Saturday, April 28, 2007
Please stop the hypocrisy.
Today's news had a snippet on one Police Coast Guard officer and one NS beat cop charged for corruption. The former took bribes from cigarrette smugglers and DVD pirates, and the latter took sexual favours from massage parlour girls, both in exchange for tip-offs on raids that were conducted by their respective divisions.
Sharrod was just complaining to me about "...
those bloody overpowered wankers... hate their guts!", and it got me thinking. This is not the first time that i've heard of corrupt cops who take bribes. On a related note, it's not the first time any of us have heard about slow, sluggish, administrators in government bodies either.
Want to claim $20 from some gahmen organization whose branch is in Tampines? Fill in this form. Then take a bus to Jurong and get it stamped and approved. Then hop on an MRT to Dhoby Ghaut and pay $2 for administrative charge. Then send the form to Tampines and wait. After 3 weeks, they'll blame each other for "losing" your form. And if you make enough noise, it's amazing! The woman at the counter can do it in
30 mins without you going ANYWHERE. If you came around often enough and "flirted" with the auntie, you'd get it done in the first place in 15 minutes.
And the gahmen in all its pragmatic wisdom says we should pay ministers more for efficiency and non-corruptability?
Piss off. Hogwash. Bullshite. You want that, peg your pay rise to the pay rise of the people on the ground who actually do the fuckin work. Don't just pay decision makers and make that your moral highground. By the same token, please pay those bloody police officers and admin and clerical staff so they won't feel like disgruntled, underpaid, exploited workers who will do everything to make your life miserable as an exercise of some kind of power in their relatively unpowered lives. So they won't go for free massage, or get bootleg DVDs and ciggies at our expence.
Labels: administration, civil servants, corruption, efficiency, hogwash, minister pay rise
