Sideswipe Column#5 - Comes another Idiot Quek Ser Aik

[kingrant]

Consider good leadership an investment for Singapore
Letter from Quek Ser Aik 04:48 AM Jan 06, 2012
Suppose we could benchmark our ministers' quality, and suppose it drops 10 per cent in the long run (after the pay cut). Would it be worth the savings on their salaries? Which other country's current leadership would we rather have for Singapore?
When the media reports on corrupt civil services that hobble their nations' progress, we see ourselves as a counter example: A clean, rules-based community.
Ideally, our best and brightest should continue to forgo much privacy and family comfort, to rally our nation with integrity, to cry and laugh with the rest of us, never mind the pay.
However, at work, I used to sometimes brush with corporate leaders who were paid far more than our ministers and I did not get the impression that they were all good enough to lead us.
Elsewhere, if Mr Barack Obama did not run, there would have been Mrs Hillary Clinton. Our barrel is much shallower.
I complain, like everybody, and sometimes fancy the anti-establishment label. Perhaps the annual salaries, including bonuses and pensions, of all our elected officials, past and present, should be made public.
But let us not give ourselves the cold comfort of the excuse, come a time should Singapore be in the doldrums: "Can't totally blame them, since they're not the best we could have persuaded to mind for us, anyway."
Let us invest, and pass our little red dot, glowing, to our children.

 

[kingrant]

Why such idiots can never clear their heads and think clearly? They re full of PAP m&d.

 

[Blazars]

Why such idiots can never clear their heads and think clearly? They re full of PAP m&d.

Exactly!! There are always this kind of idiots with pap m&d in their head. I am really sick and tired of these idiots!!

 

[freedalas]

So far, all who spoke in defence of the out-of-this-world ministers' salaries missed out on the all essential point. And that is, we had been paying top dollars to non-top calibre people. In other words, while we had been paying millions by the buckets to the ministers, we had not been getting millions by the buckets of good government. You only need to mention a few names to prove this point, Mah Bow Tan, Lim Swee Say, Wong Kan Seng, Yacoob, Vivian. It's like you go on a tour and been told to pay so much for a hotel as it is a 6-star. But after staying there, you only been receiving a 3-star hotel service. Not only that, that lousy hotel kept increasing its room rates while still dishing out 3-star service. If you paid for a room at a 6-star hotel rate and do get get 6-star service, no one will complain. But it's not and that's the whole trouble. The wrong assumption is that because we had been paying top-dollar that's why we are having top-calibre ministers. Look at what had happened to Spore the past 10 years plus all the recent mis-steps like MRT, floods, DNA testing and you know that's the furthest from the truth. In short, these bunch of jokers in the cabinet are simply not worth that much, even after the cut.

 

[zeddy]

Let us invest, and pass our little red dot, glowing, to our children.

PAP Ball carrier Quek Ser Aik

Mr Quek, a good investment for our children is to vote for more Oppositions to Parliament in 2016....

 

[Cruxx]

When the media reports on corrupt civil services that hobble their nations' progress, we see ourselves as a counter example: A clean, rules-based community.

Typical brainwashed Sinkie. Sinkieland is clean and rules-based? Are you having a laugh?