Confession of an unsatisfied tax payer

I wonder if people still read this blog, since it has been abandoned for almost 6 months!  Gosh.. it has been too long!

I have a lot of things that I want to blog about daily, but somehow I managed to put it off due to laziness.  However, let's just see how far this new eagerness to blog syndrome goes...

I have a confession - I hate watching the primetime news because it is filled with all the stupid political drama mumbo jumbo that beats the cerekarama.  I even skip the local section in the newspaper most of the time because I just can't bare to read another news that will make me puke blood.  Hence, I managed to self-censor myself for quite some time now.

However, I have had a lot of spare time at work lately and had been following some blogs (with the hope to become more aware of who-is-who in the corporate world) and the things that I have stumbled upon makes me sick to the core.

The issues are not new (my 2 year stint with a GLC had exposed me to lots of these morally wrong things before).  However, it had gotten worse!

I don't know about you guys, but I seriously am riled up about how the Government is spending my hard earned money.

Issue #1

The so-called trips to other countries on the pre-tax of strengthening the relationship between countries, while at the same time attending daughter's graduation ceremony and even the same daughter's engagement event!  Seriously?  Can't you just pay for the trip youself with all the cuts you make under the table by approving all the "politcally correct" projects?  Why must you make us pay for you and your family?  Aren't you afraid of being questioned by mungkar and nangkir about your duties and responsibilities that you should have fulfilled?

Issue #2

Another issued exposed over the last few days was about how a certain ministry had spent RM1.8 million of the public money to set up 6 facebook pages.  OMG!  My 7 year old niece can set up her own facebook page and she doesn't even have to pay a single sen. 

Granted that you need to fork up some cash for the advertising and what not... but RM1.8 million?  Seriously?  Why can't you just hire an executive to handle all the social media advertising and maintain all 6 facebook pages and pay him say RM3,000 a month? That will amount up to RM36,000 per annum.  Even if you hire a team of 5 people to handle the unit it will only cost you 10% of the amount that you are spending right now!  That is our money for God's sake..!

Issue #3

Increasing the electricity tariff because the Government cannot sustain the subsidy that it has to fork out yearly.  I don't know how this will help the rakyat.  But I do know that there are other ways that the Government can save and not affect the current burden that they have set upon the rakyat.

1) The Government can stop giving out contracts to the highest bidders - it is really unjustified that you award tenders to the highest bidders!  I used to be on the other end of the table where I had to justify why we had to award a construction contract to the highest contractor just because the chairman of the construction company was an ex-chief of army or something like that.  It was really SHITTY because I know that it was wrong but I had to do it because "saya yang menurut perintah"... Come on!!!! The extra cash that you are forking out of the public fund can be put to a better use.

2) Stop paying the international consultants to come up with textbook templates for the Government strategic plans.  Their fees are ridiculously high but the result will get you no where if you keep going on running the country the way you are doing right now. 

I can go on and on about this issue and I know it will not get me anywhere.  However, I know I am going to do something about it during this up coming General Election.  For the first time in my life, I am going to vote (yes I have not voted before - bad bad bad i know!).  But I guess it is not too late to start and voice out my rights as a rakyat.

The Government better do something about all this or else they will start losing votes.

I know they have lost my vote for sure...




binx:  i wish i could migrate somewhere else...