Politicians Who Want No Carrots...

The nick given to Malaysian Politicians is POLITIKUS.

Desiderata, trained by mGfNicole Kidman -- Interpreter at the UNITED NASIONES -- interprets that as a Combo - combination of two or more words to create a Nu'e Word - POLISHING APPLE + *RAT,
*Tikus is Rat in Bahasa Malaysia.


So it's not surprising that the Survey showed that Malaysians don't care too hoots about trusting their Politicians.
Apple-Polishing = Carrying balls
Ratty, as IN THE CASE of someone you won't trust with a SIN-gle sen.

Many of them therefore maketh poor role models for the CIVIL SERVANTS. Hence the Rakyat, JoePublic like you and me, can empathise with MP for Johor Bahru, when he more or less zeroed in on the problem affecting our CIVIL SERVICE.

I have written that these Civil Servants are anything but Civil.
Add now that most of them think the Public -- Joe&Jane --are their SERVANTS.

Desiderata says these Civil Servants and Poltitikus maketh very good gnipeelSPartners.

Waiting for Durian Runtuh = Expect rewards in the form of Carrots before doing anything, including carrying out their Duties to the Rakyat.

from TheMalayMail, April 20, 2006:

Cut the carrot and give them the stick

YESTERDAY marked the pinnacle of a two-day civil service-bashing when the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club chief called for the country’s civil service to be as ‘youthful’ as a teenager to make it easier to reform and reshape it.

BN Johor Baru member Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad said it was time for it to crack down on non-performers.

During the debate on the 9th Malaysia Plan, Shahrir, who is also the Public Accounts Committee chairman, called for better implementation of the ‘carrot-and-stick’ system for civil servants.

“Currently, it seems more carrots are being dished out while the stick is not being wielded at all.”

He said it was time to get tough with non-performers and those with disciplinary problems.

“The most they face now is being transferred to another agency or department.”

He said the current set-up is such that the civil service and its personnel are reluctant to act against their own.

“This being the situation, there is no fear among them, even when they do not do any work.”

He said that against the current backdrop of public dissatisfaction with the service there was a desperate need for a total revamp.

“If Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s drive to create an enhanced and efficient public delivery system is to succeed, there is a need for a major revamp.”

Giving an example, Shahrir said one of his constituents had written to the Malaysian Companies Commission several times but never got a reply.

“He had written about seven letters over a period of 12 months. He did not get a single reply for his efforts.”

He said the kind of treatment received by the complainant was against the Prime Minister’s directive to improve and enhance the country’s delivery system.

“There is a need for a ‘proses keremajaan’ (teenage process) to take place in the public service.”

He said a more youthful public service would make it easier to reform and reshape it.


DESIDERATA: I like Sharir. He plays politics of PRINCIPLES.
Even before the Government decided to cancel the Crooked BridGe project, Sharir had joined many JoePubklic's Voices in calling for the project to be scrapped. How APt, or APpropiate! -- turning the project metal into scrap, and APpropriate the fun-Ds for some other bridges like the delapidated, holey and rickety bridges in the kampong and villages -- remmeber Sabah and Sarawak kids crossing snaky, swinging bridges everyday risking their lives going to-and-from school? Howsy knows the situation very wella, se som,e pix at his place (Howsy.blogpsot.com) -- I can't or rather won't, (some say they are wont to, but that's their business, and Desi ain't no noseybody, though I'm running some PHGLEM after ketching dat cough and cold from FAshionAsia dan THeels...) reproduce them here as I'm strictly an obserser of CopyRights Law although I hail from the KopiLeft Party.

WORD OF ADVICE TO PAK LAH:

(I think I can as a Journalist, who is more trustworthy than a politrician in the eyes -- aye, aye! -- of the Malaysian Public! JUST AS Matythias can advise Syed Hamid to resign his Cabuinet position of Foreign Minister, speaking on behalf of former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad though he said it's his right as a Citizen. I actually also speak on behalf of my many ER here but shy-lah to vocalise IT; otherwise I get some pies or pastries thrown at MY FACE by sisters Helen, Howsy and many many IpohLang. Desi's a cow-heard sometimes...Remember, Cybill Shep... "Oh, ShutUP!" I ear some1 whsiper, o'lady:)O. The O stands for some1's BIG Mouth, not Mouse!