{"id":6951,"date":"2011-09-11T00:06:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/09\/we-tighten-belts-ministers-splurge-like-no-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2011-09-11T00:06:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T16:06:59","slug":"we-tighten-belts-ministers-splurge-like-no-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/we-tighten-belts-ministers-splurge-like-no-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"We tighten belts, ministers splurge like no tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-QY1DuS1-L9w\/TghYxMJz42I\/AAAAAAAAAlI\/h3GQDELHVQg\/s200\/najib_rosmah_spending.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" style=\"float: left;\" \/>Yes, the cost of the prime minister&#8217;s trip to Perth should not be borne by taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>But  what about the cost of the other trips by the PM and other civil  servants? What about the expenses of other ministers and those so called  &#8216;official trips&#8217; abroad paid by taxpayers? <\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers are asked to tighten their belt but the government spends big on travel and other unnecessary things.   <\/p>\n<p>Why  the need for Najib to go to Perth to talk to students? Has he got  nothing better to do? What is the real reason? Maybe Pak Lah can give a  clue. <\/p>\n<p>The country is going broke but the government  is the biggest spender. If Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng can travel  cheaply why can&#8217; t federal government ministers?   <\/p>\n<p>Worse  than the money is the dishonesty in the propaganda &#8211; the Perth students  were not inspired by the PM&#8217;s speech but someone turned it into another  desparate lie.  <\/p>\n<p>Army men registered as female  voters and vice versa is the latest electoral roll scandal; what is  happening? Someone is out there doing all the cheating and we must  question what is happening. <\/p>\n<p>You have to question if  Malaysia is a democracy or demon-cracy, so-called by the BN as an  Islamic state but yet there is so much cheating. An Islamic state or a  demonic state?   <\/p>\n<p>MCA is afraid to admit that it is a  discarded political mistress of Umno and like a jilted woman still  tries to keep up appearances. Political parties that are impotent should  at least have the guts to stand up for what it believes is right.  <\/p>\n<p>MCA  is a lost cause, like the MIC. Why? They no longer are useful to  Malaysians; and Umno is also useless to the Malays except those who want  government contracts. <\/p>\n<p>Malaysians are  suffering because past generations had not dared to ask questions. Now  they are paying big, and I pity the next generation of Malaysians,  mostly Malays. <\/p>\n<p>Ask what is happening to the EPF, why  the AP&#8217;s are not given to the Malaysian Fund but to cronies, and ask  why all the money is siphoned off to cronies who then take the money out  of the country. For example, what has happened to all the Petronas  money? What has happened to all the taxpayers&#8217; money disbursed to  government bodies and GLC&#8217;s?   <\/p>\n<p>Why has privatisation  has only gone to a few people? Why do so many Malay business cronies  have businesses outside Malaysia? It&#8217;s time people started asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the cost of the prime minister&#8217;s trip to Perth should not be borne by taxpayers. But what about the cost of the other trips by the PM and other civil servants? What about the expenses of other ministers and those so called &#8216;official trips&#8217; abroad paid by taxpayers? Taxpayers are asked to tighten their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}