The Caring Government? NOT!

Okay, I never like to write anything about the hubbub of politics of this country but sometimes, you just can't help it. When the clock strikes 8pm, majority of Malaysians I'm sure, me not spared, will glue ourselves in front of the telly watching the news. Most of the times, its the same old lame news about the government kept telling us, the people whom they think are a bunch of idiots, about how blessed we Malaysians are with a government that cares and feel for the rakyat. They go on and on telling us about govt. subsidising this and subsidising that and to add salt to the wound, they start comparing us with other countries as if we, the people failed to count our lucky stars.

I'm talking mainly about the recent fuel hike. Like who doesn't. The whole world are practically fuming over the matter. So maybe we can't influence the world oil price which has ineveitably forced our govt. to mark-up the local oil price. The world knows that its the speculators that drive the price madly high, which has caused an immense panic throughout the globe. And our govt. are panicking like hell and as a result they passed it on to the innocent people. Not only the price hike was almost doubled, the manner in which it was implemented was sickening. The PM thought it was clever to raise the price immediately without ever thinking about the shock suffered by the people and the ugly consequences to all businesses. This issue may be just a ripple in the water for them as they need not worry at all forking their money from their silver pockets to pump fuel. But its a huge tsunami for the people who do not even own a silver fork to feed themselves with.

Malaysians are puzzled at one thing. We are an oil producing country and the oil giant, Petronas, has amassed billions of ringgit in profits, in and out of the country's shores. And we're not counting the profits made from their activities outside the country. Yet, the govt. are complaining about having to subsidise their own people who had gave up half of their income in taxes just to have it mismanaged later in the end. In the eyes of an ordinary laymen with ordinary thinking, if the govt. is so stuck up with the burden of subsidies and are crying poor, then how come the civil servants are getting more and more salary hike from this? To another extent, do the people really need another mega bridge to be build in Penang when the current bridge is doing a job well done? What about the Eastern Corridor when the the only corridor we knew i.e. the Multimedia Super Corridor is nothing next to failure? And Putrajaya, the no-budget-specified-city cum government administrative centre. Do we really need to spend public's money to build the PM's and Deputy PM's residence to look nothing short than than the Taj Mahal? I doubt that they even stay there most of the time.

The evidence of the mismanagement of public funds are everywhere and let's not talk about the corruptions in just about anything and everything. So when the PM cry foul over having to subsidise the people over and over again on primetime news and newspapers, the people are just fed-up to its limits. Why are they being too calculative with the people? Is it one of their sick jokes over their shameful defeat in the recent general elections? Haven't we Malaysians have done enough to enrich the nation. If the govt. loves comparing us with other countries, why don't they compare how the people of Malaysians continue to work hard in contributing to the building of the nation's wealth?

Maybe they do have a clever plan to calm the people down. Or so they thought. In the midst of the panic fog that clouds the people of this nation, the govt. had put down their tall hat and took out a rabbit by introducing the cash rebate system to compensate Malaysian drivers. It did managed to drop some jaws, but before we can stand up and give the govt. a big round of applause, we realised that it was just another clever hat trick. The rebate was a one off thing, not annually as we all had thought it to be. Tricked again? I say.

So, we Malaysians beg you. Stop preaching on how bright your halo is when you're sitting on a pile of dung. Give us something to chew on, not things that we puke over. By bragging on how the govt. really and truly cares for the people in a midst of an economic crisis, is nothing short than a great insult to our intelligence.