Walk The Talk, Mr PM, Talk Time Is Over!

myGOoDfriends Howsy and Maverick have kept a watchdog record -- in gold colour summore! -- of the TIMES the Prime Minister has been urging his Under-lings and the public servants to WALK THE TALK. Go see it at howsy.blogspot.com

(Cut Red Tape, Walk The Talk, Work With Me...Haven't We Had Enough of These Already?

He wants to cut...")

and also link to maverickysm.blogspot.com.

Three years and three months into the premiership, Pak Lah has finally set up another TASK FORCE to speed things up, especially in the delivery systems. And take good care of the country's economy -- which is healthy, dead, or dying, depending on who's talking.


It can't be healthy IF it's dead or dying.

It can't be dead if it's healthy.

It may be dying then if it's not healthy or dead.

So Desi'll go for "dying" as the most plausible, independent view of our country's present state of affairs. The booming stock market in the past two weeks notwithstanding.


DOING A STRAW POLL, and you're likelyt to find:

Ask the pensioners. They can't cope with rising costs and inflation on stagnant take- home pensions.

Ask the unemployed/underemployed graduates. They can't get a decent job wth a decent pay. Many then opt to go overseas to try their luck.


Ask the employed graduates. They are being paid peanuts compared with Singapore's counterparts. Absolute salaries in the island republic are at least two times higher in comparable jobs, without the currency conversion, but note that one SG$ is worth 2.5 times the RM.


Ask the unemployed, the housewives and the rural and suburban children. They are left to "fend for themslves" -- SOON THE COUNTRY'S CRIME SCENE WILL BECOME MORE PROBLEMATIC, AND SOCIAL ILLS WILL JUMP.

ASK THE Ah Long: BUSINESS IS NEVER SO GOOD. BUT COLLECTION IS A BIG AND GROWING PROBLEM, SO WE HAVE TO RESORT TO VIOLENCE!

DEsi's advice to fellow Malaysians: Sit tight for five years and Let Pak Lah continue Talking. You are so masochistic you will still give hime 80% of the mandate by voting BN again come the next General Elections.

Meanwhie, look at that sole GEM among the appointees to the PM's latest initiative to move the quite immovable government machinery unless you oil it with the right type of grease, or izit currency?


The NST frontpage

Delivery time:
Task force to speed up reform, boost growth
08 Feb 2007

After months of expressing frustration at the lethargic pace of reforms, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday named a high-powered 23-member task force to promote faster reform in the delivery system.

THE TASK: Overhaul archaic procedures and unnecessary bureaucratic red-tape.
THE OBJECTIVE: Enhance economic activity.

KUALA LUMPUR: A high-powered 23-member task force, handpicked from the public and private sectors, was set up yesterday to promote faster reform in the country’s delivery system and enhance economic activity.

After months of expressing frustration at the lethargic pace of reforms, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday named the task force — which reports directly to him — to facilitate business and overhaul archaic and unnecessary licensing and bureaucratic procedures.

The task force will be jointly headed by chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan and, from the private sector, by Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers president, Datuk Yong Poh Kon.

The other members are 12 top civil servants from ministries engaged in dealing with businesses and the public, and nine leading private sector individuals.

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The task force will be called Pemudah, the Bahasa Malaysia acronym for Special Task Force To Facilitate Business.



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DESIDERATA: My dear EsteemedReaders, why do I term CHUA TIA GUAN, Economic Survey Unit Head, ASSOCIATED CHINESE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF MALYSIA, a GEM?

KLUE: Thorn among the roses...

Let's wish him luck. He represents the common man, but methinks CHUA TIA GUAN's WILL BE A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS.

THree years from now, they will consider setting upa Special Committeee to study the TASK FORCES established to date. Maybe Citizen Nades has got a list?
OR brother Howsy and Mave, not YOU again! :):)

I'll take leave now and go check if Rip van Winkle is ready for a joint CON BF with Desi!:)

I'M TIRED

Verily, verily I say again
I'm very tired:

of all the sound and fury


especially the sound of Walk With Me
We Will Walk, and YOU can Talk To Me too

We will be angry
We will be enraged
we will show our righteous fury

At the underlings who do not perform

Call up that Close-One-Eyed fellow
Call up that Datuk Zakaria
Give them sa shelling, Mr Deputy PM,
Mr Menteri Besar, will you!

But also give them another chance-lah
But let's give them another day
to buck up
But the buck stops near here

Now let's go back to

40

winks

Plus another 40 winks

just for olde times' sake.