How does the Malaysian government get away with making decisions of the kind that will end up enriching Tajudin Ramli at the expense of the taxpayers?

Considering the apparently reckless way the nation's reserves are being used in this and many other previous, and undoubtedly, future bailouts of failed enterprises, one cannot help but come to the conclusion that both the entrepreneurs being aided and the policymakers in the government completely lack the ability to make good financial decisions.

These people should stop wasting the money that Malaysians have made during the good years when foreign demand was there for our goods. People should realise that the happy situation during the years when the Malaysian economy was good had more to do with a generally healthy demand for Malaysian goods by, for example, the Americans (orang asing), rather than any great ability on the part of our man in the prime minister's office.

This is not to say that Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has no business acumen. Indeed, who can say for sure that of the billions flowing into Tajudin Ramli's pockets, not a single sen will end up in other personal coffers? My vote for the first task for the new Attorney-General is to investigate this national payoff.