Singapore Gahmen Donates the Equivalent of PM’s One Week’s Salary to Haiti
Our Singapore Prime Minister is officially the highest paid politician in the world. According to wikipedia he earns an annual salary of $3,870,000 ($2856930 USD) which makes it $238,077.50 USD per month. Given an average month has about 21-22 working days, a week’s salary would fall somewhere in the region of $56,000 USD which is just slightly more than the $50,000 USD the gahmen is donating to Haiti to help in their relief efforts.
Braaaaavo to the gahmen for their shocking display of generosity. If our dear PM and his family of 5 can learn to live on $50,000 for 1 week, I am sure the 300,000 displaced Haitians will be able to make do with the $50,000 the singapore gahmen has so generously donated.
Lest we forget, the gahmen did just lose hundreds of millions on their latest foolhardy property investment. And not that I want to dredge this up, a few years back, Mah Bow Tan also spent $400,000 renaming Marina Bay as Marina Bay, I am sure the gahmen would probably be able to spare another couple of dollars more if he hadn’t done that. But than again its more important that we rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay. Afterall, if we didn’t rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay, than Marina Bay would still be called Marina Bay which will be a shame since Marina Bay sounds so much better than Marina Bay. In the grand scheme of things, the $400,000 spent on renaming Marina Bay as Marina Bay is probably more important that the Haitians. I am sure even Eric How and his forefathers would approve.
But if you still want to think the gahmen is just a fucking stingy bastard you can click here instead.
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