S’pore refutes article’s remarks on ministerial pay

Is there any need to take Seah Chiang Nee so serious to draw a response from Singaapore High Commissioner to Malaysia. Certainly this is not a diplomatic issue between two countries for the High Commissioner to be involved in. Mr Seah's opinion piece is quite entertaining for such a serious subject good only to be taken for a pinch of salt. There is no need to get so work up.

The ministers' excessive salaries r not justified even after the recent pay cut cos their salaries r paid by the ppl hard earned money. Hence, they r putting party interest before national and public interest at the expense of ppl who r tax payers of GST, income taxes, etc

We keep hearing about the danger of welfarism over the past 46 years as if people are demanding free lunches and giveaways from the government.

Let's look closely as the truth. Has the government over the past 46 years really given anything out of the government's funds to the people? On the other hand, what we have seen is the use of fear tactics about welfarism to raise taxes and charge all kin...ds of fees and indirect taxes against the people all these years. The lower 20% have been made poor by government’s overtaxing, profiteering and privatization schemes.

All the fees and indirect taxes levied against the people through GLCs e.g. double charge on network costs in electricity bill, uncalled for water conservancy charge, and the GSTs on essentials should be reversed. (Read another thread on double charging of electricity network charges on standby generators and distribution and cable networks which have already been paid for by citizens' taxes upon privatization to Singapore Power)

The root cause of their problems are money sucking by the government. Once this is recognized as the real problems, economy will improve because of lower costs of doing business and people’s lives will immediately improve as well. Minister Chan Chun Sing should look into the root cause of the poor and not continue with the past wrong policies of the government to keep sucking monies from the businesses and th people. Instead of giving more and more monies to the poor he could get the ministers to reduce their cost burdens created by all the GLCs' profiteering and land sale profiteering and drastically cut down on the extravagant spending due to wasterful projects and losses in unnecessary overseas investments.

Steve Jobs did not invented the PC for money, Tiger Wood did not start playing golf for money. They started because they like what they do, have the passion for it and see the benefits of their work for the general public. When they were good, the money then came in. But here we have a bunch of people who are not good enough and do not even have sufficient knowledge for a lot of areas on what life is and living, started out for the money and worse still they pat themselves on the back and say they deserved it. A lot of them even lack the maturity as a person. Can they lead, can they bring us to a high plateau of society. No way with feet stomping people and loving branded goods. Oh, what a shame. How pathetic they can be.

All the money you can pay to tin pei Lin won't make a talent out of her! Stop the bullshit.

My company rented a 4 rooms HDB flat from a PR from China. He is not even staying in Singapore but living in China and collect rents from our company though internet banking transfer to his local account. He is making rental money and when the price of HDB rise, he will probably sell it for a profit and retire in China. Worst still.... HDB even approved his whole unit for rental. I am sure HDB had abused the system of housing meant for Singaporean by allowing foreigners, be it PR to purchase and complete with us. This make Singaporean suffer as it will sky rockets the price of HDB and other properties to the disadvantage against Singaporean.... MBT long planned conspiracy worked! YAHOO DELETED MY SIMILAR POST EARLY BECAUSE OF LOTS OF THUMBS UP... GUYS.. REPRINT IT AND COPY TO INFORM THE REST IF YAHOO CENSOR IT AGAIN...

u cant tag minister (civil servant) pay to private sector. if u dont like it leave the government sector. im sure many would die to be PM for 500,000$.

"Si Ai Bin Zu"..anyway...that is what pappies is. No amount of money can satisfy a greedy person and that is what the dawgs are. The leader of the dawgs talk about empathy but he himself does not show it, only know how to run a country like a company. Sell away our power station to another country to generate profit for their own, no wonder the elctricity bill keep rising because the other party wants to see the revenue rising. Thr pappies are traitors to the people.Their name stinks more than the sewage.

All ministers need to declare assets and how much money they receive in directorship

OKY must be a dog of the PAP

Well, wrong statement? Sue him!

Of course can only sue him in the Malaysian court, it will be interesting to see how political incorrectness is played out outside our territory...hmm interesting

Ong Keng Yong is just another PAP Stooge who is trying to keep his job as High Commissioner by boot-licking the MIW. Deep within his conscience (if he has any!) he knows that ALL our Ministers are still absurdly OVERPAID despite the so-called pay-cuts.

If is not true, why is there a salary review committee ?? and why the acceptance of lower salary ??? also why DisGraceFu defend as misunderstanding when so many read her statement as unhappy with the cut ??? Everyone knew that these MIWs are really overpaid themselves for too long.

At the end of the day, if the astronomical salaries are justified, why on earth need there be a BIG CUT and expeditiously excepted by the Gov. Had the cut been viewed as too steep and deters 'good' people from coming forward, why was it not debated BEFORE implementation?

I keep hearing "that ministerial salaries must be competitive with what successful Singaporeans can earn in the private sector" but I am unable to reconcile it with reality.

How many of our ministers had in actual fact made it in the private sector? If they had not been successful and earned that much in the private sector why should they be reimbursed for "what successful Singaporeans can earn in the private sector" upon joining politics?

This is better defined as ministerial opportunism.

The above issue is peanuts compared to the Romanian embasy guy whom killed singaporean in Singapore soil and run away.. Why so quite on this Mr Foreign Minster ?? Why let your dogs out on such peanuts issue that this article do not impact singaporean ? Stop wasting singapore money/

Singaporean is either deaf or blind. Besides most can calculate and understood that $100 plus 60% less 37% is still more than the original $100.

Dun tok cock here lah.
Minsters are given 8 months bonus before when all fellow singaporeans are struggling.
How many singaporeans taken a 5 months bonus let alone a 8 months bonus.

If I paid a dimwit a million......would he be a Yes man...???
If I paid a scholar a million.....would he be a Yes man...???
oh please dont answer so quickly ......

Our PM pay is still to high. We have to work our whole life for what he makes in a few years. Is this fair? His greatest contribution so far is 2 casinos which he calls it intergrated resort. How many families have he destroyed so far? He is the curse of Singapore.