To Rationalize Subsidy? Why Not Rationalize the Government?
1Malaysian government is making it’s debut to ‘RATIONALIZE’ subsidy on a few daily necessities.
All together it’s about price hike for sugar, petrol (RON 95 and 97), diesel and natural gas.
Ok, we had made known that we need to rationalize the subsidy system so that government have more money to spend on core development projects like for education, health care, infrastructure and so on.
I strongly agree that in an advanced economy, we should just let what ever goods in the market to be priced according to the market in nature.
However, I do believe that we have a lot more issues to be RATIONALIZED, from a situation somewhat ridiculous. Just name a few:
1. PKFZ project had wasted billions of ringgit and now what? Nobody is responsible for that. People who had been approving the spending with fishy arrangement are happy all the day. Did we got any RATIONAL explanation about the whole case? NO!!!!
2. The purchasing of Royal NAVY’s submarine. Some how we heard that whole deal involved murder of a poor lady, technical issue with the sub received, payment of a big amount to Perimekar S/B don’t know for wat, some more France government is investigating the manufacturer for flaws in the whole deal. What? Do we have a somewhat RATIONAL explanation? NO!!!!!
3. The book "Malaysian Maverick", had raised discussion about our ex-PM who led Malaysia for 23 years. Some part of the book pointed out that he had burned more than 100 billion ringgit in a few finance scandals. The government strongly believe that Dr M is innocent but take no action against the writer who could be charged for defamation. Anyway nobody have a RATIONAL explanation either, for whether the book is telling the truth or Dr M were always clean and clear. NO!!!!
4. While we had just been told to tighten our belt, we still got to pay for a 800 million palace. The project was started with budget of 400 million but inflated to a bill of 800 million. Who did explain to us why it was so badly budget overran? Why we need to spend so much? NO!!!!
5. Recent years we had our government servant doubled. Meaning, we need to spend double the money to pay for their salary. Why we need so many people in the government departments? Our population is not doubling up. Who the hell those excess government force servicing? Anybody can explain to us in a RATIONAL way? NO!!!!
Nobody had RATIONALLY telling us what is happening in the country. Government just pretend to be nice to people but the fact is, nobody really care what kind of life we are living.
If things got to be RATIONALIZED, the very first to be taken care of is the government who managing the country now. That’s the most ridiculous thing that need to be corrected at the current moment, URGENTLY.
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Heard elections will be held next year. Ask your friends especially those under 21 yrs to register as voters and then make the difference. Let your voices be heard loud and clear.Vote in a government that is clean, not corrupt and one that works for the interests of the rakyat. No amount of complaints will matter if we make a mistake here.
Not sure when is the election because in Malaysia, only God and PM know when will the election be.
Anyway, totally agree with you. That’s why I constantly encourage friends to register and vote. Of course, voting which party is personal choice. Last week I purposely brought a friend to SS2 pasar malam to register as voter at a temporary booth setup in the Pasar Malam..
Cheers..