For the past 54 years, we have had the same patronizing arrogance, treating us like fools who could be easily pleased with a few crumbs thrown to us while they continue their plunder and live luxuriously at our expense. 'Change your lifestyle' was meant for us but not them, which means 'Do what I tell you to, not what I do'.
One by one, our institutions went subservient to them. We report to the police and we are likely to be the target of interrogation. The Attorney General can decide who to prosecute or persecute. We take it to the courts and we face a biased judiciary. We try to change the government at the elections but the Election Commissioners are appointed by them and a minister confirmed they are not from heaven, so cannot expect to be independent.
If we do not read the newspapers and watch the television, we are uninformed. But when we do, we are misinformed.
Coming back to the Budget proposals. Our national debt will exceed Rm400 billion with the generous handouts to the people. Of course, the people will like the handouts but at what price? What Najib is doing is borrowing to do so, so that he will continue to be PM. Sometimes, it is not up to him to decide whether he wants to continue, but his cronies who depend on his big contracts, and more importantly, his First Lady who is used to the de facto power and not going to accept anything less.
To the man in the street, national finance is something difficult to grasp, so it is very easy for political leaders to spend first while the effects will take a long time to appear. To put it simply, spending beyond our means nationally is no different from our borrowing to pay for our daily expenses. We need to repay. But instead of the parents, the children or the grandchildren will bear the costs!
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