tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post4695702573576281808..comments2024-02-14T04:53:18.295-08:00Comments on Singapore Dissident: Singapore's economy collapsing, unemployment and layoffs hitting the roof, currency losing value. Singaporeans should leave the island before it is too late. Gopalan Nairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399145588654603667noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-20608779493984176162016-10-23T22:54:36.549-07:002016-10-23T22:54:36.549-07:00Gopalan: it's Jacques. In my comment above, I ...Gopalan: it's Jacques. In my comment above, I meant to say the the U.S. President earns about 400 thousand dollars U.S. per year, and not 40 dollars, obviously :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081742307252789733.post-63884939558674204862016-10-21T21:36:27.088-07:002016-10-21T21:36:27.088-07:00Gopalan: I have read that Lee Hsien-Loong's sa...Gopalan: I have read that Lee Hsien-Loong's salary, at 1.7 million dollars U.S. per year, is as much as that of the leaders of India, Brazil, Italy, Russia, France, Turkey, Japan, the U.K., South Africa and Germany combined. Even the U.S. President only makes about 40 dollars per year.<br /><br />On the page, someone wrote, "but Obama has major security and travel expenses which might not be included in the figure." Even *if* that's true, S'pore is only about half the size of NYC. Plus, the figure does not even include the many Singaporean ministers and junior ministers, each of whom often makes a million dollars or more per annum. U.S. politicians on average don not make nearly as much.<br /><br />As you have pointed out, Singapore doesn't have any natural resources to fall back on in troubled economic times, and it doesn't really have a competitive edge over most other countries anymore, especially Southeast Asian nations and Australia. I've taken S'pore Airline and it was OK, but airlines in Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia are likely just as good, not to mention Australia's Qantas.<br /><br />Is it true that S'pore has no welfare system or U.I.(Unemployment Insurance) at all? Even Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have some welfare and U.I. to help jobless or disabled people, though their respective systems are not very generous, compared with many Western countries.jacqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02237301126903448645noreply@blogger.com