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Ivan Ong

1. Barack Obama is Paid $400,000 (start of para 2) - Lee Hsien Loong (LHL) is paid $3.1 million. Does this mean that... - 13 views

started by Ivan Ong on 07 Feb 12
  • Ivan Ong
    #1 Ivan Ong on 07 Feb 12
     
    It does not necessarily mean that LHL has more responsibilities than BO, BO might have significantly lower pay but enjoys fringe benefits such as accommodations in the White House and use of Air Force 1. LHL's higher pay could be justified in that he needs to maintain his own standard of living
  • Syeda Mahera
    #2 Syeda Mahera on 07 Feb 12
     
    Barrack Obama, the President of the United States of America, has the responsibility of 50 state, comprising of over 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people. In comparison, Lee Hsien Loong has the responsibility of just the 272 square miles (704 km2) of Singapore with around 5 million people. Thus, it can be very clearly seen how LHL definitely does not have more responsibilities than BO, because the scope of the responsibilities that BO has does not even compare to LHL's. That is not to say that LHL does not have any responsibilities and is getting paid so much for nothing, but in answer to the question, getting paid more certainly does not indicate more responsibilities.
  • moses tan
    #3 moses tan on 07 Feb 12
     
    Evaluation: a question, with reference with Ivan's response, to say that high pay is justified to maintain LHL's standard of living, is this really a good argument? Why?

    Grammar: When you use comprise, there's NO NEED to have "of" after "comprise". So for Syeda's case, it's simply: comprising over 3.79 million ...
  • moses tan
    #4 moses tan on 07 Feb 12
     
    So, to close off, the point of this question is to make you all realise that BO probably shoulders much more responsibilities than LHL, even if it's just for the fact that USA is the only superpower in the world today which automatically holds USA responsible for most of the major happenings in this world.

    This means that the large proportion of high pay for Singapore's ministers is mainly to prevent corruption. This is what makes it controversial. For one thing, is this the best way to prevent/control corruption, which is one of the questions that I posed to you all in the Worksheet.

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