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Is This The Real Reason Putin & Xi Dislike The West?
When it comes to salary levels among world leaders, there is tremendous variation across the globe. Nobody earns as much as Singapore's prime minister, though. U.S. President Barack Obama earns $400,000 every year, quite a distance short of Lee Hsien Loong but still very high by international standards, while Angela Merkel follows with $234,400. Russian President Vladmir Putin's annual salary amounts to $136,000. That's still substantially more than Xi Jinping, China's leader, who earns just $22,000 every year.
So is this why Xi and Putin are pissed?
And of course, no one likes The Singaporean...
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Just more reasons for me to hate Harper!
Barry Soetoro has never earned an honest dollar is his life,
and unless he takes up hustling luggage at Reagan Airport, it seems unlikely that he ever will.
They make it up on expense reports and fringe bennies
and bitchezzzzzes
US president shouldn't make ANYTHING in salary.
I don't have a problem paying anybody a salary-- even a munificent one-- but I am completely opposed to them drawing a nickel in retirement benefits of any sort once they are gone.
Oh, and any book or speech deals that arise due to their service to the country belongs to the country.
Sea shells, balloons, butterflies, candy. Sorry - I got distracted by real things that might be in my future.
I've heard Singapore dramatically overpays their public servants to stave off corruption.
Can anyone familiar attest if this actually works?
Just curious.
My cousin works in the government there - he could answer that for a small fee
lol
By Next year Abe's pay will be Yen 6 gazillion...
yes it works perfectly.......not a hint of curruption here in Asia..........
Yes it works. I live and work here as an expat. This was a policy put in place by Lee Kwan Yew, the current prime minister's father who passed away last week (may he rest in peace). There is no corruption in the Singapore government, absolutely none.
Hummmm,
I'm torn, I don't know if you're being totally sarcastic or I just read the most unbelievable comment regarding government.
Hmm, how about the national median salary? Some incentives are good. Otherwise, you will only have rich people running and they will find other ways to manipulate themselves some dough (probably will anyway but at least with a median they have a reason to lift everyone else up too).
True dat, all expenses paid world-wide travel, free meals, lodging, entertainment, 24/7/365 security, spitting in the wage slaves eyes.
Whats not to love!
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Wut, if I would have said 136,000 dollars is 7.8 million rubles, plus, all expenses paid world-wide travel, free meals, lodging, entertainment, 24/7/365 security, spitting in the wage slaves eyes that would have been somehow different?
Theres just no pleasing some people ;-)
Could have said 3.5 billion hryvnia, which is over nine thousand dollars.
The comparison (mine & the Tylers) had the desired effect, on the nubes ;-)
How do costs of living compare?
I'm sure Putins cost of living is exactly the same as Obama's.
Both are fucking zeros...lol.
Agreed but i'd give some offset for doing that dude called Michele
Our POTUS - Lookin' for Luv in all the wrong places.
I still look at the posts about Miche in Japan - should be published
squatchy
Apparently, Barry reads ZH hence the down vote - who else could be so fucking stupid and brain-dead to disagree with fact like that?
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Xi and Putin have billions more than Harper and Obama combined lol
their 'salary' is irrelevant
Base pay is not total pay. Just ask a CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
<One of the perks is you keep all you can eat steal.>
You are right.
Xi for example owns the US.
< You get what you pay for.
< You NEVER get more than what you pay for.
I thought they were jealous of our freedom. No?
Noo no noo, they hate our freedom.
Whats not to hate.
Actually ob, it seems you do get what you pay for. According to Marc Faber, who probably knows much better than we, Singapore has the free-est free market in the world. That's worth something.
That said, Loong's probably a piece of human shit- all "leaders" are psychopaths. Some are less worse, but all are in this game for personal gain.
The question remains- where does that leave the rest of us?
Pitchforks and shovels are the only thing that come immediately to mind.
That Obama even exists in this dynamic environment is an indictment of American stupidity---- or maybe it's just diebold.
Oh, and I'm an American.
Unless you are very careful or lucky, you usually get less than you pay for.
Anything that's taxed means you are getting less than you paid for.
Must suck too to be named after the year 11...
cog. was gonna sell all my metal and buy pycical yuan currency. do you think i'm nuts?
Go for it. What do you have to loose......except your metal?
you never answered the nuts part.
Actually, he did. Nothing to lose but your metal... sanity was not listed.
keep an eye out
for squirrels...
Well, Putin has managed to steal and extort billions of dollars for his personal benefit during his time in ofice, so low base pay isn't really a problem, I think.
pretty sure putin isn't stupid enough to steal dollars.
