Are We Having A Real Dose of Bad Government?

The Self-fulfilling Prophesy of A Real Dose of Bad Government.

We have been told not to complain about the obscene salary of ministers but to accept it with grace and gratitude. Ng Eng Hen said we are getting a bargain. According to Lee Kuan Yew, we will get a dose of bad government if we do not pay for political talents. The women in our family may end up as maids cleaning up after foreigners in other countries if we get a bunch of cheap idiots to rule Singapore.

Having paid the ransom, are we getting value for our money?

Straits Times on the front page of 9 Jan 2009 reported, "PM urges no let-up in keeping seniors at work". "Sometimes, family attitudes need changing. He gave the example of hotels favouring older women attendants to clean rooms. But they tend to drop out, often under pressure from their children. 'This is a delicate matter of face and status,' he said. Speaking up for such jobs which may be 'humble' but 'honourable', he said: "We should not discourage anyone from taking on such jobs. To do so would limit his options to be active, engaged and to earn an income."

Women attendants who clean rooms in hotels are chambermaids. They clean up after hotels guests usually foreigners who mess up the rooms. Not unlike domestic help (maid) who works in Singapore! I agree with PM Lee that it's "humble" and "honourable" job and I have nothing against maids or chambermaids. I respect what they do in earning an honest living. Call me crazy to disagree with a highly educated PM but I feel children of chambermaids want their mums to retire not because of "face or status" but because of "respect, love and piety".

Would PM Lee or any decent Singaporean let his ageing mother slog as a chambermaid if he can afford to let her retire in comfort? It's so easy to tell a story to encourage old folks to work till sickness or death comes but a little sensitivity will go a long way to show the care and concern that people expect of their prime minister. It is a crying shame that in not wanting to help the old, he would even blame the children for wanting (pressuring) their mother/father to retire and enjoy their golden years. in building Singapore Inc., what have we become? Money or nothing?

I hope msm will not make a song and dance of this and start a sensational, "I'm so proud that my mum is a chambermaid in a hotel. She cleans up the scum and mess in beds created by foreign guests and does the toilet too! More than that, I'm so happy that my mum is contributing to Singapore's economy and does not need to depend on the government for public assistance. I love her for not bugging me for money too.. A chambermaid is more honourable than collecting paper cartons and aluminium cans on the streets of Singapore!"

If retiring ladies in Singapore are encouraged to stayed as maids, are we now having the bad dose of goverment?
Are the highest paid polticians in the world doing their job?

Are we getting a bargain?

Thank God for filial children, kind relatives and friends who love us for what we are.

Thank goodness for knowing that, "Sometimes, overpaid politician's attitudes need changing!" and we get lemons too!

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Please read the above with a pinch of salt.