DESi worked for an hour yesterday moUrn on "Petrol Pump Price UPs By 10Sen from TOdie -- PART II"; adjourned for socialist BF at nearby BABU stall, came back to CONTINUE the long-winded post with LOTsOfCut&Pastry for 3HOURS from about 8.00PM. I clicked on "Publish" Key at about 11.00PM,
BUT the whole post disappeared on DESI! LIKE MH370, it vanished into thin air!
NO, I have no proof, I told DR What's'on, that the goons at UMNO-Oh-NO! had anything to do wit' the **** "LOST CONTENTS"! JUST LIKE THESE IDIOTS TRIED TO BLAME MH370 ACT ON THE CHIEF PILOT SUGGESTING A PKR-DS ANWAR IBRAHIM LINK, REMEMBER?! Jangan Mudah Lupa!
NOTE THAT It's now 24 later --
it's WedNURSEday 6.36AM -- I started a "new" Titled post BUT ESSENTIALLY CONtaining most of the
****"LOST CONTENTS" if my memory serves me wellA!
SEE how heART Desi laboureth for THEE, my ER although
FIRSTofMAY:) had come and gone more than a month ago!!
And you guys didn't even DHL Desi my fave Tehtarik:( !!!
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PREFACE:
MY ESSAY TODIE is to tell you MALAYSIANS totalling some 48PPERCENT OF VOTERS IN THE MAY 2013 GE13 WHO voted back the incumbent "useless" Barisan Nasional, HOW THE BN repaid your support by TAKING YE FOR A RIDE! SOME rude people call this "THOU ART SUCKERED AGIN!" -- and in DESi's opinion, YOU ArSeKED FOR IT! I takda sympathy for thee, OK, STOP COMPLAINING! BUT DESI the tiring writHer -- also a PKR ahli cabang SEREMBAN-- applaud the educated 52PERCENT WHO VOTED FOR THE OPPOSITION FOR A CHANGE AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, and I SAY: SYABAS! LET US CONTINUE THE "FIGHT4CHANGE", TO OVERTHROW THE BARISAN NASIONAL Goverment, led by UMNO-Oh-NO!
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SORRY I Need to STOP NOW AS AN early BF BUDDY CALLS, which means I GET a FREE CAPITALIST BF4CHANGE from the usual Socialistwan. YOU kambing? Seek out RAju's in Furong....JEST DON'T Bring the CJ OR ex-CJ, BUT DON'T forget your AMEX as they keep telling you CAPITALISTS, "Don't leave home without it!"
CHOW!
which can mean
> Seya Later, OR >> Come, LET's MAkAN!
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MEANw'le, DIGEST THIS 10-YEAR-OLD POST and see how the BN-UMNO'S VOTE_BUYING BRIBE1MALAYSIA can be replaced by a SOCIALIST "NEEDS-BASED" PROGRAMME TO BE FUNDED BY OUR NATIONAL OIL CORPORATION plus CONCURRENTLY CUTTING DOWN ON BN'S CORRUPTION. ENTRENCHED AND SYSTEMIC, ESPECIALLY WORSENING WITH EACH PASSING YEAR FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES!
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A PETRONAS FOUNDATION, ANYONE?
Last night, I caught up with an iron works proprietor-friend,
semi-retired as he has passed the baton to his eldest son, and our
conversation turned to the state of te country’s economy. Not only he
was complaining of difficulty of advancing his business, he conveyed the
news that many of his business associates reported that “things are
slowing down” a lot the past six months.
This recalls for
Desiderata another work colleague who runs a financial portal
(klsetracker.com) who just returned from a business trip from up north.
Even to close one contract o about RM20,000 with a listed company who
definitely has need for his company’s data and information-based
services, it was so difficult to progress the deal after several rounds
of meetings.
Further bad news reported by this mGf who constantly
updates me on business and economy matters, said a large company in
Ipoh had just retrenched one-third of its workforce.
“I’m afraid
to report the forecast for the economy is not good. It appears we are
heading for a downturn worse off than the 1997/98 financial crisis.”
I
don’t want to sound “alarmist”, but has the Government been adopting
the right economic measures to meet a fast globalising world?
