Singapore Major Pay Cut

Just read about an article about Singapore Cabinet's salary being cut by a large chunk!

Seems like there are grunts about how highly paid the ministers are in the island country.

Fast facts:

- After 36% cut, the Prime Minister of Singapore still gets SGD2.2 million

- After 37% cut, the cabinet Ministers still get SGD1.1 million

- Singapore PM has a much higher salary compared to the US President or many European leaders

Enough with facts. So, the question is "Do they deserve it?". I mean the high pay.

May be 'yes'. (Somebody is going to beat me up *stares left & right*)

Well, let's give the people some credits!

After leaving Malaysia (or being kicked-out; however the history states it, I'm not here to debate about that portion about history), the country, just a small island without natural resources, small workforce, had to battle all odds to become what it is today, a developed-nation, one of the Asian-Four-Little-Dragons.

Now, that really needs some praising! A lot in fact!!

No matter how much complaints there are against the island country's government in office. There's no doubt that the ruling party has done well, very well in bringing up the country to what it is now, the superb status, on par with many other which never looked highly upon an Asian country.

One way of acknowledging their contribution would possibly be the high pay. But others may contest this saying monetary reward isn't the way. Moreover, the current leaders aren't the ones who brought the country to what it is now, but the old ones.

Then again, the current ones must 'maintain' the status. Creating something can be hard, but to maintain it when it has achieve a certain benchmark is even harder.

Regardless, the government has accepted the cut. That also in some sense deserve some praises...