The buck stops here

By Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's own admission, this is not the best of times for the Government to be grappling with an issue as sensitive as a pay hike for ministers and civil servants.

Certainly not when the income gap in Singapore is seen to be widening, and not everyone is enjoying the benefits of the returning good times.

So, when Mr Lee took the floor yesterday to wrap up the debate... he said he would freeze his pre-increment salary of $2.5 million for the next five years, promising to donate any increase in pay to charity.

Ok. Nice gallant move and all but why didn't he just donate whatever amount of money he intended to give to the people at the public sector to charitable causes in the first place?

Oh I forgot. Our opinions don't matter.