YOURSAY ‘They create a few billionaires, but also a multitude of homeless and poor.’

Civil servants praised for creating billionaires

Slumdog: Would you ever hear a minister in Australia, Britain or elsewhere thanking the civil servants for creating billionaires?

Is Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Shahidan Kassim implying that it is through the BN government’s handouts, preferential treatment, cozy deals and over-generous contracts responsible for these Umno cronies becoming billionaires?

Should the civil servants be praised for this and is this something the minister has to boast about?

Anonymous_1382244186: They create a few billionaires, but also a multitude of homeless and the poor and disease-infested areas due to poor sanitation.

Whenever those ministers speak, I feel so helpless but the inner self of me screams, “Please shut up, you are adding salt to our wounds.”

Ksn: Perhaps this minister should clarify how the civil servants created billionaires. I was under the clear impression that it was the Umno Baru politicians who did that outstanding job - the result of cronyism, corruption, abuses of public funds, etc, etc.

Boonpou: Could someone try to tell me what is Shahidan, a minister in the PM's Department, saying?

Is he saying that the civil servants are developing this country and creating billionaires like T Ananda Krishnan, former owner of independent power producer Tanjong Energy Holding, and Lim Goh Tong, the founder of Genting Highlands casino?

PM Najib Razak, please do yourself a big favour - and this applies to all the expensive foreign consultant companies you are paying - please equip your department with staff who are not so stupid. Surely Shahidan could not be one of them.

My gosh, my 10-year-old son could reason better than this man.

Speak For All: Hello, Shahidan, you only can think of those two hard-working people who developed their businesses.

What about all the cronies from Umno who are billionaires without doing anything for this country but instead squander taxpayers’ money?

Just me: Is this the objective of the civil servants? They should eliminate poverty and not just make a few billionaires.

Ananda Krishnan and Lim Goh Tong or even Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary are bad examples. They had monopoly businesses. In the real world, they must stand out to real-life competition, otherwise they will forever be ‘jaguh kampong’.

Fair Play: With leaders like Shahidan, I wonder how this nation would ever make progress in today's highly competitive environment and the civil servants' limited ability to create 'billionaires' in a very, very small economy.

Anonymous_1371473234: Is Shahidan for real? How is it possible for the civil servants to create billionaires? Not unless they stop collecting taxes from them.

Liberalism fatwa drastic, say PAS lawmakers

Hplooi: In enacting laws, defining the scope of law is very important, otherwise it will give 'enormous' powers to the bureaucrat managing the said law.

But laws enacted cannot breach basic provisions in the constitution (for example, the right of association, right to freedom of worship, equal treatment under the law, etc).

A vaguely ‘scoped’ law will create a bureaucratic monster or may be challenged for breaching basic principles of the constitution.

I believe the definition is deliberately left 'as is' so that only a select group can interpret it in accordance with their agenda.

Case in point is the wishy-washy and goal-changing definition of 'sedition' by the top ‘loyar burok’ of this country. That is the privilege of being in power.

Disgusted: These are the sane and reasonable PAS members who everyone would vote for. You have my 100 percent support, brothers. God bless you all richly in every way.

Appum: Selangor Islamic Affairs Council (Mais), do you know the theme song to attract tourists here... Malaysia Truly Asia?

Are you going to condemn the government for promoting pluralism? By the way, the tourist dollar is also revenue used to pay your salaries. You guys always know how to shoot your own foot.

Quigonbond: PAS splitting hairs equally doesn't make sense. Liberalism and democracy are not Western values. We just need to look to our Rukunegara and our neighbour Indonesia.

There is nothing wrong with Sisters in Islam (SIS). If at all, they are a voice of moderation which not even PAS has been.

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