Pay peanuts, get monkeys. Pay millions, you get dancing monkeys

[Confuseous]

Pay peanuts, and you get monkeys. But who would have guessed that if you pay millions, you end up with dancing monkeys? Tired of the monkeying around about "convergence and agreement" of the principles in play over the ministerial salary debate, Chen Show Mao told the house:

"If indeed there is convergence today and if indeed, as has been mentioned, today is much like a dance, I would like to thank the Government for leading the dance and taking the first step towards acknowledging that political salaries in this country need fixing.
"While we agree with he three principles distilled by the committee, does DPM agree that under the committee's application of the principles, they have produced a formula that is really quite distinct from what the WP has proposed?

"For example, if maximum bonuses were received under the committee's proposal, ministerial salary would be in fact be reduced by 8 percent. And under the WP's proposal, it will be reduced by 37 percent."

Josephine Teo, missing the forest for the trees altogether, could not grasp the monkey tricks with the allowances. For Pritam Singh, it was like talking to a wall, "It's not the numbers that's the issue.... Peg it to the average Singaporean at a level where Singaporeans can aspire to."

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2012/01/dancing-monkeys-in-play.html

 

[HedgeTrader]

Pay peanuts you get monkeys LOL

Pay millions you get lackeys KNN

 

[Conqueror]

Satisfied Monkeys = Lazy Monkeys

Pay peanuts you get monkeys LOL

Pay millions you get lackeys KNN

People who believe in Capitalism should agree my statement here:

Pay a few peanuts and you will get agitated monkeys trying to get your attention for more peanuts.

Pay too much than necessary and you will get a lazy monkey - too full to think or work now.