VOXPOP 'It's not whether it is prudent or not, but whether the loan from taxpayers' money is used properly. Obviously in this case, it's not.'

PKR: NFC's luxury condo may not yield profits

Onyourtoes: This is not an issue relating to governance per se but an issue of policy or business model.

Can you ever foresee anything good that will come out of this kind of business model - dishing out loans to cronies with the tacit understanding that these loans will never be repaid.

It does not matter whether they use the money to buy condos, gold or oil stocks. The fact that they can do it is because loans are like income to them. There is no cost of capital, no risk and they don't have to pay them back.

If we respond to the condo argument, we are in fact deviating from the real issue, which is the systematic scheme to siphon money from the government coffers in a ‘legalised' way.

Sarawakian_3ff9: It's not whether it is prudent or not, but whether the loan from taxpayers' money is used properly. Obviously in this case, it's not.

Investments in cows and condominiums are completely different businesses. If BN argues otherwise, why stop at at condos? Why not the stock market?

In fact, why not go to the Genting Casino and try your luck there? I'm sure Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin will fully support it.

After all, it's only the poor rakyat's money that's there for the taking.

SMC77: Why doesn't BN argue the case that the condo is for the cows to stay in because they want to rear ‘premium cows' and these ‘premium cows' must stay at premium locations and received premium treatment.

Wira: Go check and see if you can find any link between the luxury condo seller(s) and the principal NFC (National Feedlot Corporation) owner.

DAP dares MCA to withdraw voter proposal to PSC

Multi Racial: It is beginning to look obvious that Dr Chua Soi Lek merely acted on a directive from his boss from Umno in return for helping him get the MCA president's position.

If MCA, which claims to represent Chinese Malaysians, have their support, then it is a no-brainer for them to insist that overseas voting to be allowed because the majority of the overseas voters are of Chinese origin.

If MCA acts against overseas voters, then it means MCA does not have Chinese support. Which means they might as well dissolve the party.

Abil: Government staff and public-funded scholars are eligible to vote from anywhere in the world through their respective embassies, but other Malaysians doing business or working and studying are not eligible for postal voting.

Does this make any sense when we practice discrimination even in a foreign country? Chua Soi Lek should own up for the bungle, which is going to cause massive damage to MCA.

Chan Huan Boon: MCA's representative Ei Kim Hock said overseas Malaysians are "out of touch" and maybe relying only on "biased" and "wrong" information.

So does that mean that those reading only mainstream news and those watching TV3 are not entitled to vote also?

PRM to challenge PKR in Balik Pulau, PJS, Selayang

Ferdtan: Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM) should look at the bigger picture - we just want a two-party system in Malaysia to bring transparency and accountability back to the country.

By prompting a three-cornered contest of certain parliamentary seats by going into the fray, PRM would be a spoiler - giving BN a default victory. Would we want that?

No matter how good PRM is: we, the voters, are practical enough - we would reject outright any PRM candidates in any three-party contest.

In fact, we should make them lose their deposits for their folly. For the greater good in this high stake of our country's future - we have no choice but to apply this maxim: 'if you are not with us, you are against us'.

We just hope this statement made by PRM president is part of its strategy to bargain for more seats from the Pakatan coalition. We hope that the groups can come to an amiable compromise. If not, PRM may suffer complete oblivion from the political scene.

Voice: The next general election will surely be a gigantic clash between the two coalitions, Pakatan and BN.

Anything that comes in between will be crushed. Let all these spoiler parties contest. They won't make any difference.

SMC77: Another demand by a rent-seeker such as PRM. If PRM thinks it has the support of rakyat, why doesn't it go ahead?

Why does it need to negotiate? The reason why it negotiates is because it is not confident of winning. It is as simple as that.

Lusiapa: ‘Mosquito' parties like PRM (despite being one of the oldest political parties formed in pre-independent Malaya) and the Human Rights Party, are best described in the memorable words of the late Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman as "neither dead nor alive".

Not surprisingly, these irritants only come alive during election time. Every discerning voter knows their chances are totally non-existent, yet these mosquitoes try to portray themselves as a formidable force in present-day Malaysian politics, throwing challenges and threats to the Pakatan incumbents.

Frankly, they will remain mosquitoes, now and perhaps forever. As for their financiers, everybody knows who they are.

Anticommunalist: I support PRM president Dr Rohana Ariffin. HRP should form a coalition with PRM.

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