The thing is, the paymaster decides who are the elites unless you can show them to be wrong in their choices?

I personally think it is right to pay top money for talent, HOWEVER....the majority of those in the service have absolutely NO TALENT. They play dirty politics.

Its also a known fact that when you work with the service you must be able to cover their 'back-side'.

Take for example the recent food cases. NEA is supposed to conduct twice yearly checks on food centres, so how the @#$# did 100+ RATS end up in Geylang's hawker centre??? And have these people been collecting their MVC (ie salaries) all these years for doing nothing? And their bosses? Also didn't check.

We all know the majority of the civil servants are frankly ineffective...the terrorist escape shows a total lapse in the system...problem is if you fire these people you have nobody to work...but the question is, why aren't the directors and above fired? Even when the customer services for CPF lapsed (eg super long wait...dumb answers), why wasn't the director(s) taken to task but allowed to continue to take taxpayer's monies?

One thing you will never find in many parts of Singapore is having the heads chopped instead of the juniors. DBS's Koh Boon Hwee did a FABULOUS job in axing the senior managers. This is what I call INTEGRITY.