Dear power-that-be,

You do not know me although I know about you, since you are such a famous person.

I am just one of the millions of voters in this country we called our home.

I am one of those who voted regularly, and through this process of voting, we selected our representatives to form the government.

You are one of the representatives elected by the people , even though the votes are secret and you would not know how each and everyone of us voted. You won because majority of the people in your area voted for you, and your party won the majority of the seats in Parliament, which is the place where all the representatives elected by people like me meet to think how to govern this country on our behalves.

Although you owe your position, and by extension, your trappings of power and your wealth to our votes, you do not need to be grateful to us.

We do not want you to be grateful to us, either. We just want you to do the job, that we have given you, well.

Just like in a company, if a CEO and his team can do a good job and earn good dividends for shareholders, the shareholders would be happy and reward the team with another extension of tenure .

But when the management team is not functioning well, and our company prospects are affected, the shareholders will have the right to choose another team to replace your team.

The situation is the same here. We voted you and your team to power so that you can carry out projects and policies that benefit all of us…

It is our rights as the ultimate boss to have schools built, hospitals well manned, roads paved, drains cleared. It is our rights to have protection from security forces which are funded by us. It is our rights to earn a decent livings by having licenses given to us by the very people that we put in place in the first instance. It is our right to have a well run civil service, since the civil servants are our employees, so to speak.

So as the ultimate boss, we expect development; we expect progress. These development and progress must be continuous and should not be on an ad hoc basis. Projects and money taxed from us should not be used by your team as bargaining gifts to influence our votes during by elections and general elections.

As the ultimate boss, it is our right to throw out of office any representative who is not heeding the wishes of the people, who is not functioning well, and who is on the take. It is our right as citizens.

And please do not say we are not grateful if we did not vote you, since to function well is part of your job description, and you have to fulfill your job description in order for us to vote you in again, and not by using projects to exchange for our votes.

If you are too busy to remember what I have written, just remember one thing… The people, and I am one of them, are the real Bosses.

Thank you for taking up your precious time,

by Dr. Hsu Dar Ren
Gerakan Central Committee Member