The 10 Highest Paid Politicians In The World

[SNAblog]

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/mo...10-highest-paid-politicians-in-the-world.html

There is nothing like a scandal involving porn films claimed on Commons expenses to focus attention on the pay and perks enjoyed, sorry earned, by our public servants.

Even before Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, was forced to apologise for her husband's blue movies there had been calls for the whole system to be overturned. The committee on standards in public life which has promised to report on MP pay and expenses by the end of the year is under pressure to do something radical.

Whenever MPs come under attack over pay they are quick to argue that compared to executives in the private and public sector they are not particularly well paid.

With the G20 leaders in the country we thought it was worth getting a snapshot of how much the highest paid presidents and prime ministers around the world earn. For comparison's sake all earnings have been converted into dollars. It also shows basic annual salary only, not the expenses claimed on top.

So, where does our own Gordon Brown stand?

1. Lee Hsien Loong - Singapore
Salary in dollars - $2.47 million
Salary in local currency - S$3.76 million

2. Donald Tsang Yum-Kuen - Hong Kong
Salary in dollars - $516,000
Salary in local currency - HK$4 million

3. Barack Obama - United States
Salary in dollars - $400,000

4. Brian Cowen - Ireland
Salary in dollars - $341,000
Salary in local currency - €257,000

5. Nicolas Sarkozy - France
Salary in dollars - $318,000
Salary in local currency - €240,000

6. Angela Merkel - Germany
Salary in dollars - $303,000
Salary in local currency - €228,000

7. Gordon Brown - UK
Salary in dollars - $279,000
Salary in local currency - £194,250

8. Stephen Harper - Canada
Salary in dollars - $246,000
Salary in local currency - C$311,000

9. Taro Aso - Japan
Salary in dollars - $243,000
Salary in local currency - Y24 million

10. Kevin Rudd - Australia
Salary in dollars - $229,000
Salary in local currency - A$330,000

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[commoner]

Singapore Nmber UNO,,,,, Guiness Book of Record unbroken for many years until the next GE

 

[darememore]

inbetween No1 and No2, there are more sg politician taking yp the space.

 

[Cestbon]

That only compare world leader of the country. If compare salary of politician Singapore politician name will be in all top 10 position.
1. PM lHL
2. Prataman
3. MM LKY
4. SM GCT
5. Tony Tan
6. Marlboro
7. Cow boon

 

[Maverick01]

3 more leh...maybe can fill up top 20

That only compare world leader of the country. If compare salary of politician Singapore politician name will be in all top 10 position.
1. PM lHL
2. Prataman
3. MM LKY
4. SM GCT
5. Tony Tan
6. Marlboro
7. Cow boon

 

[Tailok]

Any of the Sillipore's $$Money$ter$$ can beat all the top $$ minister of the rest of the world. Ridiculous. Economy good, they claimed they did good job. Now, we are in recession.. still haven't commit "harakiri".. No shame.. :oIo:

 

[Einfield]

That only compare world leader of the country. If compare salary of politician Singapore politician name will be in all top 10 position.
1. PM lHL
2. Prataman
3. MM LKY
4. SM GCT
5. Tony Tan
6. Marlboro
7. Cow boon

In another word:
Organized crime syndicate
Leagalized Corruption
Democratic system manupilation
Disinformation to the masses
The biggest con job of the century

 

[eQuipment]

very soon can add to the list:
benchwarming PM Teo
2 x DPM calefare
1 more SM calefare

 

[littlefish]

Why is the No.1 person on the list not giving solutions to the G20 on the economic crisis? Being paid more than 4 times the salary of the second-placed person, surely he must be way more brilliant and outstanding than the rest?

 

[funglung]

Why is the No.1 person on the list not giving solutions to the G20 on the economic crisis? Being paid more than 4 times the salary of the second-placed person, surely he must be way more brilliant and outstanding than the rest?

THE $$$ PAID TO STINKAPORE MINISTERS WILL BE MORE THAN ALL THE $$$ USED TO PAY ALL THE CABINETS OF G20 COUNTRIES COMBINED TOGETHER.

ALL THE STINKAPORE MINISTERS KNOW TO DO IS TO HOLD US DOWN SO LEE KUAN YEW CAN SCREW US OF 400-500++ BILLIONS INTO HIS FUCKING TEMASICK AND GIC











DO NOT WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TIME
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!

TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR RELATIVES.

SUPPORT OPPOSITION PARTIES WITH YOUR TIME AND MONEY AND STAND BY THEM AND WITH THEM.
THEY SPEAK FOR YOU AND TRY TO SPEAK FOR YOU.

LKY AND PAP HAVE BEEN USING THEIR KANGAROO COURTS TO TRY TO BANKRUPT THEM TO SILENCE THEM.

IF YOU DO NOT STAND WITH THEM AND STAND BY THEM, CAN YOU STAND ALONE AGAINST LKY?

SINGAPOREANS MUST UNITE AND SUPPORT ALL THE OPPOSITION PARTIES.


DO NOT JUST WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TO VOTE


VOTE OUT LKY AND HIS BASTARDS IN WHITE WHO ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY AND TO FUCK YOU.


IF NOT FOR YOURSELF, THEN FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN

THERE WILL NOT BE AN OBAMA AS PRESIDENT OF USA IF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THERE WAS INTIMIDATED BY BEATINGS AND LYNCHINGS IN THE PAST.


THE TOBBLING OF LKY WILL NOT BE EASY, AND CAN BE BLOODY AS WELL.
THEY WILL NOT GIVE UP THE BILLIONS THAT THEY SUCKED FROM YOU AND CAN CONTINUE TO SCREW FROM YOU NOW AND IN FUTURE.


ONLY YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAY 'NO MORE OF THAT' AND THROW EVERYONE OF THOSE BASTARDS OUT







Already 400-500++ billions got sucked and bled by LKY into his Temasick and GIC.
HOW MANY OTHER BILLIONS GOT SUCKED AND USED BY THEM IN GLC WHERE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND MINISTERS AND BASTARDS IN WHITE ARE CHAIRMAN AND CEOS?

EVEN IF NO ELECTIONS, SINKIES MUST SPEAK WITH ALL THEIR FRIENDS AND ALL THEY KNOW

STAND UP TO THAT BASTARD LKY AND PAP BLOODSUCKERS

STAND WITH ALL THOSE THAT FIGHT BASTARD LKY

OR STAND UP YOURSELF IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY

DONT BE BULLIED BY THAT FUCKING COWARD LKY USING HIS CORRUPT KANGAROO COURTS AND ALL THAT HE CAN, AND WILL THROW AT YOU


You will fear them only if you allow yourself to fear them.

Just because THEY want you to fear them, must you fear those fucking bastards?

THEY ONLY CAN RULE YOU , AND BLED YOU , THROUGH FEAR AND INTIMIDATION.


SINKIES,

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM.
THEY WILL THEN FEAR YOU.

AND YOU REGAIN YOUR MONEY AND YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR CHILDREN FUTURE.

DO NOT LET OUR MONEY GO TO FUND PAP DOGS FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

DO NOT DIE IN OLD FOLK HOMES IN JB.

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM





LEE KUAN YEW LOST AND LOST DUNNO HOW MANY BILLIONS IN TEMASICK AND GIC

EVEN MORE BILLIONS HE THREW AWAY TO HIS DOGS AND COCKROACHES SO THEY CAN TAKE FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

LKY NEED MORE BILLIONS FROM SINKIES WHO VOTED FOR HIM AND FROM THOSE WHO VOIDED THEIR VOTES

EVEN IF YOU VOTE AGAINST HIM, NO DIFFERENCE.

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT AS SINKIES DID NOT TRY HARD ENOUGH TO KICK OUT THAT VAMPIRE BASTARD LKY

SO EXPECT EVERYTHING IN SINGAPORE TO GO UP AND UP

BASTARD LKY NEED YOUR $$$$$

HE SCREW YOU AND DEMAND THAT YOU THANK HIM FOR HIS FUCKING 'SUBISIDIESD BULLSHIT' AND 'AFFORDABLE' CON-TALK.

GO ALL OUT TO KICK ALL THOSE BASTARDS OUT

ALL OF THEM

 

[cass888]

Like the MONGREL who bit his masters' hands LOUDHAILER chee soon juan, you only tell half the story. No Singaporean politician is in the top 10 richest:

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/10/the-worlds-10-w.html

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/mo...10-highest-paid-politicians-in-the-world.html

There is nothing like a scandal involving porn films claimed on Commons expenses to focus attention on the pay and perks enjoyed, sorry earned, by our public servants.

