Dr Chee should stop harping on becoming a full-time MP

[NanoSpeed]

Is Dr Chee earning more than a MP now ? If not, this sales pitch is hollow and will backfire.

A MP's job need not be a full-time job. PAP is not wrong in this respect. If Dr Chee is enjoying a very successful career, such as managing director of OCBC or top honcho in a public listed company, then becoming a full-time MP is a sacrifice.

However, if you are doing not so well, and the allowances of a full-time MP are more than your current job, where is the opportunity cost ?

If you want to sell the idea of a full-time MP, your entire party must subscribe to the same ideology. And that includes Dr Paul Thambyah.

Will Dr Paul Thambyah give up his illustrious career and become a full-time MP if elected ? If Dr Paul Thambyah continues to earn a good income as a Medical Consultant after being elected, are you going to question his commitment to the voters ?

I'm not against the idea of a full-time MP. After you are elected, it's your choice if you wish to turn full-time, for whatever reasons I don't care. But if you transform this idea into a sales pitch during the election campaign, it cheapens your stature.

 

[sbfuncle]

I think some people who are still earning a good salary (higher than mp) in the public sector would still want to be a full time mp if they actually dislike their full time job but endure it due to the salary. Or some could be old already and doesn't want to continue to work like dog outside.
Full time mp will be more appropriate and more leelaxing.

Maybe Chee leestoran is not making money.

One of the future mp which I personally know him is earning less than a full time mp outside but working like a dog. He can't wait to throw the leesignation letter after 3may.

 

[NanoSpeed]

I think some people who are still earning a good salary (higher than mp) in the public sector would still want to be a full time mp if they actually dislike their full time job but endure it due to the salary. Or some could be old already and doesn't want to continue to work like dog outside.
Full time mp will be more appropriate and more leelaxing.

Maybe Chee leestoran is not making money.

One of the future mp which I personally know him is earning less than a full time mp outside but working like a dog. He can't wait to throw the leesignation letter after 3may.

If there is no opportunity cost, there is no sacrifice. Then it's for self-interest.

He can do it, just don't say it out loud before you are elected.

 

[sbfuncle]

If there is no opportunity cost, there is no sacrifice. Then it's for self-interest.

He can do it, just don't say it out loud before you are elected.

This is the Lee son why I think all candidates in ge is looking at the salary or allowances more than any sacrifice.
Exceptional I think are tcb and lmw

As for Chee harping, he must be thinking by harping it, it will make people think that he will dedicate all his time for the people. But in actual is his leestoran pai cho.

 

[desmondo]

Part time or full time MP are ok as long as they take care of their wards well but they should not be absent from parliament meeting which takes about 2-3 days a month which they are elected to represent them in parliament.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Wow some hard hitting facts there.

But in the forum, any Oppo bashing = auto PAP supporter lol

The world so binary one right?

 

[Ah Max]

ze dual role of estate manager cum legislator shld b a full time job.

8k as estate manager n 8k as legislator seem fair.

 

[NanoSpeed]

I'm not against full-time MP. I made this very clear.

But don't use it as a sales pitch. If people don't see the sacrifice, it means it's self-interest .... worst of all, trying to pass off self-interest as sacrifice.

 

[tobelightlight]

Wah u don't like Dr chee har? His restaurant food quite nice leh.

 

[sbfuncle]

I'm not against full-time MP. I made this very clear.

But don't use it as a sales pitch. If people don't see the sacrifice, it means it's self-interest .... worst of all, trying to pass of self-interest as sacrifice.

Aiya sometimes people under stress will not think too deep and mong har mong har gum.

That's why I said before, all these people need to come sbf and get tips from the wise people here.
We may be blue Chas card losers but we are wise men OK.

 

[Ah Max]

I'm not against full-time MP. I made this very clear.

But don't use it as a sales pitch. If people don't see the sacrifice, it means it's self-interest .... worst of all, trying to pass off self-interest as sacrifice.

itz not a sales pitch. sure any1 can b a decent estate manager but i tink chee will b a better legislator than poh li san so voters should not mind paying a premium 4 chee, if any @ all.

