misled_youth
02-02-2005, 11:43 PM
OK, all of you know I'm pretty hardlined when it comes to throwing brickbats at the government. Most of the time I make no sense.
Sometimes, people criticise that I tend to politicise everything. I'm guilty of that. I relate every aspect of our lives to politics. Every institution including religious ones, are in one way or another influenced by the ruling party.
Any organisation that doesn't toe the line is heckled and shunned. Remember Suqiu?
But the basis of most of my arguements is that our society is suffering due to a vicious circle that exist in Malaysia.
Let me describe it in the easiest means possible:
1. BN in power in 1950's due to divide-and-rule strategy
2. BN needs support, thus gives projects/contracts to cronies
3. People vote BN despite knowing corrupt practices exist and the truly deserving are left out
The following article that I have attached describes the effects of our present scenerio.
M?sia has worst income disparity in SEA, gov?t flayed
Feb 2, 05 5:42pm
Malaysia has the distinction of being the country with the worst income disparity in Southeast Asia, according to a United Nations report.
The latest United Nations Human Development Report 2004 (http://www.malaysiakini.com/link/eNrLKCkpsNLXz0gp0ivNSynQyy9K1y9KLcgvKinWT8/JT0rM0TcyMDDRBwAr/A30) shows the richest 10 percent in Malaysia earning 22 times more than the poorest 10 percent, resulting in the country having one of the worst income disparity in Asia.
http://images.malaysiakini.com/10/9/2297.jpg
DAP leader Lim Guan Eng, who is an accountant by training, has a ready explanation for this sad state of economic affairs.
"Such unequal and unfair distribution of wealth is caused by (ruling coalition) BN?s (Barisan Nasional) pro-rich economic focus of producing more bumiputera millionaires instead of creating wealth that can be enjoyed by all Malaysians," he said.
http://images.malaysiakini.com/oib/imagebank/mugshot/ali_rustam.jpgLim gave the example of Malacca Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam (left), who boasted in the state assembly last October that he had created 10 bumiputera millionaires since 1999.
"When DAP Melaka opposition leader Betty Chew asked whether it is better to have 1,000 Malaysians with RM10,000 instead of only 10 persons sharing RM 10 million, the chief minister preferred the 10 millionaires to the 10,000 ordinary Malaysians," he lamented.
Lim, who is DAP secretary-general, argued that "economic wealth should be distributed to all deserving Malaysians and not to produce the few millionaires, whether bumi or non-bumis, who are beneficiaries of crony capitalism".
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/33335
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Paradise Park Jomtien (http://pattayaluxurycondos.com)
Sometimes, people criticise that I tend to politicise everything. I'm guilty of that. I relate every aspect of our lives to politics. Every institution including religious ones, are in one way or another influenced by the ruling party.
Any organisation that doesn't toe the line is heckled and shunned. Remember Suqiu?
But the basis of most of my arguements is that our society is suffering due to a vicious circle that exist in Malaysia.
Let me describe it in the easiest means possible:
1. BN in power in 1950's due to divide-and-rule strategy
2. BN needs support, thus gives projects/contracts to cronies
3. People vote BN despite knowing corrupt practices exist and the truly deserving are left out
The following article that I have attached describes the effects of our present scenerio.
M?sia has worst income disparity in SEA, gov?t flayed
Feb 2, 05 5:42pm
Malaysia has the distinction of being the country with the worst income disparity in Southeast Asia, according to a United Nations report.
The latest United Nations Human Development Report 2004 (http://www.malaysiakini.com/link/eNrLKCkpsNLXz0gp0ivNSynQyy9K1y9KLcgvKinWT8/JT0rM0TcyMDDRBwAr/A30) shows the richest 10 percent in Malaysia earning 22 times more than the poorest 10 percent, resulting in the country having one of the worst income disparity in Asia.
http://images.malaysiakini.com/10/9/2297.jpg
DAP leader Lim Guan Eng, who is an accountant by training, has a ready explanation for this sad state of economic affairs.
"Such unequal and unfair distribution of wealth is caused by (ruling coalition) BN?s (Barisan Nasional) pro-rich economic focus of producing more bumiputera millionaires instead of creating wealth that can be enjoyed by all Malaysians," he said.
http://images.malaysiakini.com/oib/imagebank/mugshot/ali_rustam.jpgLim gave the example of Malacca Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam (left), who boasted in the state assembly last October that he had created 10 bumiputera millionaires since 1999.
"When DAP Melaka opposition leader Betty Chew asked whether it is better to have 1,000 Malaysians with RM10,000 instead of only 10 persons sharing RM 10 million, the chief minister preferred the 10 millionaires to the 10,000 ordinary Malaysians," he lamented.
Lim, who is DAP secretary-general, argued that "economic wealth should be distributed to all deserving Malaysians and not to produce the few millionaires, whether bumi or non-bumis, who are beneficiaries of crony capitalism".
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/33335
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Paradise Park Jomtien (http://pattayaluxurycondos.com)