Why Singapore has the cleanest government money can buy.

[Leongsam]

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Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, isn’t often taken publicly to task. But when you make S$3.1 million ($2.4 million) annually to run a country, people tend to expect results. When they don’t get them, the aggrieved masses turn to that lowest-of-common-denominator gripes: Hey, how much are we paying this guy?

Lots compared with, say, Barack Obama, who as U.S. president gets $400,000 a year. Lee’s compensation will fall 36 percent, and that of Singapore’s president will drop 51 percent, to S$1.54 million. The cuts were based on the recommendations of an advisory committee formed three weeks after last May’s elections, when opposition party candidates made hay with the pay issue -- and the ruling People’s Action Party won with the narrowest margin since independence in 1965.

Such still-fat paychecks may give pause. Yet let’s applaud Singapore for what it’s trying to achieve by paying top salaries to leaders and ministers: attracting the best and brightest to public service and reducing the temptation to engage in graft. Done properly, such initiatives can make government more efficient and economies more vibrant. Transparency International has ranked Singapore among the world’s top five least-corrupt governments since 2001, and according to Worldwide Governance Indicators, an index supported by the World Bank, it has also been among the best governed.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...e-cleanest-government-money-can-buy-view.html

 

[eatshitndie]

if it's from bloomberg, one of the most liberal publications in ny, it has to be true. they will never give credit to a dominating conservative regime. but the numbers are so convincing there's nothing but admiration and praise.

 

[rusty]

it has also been among the best governed.

I concurred but only 60% are easily governed the rest have a brain of their own.

 

[batman1]

Rotfl........

 

[Sideswipe]

pap is dumb or extremely greedy. the pap mps have many ways to earn millions of dollars through the business interests patronage network for example. it is needless for the pap to give themselves ludicrous fat salaries too which will naturally earn the wrath of the peasants.

 

[AhGuan]

Your social experiment is going on well. Many members are modifying their behaviour along the lines of B.F. Skinner ...... including me.
I willingly concur that PAP is the cleanest government that money can buy.

But fuck them, anyway ....... and I love Nicole Seah very much

 

[syed putra]

Paying well doesn't mean getting our money's worth. PAP behaving just like Wall Street bankers by boosting figures using short cuts.

 

[soIsee]

This piece of crap is likened to saying,

I ( like the gov) employ many serfs and seems to be generous with their pay and workload but when it's comes to benefit they get little and worse still, every little mistakes the serf makes, their pay is docked with an amount depending on the severity of the deed done.

Moreover, when these serfs get sick, they also are paid nothing for resting for that period.

Sure on the surface, my serfs think of me as kind by paying them such salaries but on closer look..

 

[Bosco]

Yes, dirt swept under the carpet.

 

[jubilee1919]

Clean but short on talents.

 

[cunnilaubu]

Why Singapore Has the Cleanest Government Money Can Buy: View

If it can be bought by money, can it still be considered clean?

 

[Fook Seng]

If it can be bought by money, can it still be considered clean?

Very observant.

 

[chonburifc]

fuck lah! limpeh surrender can? ok tomorrow onwards, limpeh switch sides and wear white can?

 

[enterprise2]

I would give its performance at most a B-. Some areas were excellent whereas some areas were screwed up. So please don't make them out like A performers because they are not! And another thing they are grossly overpaid!

 

[greenies]

Quite true...
S'pore is in backward trend.

Paying well doesn't mean getting our money's worth. PAP behaving just like Wall Street bankers by boosting figures using short cuts.

 

[greenies]

"Why Singapore Has the Cleanest Government Money Can Buy:"

Money can buy loyalty... Which means yes men.
If I were paid $1 market rate, I will fight and leave anytime.
If I were paid $3-4 multiplied of mkt rate, then it will be very hard to go against the pay master.

 

[winnipegjets]

I will refrain from criticizing the PAP for 10 minutes.

 

[jubilee1919]

If PAP can do it, SBF can do the same.

So let's have "The Best Pro-PAP Members That Rep Points Can Buy."

 

[Fook Seng]

If PAP can do it, SBF can do the same.

So let's have "The Best Pro-PAP Members That Rep Points Can Buy."

Sam has done it before and OTC took it.

 

[escher]

I will refrain from criticizing the PAP for 10 minutes.

Will PAP refrain for just a minute in screwing and fucking the shit out of you and sinkaporeans ?
Those bastards are pathologically impossible to do that at all.

THROW OUT ALL THOSE PAP MAGGOTS IN WHITE