He told the Americans that this is a tough battle. He needs money, and more money. And he has to fight Congress for it. No, he is not fighting for his own pay. If he does, I would recommend him the Singapore formula and the Singapore system. Just tell Congress that there is this wonderful model that works, and it pays the head of govt a basic of $3m with 27.5 months of variable bonuses as backup in case he performs well in his job.
He can then submit it to Congress to do all the cuts Congress wants. A 50% or 70% cut will still find him richer than the miserable $600k he is getting now. Unfortunately the American Congress is not so easy to deal with. There are opposition camps, there are also many checks and balances, above which, no one is allowed to write his own pay check or approve them.
My apologies, I digressed. Obama is fighting for more money for the American soldiers to conduct wars everywhere. As an American President, the top responsibility and the most important job is to conduct wars to feed the war industry and the soldiers. Nothing is more important than this. Not even fighting for his own pay rise. Anyway, his pay will only be decided by Congress and even if he admired the Singapore system and wanted it, he would not be able to do so.
It is a different culture. Asian culture is such that everyone is presumed to be corrupt. To be corrupt is in their blood. The only way to protect a guy from being corrupt is to legalise his payouts at whatever amount he thinks it will be needed to prevent him from being corrupt.
Can’t imagine Obama or any American President go in front of Congress or the American people and demand to be paid in millions to keep him from being corrupt. The Americans will laugh themselves to death before they could even put it to a vote. That is how strange their culture is. They don’t believe in corruption and will not pay for corruption.
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I wouldn't be to sure of that.
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Have you seen what the US public sector unions are doing with their pension entitlements?
Now you tell me that those are not billion dollar money scams going on -- embedded as a culture, well and truly.
Try to reform and you get anger, strikes and protests.
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=SG#/watch?v=5CmlHU514cE
Obama and all our highfalutin ministers should listen to this guy - hire him quick. His hotline told him that a famine is coming - sorry, economists heard from him first. So he is preparing HIS pizper to be the blessed man.
A timely message for all our ministers :)
Obama juding from his low pay, and thus low indignity is so corrupted that our world's expensive PM and cabinet does not want to shake his hand and stand beside him. I have to say that our PAP govt has excellent hindsight to avoid such a very corrupted man because of his pay.
Very logical. All the leaders of the world that are earning less than a million dollars must be corrupt. No need to respect them.
Now that our ministers and president have a pay cut, will they have a right to be a little corrupt as compared to before the pay cut?
Saycheese
In this day and age, despite the abundance of knowledge and education, we are still harvesting idiots for food.
America is in a big mess and it boggles the mind that some people still hold it as the ideal. The country is bankrupt and long term plans to reform are derailed by constant internal politicking. It can't move forward. I wonder if such people who advocates america's model is a patriot of the country.
Do you know why you're anger and emotional instability is going to kill you and your ilk? Do you know why your infection of negativity is going to cancer your cuntry to a slow, painful death?
It's because you don't know how to let it all out and ENJOY YOURSELVES!
Mrs Obama is going to help her man get the money. Why? Because Americans are entertaining. They know how to make themselves and others HAPPY
I enjoy your cock
Hi Kumar, welcome to the blog.
Just make sure it doesn't run under a skirt: )
Happiness is big money.
We all gravitate towards people who make us happy.
That's why we shan't old folks,ugly faces and dump grumpy old parents on the way to unhappy graveyards.
That's right. It begins with what your luck is.
Nature deals you a hand. It's no one's fault why you turned out that way. So it's up to you to play your hand the best you can. Since no one is to be blamed for your life, you don't have ANY RIGHTS to claim against anyone else, or your cuntry, or your government
M_S , I think you bough a defective computer, the O seems to be perpetually missing in your spelling , Country vs Cuntry ... big difference with small Ommission.
Yup, nature deals you a cock face, you make the best of your cock face.
You can lick it or you can chop off his head and cook curry with it. Make the best of it.
Curry Lurker , can try something better ?
or is it Currrtry ?
USA has confirmed declining and fast too. They need to cut 1,200bn budget. First cut on military 450bn. Six months later may be another 500bn. Army personnels to be retrenched. New weapons purchases to be delayed till unknown dates.
Domestically, high unemployment and extremely high healthcare cost are real. Streets in USA cities are full of beggars. City infrastructures are old and need repairs or replacement but no money to do it. Even New York city are facing the same problems.
If anyone, especially those stupid Chinese, still think USA is a dream land for them. They better wake up before it is too late.
There was the European rennaisance and then the American era. The next change will be an Asian rennaisance spreading from Seoul to New Delhi.
Provided they are not foolish enough to start a war among themselves.
Despair not!
Jissus will save everyone
and every land.
Just believe in him!
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