MONEY TO BUY VOTES by Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz

 

By Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz

 

Some People in Authority, seem to have that INGRAINED INCLINATION, to use MONEY, as THE currency for Support and Votes.

They think that THE MORE being dished out and " THROWN AROUND" with abandon, it will please the people , and give them that sought after SUPPORT....and Votes.

MONEY is being BORROWED from every possible Source...and DISHED OUT to all possible voter groups...
There are NO CLEAR DETAILS of the SOCIO ECONOMIC OUTCOMES of that "Generosity"...

Especially ....
....HOW SOCIO ECONOMIC DIVIDES will be narrowed
.....WHAT LONG TERM POSITIVE RESULTS, will ensue....

for EVERY RINGGIT that has been " BLOWN"...
......HOW Economic Growth will be triggered especially over the LONGER term
......WHETHER that "Charitable" approach will be "the order of the day"...moving forward...

OR is it PART and PARCEL of the "PPR offer", iaitu "PAKEJ PILIHAN RAYA"...yang di tujukan TERUS KEPADA KUMPULAN2 PENGUNDI...

SUCH is the depth of CORRUPTION NOW...

EVERYTHING IS TRANSACTIONAL.

SO MUCH MONEY is involved ...and it becomes EASY to BE CORRUPT 

..AND to CORRUPT OTHERS...

REGARDLESS of the long term cost and damage to the NATION and SOCIETY.

While there ARE THOSE , WITH INTEGRITY, who come forward in Politics, to SERVE the PEOPLE....

.....it cannot be denied that there are some who see "opportunities" or "peluang" ...to stealthily" POACH " and blatantly "STEAL",  diverting Public Funds to themselves.

AND they shamelessly FLAUNT IT ALL.

And they seem to RESENT being "shackled" by the LAW

DEMANDING their "freedoms"..
THEY feel they are ABOVE the LAW.
AND that they are THE LAW unto themselves...

That notion of " Absolute Power" has clearly seeped into their very BEING, motivating every action, and deed.

SOMEWHERE along the line, they FORGOT The ULTIMATE POWER of The ALMIGHTY...

IT is OUR RESPONSIBILITY, as CITIZENS of our Nation...to ENSURE that we KEEP the CORRUPT, and the CORRUPTIBLE...FROM getting POWER...and further dragging the NATION, into RUIN...

The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.