Even before Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, was forced to apologise for her husband's blue movies there had been calls for the whole system to be overturned. The committee on standards in public life which has promised to report on MP pay and expenses by the end of the year is under pressure to do something radical.

Whenever MPs come under attack over pay they are quick to argue that compared to executives in the private and public sector they are not particularly well paid.

With the G20 leaders in the country we thought it was worth getting a snapshot of how much the highest paid presidents and prime ministers around the world earn. For comparison's sake all earnings have been converted into dollars. It also shows basic annual salary only, not the expenses claimed on top.

So, where does our own Gordon Brown stand?

1. Lee Hsien Loong - Singapore
Salary in dollars - $2.47 million
Salary in local currency - S$3.76 million

2. Donald Tsang Yum-Kuen - Hong Kong
Salary in dollars - $516,000
Salary in local currency - HK$4 million

3. Barack Obama - United States
Salary in dollars - $400,000

4. Brian Cowen - Ireland
Salary in dollars - $341,000
Salary in local currency - €257,000

5. Nicolas Sarkozy - France
Salary in dollars - $318,000
Salary in local currency - €240,000

6. Angela Merkel - Germany
Salary in dollars - $303,000
Salary in local currency - €228,000

7. Gordon Brown - UK
Salary in dollars - $279,000
Salary in local currency - £194,250

8. Stephen Harper - Canada
Salary in dollars - $246,000
Salary in local currency - C$311,000

9. Taro Aso - Japan
Salary in dollars - $243,000
Salary in local currency - Y24 million

10. Kevin Rudd - Australia
Salary in dollars - $229,000
Salary in local currency - A$330,000

--------------------------------------

Latest updates at Singapore News Alternative:

1. A Critique On Clement Mesanas' Interview With Disposed Nepal Crown Prince Paras Bikram Shah In Singapore
2. 'Singaporean' linked to Red Cross kidnapping in Philippines
3. Singapore home prices in steepest drop since 1975
4. 1,405 Singapore Airlines employees volunteer to go on unpaid leave

Latest video added:

1. Singapore - Crossroads of the East 1938

.

 

[Royston46]

S$300k pay per month plus so many kar kias to do his bidding also no use...

LHL looked quite stressed leh, lost weight woh on TV recently...

Is he going to up the lorry soon along with his Daddy!?!

 

[tonychat]

Don't sinkie feel shame you have a highest paid prime minister who speak like this:

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[yellowarse]

The 10 highest paid politicians in the world are all from Singapore:

1. President Nathan US$2.63 million
2. PM Lee Hsien Loong US$2.46 million
3. MM Lee Kuan Yew US$2.46 million
4. SM Goh Chok Tong US$2.46 million
5. SM Jayakumar US$2.2 million
6. DPM Wong Kan Seng US$2.1 million
7. DPM Teo Chee Hian US$2.1 million
8-10. Any 3 of the other ministers US$1.1 million

 

[commoner]

ooooooi,,, not fair what,,,,

new SM only 2.2mil where wood head is 2.46mil,,,,

racist huh? father-son same salary scale?

 

[R4g3]

saw this post from other forum.
http://forums.fuckwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?p=36867681#post36867681

This is all wrong, how can the title be 10 best paid politicians? It should be 10 best paid leaders.
If they use the word "politician", then i think top 10 all from SG, maybe top 20 or top 30.
Might see someone from other country if they do a top 50, which would be Donald Tsang Yum-Kuen - Hong Kong, the highest paid politician if SG don't exist.

Rank 1) President (USD2M+++)
Rank 2) PM (USD2M++)
Rank 3) MM (USD2M+)
Rank 4) SM (USD2M+)
Rank 5-6) DPM x 2 (USD1.7M)
Rank 7-21) Minister x 15 (USD1M)
Rank 22 - ???) Minister of state x ???, Permanant Secretary of Ministry(salary grade MR4) x ???

So I think even the highest paid foreigner politician Donald Tsang Yum-Kuen(Hong Kong) with a salary of $US516,000 has a chance to get into rank 30++ with a salary in between those in the salary grade MR4.
The next highest paid foreign politician Obama ($US400k) might be out of the top 50.

