Have you bought your votes?

"Rais on money politics: Might as well let highest bidder win" http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/21/nation/20081021204003&sec=nation

Something is not right with the system here, you get a relatively small numbers of people within a particular party, make sure you gets them nominate you to be the party president, wa lah.... 99% you will end up becoming the prime minister of Malaysia. Is like tapping a pipeline to the rich and famous, you take care of the money or you take care of the weaponary cache, you choose which one you are good at! Er.. hem... or whichever you find that is more 'profitable' or with 'potential growth'.

You see, you need to meet a certain quota on nomination in order to secure yourself to be elected as party president. That is why this guy, Dr Rais commented that might as well let the highest bidder wins". Wow... imagine PM is going for auction at ebay or lelong.com.my. I can understand such quota is to stop too many 'Ahmads' or 'Mohammads' nominations from running the party president or Deputy president, but then, when the quotas is set too high, that is what you get - Money Politics. Some people actually ask this Mr. Rais fella to 'pay' for his nomination. Yeah, that is what people say, you need some money to play politics, is like running a business, you need capital in order to make more money! Don't blame others if you don't have a grandfather that left you with tons of lands and properties.

One thing I am quite fed up with what we call 'leaders' in my Malaysia. They run the country like running their own family business. Once you become the leader of the country, I am pretty sure that your sons or daughters, your brothers or sisters, your father or mother, step father, step mother, god father god mother, etc..will in a sudden become a rising star entrepreneur or CEO/directors, manage to secure a lot of contracts (mostly from the government), because they are really 'capable' and earn it with their own 'merit'. That is why it is so popular that we can find someone's grandfather/father/Uncle/in -laws is a politician, his grandson/son/niece/son-in-law also want to be a politician. "Like father like son"... how nice? Being a politician is their ambition since primary school.

It really reminds me of Patek Philippe watch, I have to use the tagline of Patek Philippe advertisement together with some minor modification that says, "You never own Malaysia, you merely 'look after' it for the next generation". How cool? I think we might be better off if we don't let our country 'look after' by all these greedy corruptors! (I try to be polite and show some respect here, I am using the word 'corruptors' instead of 'fxxxers', I am trying to refrain myself not to use the 'F' word, okay?). I am sure we have a lot more capable Malay leaders than the one that we are having now, sigh....