Re: More people living in rental flats.. Is PM Lee paid too much...or the worker paid too little.

yes, a bit of both, lah.

"baldeagle" <force.sin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 12, 12:57 pm, "AleXX®" <cir...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Posted by Lucky Tan

A few weeks ago, I saw a little ang moh kid at a playground near my home -
I
teased the hyperactive kid as he ran around the playground. They family
has
been here for several months and the mother came over to ask me where she
can the parks and places to cycle, camp ..and so on. . After she was done
with her queries, I asked her what she "thought of Singapore so far".
Before
she got to anything else, she said she was quite stunned by what she saw
"so
many rich people with big cars" and so many poor people..."poor old people
working". Coming from France, she said has never seen anything like this.
I've asked many foreigners how they find Singapore and this is the first
time someone responded by talking about the inequality in our society
before
anything else. Very often they will say how impressed they were with our
airport, how clean and green we are and so on before they sometimes asked
why there are so many old folks working.

America is the only other developed country with comparable income
inequality. But you have to remember that America is a big place with
rural,
sub-urban areas and top cities. Their inequality is spread over a vast
territory many thousand times bigger than Singapore. Our inequality is
concentrated on a piece of land 700 sq km in size where extreme wealth and
poverty exists side by side.

Unless there is political change, the situation can only get worse. Today
our parliament is dominated by the elitist PAP party. While they promise
changes in response to poor election results, they are not ideologically
inclined to address the huge and growing inequality in our society. This
is
the same govt that eliminated healthcare benefits and pension for rank anf
file civil servants while preserving these benefits for themselves. They
imposed GST to cut taxes for the rich and corporations. They increased
their
own pay as poorer Singaporeans saw falling incomes and marked decline in
the
quality of life. They richly reward a small select power-elite with
scholarship and opportunities in the network of GLCs. Our inequality is
manufactured by political strructure that preserves a system ideologically
shaped for the benefit of a few. This ideological extreme has led to the
extreme inequality and the situation will not improve unless Singaporeans
wake up, speak up and stand up for what is right.

Posted by Lucky Tan

In 1965, LKY's salary as PM was $12,000 a month while the
Jurong factory worker earned $600 a month. His salary
was 20 times that of the worker.

Today, PM Lee's salary is $300,000 a month(not including
bonus) while the factory worker earns $1,500 a month. His
salary is 200 times that of the workers.

This income gap must be a world record.

Is the PM being paid too much...or the workers being paid
too little?


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