There is no doubt BN does not need SAPP anymore because a traitor will never turn into a new leaf. To expel or not to expel SAPP from BN is the decision of our PM. It is not up to us to speculate.

Coming to the AP issues, although I know it is not related to this posting but since some of the ignorant citizen have touched on the issues and seems that they do not have much much knowledge about the issue, I will make some very short clarifications here. The AP was awarded to PREMIER Hybrid Cars Sdn Bhd, a company that has rights to import and distribute Hybrid car. The AP was approved by International Trade and Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin after careful consideration and assessments. The cost of Hybrid car is 25% more than the normal car. It is therefore still no assurance that these cars will generate profits for the company. Datuk Shahrin Zahari, a young and uprising businessman is however willing to take a gamble here mainly because he strongly believe that this is a good way to help transforming our living environment into a healthier’s and greener’s one for the benefit of all Malaysians. In order to do that, he needs to educate a lot of people to convert into this environmental friendly vehicles and it is not so easy. In fact 1,200 APs is never enough. Until all Malaysians realise the advantage of the hybrid cars, he can only live with these small number of APs for the moment. In addition, take note that the government did not just award the APs to any small company with no any track record. Datuk Shahrin is a shareholder and the executive chairman of Verti Global Berhad which is in the oil and gas dealing with the supply of diesel for long time. His business acumen has made him rise to the rank of top notch businessman in Malaysia and he is young and energitic. Being also a member in the committee of Putera UMNO, the government has done correctly in awarding the APs to him who has proven track records and yet who can be trusted. In his hands, we can be confident that the APs will not be misused. Some may realise that Datuk Shahrin is a good friend of our respected Mr Khairy Jamaluddin, please note that there is no connection between their relationship and the approval of APs. The approval of APs is contibuted to Datuk Shahrin’s own effort and capability.

P/S: I can’t remember who has commented that Datuk Shahrin is 28 years old. He is in fact 32 years old. Please find out the fact properly. This is a very serious misleading fact!

Please do not insult Oxford University. This is too much and off tangent!

In fact, the highly respected Mr Khairy Jamaluddin has been walking through the village roads of Rembau and spoken to the locals about the reason of the fuel hike. There are two diversely different visions of the future that are being offered by BN and the opposition. He has explained that BN’s vision for the future is far-sighted, comprehensive and completely achievable. There is nothing in the BN manifesto that is an empty promise, neither is there anything that cannot be implemented. It is, above all, a responsible vision for the future which will not leave any mounting debts for our children to bear. It is fiscally prudent and sustainable without endangering the longterm economic survival of our nation. The vision presented by the opposition, on the other hand, is something that appeals to our base instincts. It is classic populist politics.

Who can’t agree with lower petrol prices, higher salaries and a whole host of other freebies? The opposition has been exploiting the public’s fear of rising prices and an uncertain global economic outlook. The PR has taken this insecurity and turned their policy platform into an intellectually disingenuous bag of goodies that may be music to our ears but an unmitigated disaster for the future. Their principal objective is to inflict as much damage as possible to the BN – hence a populist strategy so as to materialise their dream of toppling the government come 16 Sept.

Anwar had promised that the price of fuel would be reduced if his party came into power. It was said that Anwar is capable of fulfilling this particular promise because during the eight years he was minister of finance, he managed to keep the price of petrol around RM1.10 per litre. The problem with Anwar is he doesn’t quite tell you everything. He only tells you the bits that you want to hear.Well, here’s the other half of the story. When he was finance minister, the global price of crude oil was between US$12 and US$22 per barrel – low prices which seem like they’re from another lifetime. Today, crude oil has breached US$140 per barrel and yet the price of petrol in Malaysia is only RM1.92 per litre – the second lowest in the region. In other words, the increase in the global price of crude oil since Anwar was sacked to today has been 500 per cent. The increase in the price of petrol in Malaysia during the same period has only been 75 per cent.

When Anwar was minister, of course it was easy to provide low petrol prices, simply because the global price of oil was extremely low. For Anwar to claim that this was due to his personal ability rather than the international market for oil, which is far beyond his control, is to blatantly present an incomplete and inaccurate account of the historical facts. But then again, who cares about the truth when your objective is to mislead people? Why should a charlatan care about the truth when he is taking credit for something that wasn’t his doing? The opposition parties say that they can pay for lower petrol prices by taking Petronas’ profits and turning it into further petrol subsidies. They forget to tell you that Petronas already channels almost two-thirds of its gross profits back to the government in the form of taxes, dividends and royalties. These monies go straight into development programmes. If the opposition had their way, the remaining third of Petronas’ profit would also be taken to pay for their promises.

But consider this: our oil reserves will run out in 10 years and by 2010, we ‘ll be a net importer of oil. So whatever profit Petronas retains, they use as operating capital to drill for oil in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.If they don’t do this,we will have no energy resources in the future to leave our children, simply because the opposition convinced us to take the easy way out today instead of being prudent for the future.

The bottom line effect is the government’s budget deficit ballooning from a manageable 3.2 per cent of GDP currently to more than 15 per cent of GDP. It will send us into the arms of international creditors and saddle our children with debts and contingent liabilities that they will have to pay for.

Open your eyes wide and big and see who has a better vision here!

p/S: My original intention was to clarify some misunderstandings but I have unintentionally converted this into my blog. So sorry Mr Lim!