Low Pay = Passion + Heart?

"Eric Chiang, head of a wholesale business, said: 

"People who want to go into the public service, I think apart from the pay, it is the passion and heart for the people. So frankly speaking, even if it's a 38 per cent (cut) for the PM, for those who have the heart, perhaps they will even settle for less.""

Source: Channelnewsasia

"Please do not think, for one moment, that you are entitled to receive a high lump sum of pay just because you are serving for the people of Singapore. 

If you were truly so altruistic, you would be accepting a minimal sum of money to just get by."
~ a Singaporean male, who graduated from Imperial College, 

commenting on Senior Minister of State Grace Fu's Facebook post.

Source: Grace Fu's Facebook Wall

LOL! These people are hoping for monks to be running their country!

You wanna pretend that by cutting ministers' pay, that 'things will improve'? That the same people and/or future politicians/ministers will have 'passion and heart for the people'?

Just look at the hard truths in the rest of the world. In other countries, politicians are paid far less than ours. Are they any more 'passion and heart for the people'?

This entire unhappiness with and distrust of the ruling party situation has gotten out of hand.
What exactly is the point of electing someone whom you are unhappy with and unable to trust, then punishing him for being 'imperfect' by cutting his pay drastically?
Nah! Take that!! HAHA! 活该!

What kind of sick mentality is that?!
Whatever happened to the sole intention of electing this person in the first place, i.e. to get the job done?

Even the ruling party is reacting to such strong emotions by holding the PAP mega sale at 36+% discount. O_o

I mean, if the same PM and/or minister can continue to give his 110% to his job after a salary cut of 36%, he is sending out a terrible message that he has been over-charging Singapore for the past few years. This is a terrible mistake.

Everyone just needs to calm down, and realise that it is not the minister's salary that is CAUSING Singaporeans' problems. It is the QUALITY & HEART of leaders, who are in fact elected by the people. To know whether a candidate has quality and heart, takes time. A lot of time.

And to get the right leaders into office, the people must first learn and be clear about what kind of Singaporean society they want, then vote for people who will help to fulfill that vision. This means the people have to spend time and energy to keep up with local politics and participate in local discourse. Most importantly, we must get to know the leaders better.

If majority of voters simply refuses to work at this (to find a way to identify what a good leader is), yet wanna complain, and shoot their votes from the hip every 5 years, then we will all have to suffer the ugly side of democracy, which no modern person wishes to talk about, i.e. an unfortunate election result that is created by rash unthinking masses.