2008 the people came so close to their quest to end the corruption perpetrated by BN. Party from the streets, PKR, DAP and PAS, which had no real taste of Government other than PAS ruled Kelantan and a term in Terengganu, denied BN their 2/3rd majority for the first time.
This is a late night free history lesson as captured contemporaneously by one University Professor from Singapore.
The issues that infuriated the masses against BN then include Lingam tapes where the Judiciary was caught fixing cases for BN, the Altantuya murder scandal where Najib remained not charged, Razak Baginda walked free, Hindraf and other racial issues.
The sacrifice good quality people will have to make if they come into public service is reflected in Rafizi's asset declaration. Tengku Zafrul got only half the qualification of Rafizi who is an ICAEW member and yet, Tengku Zafrul earned Rafizi's lifetime assets in just two years
Rafizi only made it to a decent level of income when he was not in politics. When he was in politics, he was spending his own money.
With the kind of qualification he has, if he remained in GLC service, he could have topped Tengku Zafrul long time ago, assuming "cable" factor don't come into play.
Ramanan declared himself as a millionaire for the asset declaration with no itemised breakdown of his assets. KJ can't be anyone other than a billionaire.