The BN led government is ceremoniously proclaiming that it is truly caring for the rakyat and so is making its cash handouts to citizens.
In the wake of two realities, namely, the exploding cost of living and the timing of these so-called caring-relief cash handouts, one cannot dismiss suspecting that it is all a vote-buying tactic.
The money that BN is paying out to qualifying citizens is not money from UMNO, MCA or MIC pockets. It is not even money that was earned from the profits of sound business management of the country's resources.
The handouts that the BN led government is making to the citizens is the citizens own sweat and tears. Can any economist deny this?
Is this gesture of seeming 'caring government' not akin to giving a man a fish when what he truly needs is not denying him or her the opportunities to catch his or her own fish everyday?
Little better than beggars but the kids of the elite get mega billion shares
But look at the trappings of the BN leaders and their appointed and sanctified loyalists. Are they not the sole beneficiaries of the wealth of this nation?
Their children get mega-billion ringgit shares in out-of-the-blues companies. They families live a life on the fast lane ranging from driving Porsche to holidaying in the Gold-coast of Australia.
Oversized diamond rings, Birkin bags and fawning GLCs
Look at the way that GLCs and private companies have to spend to cater to the whims and fancies of these VVIPs when they are invited to grace the organisations' public relations events. Ask any CEO and they will honest-to-God tell you in a guarded whisper that it even puts hell to shame.
Today we are beginning to get glimpses of evidence of the extravagance of our leaders. Today we are beginning to realise that all these stories of wealth creation through privatization sold to the rakyat since the time of Tun Dr Mahathir, has only made the rakyat seek fish and chips whereas the fishing is being done by politicians and their families.
Apology, so what? Where are the corrections?
What is truly needed is higher and better accountability, transparency and integrity in thoughts, words and matched with deeds.
Mind you we have not even got any close to the predicted 'Great Depression' of the 2030's that researchers are busy talking about these days. And we are already turned into beggars who should be happy and grateful taking some seeming cash relief from a caring government.
Wonder what it would be for Malaysians when the world gets gripped with the Great Depression in 2030? And that is not light-years in some dismal future mind you. All the petrol-dollars, all the palm oil gains, all the many resources and bell weather times of the past have been mismanaged.
The huge borrowings, the debt, and white-elephant monuments is what we would be left with. For even without the Great depression the rakyat have to stretch their hands out for fish and chips today.
Malaysia Chronicle
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