Comments on: Abdullah just don’t get it - that he has already disappointed Malaysians after biggest-ever electoral mandate 4 yrs ago

By: ktteokt

ktteokt — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:28:16 +0000

“Support him?!!

To let him have more time to sleep and travel overseas?
To have more corruption and social contracts?
To have more backward development for the country?
To have more abuse of power and scandal?
To have more suffer and injustice to the people of Malaysia?” - Pocket

Pocket, you forgot one more item - “To let him marry a second time or may be third?”

By: ktteokt

ktteokt — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:10:33 +0000

How can he hear anything, including the truth when his ears are stuffed with wax poured in by the UMNOPUTRAS!

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:18:17 +0000

If his request is real, he should start listening than being in denial syndrome. As a prime minister, there’s a lot of things he can do to improve the resent condition. However nothing solid being done.

As a lightweight, he will remain as a lightweight. He is just not capable of leading the country. He is only capable of leading the country into destruction.

Any vote for you? Not from me, sir.

By: Mr Born In Malaysia.

Mr Born In Malaysia. — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:50:42 +0000

I always remember the phrase he said ” To hear the truth from any Malaysian however unpleasant they are”.
Now , we see people trying to convey what thay want to say and they are stopped before they even have a chance to utter their complaint. Yes!Complaints are unpleasant but he said it before that he would hear it out. Citizens are even sent to ISA detention for raising a complaint. And there I thought ISA is only for criminals who will jeopardise National security.
Isn’t it true that Majlis Perbandaran destroyed the Hindu temples or are those pictures shown in the Youtube web site cooked-up by somebody.
The fact is , I have even seen it once with my own eye at my Taman how they ran a bulldozer into a Hindu temple and flattened every thing. But before that they allow the indians to take out the deities and when all were flattened they are allowed to place the deities back on to the ground without a single shelter left. What an insult to the Hindus and the whole religion.

By: limkamput

limkamput — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:24:29 +0000

oknyua, it is the same. Ask yourself, who get the helicopter loans? It is the privileged and the well-connected and the CEO you mentioned is put there to ensure that they get the privileges.

By: oknyua

oknyua — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:16:28 +0000

“Second, the government, the GLCs, the Statutory Bodies, banks and many privatised entities are never efficient because by implication they are managed and operated by people who need privileges and protection.” Limkamput

Hey I didn’t read your comment earlier. As I said I want to hear from you here.

The above statement has a lot of truth, but… there are exceptions that I experienced. In my years with the banks, whenever the CEO is a gov’t appointee, business performance was always going downhill. We had to accomodate “helicopter loans,” the loans approved up, and work-out by us below. It was a tough job. MOST helicopter loans defaulted.

Whenever we have an in-house CEO, performance improved. Maybe it wasn’t just the “privilege” factor. It was politics in play.

By: Be fair

Be fair — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:09:40 +0000

but if BN does not have the mandate in next year’s election, will the thing in 1969 repeat itself? Where do we go from here? Can we pack up and leave the country? Will Malaysia be the next Indonesia?

By: shortie kiasu

shortie kiasu — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:22:49 +0000

It is a call in exasperation, can’t blame him.

By: limkamput

limkamput — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:52:56 +0000

It is pointless now to negotiate and hope for a change within the present government. What hope do we have if the government confers privileges to the majority? How can the majority ever going to give up their privileges, what more constituencies are drawn lopsidedly in favour of the majority. Our situation is even more unattainable than South Africa during apartheid. There at least the privilege group that control the government was a minority. In Malaysia, the privilege group that control the government is the majority.

It is really illogical and unsustainable when the government accords privileges and protection to the majority. Usually we give privileges and protection to the less capable or the marginalised minority groups. So, for Malaysia, we can actually draw many inferences when the government provides privileges and protection to the majority. First, majority of the people are not capable and need protection. Second, the government, the GLCs, the Statutory Bodies, banks and many privatised entities are never efficient because by implication they are managed and operated by people who need privileges and protection. Third, the minority are supposed to work hard and be super efficient in order to carry the majority. Fourth, how can Malaysia be a competitive nation when the majority is not competitive?