'If Najib really is the PM for all Malaysians, a man of the people and intends to sincerely help the Chinese community, why couldn't he hear out the predicament of the house owner's son's over his red identity card?'
Downpour dampens Najib's CNY visit
P Dev Anand Pillai: If Najib Abdul Razak really is the PM for all Malaysians, why couldn't he sit in the same old furniture that the chosen three houses had to offer? If he really is a man of the people and intends to sincerely help the Chinese community, why couldn't he hear out the predicament of the house owner's son's over his red identity card?
A leader should not make announcements about his arrival. He should just come and visit the people, accept them the way they are and try to help them.
Instead, you have the police' swat team and Najib's protocol officers coming days before to paint a fake picture so that the emperor does not get his clothes stained by sitting in old rickety furniture. Is that 1Malaysia?
We have to build a new generation of leaders who respect all races and treat every Malaysian as equals. Only then can Malaysia be a better place for all. Selangor must be the pioneer in that.
Changeagent: With all due respect Mr PM, I felt compelled to advise you of the normal protocols when you come down to mingle with lowly people like us.
When you visit 'ordinary families' in 'ordinary houses', you are expected to sit on 'ordinary furniture', just like all other 'ordinary people'. There is definitely no need to bring your own special crispy-clean white sheets because the furniture may not be as dirty as you think.
For your information, ordinary people clean their houses too, just like how you get your domestic maids to clean yours.
Kleo: Najib must think the Chinese folk at Pandamaran are lowly untouchables. No sincerity whatsoever. He might as well cry and scream while dragging his feet to the three homes. At least, he should be honest with himself.
Louis: Can the voters be fooled by this antics of Najib? Can a leopard change its spots? Before the last election, government-controlled TV dared not even focus an Umno leader with a non-Malay. In actual fact, they shun the non-Malays like lepers.
All of a sudden, they are so caring to them. You can even see Rosmah listening (or pretending to listen) attentively to an Indian girl or Najib giving angpows to an elderly Chinese old man. All these ‘sandiwara’ is out to get votes lah.
Kleo: Najib must think the Chinese folk at Pandamaran are lowly untouchables. He might as well cry and scream while dragging his feet to the three homes. At least, he should be honest with himself.
Wong Chee Kong: The actual feelings of the people will be and can be seen from the results of the next GE - not by the claimed turnout and non-objective response of the event as reported by the incumbents.
If they did not realise and know the general behaviour of people, then they are living in a world of their own. People by and large turn up to enjoy what ever is given out FOC (free of charge). It does not mean a thing other than that. Especially during such an economic climate.
By the way, did the heavens cry and cried out real loud in thunderous (literally) protest?
Maximus: The doctor-patient ratio in 2007/8 was 1:1,145. We are currently producing nearly 3,500 doctors per year (local and overseas) and the numbers are going to be over 5,000 in four to five years' time. This implies that we will achieve a ratio of less than 1: 600 in 4 to 5 years.
After that, there is a strong possibility that we will have unemployed doctors. There has been an explosion of new medical schools recently, with business considerations overriding quality of education. So Dr David KL Quek is partly correct when he talks about there being no real shortage of doctors, particularly in the urban areas on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
The real shortage is in Sabah and Sarawak. So the basic issue is the 'maldistribution of doctors' and this is due to poor incentives to serve in rural areas.
Kama Mustaffa: There is no shortage of doctors in Malaysia as a whole, but there is shortage in the public sector. In other words, there is shortage of ‘cheap' doctors. The public doctors run to the private sector at their first opportunity and so become ‘expensive' doctor.
Malaysia wants ‘cheap' doctors to staff cheap 1Malaysia clinics, yet no incentives are given to go to places where ‘jins' congregate and raise a family there without any prospects of training.
The solution? Simple... lucrative tax revenues gained in the private medical sector must be channelled into public sector. Private hospitals and clinics must share the responsibility for caring for the nation, both financially and physically. We must get public doctors to be treated on par with private doctors.
500 families on nine plantations 'disappointed' in Penang gov't
Inspector Closseau: M Sivakumar and gang, please show us all the letters addressed to Lim Guan Eng and his administration regarding the problem you mentioned so that we in Penang can form our own judgement on the matter.
Thinking Aloud: It is heartening to hear how disappointed these estates brethren are and that the Pakatan Rakyat government had failed them. Can these brethren spell out what the BN-led government had done for them over the 51 years. It would be good to compare notes and see how things were and how things are now.
Sivakumar, is is your political game to show your support for BN?
Parameswara: Thank you for the news, Bernama . It is very surprising that a national news agency like Bernama does not want to mention the ‘good deeds' of the previous state government which seems to have fared so well in this matter!
