Corruption – how trendy is it?

Day in day out, all over the world people talk of corruption in the government. Their own government, another country’s government, any old government, the new government, the previous government, the future government, the bloody government.

Where I live, corruption is part of the government. No corruption, no government. Therefore, the world in my context has accepted the fact that, like it or not, I have to live with a government that will employ the mechanism of corruption to be part of its operating arm for governance.

Ok, that is fine by me.

I just came across this article about an allegedly self-proclaimed potential new leader of the country who claims he shall be the next premier come this September 2008.  Interesting. I don’t really give two rats ass about who becomes the next premier, or what type of governance he or she proposes to bring to this country. What I give a shit about is how much corruption is his or her new governance is going to practice?

Future leader, whomever who may address yourself to be, please remember that, should you be in power come this September as you so claim, then I beg of you, please oh pretty please with double sugar topping  on top, do not forget the rakyat / people. Do whatever you want or whatever you need to do to satisfy your political ego, just remember to provide better health and education facilities for the rural folks, to give more to the poor and needy, to provide more assistance to those of ethnic minority or the socially-inept due to locality, level of literacy or just plain public prejudice and discrimination.  Those kind of simple things that wouldn’t cost more than 2 or 3 million Ringgit a year to do. Light years cheaper than any of those developments the country is proposing to do.

Keep your corruption mechanism for all I care, just don’t forget the rakyat.

Cause if you do, then we’re back to fucking square one.

Should that be the case, Mr. Self Proclaim Saviour of the Nation, you’ll be needing this: