Race Relations After 54 Years!
It certainly dawns upon the UMNO/BN ruling Government
the serious need for race relations in
Malaysia after 54 years of independence.
The PM recently announced and introduced for debate on the Race Relations 2011 Bill (RRA) which they
intended to bull-dose through the Parliament without giving sufficient time for
the Pakatan Rakyat to peruse. No wonder
it met with great resistance from the Opposition as well as the UMNO-backed
PERKASA.
The RRA was aimed at replacing the Internal
Security Act and the University & University Colleges Act. It was learned that the RRA contains certain undesirable
provisions that the civic minded public was feeling rather apprehensive that it
would be abused by the ruling Government.
It just could trust the UMNO/BN Government.
As we all know the corrupt UMNO dominated Government lack
intelligent and qualified leaders who were noted for aping foreign laws
particularly those from UK) and try to introduce them in the country without
much regard to the possible impact or consequences on the society at
large. The RRA of UK had been replaced
by the Race Equality Act some years back.
If the Government was really serious about bringing about peace and
harmony among the multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-lingual population,
she must first talk about justice because without which peace and harmony would
never be attained as history has shown.
People look forward to a just and honest Government which
is capable of looking after the social economic development and progress
of her citizens. The resources of the
country must be equitably shared with, distributed and meted out to the
citizens without regard to race, creed or political affiliation.
A Government who is evil, corrupt and unjust can never
expect the people to live peacefully.
The country has been run on negative budgets for more
than 10 years during which period close to US300 bn, that is, RM1.05 tn, had been
illegally smuggled out of the country. This
worked out to be around RM105+ bn per annum.
With is alarming outflow of funds, no country can last for long without becoming
bankrupt like some of the countries in Europe.
With the stark facts of gloom and doom before them, the
Government is still unconcerned and unrepentant because the economy for 2010
has been robust and that the GDP is projected to grow by 5% in 2012. And, the PM when recently cornered by the press
replied that the said massive funds outflow would not have any impact on the
country’s economy. Who is our PM trying
to deceive and hoodwink?
The message given by our PM was stunning and
frightening. In my view, it was highly
irresponsible. Translated into simple language it just means that it is alright
for UMNO lackeys to enrich themselves through unfettered corruption and deception so long as the
economy is robust. What sort of moral
message our PM is trying to inculcate among the citizens of the country!
The UMNO leaders must explain the situation to the
nation. It must not try to hide from the
masses the perennial massive illegal capital outflow which far exceeds the
increased GDP. And, coupled with the
negative budgets they unrelentingly incurred for the past 12 years, any
economist of repute will opine that the outflow would have a deleterious impact
on the national economy.
No wonder the people have to suffer for the stark indiscretion
of the UMNO/BN leaderships; in that, they have to bear the high cost of inflation, low
quality houses that have been built, abandoned projects, ridiculously and
highly jacked up prices for any conceivable public projects or activity, higher
manufacturing costs and purchases etc. Contracts are jacked up to provide for contractors to make profit without having to do the work.
Since EPF was introduced until now, the Government had
borrowed more than 60% of workers’ savings to bail out insolvent or failed GLCs
each year, investing in properties overseas and we wonder when the Government
is going to start repaying this mammoth debt to the workers,
With the fossilized energy depleting, concerned citizens
are wondering what our Government would do when the oil wells run dry within
the next ten years? How they are going to put back the money into EPF wherefrom they borrowed.
Only God knows if this situation is allowed to persist,
whether the whole country will go under. The signs are showing and the people must be made to realise the fragile economy with which the nation is facing.
So my friends, vote wisely at the 13th General
Election without fear or favour. Only your votes will and can bring about changes and betterment of the country.
