Monday, April 24, 2006

It's the time of that TIME again where the government issues the Amanah Saham Malaysia to the public. Excerpted from today's The Star: 'PM Pak Lah said it was the aim of the Ninth Malaysia Plan to make more investment opportunities available to the people.' and then further down the article 'It is learnt that there is no limit on the number of units that a buyer can buy.' This is ironic because the rich will have bigger buying power over ordinary citizens and how is the 'no limit' clause suppose to help if not to empower the already powerful?

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You're elated to hear the good news and decided to make some decent interest out of this. You got yourself a number and you're #15 in the bank queue. You're humming a happy tune while waiting eagerly for your turn. Sometime later someone comes into the bank and press the number dispenser and gets #62. #13 is currently being attended. Then #62 saw a friend who happens to be #14 and decides to ask #14 to help with her transaction. That queue-jumper #62 managed to buy RM300,000 worth of stocks. You, who were patiently waiting in line couldn't buy it because that queue-jumper bought everything that the bank branch has to offer. You are turned away. You can only scream silently inside you or strangle #62. What's more infuriating is the fact that the queue-jumper is actually a representative of a loaded old ciku. Why would an already rich person wants to buy more stocks and if he's so eager to get even richer why didn't he get in line or even jump that dumb queue himself? Lazy ol' fart!! So its true that the rich get richer everyday by denying the struggling younger generation from buying a mere few thousands or even a few hundreds worth of stocks. Even more disgusting is the bank teller who processed the queue-jumper's transaction. Where is justice? Where is humility? Most importantly, where is common sense??

You can hug a whole wad of cash to your grave, you scrooge!

The above story is partially true because I happen to know who that ol' fart is...

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