RICH v POOR
The Malaysian government is using tax-payers’ money to the tune of RM1.10 million per annum, to benefit just three people.
MP Zulkifli Nordin (PKR-Kulim Bandar Baru) reportedly said former women and community development minister Shahrizat Jalil received RM404,726.40 (= RM 33,727.20 per month) and Hamid Othman RM549,675 a year (= RM 45,808.25 per month) just for being merely advisers to the prime minister.
[Shahrizat reportedly advises on Welfare issues, while Hamid advises on Islamic affairs]
It was also stated in written reply from PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi that former prime minister Mahathir Mohamed receives a total of RM180,000 per annum (RM 15,000 per month) after retirement.
After all, "The gap between the rich and the poor is not very much"
That is a total of RM 1.1 million expended for just three individuals, what a disgraceful waste of tax payers’ money.
Zulkifli said the RM1.1 million could have been utilised instead for other more important things, for example building 36 houses for the poor.
Such wasteful, and what seems to be unnecessary, expenditure is totally unacceptable, more so when the PM and others ministers have recently advised the people to adjust their lifestyles and tighten their belts!
Hundred's of millions of Ringgit are also being pored down the drain on wasteful and unnecessary projects, both at the state and federal levels.
It is indeed shameful, truly shameful.
Non omne quod licet honestum est
- Not everything that is permitted is honest
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