What is losing $30b? Money is relative, some have big appetite, some small appetite

 The deceit goes on. At the top tiers of the Pyramid of society sits the so-called natural aristocrats or superficial faceless elites. They tell the people that without high pay for the politicians, the ministers and MPs and the senior Civil Servants the country may encounter future corruption. Then they went on happily and arrogantly raised their salaries not only illogically high but to sinful stratospheric level unimaginable to all countries on this earth. Do extreme high sinful salaries keep away corruption. No, it does not. Corruption can creep in many different forms and they are all cancerous and dangerous to the well being of the nation. Corruptions like taking under table money, suspicious government projects tenders, sex favours, secret adultery or sowing wild oats with extra marital sex resulting in silent or loud whispers until they cannot be kept secret anymore and explode full face in the public.

Yes, politicians like ministers and senior civil servants need to be paid a decent reasonable high salary but not a sinful stratospheric salary that blinds their eyes from differentiating black and white, right and wrong, righteousness and sinfulness, self aggrandizement and devotion or delegation to duty to serve the people and country.

When they see so much money in the hundreds of thousands and millions it is difficult to get them to understand anything when their salaries depend on their not understanding it.

Thus it boils down to upright character and personal integrity. How many of our politicians can measure to that? Remember the Chinese have a 'Dumpling Festival' commemorating the suicide of a Prime Minister in protest to the Emperor for tolerating all the highly corrupted ministers and psychophants in his corrupted government.

Yang Tai Chung