Enough is enough

There is a 30% increase in the estimated wages of political appointees this year.

Thirty percent.

THIRTY PERCENT!

They already claim wages far beyond the norm for politicians. Our Prime Minister's pay is the equivalent of the top 6 other world leaders salaries combined.

And based on improvements in the private sector, it's time to dish out a huge increment! Remember, they did not claim any bonus over the pass 2 years, when it was a recession. Never mind that neither did many people. Never mind that bonuses are extras, not part of your annual pay, and their assessment of having had a reduced annual pay over the past two years is flawed due to that very simple fact. The money is coming in, and we have another excuse to party!

This increase is coming from the same people who exhort the citizens of Singapore to be "Better, Faster, Cheaper." And our ministers are better then who? Not older politicians, seeing as how they have yet to come up with a policy that can equal some of our foundational policies. Not the opposition, considering they dare not let them into parliament to show how much better they are. And have the media run anti-opposition style articles and shows, casting them as bumbling buffoons and nitwits while exalting the PAP. Faster? They take forever to implement policies, having to spend forever debating them. When something happens, it takes them at least a day to react and comment. The only thing they are fast at, it seems, is proclaiming how awesomely world-class we are(note: World-class is not the same as First-class), and suing people whom they feel have defamed them(ie: Disagreed with them, and did it well). Cheaper? Just look at the link.

The same people who are behind HDB and high rise housing, who go on and on about land scarcity, but live in gigantic mansions. Not terrace homes, not semi-ds, not bungalows, but bloody palatial mansions. The same people who talk racial harmony, but won't get rid of a completely outdated, unnecessary and absolutely discriminatory practice in the military service.

My worse fear is that they truly see no harm in their payscale, and the pay hikes. That they feel it completely acceptable. Then it's not corruption of a normal sort we are dealing with. It's the corruption of the mind from absolute power and control.

They don't know what the ma on the ground is experiencing. How can one be a servant of the public, when one is lording over the public?

They have no idea what the ground is like now, beyond the few people they talk to and the RC people who tell them what they want to hear, or what said RC people FEEL they should say.
They are disconnected with Singaporeans. They need to learn this. We need to show them we are fed up and sick of all this.

Elections are coming.
Enough is enough.