This intriguing article caught my eye today. This got my spider sense tingling and I cannot help but read between the lines.
Lim Boon Heng is a Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, are these then the views of the Prime Minister’s Office? Are Singaporean Ministers, the highest paid ministers in the world, the best people to be articulating these views, in these times? This is a complete opposite view of Barrack Obama. Sure, Obama is trying to score political points at home, but these are sensitive and uncertain times. Is Singapore articulating a dissenting view from the position held by the current U.S. President?
Could he be preparing the ground for an announcement of some sort from our shores? Staving off possible outbursts locally? Singaporeans made themselves heard when they realised T.T. Durai had golden faucets.
The bonuses were paid after the companies got the government bailout money, and it happened after several embarrassing cases where some of these companies organised extravagent holidays and functions with bailout money. If I gave you a dollar and you spent it wastefully, am I right to perceive that you sent my money wastefully?
Are bonuses to bankers who have made gross negligence and lost the savings of millions of people deserving of a bonus? Are big bonuses in line with the current economic situation? Should we be showing bankers getting big bonuses kindness? Or should we instead of showing the victims of their gross negligence kindness?
The spin doctors worked overtime to associate AIG bonuses with the Singapore Kindness Movement. I have walked pass their office a few times in the MICA building. Just a simple door near the reception area. I imagine a handful of sanguine people sitting in there with a permanent half smile on their face. The arbiters of Singaporean Kindness. Did they see this coming?
It seems like the same kind of insensitivity to the sentiment of the public is demonstrated here, as it was when AIG decided to pay out the huge bonuses.
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