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The PAP says it is being pragmatic and the Workers Party is too idealistic in its approach. But this is not true. It is not pragmatic to expect ordinary citizens to accept its extraordinary "highest in the world" compensation when the quality of life for many Singaporeans has fallen in many respects.
The PAP govt says this pay structure is necessary to help it continue to recruit capable people into govt but the truth is they need to do this to sustain their system of govt - a system that has become disconnected with ordinary citizens and incapable of putting their interests ahead of those of the power elite. This system has concentrated the wealth generated by our society narrowly in a small segment of the populace and the new pay structure aligns leadership with this small segment.
The PAP govt has had these high salaries for more than 2 decades...has this extremely high salaries resulted in a high quality of life for the ordinary citizens.? ....The man on the street is able to see it does not correlate and will not correlate.
- http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2012/01/ministerial-pay-why-man-on-street-is_20.html
The PAP govt says this pay structure is necessary to help it continue to recruit capable people into govt but the truth is they need to do this to sustain their system of govt - a system that has become disconnected with ordinary citizens and incapable of putting their interests ahead of those of the power elite. This system has concentrated the wealth generated by our society narrowly in a small segment of the populace and the new pay structure aligns leadership with this small segment.
The PAP govt has had these high salaries for more than 2 decades...has this extremely high salaries resulted in a high quality of life for the ordinary citizens.? ....The man on the street is able to see it does not correlate and will not correlate.
- http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2012/01/ministerial-pay-why-man-on-street-is_20.html
