Salary hikes of politicians is morally indefensible

Everything Dr Chandra said in this letter is true, >Increase morally indefensible but there is nothing anyone can or is willing to do anything about! Capitalism means the eventual destruction of the world's finite resources to support the elites and enslaving the rest of the 90%...

Snippets from the letter :

• I WONDER why Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat leaders did not tell the voters during the 13th general election campaign that within six months of assuming power in various states they would increase substantially the salaries and allowances of state mentris besar and chief ministers, executive councillors and legislative assembly members.
• It is critical that we move away from the pronounced elite orientation in our economy and in other spheres and give greater emphasis to egalitarian policies which will empower the majority of the citizenry. It is partly because of this elite orientation that income and wealth disparities are so severe in today’s Malaysia.
• As a result of this disparity, the social chasm that separates the “have-a-lot” and the “have-a-little” has widened considerably creating a divided society. It is one of the serious impediments on the path of “1Malaysia”.
• In the United States, unfettered capitalism – the root cause of increasing inequalities – has created a situation where the “Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, have accumulated more financial wealth than the entire bottom 40% of the United States.” This is why it is morally indefensible for legislators in Malaysia to grant themselves such hefty increments when such a big segment of society is struggling to make ends meet.
• They are merely lending credence to how an Indonesian political leader of the fifties, Syafrudin Perwiranegara, once caricatured one of Sukarno’s acronyms, USDEK – Untuk Saya Dahulu Engkau Kemudian.