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Recently, a world-renowned American-Jewish economist Milton Friedman passed away at the age of 94.

Most people may not know who Mr Friedman is (frankly i never knew this man well too).But most of us knew this well-known line: ‘There’s no such thing as free lunch’

That was Friedman’s gift for the world. Through this short sentence, he tries to convey an important concept, a concept so fundamental in modern economy study. This concept renewed the Western’s conservative economic landscape. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are just one of many Western leaders who adopted his works, thus, his works are said to be the generator of the 1980-s Western economic boom.

Milton Friedman lays emphasis on the importance of governments to reduce its influence on the free market. Leaders are not supposed to provide more incentives just to seduce the hearts of its people, as this could lead to the increase of social burden. Meantime, the people will be more dependant, bringing to the rise of social greed of society as a whole.

In other words, if the government wishes to aid its people, she should let them walk by their own, not by carrying them all along the way.

This economy concept could be well connected to the recently held UMNO General Assembly. (well, if I don’t connect it to our dear UMNO, its just not me….)

When a group of people, (I don’t call them delegates, or leaders, coz I think they are NOT QUALIFIED TO REPRESENT THE PEACE-LOVING MALAY COMMUNITY), keep on shouting ‘I want this’, ‘I want that’, ‘I want theirs’…….did they realize the fact that ‘there’s no such thing as free lunch’? 

More incentives, more positions, more building contracts, more shares, more power, more university places, more loans, more Zakaria…..wow…how wonderful is that…as long as we are fierce enough, we shout loud enough, we insult them more enough, we hold the keris high enough, we will get everything we want…yeah, how great is that…

BUT, this country, my dear friends, is not a Heaven. Even in Heaven, I seriously doubt that God will provide you free lunch without you working for it…

more incentives, and this government will be poorer…

more shares, and more money will go to foreign hands…

more university places, and there will be more unemployed graduates..

more loans, and there will be more unpaid loans…

With more Zakaria, and there will be more beautiful mansions, and also more people begging for food outside its door…

An economy policy geared towards political gains and to get more votes, an economy policy which feeds our society with free lunches every single day. I don’t see why this country is not paying a huge price for it.

Dear UMNO leaders, you can take away all the rights of Chinese and Indians, coz we all know that Chinese and Indians are just powerless to say anything. Haiz, just take it…its fine with me..

BUT PLEASE, PLEASE, don’t take away my children’s future, and your children’s future…

The words of Milton Friedman will only be a reminder for us….an ignored reminder….

Rest in Peace Sir….

(Translated and Adapted from the articles of Cheng Ting Xian, my most respected local political commentator)

p/s: dear friends, thanks but I don’t think I am qualified to be a politician, ever….well, we always say that politicians are brainless and corrupted (just look at our country man..haha)…I love my brain so much and I think I still have some ethics in my mind, so I don’t think politic will be my career path..hehe

Dear Everyone, your comments, critics, corrections, judgments, condemnations, hate mails, messages with virus etc are most welcomed.

To quote our dear PAK LAH: ‘No one is perfect! ‘

This week is a sad week for Malaysia….Social justice went dead, ridiculous things went rampant…and the country seems like heading backwards..As a Malaysian,its a sad fact that we are just powerless to make a change…and this blog can serve nothing but an express of outrage, agony, and speechlessness…

While the country is specaluting who is the Mongolian model? Betting on whether Abdul Razak will be convicted….a temple, a chinese temple was brought down in Bukit Mertajam,here in penang..neither by tsunami nor earthquake, but by the tractors of the local government, the tractors which are bought with taxpayers money, our money…

6 devotees and a DAP YB was arrested when they were just trying to defend the freedom of religion…warning gunshots were fired, crowds of devotees were treated inhumanly while a few local pro-government leaders can only watch as the building went down..hopelessly…no,it did not happen in any else, it happened right here in Malaysia…

Certainly, one can argue that the temple was built illegally, one can say that the plans are not approved, its against the law….but FOR GOD"S SAKE its a temple..a temple that stood tall for more than decades…why now? why demolish now? after so many years of history, you cant blame the people for trying to defend the temple…

its a sacred place, a holy temple where people practice their faith to the almighty…under the name of our rukun negara KEPERCAYAAN KEPADA TUHAN….even Prophet Muhammad stressed that place of worshipping,regardless of any faith, should not be humiliated even during wartime…so why must we bring it down???

