Tenacious Teos

In today's Straits Times article (March 28, 2007), Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean has weighed in and argued why he and his colleagues deserve a pay hike from the current paltry pay of S$1.2 Million.

That depends on getting good people to come into the government and making sure that we pay them reasonably well. If we don't do that, in the long term, the government will slowly crumple and collapse...corruption will set in and we will become like many other countries and face the problems that many other countries face."

Hmmm... Is that a threat that our PAP ministers will inevitably become corrupted unless paid "reasonably well"?

As pointed up by Ms. Vanessa Teo in FORUM, we should be reminded that four other countries have been ranked less corrupted than Singapore, according to TI 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Citizen Teo then question, "Does it mean that the salaries of New Zealand ministers should be many times higher than those of Singapore ministers?" I don't think Minster Teo would be happy with that rebuttal. :p

Anyway, I really do look forward to more spurious arguments in the coming issues of my favorite daily.

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