"The Barisan Nasional administration has fulfilled promises made at the last general election."
— Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
The self-assessment approach recently introduced to Malaysians for filing tax returns should never be adopted by the Government when talking about its own performance in running the country. Somehow it just doesn't sound right. Only the rakyat can be the judge as to whether the Government has indeed fulfilled its promises made at the last general election.
Maybe it's me, but it sounded cheap coming from the Prime Minister. It even sounded a lot like arrogance. In the Malay language, there is a saying related to the rice grain — the richer and heavier its content the more it will bend its stem down to the ground. Some people must learn to be like the rice grains — the more they have achieved, the humbler they should become.
Perhaps it is best that the Prime Minister let the rakyat be the judge — whether the Government has fulfilled its election promises. His own assessment doesn't carry much weight. Come the next general election, we shall get the rakyat's assessment in the ballot boxes; and that assessment shall be significant.
3 comments:
Sad to say, even in the next election, our votes will fail to determine rakyat's choice of government because we have a 'frogging' mentality.
This is the thing I've been talking about all this while. About 10 years ago we were all so impressed to see Anwar Ibrahim and his supporters marched and caused havoc through KL. It seemed that everyone supported him. Yet the election proved that that was not the case. So we are forced to 2 possible deductions:
The first possibility is that the whole election process itself was a big fraud. That there was actually "no election" in the first place. Whatever we saw, and whatever those foreign observers saw throughout the election process, was a charade. It was a big conspiracy which involved the Election Commissions, the ruling Government, and all those people who actually counted the number of votes.
The second possibility is that, yes, there are many people who support the opposition, BUT there are many more who support the Barisan Nasional.
I am inclined to believe there is more truth in the second deduction above. No matter how miserable I am with their wrong choice, but if that is what the majority wants, then I have no choice but to accept it, unless of course if I no longer want democracy to prevail in this country. We can't please everyone, but the thing about democracy is that the majority always has the final say. The minority will just have to live with it.
Having said that, khoo, what you are saying is also true. But maybe you are saying that from a Sabahan's point of view (are you a Sabahan, khoo?). In Sabah, it is even more frustrating because even if the rakyat voted for the opposition, the "big boys" will always "buy" those winning opposition candidates anyway. Trustworthy people are very hard to come by these days...
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