However, they didnt think of the consequences. If the global economic turns south or the stockmarket crashes suddenly. This irreversible commitment can severely cost the government’s coffer.

The government should reduce our cost of living, create more jobs by having more foreign investors, reduce the government’s workforce. Having more commercial working citizen will increase the country’s wealth., remove monopoly of certain sector will drive competitions and reduce the cost of living, implement AFTA to the fullest, remove import/export duties and taxes, implement GST, stop trying to revive ailing company with tax payers money.

We the private sector medium income group has so little in hand for a comfortable life, cannot afford to frequently travel far without encumbrance of toll gate and increasing fuel prices, and not having affordable quality manufacturer cars..now we must bear the cost of paying higher salary to government staffs. We cant even afford a maid to aid our duty as a parents/employee.. How could we be able to pay more to the government servants?

The private sectors most of us are borrowing a luxurious life from the bank. THE BANKS owns us all. Yes, you can pay a small sum every month to drive a luxurious car..but you need to sacrifise something…

DAP you need to do something progressive, I dont see an alternative government available in our future…only a opposition party. You need to stop being an opposition party BUT be a alternative government..

“The reaction of the Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Musa Hassan to the “generous pay increase” has been quite euphoric, as illustrated by the headlines: “IGP: No more bribes, no more excuses” (The Sun), “IGP: No excuse for cops to take bribes now” (The Star) and “Musa: No leeway for corrupt cops” (New Straits Times)”.

I just got a call from a friend driving to Penang. Their car was stopped by the trafiic policeman who ‘trumped up’ a speeding charge & asked for a bribe! My friend refused & the policeman said he will send the summons by mail! Such outrageous ‘daylight robbery’. And so soon after the announcement of the salary increase!

Hey, Pak Lah – the salary increase is not big enough to offset the ‘pocket money’ from the bribes. Another failed BN scheme.
The rot is so deep and is such a festering sore, giving more handouts is not the solution!

Any more bright and rotten ideas, BN?

If not, move over; vote PKR/DAP & give them a chance to get to the root of the problem & solve them.

Again the UMNO government has lied and broken promises to the public. The UMNO government has repeatedly promised the enactment of the IPCMC as proposed by the Police Commission. It has also promised the publish the method of calculation used by the government for the bumiputra share of the listed companies under the NEP. Where are these two promises now? Still in the works??

I hope that the electorate will not forget the UMNO government’s consistent lying (this about the only consistent policy of the UMNO government) as well as the broken promises. These show that, despite all their spin, they are no men without any houour, if they know the meaning of the word.

We have to GET REAL. RM10,000 against RM500 increment?

OLD HABITS DIE HARD.

Such luxuries enjoyed till now you expect corrupt policemen to turn over a new leaf overnight? We must be kidding ourselves.

What is needed is for the govt to LOOK EAST policy. No need fly to Japan. Just goto HK. Emulate the ICAC.

Put the ACA under Parliament.

Introduce back local council election.

Dream on. We’ll get more of the same rubbish from more civil servants. It was announced today that there are still 166,000 vacancies to be filled in the civil service.

Currently, 5% of the population works for the government, the largest employer. And wasn’t it just some months ago the government said it will absorb up to 60,000 unemployed graduates to get them started?

Well, there goes transparency and cleanliness…

It is a fact that they do not agree with their own affiliations at times and you see top govt servants resigning.

On one hand we have the Singaporeans in the IDR, on the other hand the Singaporeans are not welcome in Kelantan. Again listen to what Prince K has said.

I doubt the sincerity of the govt towards any membership of whatsoever treaties, associations in this world too.

Who cares…..we’re Bolehlanders. We’ll manage ourselves.

http://malaysia-today.net/blog2006/index.php?itemid=4888

Dear Cunning Linguist,

Here at last the answer to your cocksureness and absolute certainty about Lee Kuan Yew’s facility with the Malay language was due to the FACT that he was an Indonesian, borned in Surabaya.

“From my childhood I had Malay friends. I played with kampong boys, both Malays and Chinese. At the age of 6, I went to Telok Kurau English School. There were many Malay pupils who had crossed over from Telok Kurau Malay School which was in the adjacent compound, sharing the same football field. So I grew up completely at ease with Malays: quite a few of my Malay fellow students went on with me to Raffles Institution”.

The doubling of civil servants since the mid-80s should be debated in Parliament as it puts a real burden on the rest of the taxpayers.
And we would have needed only RM4b extra expenses each year instead of the projected RM8b.

Pension adjustment is good but those getting RM5000 and more tax free, a token sum of RM50 or RM100 would have been appropriate.

http://malaysiawatch2.blogspot.com/2007/05/of-course-massive-pay-rise-has-to-do.html