Well, don't really agree with your point on not relating. If the
pay is earned by a private sector person whom earns everything
through his own efforts and his pay is justified by the market
conditions, then you are right, there is no point to relate.
However, this is the public sector, where we are the taxpayers. The
money to pay those jokers and to help the poor are coming from the
same source. So there is a direct relation. To me, its simple, the
money they are drawing, that increment amount could have gone to
serve the poor better. LHL made an indirect admittance to his guilt
when he promised to donate his salary increment to charity.
And if you talk about market conditions, that's even worse. Market
(in this case politicians from all over the world) shows that our
jokers are immensely, ridiculously, and absurbly overpaid.
Like I mentioned, to retain talent, you retain talent by paying him
better than the market, but NOT STUPIDLY paying him so much more
than the market.
