Comments on: “You owe it to your country to serve” http://www.choongyong.com/2008/01/04/you-owe-it-to-your-country-to-serve/ Change the world...it starts with you and me Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: choongyong.koh http://www.choongyong.com/2008/01/04/you-owe-it-to-your-country-to-serve/comment-page-1/#comment-543 choongyong.koh Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:28:28 +0000 http://www.choongyong.com/2008/01/04/you-owe-it-to-your-country-to-serve/#comment-543 Wilfrid, I am still reading the book, told myself to do one chapter every night before I sleep. When I finish it, I can lend it to you. :) Agreed that there is only one Alan Greenspan in the entire US population, but I believe there are many more people holding public office in the US deciding to do it because of the "owe it to the nation" idea, and not because of whatever monetary returns they can gain. Wilfrid, I am still reading the book, told myself to do one chapter every night before I sleep. When I finish it, I can lend it to you. :)

Agreed that there is only one Alan Greenspan in the entire US population, but I believe there are many more people holding public office in the US deciding to do it because of the “owe it to the nation” idea, and not because of whatever monetary returns they can gain.

]]> By: Wilfrid http://www.choongyong.com/2008/01/04/you-owe-it-to-your-country-to-serve/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Wilfrid Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:50:07 +0000 http://www.choongyong.com/2008/01/04/you-owe-it-to-your-country-to-serve/#comment-542 Hey, I was tempted to read that book but it does look a bit too thick for me ... ha ha ha. Well, you know ... there is only one Alan Greenspan from the entire US population. If to scale to our Singapore population, perhaps there will be a Greenspan in the next ... 100 or 1,000 years? Let it be the benchmark that speed up the process ... sigh. Hey, I was tempted to read that book but it does look a bit too thick for me … ha ha ha.

Well, you know … there is only one Alan Greenspan from the entire US population. If to scale to our Singapore population, perhaps there will be a Greenspan in the next … 100 or 1,000 years? Let it be the benchmark that speed up the process … sigh.

]]> By: Sluggy http://www.choongyong.com/2008/01/04/you-owe-it-to-your-country-to-serve/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Sluggy Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:32:55 +0000 http://www.choongyong.com/2008/01/04/you-owe-it-to-your-country-to-serve/#comment-541 <em>Whoever said that only higher salary benchmarked to 77% or 88% of private sector pay will attract and retain talent to serve the country?</em> Only pple who are greedy, and are in power, would say that to pay themselves more. Still waiting to see which charity they are going to 'donate' to. Whoever said that only higher salary benchmarked to 77% or 88% of private sector pay will attract and retain talent to serve the country?

Only pple who are greedy, and are in power, would say that to pay themselves more. Still waiting to see which charity they are going to ‘donate’ to.

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