Time For A Ministerial Raise?

Or has the ministerial bungalow been over-filled with blood money?

More and more Singaporeans are feeling the pinch of inflation. While the price of everyday necessities like food and basic utilities and transportation has hurt many, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam still has the spunk to say, "Pay rises no cure for inflation"

I understand that the 3rd ministerial salary increase is due soon. With the current situation, the rulers may be scratching their heads wondering if they had painted themselves into a corner? They must be asking themselves:

1. "Shall we go ahead with our new fat cheques and announce it?"
   
   
2. "Shall we enrich ourselves quietly [keeping it away from msm ;)] and not upset the Singasuckers?"
   
   OR
   
   
3. "Shall we finally start walking our talk of "Persatu Padu Bergerak Maju - Staying Together, Moving Ahead" and say,"Enough is enough! We do not need that much! We are sorry for being so greedy! We shall forgo the increase due to the bad job we've done lately! We are sorry for Inflation, sorry for Selamat jalan""

Being rulers, I doubt the answer they come up with will be any of the above. If fishfood is good enough to come up with a solution, feedmetothefish would have been a SingaElite rather than a SingaSuckered :)

Or am I dreaming?

They may just not give a 'f...ish' to what most Singaporeans and I think. They may just go ahead, press the "on" button of their money printing machine when their increment is due and say, "So what are you going to do about it, SingaSuckers? You have been "bought and fixed" and you shall continue to be B&F because you are too stupid to know of our control of the election boundaries and GRC's and you do not have the guts to change the status quo."

More than dream, many Singaporeans have hope that PAP has heart!

Hope springs eternal!

feedmetothefish