‘Alleviating Malay poverty - politicians only pay lip-service to it’

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YOURSAY | ‘It’s an appalling indictment of Malaysian society that poverty exists at the level it does.’ MP SPEAKS | The Malay urban poor MS: Thank you Setiawangsa MP Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad for opening up this can of worms. However, what has crawled out are not facts based on irrefutable statistics but emotive anecdotes that appeal to those ruled by their hearts and not their heads. What are the facts which politicians like former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad deliberately choose to ignore? Let me list just a few: 1. Urban poverty cuts across ethnic lines. 2. The urban poor has to struggle every day to put food on the table (a more exhausting struggle than the one supposedly waged by crooked and immensely wealthy Malay politicians for "race and religion"). 3. The urban poor (often clustered in ethnic ghettos) are used as ready vote banks by scheming politicians who view po…