After 57-year misrule, Umno has failed the Malays
YOURSAY ‘It must produce independent, critical thinkers rather than ‘pak turuts’.’
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Continue-The-March: This is the problem of Umno Baru and is a classic case of ‘Law of Insanity’ about doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.
Under Umno Baru’s 57 years of misrule and its Never Ending Policy (NEP), the Malays were stupidfied by Umno Baru into a generation of entitlement and rent-seekers.
This is the direct result of former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s legacy - always blaming others for their mistake and weaknesses. What PM Najib Razak inherited today is the by-product of Mahathir’s dyfunctional economic policy.
All the scare resources was wasted by Mahathir for his pet projects - Perwaja steel and Proton - and numerous other financial scandals.
With globalisation, Malaysia has lost all the advantages we used to have i.e. a well-educated English-speaking populations, good infrastructure and respected judiciary, etc.
If anybody is to be blamed, it is Mahathir. The only way to change course now is to change the government and reset the rot like what Indonesia has done.
Hearty Malaysian: Why there are incessant calls to share with bumiputeras what we have worked so hard for after 57 years of Merdeka?
We owed no living to those who are not interested to better themselves despite much money thrown at them through the Never Ending Policy (NEP) and easy monies through GLCs (government-linked companies) and high posts in the civil service.
There are some capable Malays who are employed by non-Malays in their businesses but there are many who are unemployable due to poor command of English and poor skills or attitudes, so why should we be obliged to employ this later group?
Kadir Jasin, are you suggesting Najib rob the non-Malays, strip them of their assets and give it to the Malays? Are these not the same ways Nazi had propagated against the hard-working Jews in Germany, eventually to have Hitler sending these poor souls to the gas chambers?
Are you suggesting a similar idea but use the word ‘sharing’ instead of ‘forcing’?
ACR: Veteran journalist A Kadir Jasin’s “all capitalists need to be mobilised by persuasion, encouragement or coercion” is unmitigated rubbish. There is no shortcut to success.
If you have merit, capitalists will engage you. Nevertheless, there are enough crony capitalists in Malaysia who will do beggars like you a favour in business and employment.
Malaytoo: Before we ask employers to hire Malay graduates, why not focus and really do something drastic to significantly improve the quality of our education, especially in the local universities so that we produce very high quality graduates who are mostly Malays.
Produce independent, critical thinkers rather than ‘pak turuts’ (apple polishers), whose mentality are still like secondary school students.
Legit: Why do these guys always have to be the extremists and pander to the likes of Perkasa, Isma and what not. Why not talk about building a united nation as the interest of every community should matter to the government.
When you do that it is pretty obvious that people of all communities will support the government and the country will flourish. Please stop talking only about the Malays because every other community makes up this country.
Singapore is flourishing because they embrace all communities while Malaysia only talks about racial politics and is losing its competitiveness day by day.
Hplooi: There seems to be a sustained campaign to demonise 'pluralism' and 'liberalism'. Religion is now the handle to foment a distinctive move to Islamised the country.
Sabahans and Sarawakians, please note. You cannot just sit and do nothing. Ultimately this evil will wash onto your shores.
But by the time this whole unsustainable extremist agenda blows over, the country will have been gutted, its natural resources cleaned out and industries flattened.
Of course, the extremist are unrepentant. They would rather destroy this country then conceding their unsustainable hold on power over this country.
Quigonbond: What does protecting Malays have anything to do with the Sedition Act?
This ancient piece of colonial legislation is aimed at those fighting for cessation from the Federation of Malaysia, who is waging war against the YDA (Agong), and calling for overthrow of a democratic government through violent means - none of which is applicable in the cases that are currently pending in the courts.
The sickening wordings that are as bad as ISA's "national security" is "tendency to be seditious", which our spineless judiciary have been applying out of context.
Sticking to Sedition Act is an admission by Umno that under their watch, Malays have become hyper-sensitive, thin skinned and easily offended - a testimony of a failed education system and over 50 years of nation-building.
The problem is not one of Najib's doing. It's Umno, rotten to the core, espousing virtues of greed, electoral shenanigans and wanton abuse of power that will not stand the test of any democracy worth its salt.
Malaccan: Is Kadir Jasin really saying that the Sedition Act is synonymous with the Malay race, and its preservation is linked to the progress of the Malay economic and social standing?
More examples of Mahatirism and Mahathir-logic that defies logic, common sense or even good humour.
Fair&Just: What? Retain the Sedition Act and continue with the selective persecution using that law? Well, God is watching and giving ample warning by an occasional anomaly or two.
Go and continue the atrocities, unfairness and injustice and all aggrieved shall soon be rewarded with justice, retribution and correctional punishment on all the sinners.
Fernz: It's a wonder that after nearly 60 years of Malay rule, there are still claims that some poor Malay fishermen’s families only have one main meal a day and the “special gift they promise their children who score good grades in their examinations is a meal at McDonald's”.
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