Aaron Ng
Apr 11th, 2007

Even the Americans are impressed

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Wow, our latest salary revisions have even impressed the world’s remaining superpower! From Yahoo! News:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A senior White House official on Tuesday admitted he was floored by the news that Singapore’s prime minister earned five times more than US President George W. Bush.

“I’m going to emigrate and run for office in Singapore,” the official said on condition he be identified only as “a senior administration official who sits in disbelief after reading that story.”

On Monday, the Singapore government had announced a fresh 25.5 percent pay hike for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, boosting his salary to 2.05 million dollars per year.

Bush gets paid 400,000 dollars per year for doing his job, according to the White House.

Combined with personal investment income, he and his wife Laura reported 618,694 dollars in taxable income in the 2005 fiscal year. They had to pay 187,768 dollars in federal taxes.

But maybe Bush shouldn’t feel so bad. The Singaporean’s paycheck is eight times fatter than Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s.

Our little red dot has succeeded. Even senior officials from the White House now want to emigrate to Singapore! But I wonder if the officials realises that he must be willing to wear a muzzle as a pre-requisite if he migrates. Well, maybe not a muzzle, but he must at least learn the art of parrot-speak. Anyway, whatever it is, it’s wonderful news. We might get a citizenship application from Shinzo Abe pretty soon too. Someone should also tell Tony Blair the wonderful news.

3 Responses to “Even the Americans are impressed”

  1. # Lucky Tanon 11 Apr 2007 at 3:40 pm

    Aaron,

    I heard govts around the world has been calling up the PAP. They are thanking the PAP. The PAP is making them look so good, so underpaid, so sacrificing!!!

    The PAP in one bold move has upgraded the govts around the world!!!!!

  2. # Francison 12 Apr 2007 at 3:58 am

    I’m sure this will not be the last comment we see for awhile. Can’t wait.

  3. # boyyingon 12 Apr 2007 at 4:44 pm

    All the world gov will hate Singapore for insulting their intelligence in term of salary and governance !!!

    Those foreign countries gahem would think what the fuck these asshole galmen pay millions in Singapore where in my foreign country(Thailand, austrialia, us, etc), these gahmen lose huge sum of money from investment!!! Oh dude, Singapore is just a peanut reddot, and yet so fucking rich to pay these gahmen !!!!!!

    What logic is that !!. Perhaps we need to ask more money from Singapore.

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