All of these rich, affluent leaders ( mainly millionaires ) are staying in private housing and do not know the pain, suffering, concerns, fear, insecurity of the people <--these are rising trends and the garment cant do poo to help us. It is reasonable that Police cannot stay at your void deck like security guards but even my request for CCTVs to be installed for my block which was terrorised by Ah Longs was turned down by the Town Council. They say NO MONEY ....coz lost all invested in LEHMAN Bros & Minibonds ? Pls bear in mind that your MPs are the Town Council advisers.
I can say that LKY has led the team to win the game title: Creation of Singapore (Stage 1), Development of Singapore (Stage 2)....now is Stage 3 and I see the garment losing their midas touch already. They are painting a very beautiful picture of globalisation & putting Singapore on the World Map. What are the fruits that we have tasted since the last election? We only see more foreigners competing jobs with us, putting pressure on the ceiling of our salaries and putting some locals out of favour.
And the rich foreigners coming into Singapore, pushing up the price of land and housing. Making it more difficult for the poor to stand on their feet and barely surviving. Even the middle income are huffing and puffing, running the rat race and yet no idea where they are running. Only the strongest will survive in Singapore. The weak and the uncompetitive will be forced to become refugees in some foreign land soon.
I can foresee the Opposition winning many seats and with this believe, it's already half battle won. PAP has been given the chance but did not cherish it, just too bad and now they are just panicky about the whole issue. Garment build Casino without taking into consideration of Singaporeans. Singapore have no say in this because not enough opposition seats, thats why. Many Singaporeans are already regretting not voting for the Opposition in the last election. Lets cast our vote for the Opposition to win more seats in this election at least Singaporeans will have their say!!!! The Millionaire Ministers are too comfortable, let put them on their toes so we make our money work harder for us!!!!!! Our population is slightly less than 5 million as compared to USA 307,212,123 (July 2009 est.) Imagine the amount of taxes use to pay our Ministers salary divided by number of Singaporeans, as compared to Economic Super Powers like USA. Singaporeans are basically being sucked very dry by our very own leaders. So do these leaders really LOVE SINGAPOREANS, or LOVE SINGAPORE or LOVE MONEY?
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong – S$3.8 million (USD 2.7 mil).
Senior Ministers of State and Ministers of State – each paid between S$1.8 million to S$1.5 million (USD 1.2 mil – USD 1.08 mil).
** At age 55, Singapore Ministers collect both a salary and their full pension.
** In addition to their inflated salaries, the Singapore elite gets extra pay as appointed company directors!
Other non-corrupt 1st world Governments :
United States
President Barak Obama: US$400,000, with US$50,000 expenses
Vice President Joe Biden: US$202,900
Cabinet Secretaries: US$157,000 – $186,600
Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) – $186,600
United Kingdom
Prime Minister Gordon Brown: $US279,000
Australia
Prime Minister Kevin Ruud: $US229,000
Hong Kong
Chief Executive Donald Tsang: $US516,000
Japan
Prime Minister Hatoyama: $US243,000
Canada
Prime Minister: $US246,000
Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel: $US303,000
France
President Nicolas Sarkozy: $US318,000
Based on what they are paid, it looks like Singapore’s most Junior Ministers have a tougher and more difficult job than even the Presidents / Prime Ministers of the above mentioned countries. Dosen’t it ??
O’wise, how can the PAP Government justify paying their Ministers more than 2 times the salary of Ministers in other equally non-corrupt, developed nations.
Singapore Government Ministers don’t need ‘under-the-counter’ payment when they are given ‘over-the-counter’ money…