OK, fine, bring it down, its illegal, the law must be obey…fine…there’s nothing i can argue..lets bring a holy scared chinese temple down..

BUT WAIT A MINUTE …500 km south, in a town named Klang, a banglo,no no…a mansion, or shall i say, a palace, Istana Idaman as they call, stood tall…untouched…near completion…splendid…AND ONE MORE THING…ITS ILLEGAL TOO …..wow…

Why is it not brought down? the plan of the ‘palace’ wasnt approved too, the design of the building is really nice, but not according to the law….it is located in the middle of a low cost and atap housing area..and anyone with a pair of eye can tell you that the location is just inappropriate..TAK SESUAI LAH…..

The owner of the beloved istana is Datuk Zakaria Md Deros, chief of UMNO bahagian klang, and also a selangor assemblymen. i have to admit that he have his taste in architecture, what a waste he’s becoming a yb, he can be an architecture consultant, look at his taste wow..he reminds me of saddam hussein…their taste of architecture is really high-class….

and the story goes..i think all of you know the how it went (unless u r not a malaysian, no offence)…all the news, that his restaurant is also illegal, that his son and daughter in law is also a local councillors, that he refuses to meet the Sultan of Selangor (o ya,he was "sick") etc….if this happen in any other civilised country (other than N.Korea), it will mean the end of his career, and his son’s career…and his business will be over, and he could land his ass in jail..

BUT WAIT AGAIN, he later " brilliantly" cried in front of the media (this guy,i tell u, is smart ! ), crying out loud of innocents, saying he is damm sorry, that he shouldnt have done watever he did, that he will not repeat again….oh my god, how touching is that, even i felt like crying watching the press conference…oh my god… T.T

and as a country so forgivingful, negara pemaaf i would say, the UMNO supreme council decided to FORGIVE HIM…

WHAT THE HECK??? FORGIVE A CRIMINAL?? yes dear, we should forgive him…because there’s is no proof that he makan rasuah man…no proof…BUT WAIT ! HOW CAN THERE BE ANY PROOF, IF THERE’S NO INVESTIGATION AT ALL !!! ALAMAK !

The Anti Corruption Agency (aka BPR) received too many complaints from klang citizens..and yet THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO INVESTIGATE…the reason? this is an UMNO case…its different…UMNO will investigate themselves…mind your own business…

while, i bet UMNO do have a CSI team because they can investigate so many things…but wait…did they really investigate Datuk Zakaria??

they said they did, Pak Lah said that, it must be true…and it turns out that Datuk Zakaria is a PEMIMPIN TEMPATAN BERJASA, and he only did a few KESALAHAN KECIL…small small matter only…dont worry..be happy…and his istana can stay (no need pindah la..just pay some fines), he can keep all his ‘clean’ money, his business as usual (just change location)

and he live happily ever after….wow..just like a fairy tale…MALAYSIA BOLEH !

and this week, in the perhimpunan umno, a Umno Pemuda delegate openly called Datuk Zakaria ‘"ayahanda"’ (dearly father) and warned any people who tries to challenge Zakaria is challeging the Agenda Melayu !!

hey dude…let me tell you frank…we are against zakaria, we despise him, AND ITS NOTHING ABOUT HIS RACE OR SKIN COLOUR lah…we are against him because he did something against the law, and yet no action was taken against him…its just ridiculous !

PAK LAH said nobody is perfect… sure, he’s right! Gerakan Party do have a high post member who is a drug dealer, BUT HE IS EXPELLED FROM THE PARTY and taken action by the COURT OF LAW, HE IS GOING TO BE HANGED, justice is served. But for zakaria, an UMNO member, the case is different.Dear PAK LAH, i dont really like DR mahathir, but if this scandal happened during his days, i am sure that ZAKARIA will be squashed out from the politic arena, forever….PAK LAH, u can and should have done better!

recently, the plan to build a RM 400 million new palace for our Yang Dipertuan Agong was launched. No, its not illegal this time (not like zakaria)…and i have to say again that malaysians can build really great and gorgeous building…but wait…how many schools and clinics can we build with rm400 milllion? shouldn’t we build more schools rather than palaces? what is the use of a grand palace when there are people starving outside the palace wall?

its juz sad to see all these things happen in malaysia..its juz sad…

if u r saddenned by this post, i am sorry to spoil ur day..