It’s
sad, and alarming, to witness the recent PWTC stage crowded for a few
days with UMNO politicians pushing issues of the 1970s and 80s, and 90s –
and self-serving interests. How then do outsiders like me watching the
acts on stage of delegates proposing that the APs be handed out to each
UMNO division, plucking out from the present “concentrated in a few
hands” to political branches. How do you reconcile
TWO WRONGS --
does it ake it any RIGHT?
How
do the rest of Malaysians watching as spectators have any confidence
when the so-called domiant party of the ruling coalition that It’s Okay
to continue the acts of Robber-Baronry, moving rent-collection from some
tycoons’ coffers to pmore politicians’ pockets? Are they totalling
blind or deaf to the cries of helplessness and laments of the common
folks outof the Great Hall?
I don’t have confidence when there
was hardly mention of any speakers touching on the effects of
globalization, how it affects the nation’s automotive policy; of the
threats from new giants like China and India,or even the removal of the
Ringgit-USD peg, and also the Chinese yuan-USD peg at the same time.
With these ill-informed actors on the PWTC stage seeing no further than
their two-inch noses and the AP dollars, an NEP or re-defined one spells
doom for a country now caught up with challenging times and external
forces, but the majority of politicians' eyes are still focused around
Putrajaya.
Nobody debated the continuing consumer goods'-price-in
tandem with-petrol price increases – two rounds preceding the UMNO
General Assembly – how the poor hawkers, rubber tappers or
small-and-medium enterprises are hit badly, again and again, and the
lower end market consumers, which must mean about 90 per cent of the
public. (We can forget the upper market consumers who can afford to take
annual family holidays overseas, but the trouble is that likely this
segment of people are also pulling a lot of puppet strings of the
power-brokers present on the PWTC stage.)
Back to mGf the iron
works contractor – he wondered aloud how those rural folks are able to
cope with each round of price increases that never fail to follow every
petrol price increase. Yes, now the lorry and bus transport operators
are already shouting for price adjustments upwards – so what Voice has
the depressed PublicJoe?
MGf recalled seeing pitiful pictures
carried in the media, especially from Sabah and Sarawak, showing
schoolchildren braving the rickety bridges to reach school, every day
risking their young lives.
Does any of the politicians care? Yes,
Pak Lah does, I read daily of his assurances, but does his exhortations
translate into actionable programmes?
MGF suggest maybe PETRONAS
– the national oil corporation – can do more. One idea which he
proposed – and Desiderata has similarly written via this Blog – is that
it should be behaving as a trust organisation holding the national
resource in trust on the Rakyat’s behalf, and using the riches and
benefits accruing to really help the ordinary man-in-the-kampong and
village.
It’s what I have been shouting here:
THINK NEEDS, NOT RACE.
Maybe Petronas need not think of raising its oil subsidies. It can set up a
PETRONAS FOUNDATION to do real, meaningful philantrophy.
Amazing Grace
The richest man in the world,
BILL GATES,
And his wife, have set up a Gates Foundation through which they plough
back BILLIONS of the company’s earnings to help the peoples throughout
the global village. That’s what is called
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY.
In the last financial year ended March 2005, Petronas reported an after-tax profit of RM35.5BILLION.
How about for a start, take out 10 percent – ie. RM3.55BILLION - to kickstart the Petronas Foundation?
Emulating
the once-functioning Sabah Foundation, the Petronas Foundation can give
out an annual dividend of RM2,000 to “poor” households – perhaps, those
earning less than RM1,00 per month with one or two breadwinners? – and
raising it to RM3,000 for those with less than RM700 per month, and
RM4,000 for those earning less than RM500 per month?
Even the
Government civil servants whose take-home salary is less than RM1,000
per months should be similarly entitled, this in the form of an annual
bonus on top of the normal bonus declared occasionally.
Adopting this modus
operandi,
the nation’s oil resources are used to help those the maimum who need
it most, and in a declining scale those slightly better off, with no
financial assistance to those who are “deemed to have arrived” in the
Malaysian society. (This is broadly defined as those whose earnings per
month exceed RM5,000 who can afford an annual local holiday; well, for
those eraing RM10,000 and above, they can take care of themselves…)
Let’s not squander our nation’s resources creating BILLIONAIRES or INSTANT MILLIONAIRES. (
Digresssing a little,
an "instant billionaire" of the 1997/98 era who got into trouble is now
aspiring to become a second echelon leader in one major BN component
party -- no prize for guessing right! I mention this because Desi
suffers more than just PWTC stage fright!):( The trouble our economy is
in danger is because many of these ill-gotten Billions have found their
way to Swiss bank unnumbered accounts. It’s only my guess, an educated
guess.If only these Billions could be circulated within the country,
then there won't be this malaise befalling the roadside hawker, and the
average businessmen trying hard to earn an honest living -- through
blood, sweat and tears, not via rent-collection!
