Referring to this article pertaining to our minister's annual income, it saddens me that when I look around I see my fellow citizen (otherwise known as the heartlanders) mostly breaking even with the monthly salary.

A Minister in Singapore gets an annual salary of $1.2 million. Our Prime Minister gets an annual salary of $1.9 million and our Minister Mentor gets $2.7 million a year as reported in our local press. Compared to our office bearers, the President of the United States of America gets only about an annual salary of nearly SGD $1 million. The Prime Minister of Canada gets paid annually about SGD $400,000. The Australian Prime Minister receives only an annual salary of about SGD $300,000. And the United Kingdom Prime Minister gets about SGD half a million dollars and Hong Kong Head of Government receives around SGD $600,000 annually.

Like HELLO! What are we trying to prove here? I'm sure the other ministers (or presidents) worked a hell lot harder than ours. Where's the equality here?

In another article, where they defends the salary formula, they compared incomes of professions like lawyers, doctors, accountants etc. Its not the issue at all here. I'm sure those people deserve every justified dollars and cents they earned.

I'm not politically well-versed but this is too absurb for street-minded citizen like myself. Is that where tax payers money goes to every year? How aout helping the citizen to be debt free maybe by lowering prices of home purchases, public transportation and maybe a proper salary adjustment/increment especially when it comes to annual bonuses?

Do they really need that much money? I'm sure a CEO of the biggest bank in the world knows how to tie the purse strings when it comes to personal/business expenditure. They are placed in whatever positions they are right now to help the country and its citizen. So what if they claim the government is trying to be more transparent? Your people are in debt 360 degrees (and I'm not referring to credit card bills etc). What are you doing to help them?

Its true what people say, you look at the poor and go...

Mouth: Oh poor thing...
Mind: What can I do to help?
Heart: Thank God that's not me!

After being in civil service for 6years, I came to terms to accept the fact that the job is an iron ricebowl EVEN FOR UNDERPERFORMERS depsite for what they claimed. Let me quote from here, about being in govt sector.

Q. The civil service is said to be an iron rice bowl where poor performers are tolerated. How true is this?

The Civil Service takes a tough stance on under-performers. Those who do not meet job expectations are counselled and given an opportunity to improve. If they fail to do so, they are asked to leave.

In recent years, an increasing number of government agencies have been recruiting staff on fixed term contracts. Only good officers are offered permanent positions subsequently.

I am using my own encounters and myself as a good example:

1. In 6 years of my service there, not once is my performance ever good enough in their eyes and not once I got promoted
2. If I am that bad, I should have gotten the boot on my 2nd or 3rd year max but yet, they keep my fat ass there for 6 years... I wonder why? Too good to let go?
   
3. Underperformers manage to pass through probabation period because its more cost saving than to hire a new personnel!

My suggestion to please the citizen over this stoopid pay rise bullcrap:

1. Hire foreign talents, they're cheaper and I'm sure the US ministers will be more than please to assume their role here with our ministers' salary in 2000
2. Hire fresh blood since its too expensive already to keep our OLD ministers
3. Give them that monetary boost if they agree reduce the GST, housing price, taxes, public transportation etc. What? They're here to serve the citizen, not the other way round, right?
4. Ask them to join the private sector since they claimed they're just as good, they can demand as much salary they want after the compulsory probationary period we all go through.

I could go on and on here which really surprise me as I've NEVER blog about the government before ever! If I do get in trouble because of this post and they're throwing me behind bars, I'd like to say thank you to all my readers for erm, linking me to my blog, I wanna say I LOVE YOU to my family and Fahmy and he better not forget to visit me in jail!

SIGH!

Like me if you're pissed sign the petition here to stop them greeds!

Oh FYI, the old hill in front of my block was under renovation for the past 6 months or so and finally its completed. All they did was to replant the grass and grow new trees. Thank you tax payers for your contribution to my brand new hill!

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