Vote for UMNO means more misery and enslavement

The battle for freedom, democracy and the triumph of the common man, must be won over and over again. That is why we must repeat, for the benefit of new readers, our agenda to replace the corrupt UMNO government. When Dr Mahathir implored the public to continue voting and supporting UMNO, the road he offers will bring Malaysians more misery and enslavement.

What has UMNO done while being government? Each year since 1988, the government has been spending more money that it earns. That was just a year after Mahathir emerged victorious in the UMNO civil war of 1987. Since then, contrary what Najib said upon ascending the throne, the government has got bigger and moving towards more command economy and concentration of power.

Concentration of power, if Malaysians care to remember is the preferred way of old aristocracy. Believers in aristocracy and the dictator share the same faith in the rule of command. Since 1987 to 2003, it has always been Mahathir commands, you follow. Najib is just continuing what the old man has laid down.

It has borrowed increasing larger amounts. Next year, government indebtedness is going to reach almost the ceiling of 55% of GDP. If we include the contingent liabilities that it has been hiding from the public, government indebtedness has exceeded 55%.

The country is going bankrupt if this continues. The source and reason for this is UMNO-because it has not acted responsibly as a government. It’s time we remove the source and that means, we must kick out UMNO and its partners. This is a cocky government that contemptuously dismisses and ignores the legitimate concerns of the majority.

The above explanation would of course be a simple sales pitch. That kind of reasoning would be typical and much liked by UMNO sponsored cyber writers. It follows from our earlier explanation, that UMNO prefers appealing to the emotions. That would require as we said, self-praise and emotional bonding. Simply link any misfortunes to UMNO including even when the chicken in the kampong road gets run over by the UMNO van. UMNO is the source of all evils.

That approach assumes people are just unthinking digits something which UMNO people are accustomed to thinking. We differ from them. We respect people and regard them as capable of thinking and reasoning. If we convince people by way of reasoning and thinking, their allegiance to us stays firm. That will explain why the 12% swing of votes for the opposition in 2008 will not be cancelled out greatly despite millions of bribe that UMNO /BN have doled out. Even if they recover 5%, UMNO/BN will lose.

Let us now take our analysis a step further. What has the government achieved through increasing indebtedness and spending? By the way, that growing indebtedness means taking away large chunks of the economy through taxes, contributions, regulation fees, licenses, royalties, premiums etc.

What the government is doing is to enlarge its involvement in the economy through indirect means- through licenses, quotas, regulations and so forth. What it has done is to execute so many transfer programs extracting money from A to make grants to others. What it has done and hasn’t revealed to us is to cater to special interest groups- contractors, chosen individuals, IPPs, so forth.

What is UMNO’s hidden agenda by enriching ever deeply into the economy? What is has done insidiously it to take Malaysians down the road to serfdom. This is especially so to Malays who are led to believe that responsibility of taking care of themselves rest with UMNO. Let us state at the onset- It does not- the primary responsibility lies within us.

The way UMNO handles the economy is a sure recipe for creating a society consisting of a select group of super-rich Malays and a majority consisting of Malays fighting to make ends meet.

Mahathir has confirmed the road to serfdom for Malaysians and Malays. UMNO and Mahathir especially have created a society consisting of a few millionaires and billionaires while more than 8.5 million Malays live with a monthly income of RM1500 and a further 3.2 million non-Malays living on the same monthly income. 40% of the population lives under that same monthly income level. It’s the direct result of the Mahathir’s way of managing the economy and now Najib is continuing the same thing.

And Najib is trying to pull wool over our eyes. His early promise of downsizing government was a lie. When he said the age of big government is over, that hasn’t turned out to be true at all. Government has grown bigger ever since as reflected by it growing indebtedness and deficit spending. His NEM- new economic model, which he takes to mean market-driven affirmative action remains- you use discretion to select who will get rich or poor. He hasn’t got anything new to offer the Malaysian public.

What should be the agenda for the majority of us? We must move towards a creating a society that embraces free enterprise where the bulk of our economic activities are organized along voluntary cooperation, competition and limited government. The idea of big government is a threat to our freedom most noticeably to the destruction of personal responsibility. The responsibility of taking care of ourselves rests primarily on us. Relying on the government which then justifies its totalitarian inclinations will serve to enslave us.

Actually UMNO is a closet communist. Old school communism means state ownership of the means of production which can be sustained only through central planning. The two main features of communism or a totalitarian state are state control of the means of production and central command.

In modern terminology- it means control of sources of wealth or wealth making resources either directly or through business proxies/cronies and creation of monopolies through the.

The results are the same as in direct communist rule of the old school- control of the economy through a network of a cabal of cronies and the gradual enslavement of the people. Mahathir’s and Najib’s economic policies are a sure recipe for the road to serfdom.

Posted by sakmongkol AK47