Mahathir: Politics is money,thats the reality

Mahathir's tenure for 22 years has ensured that money and politics is closely entwined.There is no denial that it was during his time that money politics was prevalent and political patronage through the dispensation of contracts to his cronies was a common occurrence.But this need not be the case if we had honest politicians. Only dishonest politicians need to resort to such dishonest practice of using money to secure support.

For most of mahathir's tenure he had used money politics to win elections by the common practice of promising his electorates money to build schools, roads and other incentives in order to secure their votes. This old practice was continued with the present P.M , Najib with a disappointing result.It seems the voters are now wiser. Offering tax payers money to obtain their support in no longer tenable.We can only hope this corrupt legacy of Mahathir will no longer be acceptable by Malaysians.