Salary hike: Is it justified?
The salary hike for Selangor’s state government officials received mix reactions from netizens.
Narinder Singh, FMT
The salary hike granted to the Selangor state government officials has received mix reactions from netizens. Some have defended the move done by the menteri besar while others have chided since the quantum involved is significantly high.
A Facebook user by the name Tiger Malaya was indeed very vocal in lashing out towards the Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim and Speaker Hannah Yeoh, reminding them on how they had used the “begging approach” in the past general election.
“We had trusted you guys based on the ‘begging approach’ used in the GE13 to get our votes, …our expectations are yet to be fulfilled as most of us still living in poverty but you guys started to show your desperation for multi-fold income with self interests ….instead of the Selangor rakyat’s welfare, social status and financial issues,” said Tiger Malaya.
Tiger Malaya went further by labeling them “greedy political individuals” who were wrong in demanding such salaries for holding public office.
While another commenter Rufus Mallu likened the raise as the DBKL assessment hike, that since there has not been a hike for too long, thus it is justified to do so.
Rufus says “just like the DBKL assessment hike, this phrase used is similar…long time no increase…so increase 300%!!”
Another Facebook user going by the name Tim Price says that as a tax payer in Selangor he finds the hike as ‘crazy’; and stresses that “I am not in BN or any other party BUT I am a tax payer….and finding money is very hard, so yes, I do think such big increases are crazy.”
In denouncing the hike too, a Wilfred Yap took voters to task for voting in the Pakatan Rakyat in the last GE, saying “this is the perfect lesson for all voters of PR. Talk is cheap…..PR is long on promises but short on delivery. People now realise that PR is not and have no intention to follow what they preach.”
Nevertheless there were others on the social media that felt the salaries’ hike is justified for all the works done by the Selangor state government and Khalid thus far.
Tai Chee who claims to be from Malacca said “Khalid is doing a good job, better than Najib, that’s why his salary is higher. Imagine Khalid change seats with Najib as PM, Malaysia could have paid all its debts already by now.”
