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念群与沙登人民同在 | Nie Ching for Serdang

念群与沙登人民同在 | Nie Ching for Serdang


BN’s Skewed Priorities: Temporary Teachers Suffer

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:03 PM PST

~ By Teo Nie Ching

There are some really out-of-this-world characters around. For example, I am sure some of you would have come across someone whose household's rice supply is nearly exhausted therefore the wife can only serve modest vegetables and taufu for meals, and yet he would still pretend to be well-to-do. He's the sort who would rush to foot the bill if he was dining with his friends. He gets agitated when friends and family members advise him to keep his expenses in check. When he orders food in a restaurant, he would select expensive items lest people notice his shrinking wallet. Never mind if his wife and kids go hungry, but he must never lose face in front of people he's trying to impress.

Unscrupulous friends would certainly take advantage of such characters, and if the latter is a member of one's household, one would certainly have to grieve over such bad luck. But if such a character is the head of the government, millions of the rakyat will suffer.

In the eyes of the government, it simply does not matter if one pays RM56,350 for a pair of maritime binoculars that rightfully costs only RM1,940. There is no corruption; someone merely "overpaid" for it. But who cares? Someone in the government says we have cash to burn.

Then there is the creative transformation of funds meant for cow-rearing into condominium-buying? Payment was made even before the agreement was signed! What about the dirt-cheap selling price of RM74.20 per square feet for Sungei Besi Land that could easily worth RM1,000 per square feet? The sad thing is, the BN administration doesn't even bat an eyelid over such insane wastage of public funds.

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