A juicy helicopter deal

Referring to my previous article "Swapping LP with PL", a department secretary signed a 'letter of intent' with Eurocopter, two days before our previous defense minister swap his post as a finance minister. It seems that the agreement was signed in a hurry, most of the Malaysians who gives a shit on where is their tax money go starts to wonder how the hell a department secretary can sign a RM2 billion + deal? Referring to: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/91256

Secondly, the deal is 12 Eurocopters worth RM2.317 billion, somewhere in a country far far away- Brazil, they bought 50 Eurocopters RM4.14 billion (after USD conversion. Ref: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Brazil-Signs-1B-Production-Deal-for-Cougar-Helicopters-04959/ . So you can do your own math how we 'follow' our purchasing procedure when it comes to such a 'juicy' deal.

Yeah, don't you love internet? I got this info from Malaysia today website, one of the key admin of the website - Raja Petra is still sitting in Kamunting having his rice with curry while I am typing this. These are the people that our government wants to shut them up.

Back to the helicopter deal, we are talking about a 2.317 billion deal here. A simple question to you if you are spending your own money. When you want to buy a Rm30k Kancil car, don't you bother to at least have a test drive on it? But when our government spend 2.317 billion, they don't even bother to test drive the chopper! Some companies even offer the government with a 6 months trial, which I think it is fair because the deal involved is not a small amount. But then, the deal just simply awarded to 'someone'. Well, I have to agree that Eurocopter is a better helicopter in terms of spec compare to Kazan MI-172 (I actually did do some light study on them), but hey, the problem is we are spending a lot more on the helicopters!

When most people can feel the economic downturn, to be frank, we are a peace loving country and we are don't have any plans to invade others neighbors. So I don't see purchasing these helicopters are in our top priority list right now.

Nowadays, with the help of internet, more of these shady deals were exposed on the net which a lot of people doesn't know in the past. With such leaders leading our country, I don't see any hope or future with our country if they keep on plundering and raping our country's wealth for their own pocket sake. So when our soon-to-be PM told the public that we should respect the leaders of the country, well, I can only ask him to suck on my middle finger, and here is my foot also!