The big
question being posed and asked by the Singaporeans is the issue of part time
MPs versus full time MPs. Regardless of whether they work full or part time,
they will still be given the same miserable allowance of $16,000 a month. This
amount is really undignified for people who are earning millions and when
$600,000 a year income is considered peanuts. To put into perspective, at least
90% of Singaporeans are earning less than this amount as salary and many are
earning less than $2,000 a month with the national average at around $3,000.
Let me move
on to why the PAP candidates are of superior quality in this case. The
opposition candidates are all claiming that they would serve the residents full
time, that means working from 8 to 5 and more. The PAP candidates would not
have such things. Part time is good enough. Part time means 8 to 5, holding a
full time job and spending the evenings and probably weekends to serve the
constituencies. This is like a full time
student devoting every hour of his time, in school and tuition classes to try
to get his As, and many did not. On the other hand, the superior talents need
not attend school, just did part time and still got their As.
This is
exactly why I said the PAP candidates are of superior quality and talent than
the opposition candidates. Not only that the latter got to work full time and
struggling to do a good job, the PAP candidates would definitely do a better
job, without sweating, and doing part time only, and with a lot of time to
spare for ECAs and maybe practicing to be karaoke singers.
I am not
sure how such people acquire such inhuman qualities, to be super humans. Did
they attend special training in special academies or did they also gone through
the same educational system, drank the same Newater and breathed the same air,
with haze when in season, and came out being the best, like running town
councils and being MPs and being ministers are second nature to them? The only
difference is that they went through a special tea ceremony to gauge their
suitability as a politician. Maybe it is the tea they were served. Or is it the
badge they are wearing?
Compare to
the opposition candidates and MPs, you cannot fault them for their convictions
and sincerity, to want to serve the people well and whole heartedly, full time,
and still failing. It must be in their genes, lower quality humans, oh yes, I
forgot, they are just mortals.
So I shall
conclude that everything is possible to the super talented beans. And they only
need to put in half or less than half the effort, part time, and will be able
to do a better job. I must emphasize here that only the part timers are of such
qualities. Those that worked full time are not of the same material. Think of
the people working full time in the SMRT will give you a good idea. If the SMRT
would to be run by part timers, I think it will run smoothly too. Superbly
talented people need only to work part time or devote a fraction of their time
to do a good job. It is the quality of the people and the time they spent on
the job.
And don’t
think they are not committed to serve the people just because they only want to
do it part time. Their part time is better than full time. And they really
deserve the miserable $16,000 monthly allowance. This sum could be quite
insulting to some of them, but they took the insult quietly. They just want to
serve, they don’t need the money. Money is something that they have a lot and
not short of. That is why it is called an allowance, not a salary or a pay. A
salary or pay must be substantial, that would not affect their high quality
life style. The MP allowance is sup sup suay. So don’t think you are paying the
MPs a lot of money for their time. Remember, a peanut is $600,000. What is $16,000?
Only peasants would regard this sum as money.
The people
of Bukit Batok must be waiting to be served by an excellent part time super
talented MP. When someone says he has to
work full time, he is indirectly admitting that he is of inferior quality. Some
of the super talents could be working in more than 10 jobs, some even more,
because they are simply so talented. Wearing 60 hats!
I could not
imagine how Bukit Batok would look like if the superbly talented MP would work
full time. Would it become a paradise?