Orchard Road Flood becaus Minister & Perm Sec pay too low

[makapaaa]

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</TD><TD class=row1 height=28 vAlign=top width="100%"><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%">Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:45 pm Post subject: Orchard Road Flood becaus Minister & Perm Sec pay too lo</TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap> </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>The Orchard Road flood shows that even with the pay hikes our minister and top civil servant's pay is still too low to attract and retain top talents and motivate them to perform well.

The solution to the problem is to have another round of pay hikes. Surely the close to many hundreds of millions of losses from the flood can easily justify tens of millions in salary hikes to improve the situation at PUB and Ministry of Environment.

Some time back there was some unhappiness over the case of the perm sec for the ministry going to France to learn french cooking. He has plenty of time to take 5 weeks leave unlike the common peasant workers in Singapore because of his high ability and talent - he can meet all his responsibility and duties easily. We definitely need to pay more to retain such talents and prevent floods in the future.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[makapaaa]

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</TD><TD class=row2 height=28 vAlign=top width="100%"><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%">Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject: </TD><TD vAlign=top noWrap> </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2>Not only increase salary, we should send more ministers on overseas visits to learn how to solve Singapore's problems.

After all, since MBT's visit to HK, the government has suddenly released the land it has stock-piled over the years and the housing shortage can now be expected to be solved overnight.

After the transport minister visited China and saw how congested their roads can be, the COE supply is suddenly cut. If the COE supply was not allowed to increase rampantly in the first place, ordinary citizens would not have appreciated how effective the sudden cut is.

The PUB senior officials should be sent to live in Saudi Arabia for a year and learn from them. Saudi streets are never flooded; the Saudis must be good.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[matamafia]

Couplet (对联) for the PAP Govt to suck on :oIo:

http://yfrog.com/jksgporchardroadflood2010j

 

[eQuipment]

dragon boat festival, somebody's been dumping too many bachang in the longkang, which caused the flooding lor.

 

[Brightkid]

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After all, since MBT's visit to HK, ........
After the transport minister visited China ...........
The PUB senior officials should be sent to live in Saudi Arabia for a year and learn from them. Saudi streets are never flooded; the Saudis must be good
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I wonder how is the feelings of these hosts who only are paid a fraction of what our MIWs are demanding they be paid to teach these world's highest paid civil serpents how to solve simple basic problems.

I recalled an old man said these MIWs are the bestest we can find and be paid millions of dollars, to 'serve' the people.

Any private corporation game to hire them ? Please take them off our tax-payers' expense list.