And we have not include the bonus, pension and other "not to be known".

yes, maybe if they do a top 50, we will see 49 from Sinkapore and 1 from HK.

 

[funglung]

The 10 highest paid politicians in the world are all from Singapore:

1. President Nathan US$2.63 million
2. PM Lee Hsien Loong US$2.46 million
3. MM Lee Kuan Yew US$2.46 million
4. SM Goh Chok Tong US$2.46 million
5. SM Jayakumar US$2.2 million
6. DPM Wong Kan Seng US$2.1 million
7. DPM Teo Chee Hian US$2.1 million
8-10. Any 3 of the other ministers US$1.1 million

You have not counted in their fucking one year bonus that they award to themselves.

They are also paid all kind of stuff as chairman of this and that.

Can anyone other, other than themselves, know how much they are robbing and fucking us in addition to sucking 400-500++ billions into their Temasick and GIC






DO NOT WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TIME
THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!

TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR RELATIVES.

SUPPORT OPPOSITION PARTIES WITH YOUR TIME AND MONEY AND STAND BY THEM AND WITH THEM.
THEY SPEAK FOR YOU AND TRY TO SPEAK FOR YOU.

LKY AND PAP HAVE BEEN USING THEIR KANGAROO COURTS TO TRY TO BANKRUPT THEM TO SILENCE THEM.

IF YOU DO NOT STAND WITH THEM AND STAND BY THEM, CAN YOU STAND ALONE AGAINST LKY?

SINGAPOREANS MUST UNITE AND SUPPORT ALL THE OPPOSITION PARTIES.


DO NOT JUST WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TO VOTE


VOTE OUT LKY AND HIS BASTARDS IN WHITE WHO ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY AND TO FUCK YOU.


IF NOT FOR YOURSELF, THEN FOR THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHILDREN

THERE WILL NOT BE AN OBAMA AS PRESIDENT OF USA IF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THERE WAS INTIMIDATED BY BEATINGS AND LYNCHINGS IN THE PAST.


THE TOBBLING OF LKY WILL NOT BE EASY, AND CAN BE BLOODY AS WELL.
THEY WILL NOT GIVE UP THE BILLIONS THAT THEY SUCKED FROM YOU AND CAN CONTINUE TO SCREW FROM YOU NOW AND IN FUTURE.


ONLY YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAY 'NO MORE OF THAT' AND THROW EVERYONE OF THOSE BASTARDS OUT







Already 400-500++ billions got sucked and bled by LKY into his Temasick and GIC.
HOW MANY OTHER BILLIONS GOT SUCKED AND USED BY THEM IN GLC WHERE THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND MINISTERS AND BASTARDS IN WHITE ARE CHAIRMAN AND CEOS?

EVEN IF NO ELECTIONS, SINKIES MUST SPEAK WITH ALL THEIR FRIENDS AND ALL THEY KNOW

STAND UP TO THAT BASTARD LKY AND PAP BLOODSUCKERS

STAND WITH ALL THOSE THAT FIGHT BASTARD LKY

OR STAND UP YOURSELF IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY

DONT BE BULLIED BY THAT FUCKING COWARD LKY USING HIS CORRUPT KANGAROO COURTS AND ALL THAT HE CAN, AND WILL THROW AT YOU


You will fear them only if you allow yourself to fear them.

Just because THEY want you to fear them, must you fear those fucking bastards?

THEY ONLY CAN RULE YOU , AND BLED YOU , THROUGH FEAR AND INTIMIDATION.


SINKIES,

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM.
THEY WILL THEN FEAR YOU.

AND YOU REGAIN YOUR MONEY AND YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR CHILDREN FUTURE.

DO NOT LET OUR MONEY GO TO FUND PAP DOGS FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

DO NOT DIE IN OLD FOLK HOMES IN JB.

FIND YOUR BALLS AND STAND UP TO THEM





LEE KUAN YEW LOST AND LOST DUNNO HOW MANY BILLIONS IN TEMASICK AND GIC

EVEN MORE BILLIONS HE THREW AWAY TO HIS DOGS AND COCKROACHES SO THEY CAN TAKE FRENCH COOKING LESSONS

LKY NEED MORE BILLIONS FROM SINKIES WHO VOTED FOR HIM AND FROM THOSE WHO VOIDED THEIR VOTES

EVEN IF YOU VOTE AGAINST HIM, NO DIFFERENCE.

