‘Your government can't even afford to raise the minimum income to RM1,500, yet you are trying to help other countries? And to include the Malays in Singapore is sheer ignorance.'
On Gov't offers to help minority Malays in other countries
Alex C: Najib, first try raising the poverty line in your own country. How many of your own citizens, especially the Malays, are living under the line of poverty?
Your government can't even afford to raise the minimum income to RM1,500, yet you are trying to help other countries? To include the Malays in Singapore is sheer ignorance. Do you have any idea how much their income is?
Or are you just ignorant of the income of the operators in the factories here with mere basic of RM400? Have you seen them having a slice of bread each for their lunch?
We are not talking about earning RM400 back in the 1950s. We are talking about their salary today!
Can you even count the number of people losing their job in the current economic meltdown, not to mention those who are forced to take less pay just to keep their job?
Look into the mess in your backyard first before trying to look into others's. Those Malays in other countries are not the people who will keep you in office.
On Hudud NOT in Pakatan policy, Lim tells Husam
NK Khoo: That hudud law is only for Muslims is a lie. In a Muslim nation, the hudud law is applied on all citizens, regardless of your religion.
The argument that hudud law is only for Muslims is just a lie to bait Malaysian non-Muslims to support PAS.
You will be trapped and have hudud law apply to you if PAS wrests control of this country.
The PAS regime will then abandon our secular democratic system with another excuse that the secular democratic system is against the Islamic law.
On Why no constitutional amendments?
Millionth Citizen: Now we have leaders twisting the constitution to suit their whims and fancies. Either the government thinks we the rakyat are a bunch of illiterates or clowns.
If all these bills in Parliament are passed ultra vires the constitution, we can only see one thing happening - any court decision arrived by these JAC-appointed commissioners or judges will be flawed and unconstitutional in any case.
The simple answer is that an accused can later apply to throw the decision out in another court where the judges sitting are not appointed by the JAC.
So, JAC or MACC or AAB or even NR, all these acronyms will be thrown out when the Pakatan government takes over. The world shall laugh further.
On Samy axes MIC treasurer-general
Vamsi: ‘Mahalingam had also expressed critical views about the party's top leadership in private,' said the source, adding that he was also a 'stumbling block' with regard to certain investments.
What are the investments, they are referring to?
One is Maika, which is a failure and another is the Aimst University. Is this sacking a move to hijack or sell the Aimst University?
To which Mahalingam is a 'stumbling block'?
On Minister dismisses education group's street protest threat
MengYee: I am frustrated at education in Malaysia. The honourable minister of education is playing games with our children's future.
It is sad that policies are being changed back and forth with little thought or study as to its impact.
I am aghast that many, including myself, have opted to take our children out of the Malaysian public school system and place them in alternative private schools. I am not for private schools but between the lesser evils, I have chosen the alternative.
This shows the failure of the education minister in implementing a viable system that will raise a generation of young Malaysians who are equipped to be competitive in this globalised world.
I have heard that many children and grandchildren of Barisan Nasional leaders do not even send their offspring to Malaysian public schools. Instead they opt for private schools like Sri Chempaka etc.
If the BN leaders themselves do not have faith in the Malaysian school system then what about us lesser mortals, ordinary citizens of Malaysia? What more the many who cannot afford to private schools?
I would appreciate if this question is raised in Parliament for a show of hands as to how many Malaysian MPs send their children or grandchildren to private schools.
We have handicapped a generation of young Malaysians who struggle to complete a sensible sentence in English. Now, we continue to raise another generation of young Malaysians who will fail to face a new world of innovation and creativity.
Who are preoccupied to meet the quota of ‘As' without a thorough understanding of the subject they are studying.
In short, it's a mess.
On Will new MCA boss nominate Chua as minister?
Peekayleong: It is a point to ponder over, what effect will this incessant cry (for a ministerial post by Chua Soi Lek) have on the party's already battered image.
How does Chua think he can win back the reputation and the pride of MCA by becoming a minister? And what ministry does he think he can administer for the nation?
With the Chinese community losing its faith in and support for the second most dominant party in the country, how will Chua's bleating help?
Yes, he was different and a ‘no-nonsense' minister and a party veteran but how could a person with an immoral antecedent be effective to represent the nation?
So what is the position of the resident of MCA going to be? Although many have seen it as dilemma, one feels it should not be too difficult to adopt the utilitarian principle of the greater good for the party.
In that, should the president apply the herculean rule as seen by many veterans in politics - give them the boot once and for all.
And one would understand, if all were done with a clear conscience, the party shall live to see a longer life and be more relevant.
