Spendthrift child, gambling father

An individual or a family’s issue is already making such an impact on us. What impact would it make if it happens on a national scale? Where your country’s leader is both a spendthrift and a gambler? What would neighboring countries feel? How would they see us? How WOULD you live, or rather, how would you survive?

By ViewAct

I believe I do not need to explain much as the title is clear enough for anyone to understand. That even if you are a billionaire, you’ll still be broke if you are a hardcore gambler. And your wealth will never reach your grandchildren if you have a spendthrift child. Worse still if one is both a hardcore gambler and at the same time a spendthrift himself!

Well, politics may be too difficult for some simple people to understand, what more if they have been confined in an underdeveloped village for far too long, or had been pampered with goodies for too long. Well, let me then tell a bedtime story to them. And hope that they will have “sweet”, enlightening dreams tonight, and wake up a refreshed person.

It makes me shiver in fear just to think of what would happen if my family members, or myself, am suffering from such a predicament. It would really hurt everyone who cares, and would give them trouble, including neighbors. You wouldn’t like to be close to such a neighbor, would you? What if he asks you to lend him money? What if he is too desperate and robs you?

If a family member or the head of the household is of such kind, what would happen to the children? Ever read in the newspaper about a father disowning a child due to harassment from loan sharks? Or where children decided to disown a gambling and drunkard father? What do you feel deep inside when such news appear in front of your eyes? Forget about it?

Now, an individual or a family’s issue is already making such an impact on us. What impact would it make if it happens on a national scale? Where your country’s leader is both a spendthrift and a gambler? What would neighboring countries feel? How would they see us? How WOULD you live, or rather, how would you survive?

We now have leaders and officers that simply take national funds to be used on unnecessary things like a million dollar advertisement; overseas trips; buying of properties; enjoying lavish holidays with the whole family; overseas trips for MPs without a valid reason; “training” trips that does not get its participant trained; purchase of unusable military “ornaments” to be displayed; buying expensive “accessories only to find it not “matching” his taste (like the indelible ink), etc without proper control. How the heck do such allocations get approved in the first place? Now, isn’t this similar to a spendthrift child who takes a father’s money and spends it recklessly? There is no sense of worry or the feel of wastage in this child.

We also have leaders who take public funds to bet for their comrades to win in elections. And upon winning, take public funds again to serve as the reward. We have leaders who put money into everything to ensure it turns out to their liking; and leaders who again use money to buy their way through illogical, irrational, and irresponsible behavior.

Also, does the sentence “If you behave, I will buy you a toy” sound familiar to you? Well, our royals are now being treated in such a manner – “If you support us, I will put you up on the throne”, or “If you side us, we will give you land”. Instead of the royals being the “father”, they are now the “child”, and have to “behave” to get goodies. To make things worse, the new father tells the son that he does not need to learn anything, or do anything. Just sit down and behave, and food will be served on his plate. This makes the royals becoming more and more dependent on the “father” for survival. Not only that, the “father” has taught them to spend lavishly on everything. So they can’t live another day without the financial “subsidies” from the father. This has ensured that the child will side the “father” always, and would not dare to oppose him.

Now, the father has been spending recklessly and has been gambling. The royal child has also been under control. What is left are those children who really worked hard to try to support the “family” (in this case – the country). They worked day and night, to make ends meet. Other than the monthly necessity allowance (Tax), their money is robbed by the father to finance his “spending sprees”, and “gambling” sessions by means of price hikes, new policies like GST, etc.

These hardworking children are having a hard time, and it is getting harder each day as the appetite and greed of the father has doubled. They are pressured, squeezed, and drained. Some of them could not take it any longer and have disowned the father and left the house (Migrated); some decided to work somewhere else where they can earn better to support this “family”; some are still unaware of the situation and keep blaming everybody else; some followed in the footsteps of the father, to be “just like daddy”.

Now the neighbors are worried about the attitude of the family and have decided to distance themselves. Some of them took advantage of the “dumbness” of the father and are selling unnecessary, unusable stuff to the father, which the latter would happily buy, at the expense of the hardworking children’s hard-earned salary. (By the way, what and where is that “swimming-pool-floating” submarine doing now?) Most will just view him with scorn and disgust. Nevertheless, he still views himself as a respected person with high regard from people around him, not knowing that he is laughed at behind his back.

Soon enough, more and more hardworking children will leave him. And to compensate for the loss of “financial” support, he will press whoever is remaining to provide him with more. And that strains the relationship further. Should this be left to continue, most hardworking children would leave and the family will be ruined. In desperation, they may resort to taking loans from neighbors, putting the country’s resources as “deposits”. That would put the country further into debt. Eventually, when he cannot settle the debts, the creditors will have to confiscate the “deposits”. We will soon not only lose territory, oil rigs, etc. Our country will one day be literally owned by foreigners. Talk about betraying the nation, who’s doing it right now?

Children of Malaysia and dear royals, dream you may at the moment. Sweet it may be as you gobble money and resources “given” by the gambler-cum-spendthrift father, feeding and partying at the expense of other hardworking brothers and sisters. For you may be enjoying now, but surely you would lose them one by one as they leave the house. And before you know it, the household will be left with debts of unimaginable scale. At this time, the “father” would run away from the house, leaving the loan-shark to look for you. And to pay for minimum “installments”, you will have to allow them to dig up your garden; take your food; or even “pajak” your belongings to pay them. You’ll live in the house, but not own it anymore.

Is that what we want? Is that how we want our children to live? It’s time to wake up from that dream and make a better day from today onwards, so that we would not be having nightmares anymore.