Wake up, gullible Malaysians

If the voter rolls are not cleaned up before the 13th general election and BN wins the polls, then the stupid Malaysians who voted BN into power will plunge the whole nation into the pit of doom.

COMMENT

It is confirmed. The Barisan Nasional (BN) government is one extremely crooked government. The way it has spent the taxpayers’ money is beyond rhyme and reason.

The allocation for “unexpected” expenditure 2011 is RM1.5 billion but the government has spent RM3.13 billion which is more than twice the allocated amount.

Among the ministries and national institutions that consumed the rakyat’s money are:

1. Election Commission – RM48,770,200 million

2. Prime Minister’s Department – RM353,760,000 million

3. Public Service Department – RM782,516,100 million

4. Treasury – RM204,450,000 million

5. Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry – RM5,000,000 million

6. Public Works Ministry – RM152,000,000 million

7. Transport Ministry – RM80,302,000 million

8. Health Ministry – RM621,870,200 million

9. Women, Family and Community Development Ministry – RM275,000,000 million

10. Home Ministry – RM545,627,000 million

The government’s spendthrift ways is going to empty the nation’s coffers and when that happens, Malaysia will go bankrupt.

As it now stands, Malaysia is well on the road to bankruptcy with the national debt ratio standing at more than 53% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Therefore, after BN wins the forthcoming 13th general election, 1,001 taxes will be imposed and subsidy cuts will be implemented. As usual, the poor and the low-wage earner will be the first to suffer the consequences.

So before we reach that stage, we must set the situation right by voting in a new federal government. But this looks impossible as the voter roll has about 1.7 million dubious voters.

An author by the name of Mutalib MD, who wrote a book entitled IC Projek – Agenda Tersembunyi Mahathir which was published in 2006, in an interview published in Harakah recently (April 9 to 12) revealed that he had been making a research on the subject of phantom voters/alien voters for the past 15 years.

He also revealed that nationals from the Philippines, India, Pakistan and Indonesia who came to Malaysia were given the status of IMM13, which would later be converted to MyPR red identity card and finally blue MyKad with their names being simultaneously inserted into the voter roll.

This massive betrayal of the rakyat’s trust by the government is a clear indication that it is only looking after its own interests. This means that the government is now a rogue regime clearly hellbent on sabotaging the rakyat.

Slick and cunning

However, the government is slick and cunning. It disguises its diabolical motives by giving instant cash hand-outs to dupe the poor and many are taken in because, let us face it – Malaysians are the most gullible people on earth.

Our thinking ability is easily clouded by the government’s simple gimmicks. That we can still continue to vote in a government which blatantly robs us really begets belief but then truth is stranger than fiction.

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s game plan to win over the hearts and minds of Malaysians is very simple: going on walkabouts; giving cash hand-outs; making empty promises; appearing on radio chat-shows and television talk-shows; and promoting himself via empty sloganeering of which 1Malaysia takes precedence.

With his excellent acting skills, he has duped a large percentage of the Malaysian population who are blind to his faults, especially his flip-flopping ways and constant gift-giving to BN’s elite cronies.

Many Malaysians still fail to see that they get only RM500 while an Umno chief’s family gets RM250 million and this is indeed a massive malpractice. Malaysians continue to praise BN for throwing crumbs to us and treating us like stray cats.

And then there are the MCA and MIC leaders who continue to parrot BN’s so-called achievements from a well-worn, sub-standard and phony script.

MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek, with his stubborn anti-hudud stance, is completely lacking in moral fibre and sound professional ethics while MIC leaders who continue to brag about “fighting for blue identity cards” for the Indians continue to be lacklustre.

There is certainly no glory to be gained by MCA and MIC when they fight for blue identity cards for the Chinese and the Indians who are holding red identity cards because this only highlights that the Chinese and the Indians are still “pendatangs” while illegals from a neighbouring country can easily obtain blue identity cards.

The fact that leaders such as Najib and Chua can get to lead Umno and MCA respectively tells much about the political climate of Malaysia.

If the voter rolls are not cleaned up before the 13th general election and BN wins the polls due to the dirty voter rolls, then the stupid Malaysians who have voted BN into power will plunge the whole nation into the pit of doom.

A friend of this columnist by the name of Kassim Muhamad from Seniman Paksi Rakyat, a non-governmental organisation, told this columnist last month that “Malaysians are the most unlucky people on earth because we vote in a government which continues to enslave and oppress us via one-off cash hand-outs”.

It was reported in the mainstream media that Najib’s approval rating soared after the disbursement of the RM500 cash aid via BR1M. That a whole nation can be so easily hoodwinked via cash hand-outs is enough evidence that not only are Malaysians unlucky but extremely stupid as well.

Do not be surprised that there are many ordinary rakyat who, although they have access to the Internet, still continue to worship the BN government as demi-gods. Truly, are we doomed to oblivion?

It is time to wake up before it is too late.

Selena Tay is a reform-minded FM columnist.