COMMENT | Ringgit’s decline: Time to be honest with ourselves

COMMENT | Much has been said about the declining fortunes of our ringgit and yet we haven't come close to saying what needs to be said.

Artfully describing a person as corpulent, portly or paunchy, cannot alter the fact that they are plain fat. Or calling malnourished children, lanky, is to obscure a health crisis.

The time has now come to cut out the crap and say in plain language that far too many Malaysians have been living off the fat of the land, becoming obscenely obese at the expense of the rest of us.

I am talking about our greedy political elites and their backers for whom the poor are merely vote banks.

Our fathers and our forefathers, toiling in the estates and tin mines, paddy fields and farms, factories and sweatshops, put food on the family table the honest way by...