"Open up and say AAaaaAhhHhh!!!~!~"

A friend of mine who is actively into politics sent me a link and asked me to support the author of the blog or at least take a peep. He’s not the only one. I’ve been hearing a lot of hype about this blog. So, I went to the blog and looked at his issues stances to see if I could get why this blogger is getting so much hype from some bloggers and see if he is really someone who deserves my support. It was certainly interesting to say the least. The focus of the blog is about the Malaysian political system. Warm fuzzy debates, controversial issues, corruptions etc. My first impression when it comes to politics blog is it will be all sterile and boring, I may just get too bored and goof off. Just seems to be the likely probability BUT not in this case. This guy has got something, he has got the balls.

What really hit me was how our Malaysia Prime Minister runs the country. It was a disaster, a complete mess. If you are Malaysian or you know what's going on in Malaysia, then you know what i'm talking about. My friend asked me, if you were Prime Minister, what would you do? Cut taxes? Beef up the military? Send our leaders on a five-year "fact-finding" mission to Shaolin Temple?

Who would ever let me become prime minister? The people sitting at the top would never let a commoner like me become a prime minister! But let us suppose for a moment that I am elected prime minister - I would change the very face of this country. Just how I will achieve this will be rather simple. You see all our leaders today are completely corrupt. I am not connected with any particular party and I have never cast my vote. For the first time in my life, i'm gonna write about my 5 cents on how to serve the country better.

The first thing I would do would be to stop policemen taking money from us forcibly on a regular basis. The major problem that Malaysia faces today is corruption. You have to pay money for everything. We are responsible for corruption because we give them money. For instance if I am stopped at the traffic signal, instead of giving my driving license to the policeman I would prefer to bribe him. But today I have stopped doing that. So the first thing as individuals we need to do is stop bribing these men because we are to blame for giving corruption a lead. And if the level of corruption lessened, our society would drastically improve. To counter corruption, I would put systems in place. We need system checks. I would look at the grassroots level, fight corruption there. Also I would try to better the standard of living of the people so then they would not need to take bribes or beg for livelihood. This in turn would defeat corruption. Yes ! 1-0 to me.

Secondly, I would change the infrastructure. It's pathetic. I drive to work everyday, the roads are pathetic, there are traffic problems and it's all linked to corruption.

I firmly believe that with good education the problem of unemployment would be solved to a large extent and that in effect would eradicate poverty. I shall create new employment opportunities and also work towards alleviating poverty in the country. I know it cannot be achieved overnight, but sustained efforts towards this will surely prove fruitful within a certain period. People here take to crime only because they do not have anything worthwhile to do.

And finally, I would also like to make politicians a lot more accountable. Corruption is the root cause of lack of development and I would try and make our government a lot more transparent. I shall also try and enact tough laws to check corruption in bureaucracy which have squandered enough public money so far. I shall also make people in power accountable to the public wherein the elected representatives will have to show results during their tenure. They have to take concrete steps to improve living conditions of the people. If they don't, then I shall bring in a law barring them from contesting in forthcoming elections.