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With the local media reporting extensively on recent warnings by government officials and prominent economists about the widening income gap and wage and social stagnation [Link], some Singaporeans might think that these are newly discovered pearls of wisdom. But they are not. Opposition parties had highlighted these concerns... 

政治秀演完了，但是，后遗症还在。减薪后的高薪能否激起政治人物的服务热情，同情心，责任心和献身精神？或许在危难时刻，弃新加坡而去？ 无心再加减薪，行动党找不到候选人，就把帐算到新加坡人的头上，美其名是为国人的将来好，事实上，就是硬要国人接受新的政治薪金建议。 都什么时候了，还在强调党国的关系，有行动党，就有新加坡。行动党就是新加坡，新加坡就是行动党。在新的政治常态下，党和国早就应该分家了。试问，马英九敢... 

Excessive Ministerial pay is not there to secure talent. If the government were interested in talent it would want to promote competition and encourage a market place of ideas. This is what I said when interviewed by Today in 2010, http://sonofadud.com/about-ricebowl/about/interview-for-today-newspaper-in-2010-which-explains-a-little-bit-about-me/ “The...