in spate of the recent payrise, i think it's just MM Lee's way of seeing his family is set for good before he dies (and the time is a-coming, i mean, the man looks like a corpse). kind of like his will, you know? instead as MM he's got all the taxpayer's money as his disposal, so why not put it into his family. his statement about our women becoming maids is a clear sign of his senility/dementia.

with regards to keeping it competitive so that he can attract people from private sectors to the goverment - it's just an agenda for control, once again. people from the private sector must want to serve out of a sense of duty to their country, rather than be motivated by money. there have been so many cases in which strongly anti-establishment individuals have been somewhat silenced by money and positions of power in the government. i won't name names, but a certain T Koh comes to mind ...

that's a lot of good money that could be going to the arts, arts, arts. or into creating a better minimum wage. i mean, people are working for $3.50 an hour in starbucks while PM Lee is getting more money than he can even handle ... and to show just how much he doesn't need it, he donates it. and what's SM Goh's stand in the midst of this? oh i'm sorry, he isn't a lee, so he doesn't really count, even though our previous SM had all the say.

is cannot, lah.

+ posted by M @ 6:35 PM