Putin 4.94-carat bauble SuperBowl ring given him by Patriots owner Robert Kraft in 2005.
Kraft: You like my ring...try it on.
Translator: Would you like SuperBowl Ring...Try it on.
I remember that 'incident'. I can only imagine Bob Kraft's face when Putin didn't give it back to him. What are you going to do, tackle the Russia president to get your ring back? lol
Things can get lost in translation!
Maybe Putin's interpreter has a cruel sense of humour!
It would even be funnier if the incident actually happened.
Maybe he was a Rams fan....
If you want something done right....
Well, yeah. It is called citizen's arrest. Better to make a big stink right then and there versus a long time later when it seems kind of contrived.
As opposed to US leaders who have stolen $5 trillion
chump change
Base pay is taxable.
The busy little bureaucrats are workin on it, soon it will be all imputed.
You see (for example) the owner lets you borrow his vehicle and burn his gas to make his rounds rounds to earn his profit (which is all his tax writeoff) but if it wasn't for that (the bureaucrat schemes) you would have to use your own vehicle to stop and get lunch and it has air conditioning and a radio, so you've derived some "imputed value" from his vehicle which must be taxed as base wages!
(I need to go wash my brain out now...lol)
Provide a "credible" link or source. Can't do it, because no such "credible" evidence exists, though there are plenty of garbage rumors and innuendo. Now there are numerous sources and articles of how the Bush Crime family is worth hundreds of billions of dollars -google it. Not totally convinced of this, but I am pretty sure it is true. The Bush's are evil and have been very powerful for nearly a century. That's why we get jeb as the Republican nominee in 2016. The Bush Family is one of the major crime families of the International Crime syndicate that rules much of the world.
Don't go singling out old Vlad.
Theft and extortion are what governments do best - ALL of 'em
If you believe that those in power give a fuck about you, you are deludional.
How many millions has Obumner stolen from Air force one flights/holidays
if Putin managed to steal anything, then he is a real genius or wizard, since Russian state reserves are great and Putin also managed to put a lot of money aside into various funds, which he now uses to revive the economy. One example is the Internet Investment Fund, from which he supports beginning internet entrepreneurs. Besides, Russian state reserves are now growing again. About how many countries can you say that they have no debt and their reserves are growing???? I would really prefer a politician, who is so intelligent that he is able to "steal from the state" according to you and yet keep the state reserves growing.
Right... Putin is poorer than Barry... sure...
Obama's still in office...... give him a year or two as a Carlyle Group board member (TPTB take good care of their marionettes in retirement)
The perks are what count..... (e.g. what goes into those Swiss numbered accounts)
Air Force One, invading perfectly at peace countries, getting a Nobel Peace Prize, having millions come out to greet in of all places Cairo, being "leader of the Free World."
Yeah...all about being President of Singapore.
Look at Hillary...all the money in the world, zero love, knows even less is coming...can't wait to run.
"The bigger the lie the more they will believe you. It's all good."
Crazy job...
One made for only crazy people in my view.
Still...you get to covort with all the other crazy types too...especially the ones who want to "knock you off your perch."
Nice Casdy with flags attached too...
You know blindman? When I first read his prose I thought he was just some goofy fucker. Now, I realize that he and I and you have been damaged- we can't help but sound damaged in an environment that seeks to portray us damaged.
I never went to war, I just don't know.
My older cousins did, and it fucked up their outlook on life. Billy killed a man on the highway. Tommy became a perpetual fuck-up, and Bobby went on to become a professor at Brandeis, which still makes him a fuckup, smart fucker that he was.
I had two female cousins as well Deborah and Linda.
You'll have to educate me on casdy flags.
No.
What a BS article. This site has gone down the tubes. It's on a par with the HuffPost now.
Yah gets what yous pay for .....
Like Australia .. Prime Minister earns $507,000 + perks and all we get is a Mad Monk for the money
At least on ZH you can make serious comments.
Putin might actually be worth what he's paid, of course he's got billions stashed somewhere.
Obama being paid $400 thousand to be a porch negro for King David is a crime against humanity.
Barry and Michael....er..michelle live pretty well on $400K
It has always been a dog-eat-dog world. If one makes a career in politics, the idea is to pretend to care about "the little people" while enriching themselves.
Meanwhile, the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi continues to contaminate the entire Northern Hemisphere and is causing a massive Extinction Level Event in the Pacific Ocean, with absolutely no end in sight.
Hey Tylers, why don't you wanna talk about Fukushima anymore?
Are you scared?
You should be.
If you need proof that the MSM are totally controlled, you only need to look at what's going on in the Fukushima nuke disaster.
