This is how it should be. But we are Pakistani and Muslim (mostly) so of course we cannot stoop to such levels. Ijjazt ki baat heh and hang the people.
Is ANY politician even half interested in following Jose’s footsteps.
So it can be done, just requires simple decency and desire to serve the country. Do read.
"Finally! A politician who DOESN’T fiddle his expenses: The ‘poorest president in the world’, who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives 90% of his earnings to charity
Uruguayan president Jose Mujica lives on a farm on the outskirts of Montevideo with his wife and three-legged dog
Part-time farmer's proudest and most valuable possession is his tired-looking Volkswagen Beatle
Glimpse into president's austere lifestyle comes in week former Labour MP Margaret Moran was found fiddling her parliamentary expenses
… Mr Mujica gives 90 per cent of his monthly salary, the equivalent of £7,500, away to charity leaving him with just £485 a month to live off.
The part-time farmer’s proudest and most valuable possessions are his tired-looking Volkswagen Beetle and his three-legged dog Manuela.
Water comes from a well which is surrounded by overgrown weeds and the laundry goes not in a tumble dryer but on the washing line outside.
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But Mr Mijuca, a former left-wing revolutionary, says he has no interest in amassing a fortune.
He says he has all he needs and that material wealth does not buy happiness.
Speaking to the BBC he said: ‘I’m called ‘the poorest president’, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more,’ he says.
‘This is a matter of freedom. If you don’t have many possessions then you don’t need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself,’ he says.
‘I may appear to be an eccentric old man… But this is a free choice.’ …"