Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, is about to make five times as much money as U.S. president George W. Bush. The high pay rise is causing a heated discussion among bloggers.

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Dear Sandvand,

I don't think anyone won't be surprise that Son-of-Lee is the richest man among politicians. However, no one should doubt that the money he had (despite a good laundering) can not be as clean as the steets in Singapore.

They say, "Everything if 'FINE' in Singapore (that includes chewing gum). Death penalty for 'drug traffickers' but 'drug money' from Mr Lo-Hsin-Han and son Steven Lo is welcome. Just as 'blood diamonds' come out from Sierra Leone from 'blood timber' to 'blood sands' will be exploited from this 'clean on the outside' and 'rotten to the core inside' city state.

I hope, with all the money that he has, he sleeps well at night (without taking drugs that he got from SteveLo). "To be rich is glorious" and look what we have with our mother nature. We used to say that it's the international oil companies that are spreading misery all around the world with just a handful of people getting rich.

Had it not been for it's oil, the people in Baghdad (or Iraq) will not be in such a mess despite the tyrant Sadam Hussein. On hindsight we should be more afraid of 'persons of mass destruction' than their alleged 'weapons of mass destruction'.

The satarist who wrote a piece in the state paper implying the military regime of U Ne Win as the 'watch-repairer' had to go into exile when the regime managed to decyphered what he meant. He said that as a watch-repairer was meant to repair the watch that is not working the Revolutionary Council of U Ne Win was supposed to fix the ills of society in Burma during 1960s. However, nothing to that effect was achived. He used the analogy of the watch-repairer returning the watch as pieces.

Since the latest strategy of the 'surge' doen't seems to be working, the people of Iraq should be lucky if they have their country back 'in pieces'.

I hope the Son-of-Lee, with all the money that he has, find peace a hundred times more than those people who has to flee for their lives because of the economic benefits for a handful of people like him and his crime-in-partners- the generals of Burma.

Don't they say that 'money is the roots of all eveil'? I would like to add religion as well.