VOXPOP 'Can't we see it is a business model problem? It does not matter who was in charge and who is given the project - it is bound to fail.'

NFC project takeover 'to cover up PM's mistakes'

vox populi small thumbnail Brahman: I have a few questions on the National Feedlot Centre project:

1. What happens to the RM250 million soft loan given to the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC)? Is it to be returned?

2. Is feedlotting in Malaysia still viable, what with the high cost of feed, weak ringgit against the Australian and US dollar, the lack of purchasing power of the rakyat, and considering that two of the biggest feedlotters in the country have closed down their operations? There is no point throwing good money after bad.

3. How much more money is the government going to give to the tenderer in grants and soft loans this time round?

4. What is the criteria to be a successful tenderer?

Onyourtoes: This project should be stopped completely; it is not just resolving the existing problems. There is no strategic or national reason for the government to get involved in cattle farming.

Can't we see it is a business model problem? It does not matter who was in charge and who was given the project - it is bound to fail.

At most, if the government wants to help, it could just make state land available to those who want be rear cattle . Everything should be left  to entrepreneurs from importing cattle to rearing and meat supply.

Goliath: Letting a new company to take over NFC is right, but the government must make sure the existing owners pay back whatever is due to the government, plus interest, or with penalty as according to the contract between NFC and the government.

Blind Freddo: The new company will be another Malay-led darling of Umno and the government will pour in another RM250 million to an unqualified organisation simply to clear up Wanita Umno chief Sharizat Abdul Jalil's image.

She must have some really juicy dirt on members of the cabinet.

Kairos: PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli is absolutely right. It is so obvious that the government in general, and Najib in particular, have a lot to hide in the NFC issue.

The people behind the entire debacle must be scratching their heads to come up with ideas on how to cover up one another's wrongdoing.

They must be cursing their luck that the whole sham is exposed. They had it so good - buying condos and land with the rakyat's money, giving themselves and their family members such top salaries and, of course, living it up with first-class travel and high living.

Now, sensing that it is all coming to roost, the crooks are trying their level best to get a ready and willing person to agree to bail them out and make the whole scam look innocuous. This is really corruption of the highest order.

Hang Babeuf: The government's approach to development planning: First, create a total disaster, then invite some poor mugs in to see if they can fix it for them.

But why not start with competent people and feasible plans in the first place? Well, we all know why.

But it is a ridiculous way to go about doing things. Eventually, the money to fund these unending follies will run out.

Bishop: Hasan's 'striptease disclosure' won't wash

Bert: Jati leader Hasan Ali said that he would release excerpts of a video of an apostate Muslim couple, now returned to Islam. Bishop Paul Tan has said he has to show the couple involved so that others can be convinced.

On the other hand, if I am not mistaken, there is a law saying that those who proselytise Muslims can be charged in court.

If this is an authentic case, why is/are the person(s) involved in proselytising the Muslim couple not charged?

If you are man enough, come clean and lay everything on the table. The accusation has been going on for too long.

Wira: It is pretty obvious that Hasan is dishing out his lies in bits and pieces so as to constantly generate news headlines for Utusan Malaysia and the corrupt mainstream media until the next general election.

Once he releases everything, media and public interest will die long before the next polls.

Pear Tree: The constitution only bans proselytisation amongst professing Muslims hence for people who don't profess Islam, there is nothing wrong.

In other words, apostates are free to hear the Good News. You can't fight the fact that eventually people will choose their own creeds or abandon their existing ones.

Malaysia shall evolve towards a better constitution where religious bodies are shoved into a closet never to trouble the administration of a secular country again.

No tax dollars should fund any religious department. It the most unproductive form of investment.

Absolom: Hasan used to command a lot of respect not only among the Muslims, but also the non-Muslims. Way back then, he used to preach good family values and practices, which although based on Islamic teachings, could easily be taken to be applicable to all.

But now, he seems to have forgotten many of those values he stood for. New values are emerging - spite, hatred, ill-intention and dishonesty - all the hallmarks of a person going into politics.

Ian2003: Only by showing excerpts can he show that there is element of proselytisation. When watched in its full context, it is like the sultan says - at best, it is ambiguous.

 

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