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Are the million dollar ministers in the Singapore government performing well? - apparently not, based on recent results


Under the renowned PM Lee of Singapore and the holy trinity (you know, the father, the son and the holy Goh), the list of major Singapore Inc. flops and boo-boos has increased steadily in recent years. Wonder what the heck, the million dollar ministers are doing? Apparently they are not performing as well as promised. I suggest a pay-cut to reflect their bad performance and their poor results. Billions of tax payer dollars have been lost and/or are not properly accounted for.

The list of Singapore Inc. failures and big-time flops during the last couple of years as far as I can recall is :-

1. Suzhou Industrial Park investment losses - one of the Singapore government's first big overseas blunders


2. Singtel billion dollar losses in Australia telco Optus investment


3. Importing millions of foreigners into Singapore; displacing citizens from jobs and overloading the public transport services and increasing home rental prices


4. Concealing the true emigration rate of citizens fed up with the PAP government; probably in the hundreds of thousands in the past several years


5. Hiding the news of daily suicides of impoverished Singaporeans, those who have lost hope and of young children stressed out by the school system, methinks one of the highest in the world; at least one or two each day


6. Refusing to reveal the true unemployment figure of citizens, claiming that "it is a state secret"


7. Attempting to control and muzzle the internet and bloggers by the fascist Lee government, so far, unsuccessful


8. Shin Corp billion dollar investment losses by Temasek


9. NKF saga and coverups by the government, finally revealed (perhaps only partially)


10. The IMF meeting in Singapore causing major losses to Singapore retailers and not delivering the promised results of increased tourist dollars


11. The PM Lee's "mee siam mai hum" and "fixing the opposition" coverup episodes


12. Crazy Horse closing down after only one year in Singapore


13. John Hopkins clash with A*Star and pullout from Singapore


14. Increasing the GST from 5% to 7% when the majority of Singaporeans are not enjoying pay increases and not doing well economically; only the civil servants and the government are having astronomical pay increases


15. Although Singapore government ministers are already the highest paid in the world, they have decided to almost double their million dollar salaries against massive public protests, and refuse to acknowledge that they are overpaid


16. Not providing insurance for our NS men and adequate compensation for deaths during service to the nation, as revealed during the recent accident in Taiwan plane crash which killed 2 Singapore soldiers and injured many


17. Warwick University refusing to locate in Singapore due to lack of academic freedom


18. University of New South Wales announcing their decision to close their campus in Singapore only after 3 months of operation, and the Singapore government has as usual, decided not to reveal how much they have lost in this venture

Wonder what else would be next; perhaps failure of the recently announced F1 night race proposal next year and the impending flop of the IR/Casinos in Singapore? Come now PM Lee, all these things have happened during your watch. What is your government planning to do to salvage the situation, and what have you to say to redeem yourself?