“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

- American poet Dorothy Parker

COMMENT | One of my detractors, and they are many, sent me this article about a single mother (Mary) selling nasi lemak from a trolley. A poverty porn piece of “one of your people”, he wrote in his text. He did not use “your people” in a racial sense, what he meant was the B20 group which I write about and live among.

My detractor is a middle-aged “progressive” - or what passes for progressive in this country - who I met years ago in a Bersih rally and still keep in touch with. Needless to say, he does not support the current “back door” government.

Malaysiakini recently did a piece on MPs and their grubby little fingers in the cookie jar.

What really bothered me about this piece was the amount of largess the state provides political operatives who tell us that they are fighting for the people, or in the case of the race-based parties, “race” and “religion”.

Obviously, these folks are getting their money’s worth when they agitate on behalf of voting blocs...