Saw a thing on BBC website still calling Chernobyl the world's worst nuclear accident.
WTF???
It's only a couple of years ago some farmers in the North East of the UK could sell their lambs for meat - about 25 years.
Chernobyl was dealt with aggressively at the cost of a lot of lives, but it was capped and mostly controlled fairly quickly. The sarcophagus is deteriorating rapidly, so it's still a threat.
In Fukushima, no one has a fucking clue of the whereabouts of most of the cores.
Times: 200-year wait faced at Fukushima — Plant Chief: “No idea” how to decommission reactors…
http://enenews.com/times-200-year-wait-problems-insurmountable
Not surprised to see that the PM of Singapore is the most honest of the bunch.
http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-geopolitical-ambitions-expand-namibias-sou...
Across continental Africa, China’s presence can't be ignored. While China has made multibillion-dollar investments in various countries and industries throughout the continent, a shift toward a military presence -- in the form of a proposed naval base along Namibia's Atlantic coast
I think Putin didn't give a crap about salary, he have everything so he didn't need money.
Yeah, 7.8 million rubles worth of crap ;-)
this is a problem of the western people - they are stupid...
Sometimes people here can be pretty stupid. Putin is worth BILLIONS of dollars and may well be among the richest people on Earth, so the whole post it ridiculous. I am amazed how many people here seem to be rooting for a guy who runs a kleptocracy, kills his opponents who want alternatives to his so-called leadership and allows no free press within his own country at all.
People are dumb... really dumb. It doesn't matter if it's on MSN or Zerohedge or in New York or Florida or Kansas or Haiti. Dumb people make the world go round. People afraid of communism will blindly support a fascist. People disgusted by a fascist will move to the country and plant a hemp farm. You can't rationally discuss the grey areas of politcs/life with a moron.
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Come on, be serious. The number of people here rooting for Obama can probably be expressed as a single digit.
VV Putin was never about money
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Face it people, the salary given to these national leaders is chump change for most of them. They are not in it for the money, THEY WANT THE POWER.
They want the money AND the power.
Money is the tool of power, when only those in power can make it from thin air and everyone else has to work for it.
Tarabel is SPOT ON!
THESE PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE THE "SLAVE MASTERS".
Slavery taint allowed here.
I hope Bernanke's Blog is closed due to all the appropriate condemnation from us "folks".
We sheeple are getting hosed and because we accept it, I say we deserve it.
The only people that are ever enslaved are those that accept it.
Look at the Christian martyrs.
My sister despised Bush. Despised the man. She thinks B.O. is the cleanest smell on earth.
I do not know how such a kind, educated and caring woman could possibly feel that way.
SHE IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING ASSHOLE IN THE WORLD....JUST LIKE b.o.
She is on proszac.. b.o. is on NARCISSISM.
You do know that Tarabele doesn't look like that? still agree ?
You mean he's not David Lee Roth?
Are you sure?
yeah, but what about after all the graft, corruption, insider deals and freebies?
Ah, but what do they get paid?
Laugh the fuck out loud. These guys own their own fucking countries. This is like Warren buffett taking 100K salary.
What is next?
You do know that Xi Jiping has more wealth than all of the presidents and prime ministers combined on that list? Sort of ironic.
This one is pointless without showing all the billiions in fringes and benefits.
Now rank them as to their net worth.
They are all worthless.
My roommate's cousin's step sister in law makes $7.
I dunno what she does though. I always stopped reading at that point.
Singapore's Cabinet high compensation was justified by Supreme Leader (LKY) now gone when he enforced zero corruption. Creepong Croynism and Nepotism, the reversal to old habits of most EM countries are already on the rise. Watch for the continuance of the high compensation that will be a Joke for an incumbent that cannot fill the shoes of LKY.
Singapore is a long term sell. Starting with the Real Estates. At best, it will revert to 2nd World.
How much money do you really need if none of it can give you the universe?
The premise of this article is a huge steaming pile of BS. Just look at how much moola fictional "leaders" make via campaign scams, under-the-table deals, book rights and books, speaches and other perversions.
What they are paid officially is almost too small to notice next to the rest of the loot they walk away with and funnel to family and friends.
Gideon Gono FTW.
Modi and Jinping salaries are the officially declared salaries right?
Richest nation by PPP has a leader earning $22K and 3rd richest £30K? Yeah right!
Who down voted this guy? Anyone who thinks that either of these guys are making anywhere near their "officially" declared salaries is a complete fucking idiot.
Lots of complete fucking idiots here., Most are Americunts. Total retards.
I see a few shit for brains Americunts bashing Putin. You sons of bitches need to grow a brain.,