The Political Aristocrats Prance and Prattle, Malaysia Burns!

 This is a publication of Walla's commentary on the previous article- Sakmongkol.

 See the size of the two portraits in the background. That's the rakyats' money spent to project vainglorious personal images of what should be humble Almighty-fearing public servants who if they are really caring would do better instead to right all the wrongs the Umno administration has rammed onto the rakyat and voters.

Instead, we are painfully entertained to a form-over-substance display of infantile behavior with Antoinette undertones. An insult not only to the Malay race but also to every Malaysian suffering under the yoke of Umno all these years, not forgetting what was once a civil public service sector now reduced to being passive puppets to race masters better suited for the Malacanang grandeur of the Marcoses. Perhaps that might also explain why Mahathir Lokman looked so embarrassed on stage.

 The video should be viewed carefully and in parallel with the others. Such as this one: http://is.gd/xphjN5 which exposes on candid camera all the bluff, blackmail and bribery using your money. That town remains flood-prone. Yet our beloved Umnoputras prance and prattle.

One is therefore reminded of Rome. Not enough being little napoleons, these Umnoputra's are now also little Nero’s. While Malaysia's finances and governance burn, they play fiddle with the rakyats' future while living it up for themselves using the rakyats' money that could well have been channeled to do some public good.

 So when Najib asked whether the rakyat can afford to take the risk and gamble with the future if they elect Pakatan, you can ask him back whether he has forgotten they already did with five states in 2008, in fact with a majority for the whole peninsular.

And when he sideswipes that Pakatan doesn't seem to have a common symbol and manifesto, you can be excused for thinking his mindset is all form, no substance. Like that stage show.

 And when he argues that even in one year the economy can collapse, is he admitting that it is fragile and since there has been no other federal government all this while, that fragility must therefore be due to Umno's administration?

While at it, you can ask him whether on his way to his office every day, has he seen any vestige of collapse in Selangor, for that matter Penang, Kelantan, and Kedah in contrast to sleepy state Perak that was stolen in broad daylight from the rakyat?

 And before he starts on Mahathir vis-a-vis the IMF, can he articulate on the post-IMF recoveries of South Korea and Thailand?

As MOF, he will have the numbers on who had benefited the most with insider information on the artificial 3.8 peg, for that matter barriers erected to protect cronies at the expense of the first real opportunity to clean up the economy that would have yielded higher competitiveness today with lesser need for subsidies that is only creating a feel-good effect which cannot be sustained but if removed will devastate the lower income groups even as the oil revenue to sustain those subsidies is shrinking every day. Yet our beloved Umnoputras continue to prance and prattle.

 A government reduced to winning votes with goodies instead of real governance has abdicated its right to rule.

A PM reduced to spooking the business sector that change will collapse the stock market is only trying to pull wool. Did the stock market collapse when Barisan lost peninsular the last round? If memory serves, it went up!

And those vacuous Chinese businessmen should remind themselves that the first announcement for their school allocation was reported to be Rm100 million. Perhaps it was forgotten the money would not be from Umno's government but from the gambling sector. The lackey party next asked for rm50 million. Najib now says it's rm30 million. That, from a PM who had said their education is part of the mainstream education of this country, that, from a PM who with bravura had upped the bribe to Sibu from rm3 million to rm5 million, as you have seen for yourself seconds ago.

Indeed, compare everything with Mara's budget and allocations for the religious schools, then light your joss-sticks to the federal constitution and give thanks to those who speak with forked tongues. There, nailed again.

The majority of the rakyat are suffering in both silence and disgust. Those receiving goodies know the money came from their own common pool minus the commissions and contracts siphoned by Umno's cronies.

That Najib absented himself from a debate on the budget, and showed inelegant silence on the exposures of the Auditor-General's report, disqualifies him and his ilk from pirouetting in some distasteful celebration on stage which only signifies how frivolous our Malay mind can be when left to its own devices. One would have expected someone like him would have learned not to be juvenile almost reaching sixty, let alone being a son of Razak.

 After all, what's the point of a common symbol and manifesto if after having them, one pillages, squanders and plunders with outright impunity?

 And that, NONE of them has seen. Which tells you as much the quality and caliber of these jackasses who want to be reelected for another term.

Right, Mahathir?

The Rakyat of Malaysia must take note that all prices will be raised after GE13 if Barisan wins again. They will start with the GST and work their way up through everything else. Meanwhile the Umno princelings reap the harvest of your toils. Stay tuned for the next Auditor-General's report which is just the tip of the titanic iceberg.

If they can dance on stage and eat dainties stacked four plates up despite looking already so well-fed while you worry about the price of fish, what's it to them if the rakyat suffer without a voice as they have been suffering for as long as memory serves?

Wake up, Malaysia. More brains please. Care more now.