CORRUPT SOCIETY? Are Malaysians BEGGARS to need to queue for BN's GE13 rice, oil and flour

The popular trend these days is to announce through the grapevine that residents should rush to a nearby field or public centre as free rations of rice, oil and flour are being distributed.

But before you can collect your bundle of aid on producing your NRIC, you have to sweat it out listening to some rhetoric on the microphone on why you should support a politician or his/her party, come GE-13.

Many households now already will tell you they are having excess bags of rice, oil and flour. Some are wondering what to do with these more than ample supplies cramping their kitchen cupboards. Maybe, if there was a buy-back syndicate in operation, the beggar-Malaysians would be happy to trade-off the groceries for cash – never mind even if it is below market rates.

At the rate the politicians are going around handing out rice, oil and flour and in some cases T-shirts and CDs, one certainly cannot be faulted for thinking that Malaysians have been hit so badly by some massive natural disaster that they now need help in the form of emergency food aid.

Or has the economy become so rock-bottom that the government needs to give handouts to help relief starving Malaysians?

What kind of political campaign is this? Sounds very much like a tribal tyranny does it not?

Time for Malaysians to ask of themselves: Are we a Corrupt Society

When you take inventory of the numerous occasions all across the country where politicians are giving handouts in the form of groceries, you wonder if Malaysia really is a fully developing nation that is just a doorstep away from becoming a developed nation.

How can a nation be of a developed-status when its citizens are given ‘candies’ in exchange for support Truly if after five over decades of political supremacy, a party has to peddle freebies to garner support, it speaks volumes of Malaysia’s political maturity.

Firstly, it implies that we are a corrupt society with no qualms in having to bribe our way through, taking advantage of the hard-pressed working class.

Secondly, it could also hint that Malaysians are so poor that they do not mind stooping so low to beg for a living.

Third, it certainly does not translate to or provide that reputation of a caring leadership. If you still adamantly claim that it is caring for the welfare of the rakyat in these hard times, then the question is how come the citizens have been reduced to begging for essential goods when we had so much of resources and wealth generated from the oil-rich nation of which the BN was solely in-charge of all these five over decades.

While the thinking rakyat munch over these thoughts, the gullible rakyat continue to await in eagerness of when someone else will come calling with more bags of rice, oil, flour and T-shirts.

MAILBAG