Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What a
simple yet effective way to look at our problems and go to the root
cause to solve our problem.
Evidences of power corruption can be seen in the following
devillish wrong doings:-
(1) Keep increasing taxes, GST, profiteering through
farming out essential government services to GLCs to charge full
market rates while hoarding our tax payers' monies for their own
self-glory and other selfish agendas.
(2) Keep denying problems with excuses using the media to carry
good news while playing down bad news and pushing problems to the
people.
(3) Legalistic passing of all sorts of laws to undermine
democracy e.g. GRC and approving their own million-dollar self
rewards while avoiding answering to mistakes like Mas Selamat or
Shin Corp.
(4) Putting up good shows and falsehoods but failing to address
the root causes of problems.
If we have a government running the country with the
above-stated happenings do we still have a good government one
governing with compassion, honesty and integrity to serve the
people.
With this kind of records of serving its own selfish interests
and agendas can we now believe that the opening of flood gates to
let oreign workers in to practically take over almost every and any
jobs (except top civil servants' and ministers' jobs) is like
stated by Minister Ng Eng Hen going to create more jobs or good for
the country or its people any more.
It is clear that when a government through power corruption is
no longer able to differentiate between simple good and evil even
in making their own connected elites answer for simple acts of
incompetence like Selamat, NKF, Shin Corp, Global Crossing or UBS
it is way beyond redemption and reasoning. It is power corruption
where the power is fighting to preserve its own interests and not
that of the people.
We need only simple wisdom to guide us the people. "Power
corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is the wisdom we
have to subscribe to.
We need to go back to basic to realize and correct the root
causes of problems.
We need to have many civic-minded people who could make a good
society to uphold high morality and honesty (without all the
hypocrisy like calling people complacent for their own
incompetence) like the good old days.
Stop disputing among ourselves the citizens over petty issues
and go for root causes of problems before we could make change and
have high standard of governance for once after 40 plus years of
hypocrisy.
There is no other solutions or shortcuts.
