mean to call Singaporeans mediocre and that salaries are not the “starting point” in recruiting for the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). But the damage had already been done.

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COMMENT: The furore over ministerial pay is gaining currency again

 

[bobby]

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

U guys also fucking jokers.

Pay good salary to hire good talent. Is that such a shocking revelation?

So we need to pay them less because it is considered public service, ok that's fine. But there's a limit to that also.

 

[steffychun]

Yes Goh is jealous he wasn't paid as much as Harry Lee.

 

[LaoTze]

On that fuckhead eunuch GCT
Your memories of him be filled with this




This also remind of of that fuckhead Goh Chok Tong doing what he can to make LKY happy happy!

Now fuckhead GCT doing same same to Arseloon to keep Arseloon happy happy !

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[bobby]

This joker is worth the $m and is above mediocre ?

Ask him try getting a job elsewhere without the balls carrying of LKY.

 

[KuanTi01]

Let's face it! Woody Goh has scored a very important own goal for the opposition camp.

 

[glockman]

All of those useless monkeys in white should be drawing 10% of what they are currently being paid. So wake up sinkies, don't get arse-fucked anymore.

 

[batman1]

Is he flipping hamburger at BurgerKing ???

 

[Boliao]

U guys also fucking jokers.

Pay good salary to hire good talent. Is that such a shocking revelation?

So we need to pay them less because it is considered public service, ok that's fine. But there's a limit to that also.

The debate is whether we are getting value for the money we are paying. The general consensus is that the current bunch of 4th generation clowns are beyond just mediocre but are hapless when it comes to dealing with simple issues they are tasked with. So, so many examples from overspending YOG, transportation, ponding etc. and yet they believed they are exceedingly talented and deserves more pay.

I believe I speak for the majority that we don't mind rewarding and paying high salary for REAL talents but for the kind of money we are paying, we are getting sub-par values.

On how just how much we should be paying. Even if you are really, really talented, you are benchmarked against your peers in the private sector. Don't tell me just because you are a super talented fruit seller, you should be pay millions.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Let's set a cap of $3k per month for MPs. Hire a bunch of taxi/grab drivers. Let's see this whole country go to shit.

Now don't get me wrong. There is no illusion these ministers are super talented, but surely u guys understand the notion of pay peanuts get monkeys.

 

[virus]

All of those useless monkeys in white should be drawing 10% of what they are currently being paid. So wake up sinkies, don't get arse-fucked anymore.

Most not even worth 50 cents

 

[Leongsam]

Most not even worth 50 cents

I would happily pay this guy 50 cents to entertain me. He's hilarious.

 

[Leongsam]

He can play the drums too. Truly multi talented.

 

[greedy and cunning]

the he should be a professional comedian.
so of them earned millions in americunt
bob hope is one good example

 

[steffychun]

I would happily pay this guy 50 cents to entertain me. He's hilarious.


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Certainly a Major Entertainment General!

PS: Did he ever pass his IPPT this way?

 

[LaoTze]

All of those useless monkeys in white should be drawing 10% of what they are currently being paid. So wake up sinkies, don't get arse-fucked anymore.

What the fuck should they be even drawing 1% (one fucking percent) of what they getting now?

Why you so fucking brain dead and so generous to them?

They tiew and kann and fuck your arsehole , your family arseholes including your grand mothers grand fathers in their urns in columbariums until you gong gong is it?

The only thing more they should get from us will be rotanning after rotanning and long long prison stays and all the $$$$ they dug from us returned to all of us

 

[Boliao]

If the government went from PAP to opposition, do you think all those former MP/ ministers will still be the positions they are in? TPL as CEO of Business China or George Yeo as chairman of Kerry group? If you do, you are more than delusional.

 

[shittypore]

Lky set the high pay so tat all the Clowns will back the biggest Clown being PM.

 

[Boliao]

Now don't get me wrong. There is no illusion these ministers are super talented, but surely u guys understand the notion of pay peanuts get monkeys.

http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/Personalities.html
First generation PAP old guards did not work for money nor are they high in society, for example, Fong Swee Suan was a ticket seller at the bus company and Othman Wok was a clerk. Agree that you may end up with monkeys if you pay peanuts but in our case, our monkeys are enjoying the most extravagant buffet spread in the World.

Good employee don't work just for money, they for great leaders.