The Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP), allegedly the prime minister's biggest claim to glory, does not mean what it says. It hoodwinks the people. I am critical of it because it benefits only a few, and not those in whose name it was announced.

The only beneficiaries are those who get the contracts, those close to the centres of power, and those close to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Pak Lah). So any discussion of it which ignores the facts misses the point.

I have not yet read the 9MP. It is too expensive. If the government wanted people to learn about what it plans to do, it would have made it affordable for the masses. But the aim is for its cronies to make money.