Our Greedy Politicians

Why would someone who have served for 22 years as the Prime Minister , about the same number of years as the Home Minister,and then a couple of more years as Finance Minister would still want to continue to serve the country after they have retired from public office.?What more if the service they are going to provide has no relations to their expertise?.It would have been plausible and acceptable if he was an expert in the field of oil extraction to be appointed as the Petronas adviser. Or it would have been acceptable if he was an expert in the production of motor vehicles if he was appointed as an adviser to Proton.But sadly, the former P.M Mahathir, has neither expertise in any of his appointed post and yet he was appointed and paid for his two Advisers post.

From his pension of his 22 years as the P.M , as the Home Minister, as the Finance Minister, as the Member of Parliament he would have derived a substantial sum of money from these various sources. So why would mahathir still want to continue to bleed our nation's coffers by being appointed to the two post which he cannot contribute in any way?

Then our last P.M Badawi, served for many years as a Foreign Minister, as a Deputy P.M, and finally for a term as P.M and Finance Minister and prior to his retirement as a Defence Minister.Therefore when he retired as the P.M he would also have derived a substantial pension from many of the Ministerial Post that he had held.So why did Govt appointed him as the adviser to our National Carrier, MAS? And to make sure he is well taken care off in his twilight years he was further appointed as the adviser to the Southern corridor .

With all the pension they are receiving after retirement, politicians should not exploit their positions by greedily scrambling to hold positions which merely is an attempt to squeeze more money from the nation's coffers without any tangible contributions .The Pensions that they receive should adequately see them living a life of carefree luxury.Money paid to them as Advisers could be put to better use by building Low cost Flats, schools and roads to be beneficial to the ordinary citizens.

In times of economic crisis that we are facing now, politicians should set a good example of saving public expenditure and not indulge in wasteful distribution of taxpayers money to greedy politicians.