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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - Why do we need 2 DPMs and 2 SMs??</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right>
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</NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate noWrap align=right width="30%">Mar-26 5:43 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT noWrap align=right width="1%" height=20>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname noWrap width="68%">ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 45) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft width="1%" rowSpan=4> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>10289.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>When I heard from a friend working in the civil service that there might be a change in the cabinet this week, I was quietly hoping that Prime Lee Hsien Loong will make use of the opportunity to trim the cabinet by removing the dead wood to reduce government expenditure during this economic downturn.
I was bitterly disappointed and flabbergasted that save for one departure - Dr Lee Boon Yang, there will be one new Senior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in Prime Minister’s Office in addition to the present incumbents.
According to the Straits Times (read article here), Mr Teo Chee Hean will be appointed as Deputy Prime Minister; Professor S Jayakumar will relinquish his appointment as Deputy Prime Minister and be appointed as Senior Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office while Ms Lim Hwee Hua will become the third Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Why does our honorable Mr Lee Hsien Loong, who is the highest paid Prime Minister in the world need 2 Senior Ministers, 2 Deputy Prime Ministers, 1 Minister Mentor and 3 Ministers in his office to help him govern a small nation of only 4.5 million people? Will he be handicapped in any way by having less ministers to assist him?
Mr Lee should have sacked the underperforming ministers such as his father MM Lee for GIC’s disastrous performance, DPM Wong for the Home Ministry’s failure to find Mas Selamat and the two Ministers in his office for..well doing nothing. This will save the government a tidy sum of a few million dollars a year which can be channeled to the help the poor and needy in our society.
The new appointment holders - 1 SM and 1 Minister in PMO (Jayakumar relinquish his DPM post to Teo Chee Hean and this was not taken into consideration) will cost taxpayers almost S$5 million dollars a year.
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I was bitterly disappointed and flabbergasted that save for one departure - Dr Lee Boon Yang, there will be one new Senior Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in Prime Minister’s Office in addition to the present incumbents.
According to the Straits Times (read article here), Mr Teo Chee Hean will be appointed as Deputy Prime Minister; Professor S Jayakumar will relinquish his appointment as Deputy Prime Minister and be appointed as Senior Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office while Ms Lim Hwee Hua will become the third Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Why does our honorable Mr Lee Hsien Loong, who is the highest paid Prime Minister in the world need 2 Senior Ministers, 2 Deputy Prime Ministers, 1 Minister Mentor and 3 Ministers in his office to help him govern a small nation of only 4.5 million people? Will he be handicapped in any way by having less ministers to assist him?
Mr Lee should have sacked the underperforming ministers such as his father MM Lee for GIC’s disastrous performance, DPM Wong for the Home Ministry’s failure to find Mas Selamat and the two Ministers in his office for..well doing nothing. This will save the government a tidy sum of a few million dollars a year which can be channeled to the help the poor and needy in our society.
The new appointment holders - 1 SM and 1 Minister in PMO (Jayakumar relinquish his DPM post to Teo Chee Hean and this was not taken into consideration) will cost taxpayers almost S$5 million dollars a year.
Read rest of article here:
[URL="http://wayangparty.com/?p=7016"]http://wayangparty.com/?p=7016[/URL]
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