Price of a parliamentary seat

The Sri Lankan rupee depreciated further against the US dollar to a new record low with the selling rate at Rs.178.10 per US Dollar.the average person’s prediction is that it would most likely get to Rs.200 by Christmas. For the poor man this looks to be a bleak Christmas.to the politicians that is nothing.a politician is given a car permit which fetches around Rs.75,000,000 and perks which take him or her to Seventh Heaven, while a poor tea estate labourer works despite the possibility of being bitten by snakes and leeches and fetching a meagre sum. This is a land of bribery, horse trading and corruption. Even the highest in the land has encouraged bribery. The buying price of a seat in parliament now is Rupees Five hundred million and the winning number is 113.The question is from where is all this money coming from and how it disappears from the country without the knowledge of the Central Bank.

The country is now without a Government, devastated by torrential rains, floods, landslides while thousands of families are huddled up in temples and schools with no Government to attend to their woes.the share market is in the doldrums and on the verge of collapse. Foreign investors are siphoning out their investments in this uncertain political mess.the rupee is fast losing its value. Misinformation is now rampant with eminent legal pundits publishing their two cents worth articles in daily newspapers and minting money.the Various Bribery Commissions that were in force are now defunct.what a waste of public funds?

A DISILLUSIONED CITIZEN