The 5-in-1 price hike could’ve been avoided?
Some people say better tackle “government leakages and corruption” first before resorting to price hikes.
Probably the most expensive of all things purchased with taxpayers’ money can be found in the military.
The general perception could be that the people with connections are made so rich that they’re feeling side effects of diet pills they’re consuming.
On 19th June 2010, Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah was reported to have said during the book launch of “The Shafee Yahaya Story – Estate Boy to ACA Chief” that even during his time helming the Finance Ministry “military toys were very expensive,” and cited the costs of a patrol craft (RM280 million), and Exocet AM-39 missiles (RM2 million each).
What he said next was quite an eye opener:
When the UK went to war against Argentina [Falklands War, 1982], the UK government tried to borrow them from us because outside of the UK, we had the most of them in the world. We must have been under some extraordinary military threat which I did not understand.
Hence, if we lessen military spending, are we jeopardising the sovereignity of the nation?
