Thursday, February 16, 2006
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As our beloved PM would say, the salaries of our Ministers have always been well-publicised so it's no sceret at all. And as he also said, they have always explained why the pay needs to be so and that to get quality men, you must give wages that commensurate with their "talent". So I guess that means the higher the pay goes, the higher quality that person is supposed to be?

This is how good our leaders are as compared to some of the leading nations in the world.

Singapore
Singapore President's Basic Salary: US$1,483,000 (SGD$2,373,100) a year
Prime Minister's Basic Salary: US$1,100,000 (SGD$1,958,000) a year
Minister's Basic: US$655,530 to US$819,124 (SGD$1,166,844 to SGD1,458,040) a year

United States
United States of America President: US$200,000
Vice President: US$181,400
Cabinet Secretaries: US$157,000

Britain
United Kingdom Prime Minister: US$170,556
Ministers: US$146,299
Senior Civil Servants: US$262,438

Australia
Australia Prime Minister: US$137,060
Deputy Prime Minister: US$111,439
Treasurer: US$102,682

Hong Kong
Hong Kong Chief Executive : US$416,615
Top Civil Servant: US$278,538
Financial Sec: US$315,077

And that is, my friend, why we get Lee Hsien Loong while you get George Bush. Our leaders are the best in the world, bar none. If LHL was put in charge of the Iraq war, we'd not only have found WMDs in Iraq, we'd have found Martians too.

But this is also why we get Nathan.

Hell, that's a lot of money to spend on pratas.

"Five pratas kosong takeaway please"