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT AS SINKIES DID NOT TRY HARD ENOUGH TO KICK OUT THAT VAMPIRE BASTARD LKY

SO EXPECT EVERYTHING IN SINGAPORE TO GO UP AND UP

BASTARD LKY NEED YOUR $$$$$

HE SCREW YOU AND DEMAND THAT YOU THANK HIM FOR HIS FUCKING 'SUBISIDIESD BULLSHIT' AND 'AFFORDABLE' CON-TALK.

GO ALL OUT TO KICK ALL THOSE BASTARDS OUT

ALL OF THEM

 

[Angelo]

The Fall of Heshen 和珅;

The shame of Heshen's corruption came to play when the Qianlong Emperor abdicated in February 1796, the full damage of the corruption was now in wide view. However, Qianlong continued to rule China behind the scenes under the grand title of Taishang Huang. It was not until his death on February 7, 1799 that the Jiaqing Emperor was able to prosecute Heshen. On February 12, Heshen was arrested along with military officer Fu Chang'an (福長安). Declared guilty by Imperial Edict, he was condemned to slow slicing. The Jiaqing Emperor spared Heshen this horrible death, and instead ordered him to commit suicide in his home on February 22, sparing his family, while Fu Chang'an was beheaded.

From the 24 years that Heshen caught The Qianlong Emperor's attention and favour, he had amassed an incredible fortune. In Renzong's (The Jiaqing Emperor) confiscation of Heshen's property, his wealth were as thus:

3,000 rooms in his estates and mansions, 8,000 acres (32 km²) of land, 42 bank branches, 75 pawnbroker branches, 60,000 taels of copper alloyed gold, 100 large ingots of pure gold, (1,000 taels each), 56,600 medium silver ingots, (100 taels each), 9,000,000 small silver ingots, (10 taels each), 58,000 livres/pounds of foreign currency, 1,500,000 copper coins, 600 lb of top-quality Jilin ginseng, 1,200 jade charms, 230 pearl bracelets (each pearl comparable in size to large cherries or longans), 10 large pearls (each the size of apricots), 10 large ruby crystals, 40 large sapphire crystals, 40 tablefuls of solid-silver eating utensils, (serves 10 per table), 40 tablefuls of solid-gold eating utensils, (serves 10 per table), 11 coral rocks (each over a metre in height), 14,300 bolts of fine silk, 20,000 sheets of fine sheep-fur wool, 550 fox hides, 850 raccoon dog hides, 56,000 sheep and cattle hides of varying thickness, 7,000 sets of fine clothing (for all four seasons), 361,000 bronze and tin vases and vessels, 100,000 porcelain vessels made by famous masters, 24 highly decorative solid-gold beds (each with eight different types of inlaid gemstones), 460 top-quality European clocks, 606 servants, 600 women in his harem.

His total property was ultimately estimated at around 1,100 million taels of silver, reputedly estimated to be an amount equivalent to the imperial revenue of the Qing government for 15 years. In his chief butler Liu Quan's quarters, a large quantity of treasures including 240,000 silver taels were also discovered. The Jiaqing Emperor labelled Heshen with 20 crimes, of which "defiance of imperial supremacy" and "power transcendence" accounted for half.

The influence of Heshen however did not end with his death, as corruption continued to spread through different levels in and out of the capital, among both civil and military personnel. Bannermen developed habits that made them useless as a military force. The Chinese Green Standard Army was beset with irregular practice and had lost much of its fighting spirit shown in early Qing Dynasty. The habits of luxury and big spending led to moral degradation and the general decline of the dynasty. The Qianlong Emperor's Ten Great Campaigns were completed at the cost of 120 million taels, against an annual revenue of some 40 million taels. The result of these massive spendings and increasing trend towards luxury set the path towards financial instability within the latter part of the Qing Dynasty.

 

[yansen84]

Like the MONGREL who bit his masters' hands LOUDHAILER chee soon juan, you only tell half the story. No Singaporean politician is in the top 10 richest:

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2008/10/the-worlds-10-w.html

My oh my, in you we see evidently the success of the MIW's brainwashing policies. That you have so obviously mixed up self-made wealth with enrichment from the state's (and people's) coffers really shows the level of intellect stemming from the MIW's supporters. LKY bless you.