Nowadays, if people realise it, UMNO no longer talks about its record of achievements. It cannot because it has but a dismal record of achievements to talk of. It’s a case of how the economist Milton Friedman puts it- Bright Promises, Dismal Performance’. Public debt has reached RM504b not including the RM117b contingent liabilities it provided for various GLCs. There is increasing monopolistic tendencies that can only be supported in the long run, by collectivist tendencies( read totalitarian inclinations).
After 55 years of UMNO rule, 8.7million Malays live with a monthly income of RM1500 and 7.2 million live with a meagre monthly income of RM1200. The level of respect that goes with giving out RM5000 after 55 years is 2.47sen a day. That’s how much UMNO respects the recipients while they plunder and pillage the country and make merry, while there is increasing misery.
That to Fuhrer Najib, is an outstanding achievement that cannot be equalled by the opposition because they don’t have the experience and the economics to do it. The experience we don’t have mein fuhrer, is how to plunder and pillage the country.
The figures on the economy are massaged so as to inspire confidence into a lacklustre economy. The main players in the economy remain a chosen few of friends and cronies making Najib’s boastful pledge of implementing a New Economic Model entirely hollow.
There is a breakdown in law and order- the UMNO government has failed to protect its citizens from being set upon by other citizens- because the perpetrators are the brownshirts from UMNO. UMNO is behaving almost Nazi-like. Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Furhrer- One People, One Nation and One Leader! The fuhrer looks the other way as his brownshirts intimidate and assault fellow ctizens. He has the lapdog Himmler Hisham as Home Affairs Minister.
To win votes, UMNO does the exact opposite of what it preaches.
Where is the 1 Malaysia ideal other than people coming together to point an index finger shouting something which no one believes in? Najib preaches togetherness in name, but practises the vilest ways to disunite people. UMNO screens the film Tanda Putera in order to remind people of the racial clashes in 1969. But then it’s an UMNO inspired film and probably funded to. The film thus dances to the tune UMNO plays.
He does all these to ensure UMNO retains power and keeps people on edge. UMNO survives on making people distrust each other; remain fearful and absolutely dependent on UMNO.
1 Malaysia means just that- submission of all Malaysia under UMNO hegemony where corruption is second nature. There is no political coalition as lopsided and more unequal as BN where UMNO dominates everything. The coalition in Pakatan is more credible because it’s a union of equals. Under BN, it’s a union under UMNO hegemony.
Where is the new Economic Model- the affirmative action that is supposed to be market driven, transparent and merits based? Suddenly we hear things like giving up 223 acres in Kelang to supposedly get a centre for military training. It ended up in a financial legerdemain causing the Arm Forces Trust to buy back land which it owns. It ended up paying off a carpet seller to silence him. It was done in a manner directly opposed to the terms of reference on NEM.
Puspahanas wasn’t a project that’s market driven ( no open tender), was not merits based( Raja Ropeah’s forte is construction and property development?) and it was certainly not transparent. UMNO will never abandon its corrupt culture nor will it give up its institutionalised rent-seeking behaviour.
It’s pathetic to hear and see the PM pleading with the nation to give him trust and confidence to lead the country for another 5 years. Maybe he doesn’t realise it- so many people succumbed to nausea listening or hearing him on TV, sometimes pleading, sometimes coaxing and sometimes insisting. Please give me your trust people, your nambikei, lutolonggua-guatolonglu.
Trust must be earned Herr Prime Minister. Right now, we don’t see a leader. What we see is a slumlord with wads of cash in hand, doling out moneyed kindness.
What exactly did the PM offer Jamalulkiram III? I will not be surprised to learn eventually that Najib made some offers to the Sulu Sultan in exchange for political support. He has that kind of character. The government has not been forthcoming in its explanations to reveal what is the true story behind the Lahad Datu tragedy. Were these people promised land and the promises reneged? Did Najib turn down a request from the Sulu Sultan to meet up with him when Najib was in Manila a short time ago?
So Najib and his government go on a McCarthy-like witch-hunt victimising people like Tuan Chua who was charged with politically motivated legal action. The spiritual adviser of UMNO is up to his usual despicable and dirty and utterly unethical tactics of imputing the Sulu invasion was financed by some party. Who else but Anwar who he alludes to?
Suddenly you hear the spiritual adviser of UMNO- the man who made the edict better to be friends with the devil you know then the angel you don’t, dishing up homilies and simplistic advice meant unfortunately, for UMNO simpletons. So why are we not surprised UMNO is cavorting with questionable organizations, the underworld and other gangster-like groupings? Because befriending bad people is second-nature to UMNO and its leaders.
What can Najib do in 5 years that he and his government haven’t done in 55 years? Or in his case, what he hasn’t accomplished since 1976, the day he inherited the Pekan MP post from Tun Razak?
The values and mind-set people say, is formed before one is 40. From then on, one draws down from the reservoir of accumulated knowledge and value system that one has. What has Najib accumulated before his was 40?
Did he spend his young years burning the midnight oil to get through his MCE and HSC? Did he go through years of deprivation that shaped the character of most of us? Ask yourselves, what has he got in common with us, the common people? He has the least qualities that we can identify with and yet, people, unschooled and brainwashed want him to lead this nation? Lead us to where? Impress us with what?
His years as MB of Pahang was embroiled in the wholesale plunder of Pahang’s forest. I can remember in the early 1980’s he had his cousin head the state owned company extracting timber from our state. At that time, the fellow earned RM40, 000 per month and was driving a Porsche or a Ferrari. The regional manager of Shell based in Kuantan at that time, an employee of the 2nd biggest company in the world was earning a salary of RM11, 000 a month.
His tenure as MB of Pahang was lacklustre. His mediocrity was only exceeded by his pursuits of other nocturnal distractions during which a certain married lady working with a property company was seducing the not even 30 yet MB of Pahang. He didn’t come into office with stellar academic achievements; his first job was personal assistant to then chairman of PETRONAS, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. He was more of a bag carrier for Tengku Razaleigh then.
Nothing personal, just business I am asking what many more people are asking, so in terms of accumulated experience and formed values system, Najib was wanting sorely.
My point is- what can he draw from to do something different for the next 5 years? His values were perhaps that of a spoilt brat son of a family never in deprivation of money and wealth. Najib is a bourgeoisie, pure and simple. He is the French aristocrat who wants a life of luxury feeding off the industry of other people. That once married lady who was doing an Eva Braun on the Fuhrer, has become Marie Antoinette to his King Louis.
He and UMNO do not deserve another 5 years.
You give this guy and his party another 5 years, we will be bankrupted. He and his ministers and his government are stealing from us. They will parcel out the juiciest fruits and distribute among them.
Just look as the PLUS highway. Could have been built at a cost of RM3 billion but UMNO wanted to increase it two fold. It costs the taxpayers RM6billion. The toll concessionaire has collected more than RM24 billion, why is the government extending the contract to extract tolls from us? For the simple and indefensible reason- so that UMNO can distribute the spoils of having power to decide. Oh- the money is needed to maintain the highway. Well, revenue from all the advertising on the highway is sufficient to cover maintenance costs.
Its highway robbery by UMNO government. Can we trust this kind of government?
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