Singapore PM's salary stuns White House official

Tue Apr 10, 6:50 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A senior White House official on Tuesday admitted he was floored by the news that Singapore's prime minister earned five times more than US
President George W. Bush.

"I'm going to emigrate and run for office in Singapore," the official said on condition he be identified only as "a senior administration official who sits in disbelief after reading that story."

On Monday, the Singapore government had announced a fresh 25.5 percent pay hike for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, boosting his salary to 2.05 million dollars per year.

Bush gets paid 400,000 dollars per year for doing his job, according to the White House.

Combined with personal investment income, he and his wife Laura reported 618,694 dollars in taxable income in the 2005 fiscal year. They had to pay 187,768 dollars in federal taxes.

But maybe Bush shouldn't feel so bad. The Singaporean's paycheck is eight times fatter than Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's.

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Now look and see what we have done, sown seeds to get others to leave their country and work for another country. Bravo. Absolutely sweet.

Originally posted by LazerLordz:

But maybe Bush shouldn't feel so bad. The Singaporean's paycheck is eight times fatter than Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's.

yah, considering George Bush is the most powerful man on Earth, commanding the most powderful armed forces but no use haha...a country like peesai, can thump them - cos we have the most powerful parliment on earth that enpower the ministers with astronomical pay

look at the mess the US is in.. are they really "talents" we want?

or are they the same types of sycophants we have here, only they're paid less over there

Originally posted by LazerLordz:

Singapore PM's salary stuns White House official

Tue Apr 10, 6:50 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A senior White House official on Tuesday admitted he was floored by the news that Singapore's prime minister earned five times more than US
President George W. Bush.

"I'm going to emigrate and run for office in Singapore," the official said on condition he be identified only as "a senior administration official who sits in disbelief after reading that story."

On Monday, the Singapore government had announced a fresh 25.5 percent pay hike for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, boosting his salary to 2.05 million dollars per year.

Bush gets paid 400,000 dollars per year for doing his job, according to the White House.

Combined with personal investment income, he and his wife Laura reported 618,694 dollars in taxable income in the 2005 fiscal year. They had to pay 187,768 dollars in federal taxes.

But maybe Bush shouldn't feel so bad. The Singaporean's paycheck is eight times fatter than Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's.

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Now look and see what we have done, sown seeds to get others to leave their country and work for another country. Bravo. Absolutely sweet.

Originally posted by the Bear:

look at the mess the US is in.. are they really "talents" we want?

or are they the same types of sycophants we have here, only they're paid less over there

teh horror.

sycophants know no national borders.

And more vultures wanna feast on the fat of the nation

America and Japan. The worlds number 1 and 2 economy. Both supernations leader earning 4 to 8 times LOWER than our beloved PM Lee, MM Lee, SM Goh and Pratanathan.

Eh, how come regarding this payraise issue PM Lee HL not around huh? Earliar on, GST increase also like that, Shin Corp failure also like that...he MIA.

Where is he when he is needed the most? How come need his daddy to stand up and speak for him?

Shinzo Abe read already must be KPKB… Japan Cost of living so High, but he earn so little compared to our ministers.

Originally posted by kilua:

Shinzo Abe read already must be KPKB... Japan Cost of living so High, but he earn so little compared to our ministers.

Shinzo Abe, he volunteered to take a 30% pay cut leh...

Just like 100yrs ago, the japan king forgo his royalty fees to donate to the japanese navy.

Now thats spirit, thats vigor, thats generousity, that WILLING to serve the country.

No wonder back then in WW2 japan, so many officials and soldiers are willing to die for the country.

I guess in Singapore, its only about lowly conscripted NS boys and highly paid ministers.

"I'm going to emigrate and run for office in Singapore,"

WAHAHAHAHAHA

Welcome to the league of the millionaire ministers…

But ours increase tax to provide themselves with a huge pay check. Now we know why the peanuts statement came out from the mouth of a certain person.

The rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer...

Now all the top talents in the world should come

Originally posted by maggot:

Now all the top talents in the world should come

In that case then very soon we will have our 6.5 millions population way before 2050...

Welcome to the Republic of Suckers...

Change the Ensign of Singapore from one Lion and one Tiger to 2 Giant Mosquitoes and Majulah Singapura to "Till Death Do We Suck The People..."

Actually ar, Singapore is just following the payslip of US government.

Its just that their gov has so many politicians. While ours is just a fraction of theirs.

So they got to pay ALL their politicians which equals to less. Since ours is little, use the excess amount to top up our politicians pay lor...

Originally posted by mhcampboy:

Actually ar, Singapore is just following the payslip of US government.

Its just that their gov has so many politicians. While ours is just a fraction of theirs.

So they got to pay ALL their politicians which equals to less. Since ours is little, use the excess amount to top up our politicians pay lor...

Kindly look at things in proportion.
We are a little small dot, with 80+ MPs and ministers and a small dotty population of 4 million. They are the world's largest power, with a few hundred million in population, but probably their total no. of politicians is only a few hundred

Proportionally, we are rearing a BIGGER bunch of cheerleaders, that are totally useless, and act as chickens in parliament (not to mention sleeping ones)

Those in paliament who are supporting pay hike of ministers and using the wrong comparision of politic and private sectors are going to degrade and worsen the politic culture in Singapore. Those who has chosen to go against the integrity to serve are stirring up public anger. Some MP even commented the pay hike policy as ‘self serving’ which many Singaporeans are feeling.

Omg, is the US going to invade us for ... our high paying politicians' jobs?

Singapore is first in the world for something again.

look what our govt has done? everything oso want to be first. now our govt’s pay oso is the highest in the world and we even made it onto international news.

Originally posted by jay_rocks:

look what our govt has done? everything oso want to be first. now our govt's pay oso is the highest in the world and we even made it onto international news.

Its a gimmick... so that US president will get pay increment.. and then ours also will get pay increments

Originally posted by mhcampboy:

Its a gimmick... so that US president will get pay increment.. and then ours also will get pay increments

Damn, soon all the world's governments will form a union and threaten their citizens to give them million dollar salaries to match the private sector.

Originally posted by charlize:

Damn, soon all the world's governments will form a union and threaten their citizens to give them million dollar salaries to match the private sector.

govt is a public or private sector now??

Originally posted by jay_rocks:

govt is a public or private sector now??

semi private

This is starting to look real STUPID...