 

[duluxe]

As long as CSJ is in SDP, older voters are going to link him to Chiam See Tong saga. He should disband SDP and join PSP as a member. I dare to guarantee he will be more electable. It depends on what's his ultimate goal. To lead a party or to enter parliament?

 

[TanSong]

Bro @NanoSpeed every day has new thread condemning dr Chee

 

[mojito]

I think some people who are still earning a good salary (higher than mp) in the public sector would still want to be a full time mp if they actually dislike their full time job but endure it due to the salary. Or some could be old already and doesn't want to continue to work like dog outside.
Full time mp will be more appropriate and more leelaxing.

Maybe Chee leestoran is not making money.

One of the future mp which I personally know him is earning less than a full time mp outside but working like a dog. He can't wait to throw the leesignation letter after 3may.

Better not. Later one term ask him retire lugi sia.

 

[NanoSpeed]

Bro @NanoSpeed every day has new thread condemning dr Chee

Reminding, not condemning.

Dr Chee surrounds himself with admirers who think he is God's gift to Singapore. In PAP terms, it's called "Yes man".

I'm merely showing him his blind spot.

 

[NanoSpeed]

Aiya sometimes people under stress will not think too deep and mong har mong har gum.

That's why I said before, all these people need to come sbf and get tips from the wise people here.
We may be blue Chas card losers but we are wise men OK.

Blue CHAS losers are wise men ? Sounds very oxymoron.

 

[nabeifuckpap]

MP pay in Shitgapore is good enough, how many jobs pay 16000 SGD per month

 

[glockman]

Is Dr Chee earning more than a MP now ? If not, this sales pitch is hollow and will backfire.

A MP's job need not be a full-time job. PAP is not wrong in this respect. If Dr Chee is enjoying a very successful career, such as managing director of OCBC or top honcho in a public listed company, then becoming a full-time MP is a sacrifice.

However, if you are doing not so well, and the allowances of a full-time MP are more than your current job, where is the opportunity cost ?

If you want to sell the idea of a full-time MP, your entire party must subscribe to the same ideology. And that includes Dr Paul Thambyah.

Will Dr Paul Thambyah give up his illustrious career and become a full-time MP if elected ? If Dr Paul Thambyah continues to earn a good income as a Medical Consultant after being elected, are you going to question his commitment to the voters ?

I'm not against the idea of a full-time MP. After you are elected, it's your choice if you wish to turn full-time, for whatever reasons I don't care. But if you transform this idea into a sales pitch during the election campaign, it cheapens your stature.

I respect your views and only ask that you consider this. He could've left sg and took up lecturing jobs at universities abroad (he was lecturer at NUS), washed his hands off sg politics. He and his wife are psychologists. He got his PhD from the US. They could've led very comfortable lives there, like Lee Shengwu. Instead of staying on and living a frugal life facing heartaches, rejection and persecution. So the opportunity costs have been great for him and his family in this sense. Having said that, I understand his forcefulness and intensity may not endear himself to some.

 

[sbfuncle]

Better not. Later one term ask him retire lugi sia.

By 5 years time he will reap about $1m and based on his age he will leetire gracefully.
He laugh until can't sleep now.

 

[NanoSpeed]

I respect your views and only ask that you consider this. He could've left sg and took up lecturing jobs at universities abroad (he was lecturer at NUS), washed his hands off sg politics. He and his wife are psychologists. He got his PhD from the US. They could've led very comfortable lives there, like Lee Shengwu. Instead of staying on and living a frugal life facing heartaches, rejection and persecution. So the opportunity costs have been great for him and his family in this sense. Having said that, I understand his forcefulness and intensity may not endear himself to some.

I understand his sacrifices as a politician, especially so when he first entered politics with a clean slate. At that time, he could have left Singapore and become a professor in some US university. I appreciate his sacrifices.

Fast forward to 2025, the dynamics are completely different. The comparison is between his current job as a restaurant owner and that of a full-time MP. If he were a professor and still employable as a professor, his offer to do be a full-time MP if elected would carry lots of weight because the opportunity [cost] would be obvious.