Sunday, June 20, 2010

Subsidies: Time to get out of mindset

DATUK Seri Idris Jala found himself facing a barrage of criticism, and even a demand for him to be sacked from the Cabinet, when he said the country risked going bust if our Budget continued to be in a deficit.

Many of our politicians prefer to put on the blinkers and pretend that all is rosy and fine in Malaysia, and assume that we are still ahead in the region.

Here’s the bad news. We may have gotten out of the recession and the Prime Minister has taken bold initiatives to make things work but we’ve got to get out of this mindset.

Read more here.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

your star paper gonna play its role too?

walk the talk, wcw. star paper still wanna sell Port Klang Fleece Trade Zone is viable?

expose the corruption by the cronies and spare no one including your masters from MCA. then, tell us to sacrifice together,ok. else, appreciate star stops the preaching down to the masses.

Chong said...

While I agree that subsidies must go. I would like to also see that at the same time the government is prudent on the spending, increase the per capital income, admit that corruption is happening and a real threat to the country.

We do not want to hear slogans here and there. We are concrete action. Sorry, all I hear is "cakap tak serupa bikin".

Anonymous said...

LOBSIDED VIEWS, WHY THERE IS NO MENTION OF CORRUPTIONS, KICKBACKS AND ON GROSS MISMANAGEMENTS OF FUNDS IN THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT, GLCS SUCH AS SIME DARBY AND STATUTORY BODIES SUCH AS FELDA, IN YOUR GETTING OUT MINDSET???

MSMES ARE STRICTLY CONTROLLED BY YEARLY RENEWAL LICENCES THAT THEY MUST HELP SPIN DISTORTIONS, LIES AND HALF TRUTHS FOR AND IN FAVOUR THEIR PRESENT MASTERS & NO DOUBTS THAT ARE THE LOBSIDED VIEWS OK???

Anonymous said...

You have no guts to post these truths:-

Cancerous Disease

Kill the cancerous disease and the patient will survive, likewise get rid of the root cause and the Nation will survive and thrive.

It does not matter what they do because whatever they do will be to no avail. Like RPK said in London, it is no good attempting to treat the symptoms because it just simply will not work. It is the cancerous disease that should be treated. So therefore as long as UMNO is in the driver seat then absolutely nothing could be done. Before anything else, UMNO will first have to line their pockets, then their families pockets, then their cronies pockets and then whatever morsels left to the selected segment of the rakyat. So how much is enough? It does not matter how much natural resources Malaysia possess for come one day these resources will eventually be exhausted. Then what?

Be like Singapore one might suggest. But do our leaders have that mentality and maturity to do so? With the present government – not by an extra mile mate!

Now the UMNO BN Rogues will bankrupt the Nation’s Coffer and cut subsidies to rob the poor and to subsidize their rich crony Tycoons so that the benefits can go back to them on demand. All the poor rakyats were having a bad deal since 53 years ago with them in power not once did they not squeeze the Rakyats with taxes after taxes now they will try to impose GST 4% on all levels that will resulted in more than 16% taxes imposed on all ordinary basics consumers’ goods from materials Suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers to retailers. Now they are trying to cut subsidies but they are not cutting back taxes but instead increased the taxes. They had also fleeeced cash rich Felda and other GLCs like Sime Darby are not spared.

Also it was discovered that they have their cronies increased the prices of foods such as vegetables and fruits included, also they have allowed their cronies to increase the prices of all basic construction materials including cement and steel to further squeeze the Rakyats’ well being of a reasonable survival in these bad times.

So what can we the rakyat do? Well we can change all these just by a stroke of the pen. Quoting RPK, ‘We the rakyat is the boss’. So come GE13 with the stroke of the pen, we could effectively change the government and consign UMNO/BN to the gutter. Well not totally to the gutter but enough to effect them to be the opposition as at the end of the day checks and balances are still needed irregardless of who is forming the government on that day.

ALL MALAYSIANS IRRESPECTIVE OF RACES ARE SUFFERING THE OPPRESSIVE RULE BY THE ROGUES OF UMNO BN AND WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT THERE ARE MORE RPKS WHO DARE TO EXPOSE & BRING OUT ALL THE WRONG DOINGS OF THE CORRUPTED LEADERS OF UMNO BN TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WHOLE WORLD SO THAT ALL MALAYSIAN VOTERS WILL VOTE WISELY COME GE 13 AND BRING DOWN THE CORRUPTED AND OPPRESSIVE UMNO BN GOVERNMENT SOONEST POSSIBLE FOR THE FUTURE WELL BEING OF ALL MALAYSIAN CITIZENS AS THE COUNTRY’S RESOURCES WILL SOON BE DEPLETED IN NO TIME UNDER THE WASTEFUL AND CORRUPTED UMNO OFFICIALS MIS-MANAGING THE MALAYSIAN ECONOMY.

The war that was necessary to be fought by all Malaysians is the only war against corruption by UMNO Rouges and their oppressive rule by their using Police Force as their tools to suppress dissents ok?

This is necessary so the said Govt. Coffers will not be empty when the new PR Govt. took over from them come next GE, Malaysian Voters should know what is required to throw them all out then because future generations of Malaysians will suffer great poverty after Umno BN would have bankrupted the Govt. Coffers by then if there is no CHANGE OF HANDS AFTER DECADES OF MIS-MANAGEMENT OF THE ECONOMY AND HIDING THE DAMAGED DONE BY POSTING RECOVERY STORIES AND THE OVER-GLORIFIED NEM IN THE MSM FOR SHOW ONLY, HOW TO BELIEVE THE MSM WHEN WHAT THEY TRULY DID WAS TO TELL ALL SORTS OF LIES OR DISTORTIONS FOR THE UMNO BN GOVERNMENT IN POWER WHO CONTROLLED THEIR YEARLY RENEWAL PUBLISHING LICENCES.

arbee said...

When Gen.Mc Chrystal made sour comments of the AFghan policy, he was briefly removed. Idris Jala is making comments which disfavors the interests of investers both local and foreign, and therefore distasteful to the cabinet colleagues. I suggest he withdraws himself from the cabinet, i.e. if he values his image and coporate worth at all. Or is he making waves for his own private agenda?