Grandstanding or just sitting on their buttocks?

ST reported, "A panel of ministers was asked if senior officers and leaders in the public sector would lead by example and take pay cuts in difficult times. 'We're not here to grandstand,' Mr Tharman said."

They are not here to grandstand?

They have grandstood themselves as very VIPs for so long that they do not know what cheap gallery seats are? Haha . . . "let's stand up to welcome our guest of honour . . . My Foot". It's not that I do not respect them, it's just their hubris and talking down to us that turns me off. Most of them are such a pain when they try so hypocritically to understand our concerns or taking off their wolf's clothes to be like one of us.

If only they can be less greedy but more human, Singaporeans would have been more forgiving when ministers and town counsellors sleep on their job.

If only they do not come at us with their threats and knuckle dusters all the time, we would have been a more gracious society.

If they instil less fear but more care and human kindness, we would have more happy caring Singaporeans and less kiasi, kiasu & kia chenghu scaredy cats.

If only they were more humble and less arrogant, we would not have become a Disunited State of Singapore of highly paid elites, struggling confused middle class and disenchanted suicidal poor.

If only they knew how to treat us as human and not morons, we would not have taken every opportunity to treat them like clown and irresponsible idiot when they behave like one. Eg: Mee Siam Mai Hum; Mas Selamat; Women in your family ends up as maids in other countries; Golden Period; Town Council’s Lehman Sinking Fund; Go ask Town Councils and not MP's about how your Conservancy Charges are so bloody high and how they are managed; and last but not least, Minister’s Monthly CPF statement.

The guy who counts his CPF every month, Lim Swee Say spoke about win lose or draw “cutting cost to save jobs or cutting jobs to save cost?” I’d say for Singapore and Singaporeans' sake, the cabinet should do both. Cut cost and cut jobs by retrenching some in Parliament. Why MM, SM and so many Ministers in the PM's Office for? To talk about Golden Period, sell CPF Medisave and check CPF statement every month? Why so top heavy?

No, they are not here to grandstand, they are merely here to pay themselves millions and play to the gallery?

Someone contributed to charity after his last humongous pay rise to lend credibility and "moral authority" for obscene self interest.

Such "credibility" and 'moral authority' makes a mockery of nation building and national service.

This mockery becomes a sick joke when such obscenely paid "smarts" threw away good money after bad on Shincorp, UBS, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and ABC Learning. Having hyped so much on why they deserve the millions, it's a shame that they don't even know ABCs of their basic job and scored so many own goals! Of course, their integrity (sense of greatness) would not accept any responsibility but blame globalisation, complacent Singaporeans or even the cat for the current crisis.

Staying together moving ahead? They have moved so far ahead that that their feet are no longer touching the ground!

With the way they are smoking us, we should have some of what they smoke. It'll definitely improve our Happiness Index!

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