Post GE 2011 Discussion

[concern2]

raysusan:

[quote]‎\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"


- Dr Lim Wee Kiat, PAP MP for Nee Soon GRC, 24 May 2011 (Lianhe Wanbao)

what you guys think about this??[/quote]Got this kind of logic one meh? :? Is that why Singapore minsters need to have higher salary than the rest of the world so every other leader will have less of a problem listening to our minister's ideas? So Obama will think,\" Hey, this minister is earning more than you ok? You better sit up and listen...\" :laugh:

[wapobs]

raysusan:

[quote]‎\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"


- Dr Lim Wee Kiat, PAP MP for Nee Soon GRC, 24 May 2011 (Lianhe Wanbao)

what you guys think about this??[/quote]wa lao eh!
$500,000 leh!

[hquek]

wapobs:

raysusan:

[quote]‎\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"


- Dr Lim Wee Kiat, PAP MP for Nee Soon GRC, 24 May 2011 (Lianhe Wanbao)

what you guys think about this??

wa lao eh!
$500,000 leh![/quote]remember that this is a bit smaller than the average peanut. :siam:

[Brenda10]

dunnoleh:

raysusan:

[quote]‎\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"


- Dr Lim Wee Kiat, PAP MP for Nee Soon GRC, 24 May 2011 (Lianhe Wanbao)

what you guys think about this??

It only means our PM has a problem. [/quote]I can only think of 顺得哥情失嫂意! 骑虎难下!!!

[DesertWind]

raysusan:

[quote]‎\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"

[/quote]
It is either I am thinking \"out-of-the-box\" or I am terribly ignorant. You mean got Media CEOs in Singapore earning so much money meh? Isn't the media all controlled by the garmen? So whatever CEOs got to kwai kwai listen to garmen policy no? Or you mean other country's media CEOs? Don't toe the line just cut cut circulation and broadcast.

Very simple. Very cost efficient. No need to pay so much for a minister to be effective since power is in his hand.

On second thoughts, just imagine Mr Obama suggest his salary to be pegged to the Top 8 private sector earners in the U.S. I can only quote the two I know best: Mr Bills Gates and Mr Warren Buffet. WAH, HUAT AH!!!!! I bet you they won't want to be pegged to Citibank CEO whom during the financial crisis, volunteered to take just USD1 per annum. Pick and choose your own cherries, how to go wrong liddat?

Imagine he quote:\" If I don't earn more than them, nobody will listen to me!\".

Heh...heh....!
:imcool:

[hypergatak]

ChiefKiasu:

MummyThreeStreams:

His mother was named and quoted in this ST article written before he was introduced as a PAP candidate http://www.straitstimes.com/GeneralElection/News/Story/STIStory_642320.html. It is not the woman identified in the earlier article.

Thank you, MummyThreeStreams. That should help quell this rumour.

Thank you, MummyThreeStreams. It's good to know that the rumour is not true.

[Funx3]

hquek:

dunnoleh:

[quote=\"raysusan\"]\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"


- Dr Lim Wee Kiat, PAP MP for Nee Soon GRC, 24 May 2011 (Lianhe Wanbao)

what you guys think about this??

To me, it means Obama has no dignity? :scratchhead: :siam:

or maybe it's time to raise minister pay so they earn tens of millions of dollars? :yikes:[/quote]So that they Can then Sit Side-by-side with Bill Gates, etc to Lim-Ko-Pi?
:evil: :evil:

[hquek]

Funx3:

So that they Can then Sit Side-by-side with Bill Gates, etc to Lim-Ko-Pi?
:evil: :evil:

does it mean then the minister's pay should be pegged to the industry leaders they are talking to? then Finance Minister best (talk to bankers mah); Foreign Minister can eat grass (becos other foreign leaders earning much less). :spank:

[verykiasu2010]

raysusan:

[quote]‎\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"


- Dr Lim Wee Kiat, PAP MP for Nee Soon GRC, 24 May 2011 (Lianhe Wanbao)

what you guys think about this??[/quote]I think the national leaders of Singapore has no dignity since the pay is going to be reviewed and also even $4m a year is peanut compared with the Fortune 500 or Forbes listed richest best paid CEO in the world. PM and his minsters' pay should now be pegged to the richest in the world, else who would want to listen to Singapore....imagine you go to attend meeting at the UN, nobody going to 'hew' you....lidat cannot lar, no dignity. Thanks to Lim Wee Kiat for the reminder. He can go repent forever

[concern2]

verykiasu2010:

raysusan:

[quote]‎\"If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communication and Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he discuss policies with media CEOs who earn millions of dollars because they need not listen to the minister's ideas and proposals, hence a reasonable payout will help to maintain abit of dignity.\"


- Dr Lim Wee Kiat, PAP MP for Nee Soon GRC, 24 May 2011 (Lianhe Wanbao)

what you guys think about this??

I think the national leaders of Singapore has no dignity since the pay is going to be reviewed and also even $4m a year is peanut compared with the Fortune 500 or Forbes listed richest best paid CEO in the world. PM and his minsters' pay should now be pegged to the richest in the world, else who would want to listen to Singapore....imagine you go to attend meeting at the UN, nobody going to 'hew' you....lidat cannot lar, no dignity. Thanks to Lim Wee Kiat for the reminder. He can go repent forever[/quote]Denise Phua mentioned in 2007 about ministers' pay, one of the points being that 'we might attract the wrong people.’ Perhaps the time has come to see who are the 'wrong people' the system has attracted.