Poverty does not discriminate but NEP does

 RCZ: So what are you trying to say, Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein? Was the New Economic Policy (NEP) right on hindsight? I think not. Are honest and constructive views being given to the government? Of course, they are.

Are views being aired in a civil manner? Yes, and yet the ones airing it get arrested and chucked out and suspended from Parliament.

Are we getting the government we deserve? No. Are we getting the future we choose? No. So what are you trying to say, I ask again?

Prudent: The piece of the pie given to the Malays was progressively not enough to uplift the Malays because:

1) They did not work for it but was handed it as an entitlement;

2) Their birth-rate is relatively more than the increase in the pie as compared with the other races, resulting in a decreasing individual share of the pie;

3) Their population was and still is being exponentially increased by immigration from Muslims countries, who automatically qualify for the NEP’s preferential treatment resulting in rapid dilution of the pie; and

4) Corruption by the Umnoputras siphoned away the national wealth leaving an even smaller pie to be shared.

For now, any increase in the pie and the pie itself is being financed by national debt.

Swipenter: After more than four decades of NEP, we now have ‘starving’ students, with many families trying hard to cope with the cost of living.

We have ministers telling us to tighten our belts, take on two jobs, bring home-cooked food to office and schools, grow our own vegetables, etc, to cope with rising cost of living and inflation, whilst they live in style and flaunt their wealth.

None of them has come up with any real solution but they shout that the NEP must continue to benefit only one community and ironically that community is having the widest income disparity and is growing even wider.

Poverty is blind and does not discriminate but NEP does. If that is not enough, another minority community is scapegoated for the failings of the main beneficiaries of all the affirmative actions since 1971 right up to the present times.

Rafidah: Razak will ‘turn in his grave’ if…

6th Generation Immigrant: The end is nigh and it’s all because of political hegemony in every nook and corner of our Malaysian pillars of administration.

We see the end results of over 60 years of putting, pushing or appointing people through only political and racial lenses.

Most of these people do not merit to be appointed/promoted in the first place. This exercise is like a national inbreeding programme (incestuous) and our nation today produces only offsprings of idiots, mongoloids and low IQ leaders sitting at top levels of the country.

Yes, former PM Abdul Razak Hussein would surely roll over in his grave as none of the present set of leaders are fit to carry his ‘chapal’ (slippers).

Swipenter: The rakyat are nervous about the health of our economy and politics. It’s not difficult to understand.

Malaysia is in dire straits. Our domestic market is too small to sustain growth. Our household debts are at an unsustainable level. Export is on a downward trend.

Our ringgit has lost 20 percent against the US dollar. Tourist arrivals are not encouraging. Oil prices plunge from US$100 to US$30 per barrel and 30 percent of our national budget rely on oil revenue. Oil palm prices are also trending downwards.

Cost of living is skyrocketing but income is stagnant. Productivity, efficiency and competitiveness all below par compared to our Asean neighbours. Our education is of low quality, allegedly lower than that of Vietnam which is at present poorer than us.

The property sector is overbuilt. Just look at the goodies the developers are offering now. Same with the automotive sector. Plus we have huge political problems at home.

GE14Now!: How are we to go back to focusing on nation-building when there is so much asset-stripping going on (either in the guise of donations or solving 1MDB’s problems) and when every other politician is willing to stretch the boundaries of racism ever further?

How can we build nations when leaders of racist political parties classify others as racist without looking at themselves?

The nation has been tarnished by the Umno brush for more than 50 years and while we thank the BN government for the development that they have brought about in the past, the present and the future have been and are being mortgaged on the altar of personal greed by Umno politicians.

It is time for a sea change – Umno must go.

Alamak!: Thank you, Rafidah. In this you are certainly right and brave enough to speak up. Malaysia is full of cowards when it comes to good governance.

RCZ: Yes, so says former minister Rafidah Aziz, the ardent admirer and follower of Dr M who caused this mess and gave ultimate power to a megalomaniac, and of which Rafidah was part and which she fully supported.

She clutched then PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s knees and cried when she heard that he was resigning and is now singing a different tune. Once Umno always Umno.

Mosquitobrain: Rafidah, the 47 percent of voters sent in a low grade three and corrupted ‘technician’ to fix a broken system.

He cannot troubleshoot but instead created bigger messes and refused to go. So how?

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