The basic objective is good for the nation, the issue is the way BN has gone around implementing those projects for the benefits of cronies and consequently their interests. For example, the Mamak followed Margaret Thatcher on privatization of ports, it was a wonderful idea but the terms offered to their cronies made the nation lost out. Our version must be the only edition uniquely available only in Malaysia where the proponents are assured of both the cake and take home whatever left on the table. In reality, many of the projects undertaken locally are not different from other Gomen; nothing really original but we all disputed the mode of implementation which was based on the so-called Negotiated Tenders! You don’t need rocket science to manage a country! Only Honesty and Sincerity! Put every national project on the table and call for the best terms; the poor bottom quadrant can be financially assisted with means they are capable of handling not just spoon feeding them; as can be seen that every Malaysian is seeking such mode of financial assistance! Such mind set can only push the nation into the 3rd world status. Some one just calculated that during the 2008 financial meltdown, the us$25 billion to GM was indeed just to pay their workers at us$52 per hour. A day’s work here is us$416 or or some rmb2,600 which maybe equal to the month’s salary of the GM’s workers in China! Surely, no way can it be proven that the Chinese workers are only 4% as productive as the US workers! And it is noted that the unemployment rate in the US is falling because the Federal Gomen has started to recruit more employees; maybe with a civil service ratio better than Malaysia’s. So when we start to compare, like Malaysia the US Gomen is also hoping that the country will be able to depend on its black liquid gold for sustaining their payroll.
Without doubt all our national projects are ALL way above international market rates! And so long, the majority of Malaysian voters are willing to bite the poisoned baits; they will get hooked for another round of merry-go-round. In a sense, many have are behaving like drug addicts; in time of desperation they swallow hook and sinker with the sweet talk and petty cash from the Gomen and then moaned for the next 5 years! Significantly, such tactic seems to work and very applicable in certain strata within some of the different communities!