One proposal to the government which it should immediately implement is to do away with the
divisive highly practice of DIFFERENTIATED HOUSE PRICING.
Why do you still need to offer 6-15 per cent discounts to people –
Bumiputera or non-Bumiputeara who can afford to buy houses above
RM150,000?
Surely if you can buy a RM300,000 bungalow, you should
NOT receive any financial advantage anymore, because you are DEEMED TO
HAVE MADE IT, fellow Malaysians? And that’s
a rhetorical question
– because I had at an earlier occasuion received a rebuttal that as his
pay is only RM10,000 a month, he should still receive that 10per cent
discount. To go to the United States or Europe for a vacation? Hey,
there are some Malaysian brother snd sisters out there in the kampong or
village just living on RM500 a month, sacrificing electrity for oil
lamps, or even their children’s schooling so the child can controibute
an extra RM3 a day to put food on the table.
It’s better to
plough back these “discounted” amounts to subsidise low-cost or free
housing. Regardless of race, creed, gender or region. Remember, Malaysia
does not comprise Peninsular Malaysia alone, there’s Sabah and Sarawak
too!
Malaysia has been described as a "Lucky Country" --
blessed with many valuable natural resources, with new petroleum
discoveries buffering many of the nation's economic downturns. But we
must also utilise these resources properly and meaningly.
Pak Lah may
not want to iuncrease the oil subsidies, but how do you expect
transport opearors not to raise prices when the pum prices are raised so
often -- three times within the last 12 months! Who is there to lend
the less well-off, now already struggling to get three square meals a
day -- to cope with the inevitable price inflation.
Yes, by
GOD'sGRACE, we are truly blessed. But do we have gracefully responsible
stewardship of the nation's riches? That's the question -- to be
accountable, or not to be, THat's not just Pak Lah's dilemma.
It is every responsible Malaysian's dilemma.
PS: As
I write this, I keep listening to THE AMAZING GRACE to keep my ranting
in low keys, and low decibels, and of course, the spirits up, despite
the haze and the kopi-o which just went up by another 10sen this morning
at the central market.
Anyone supporting Desi with
this suggestion to Petronas to initiate a Truly Malaysian Charity Act at
our own doorstep to benefit All Malaysians in need, regardless of race,
gender and creed?
The
group of 18 PAS leaders defeated in the recent PAS polls at the Jasamu
Dikenang gathering held in Muar, Johor last Tuesday. They say they will
now embark on a more inclusive Islamist movement. – The Malaysian
Insider pic, June 22, 2015.
Dr
Dzulkefly Ahmad speaks during the maiden gathering of 'progressive' PAS
leaders defeated in the recent party polls at a gathering in Muar,
Johor on June 16. – The Malaysian Insider pic, June 22, 2015. DESIDERATA: THESE leaders are the PROGRESSIVES IN PAS WHO lost in the recent party's elections, and the losers are TURNING THEIR DEFEAT INTO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. CHANGE implies doing away with the old baggage, and BRINGS NEW HOPE TO MALAYSIANS who have lately been bombarded by RETROGRESSIVE THOUGHTS&ACTIONS ON MANY FRONTS. AT one BLOggers' gathering where DR DZukefle was a panel speaker, I HAd challenged him to peruaade his party, PAS, to 'take away the "ISLAM" From the party's name and replace it with a more political ideological name! HIS reply then was this issue needed more indepth discussion, and since then, we never really had a chance to discourse again. MAYbe with CHANGE to the G!*, Dzulkkefle would ponder over the subject and make sure RELIGION IS Separated from STATE matters as I BElieve MALAYSIA IS STILL A SECULAR STTATE< NOT AN ISLAMIC STATE AS PROCVLEIMED BY SOME IGNORAMUSES for their SELFISH INTERESTS.
This follows the party's acknowledgment that Pakatan has ceased to exist formally.
