Politicians Taking Pay Cuts?

I stumbled upon this bit of useless fact and wondered if others have done the same thing?

New departments were established which reflected the government's priorities. These included the new Deparment of Co-operatives, the Department of Labour and the Department of Social Welfare. To pay for the new departments, all the CCF cabinet ministers took a 28 per cent pay cut.

www.saskndp.com...

This also coming from the man who gave birth to public hospitalization and medicare.

AND if thats not enough they managed to remove the sales tax from food and meals and managed to reduce the provincial debt by $20 million.

So what is wrong with politicians today?

BTW I had no clue on where to put this on PTS. PTS is far too confusing.