Buy (by) Elections

The Election Commission is meeting very soon to set the date for the Buy Election in two places, one in Bukit Gantang and the other in Bukit Selambau. It seemed this time the Buy elections are all going into the hills, unlike the last one which was an estuary.

Despite our gloomy economy due to the world recession, a lot of money will be flying around in the buy-elections.

The retailers in many huge department stores are reporting a drop in sales, indicative of the reduced disposable income of the general population. But owing to the coming buy-elections, quite a number of retailers and suppliers are going to get orders for posters and flags. So even though the supply of money is not forthcoming to purchasers of goods and services, but some people are going to dig into their war-chests for the silver and gold to be pawned in order to buy-elections.

So whoever thought that politics is subservient to economics would be proven wrong since we are going to see a lot of bullshit being bombarded in the local electronic and print media about how well we are managing the country.