Every year the auditor's -general report reveals the same massive losses in the various govt instituitions.Not surprisingly most if not all the losses are caused by incompetence,greed and dishonesty. For many years the ritual of the A-G's report only caused temporary outrage amongst the govt leaders from both side of the political divide. After the initial ripple of outrage, life continue as usual until the next A- G report next year. Nothing changes and the wastage of public funds continue unabated.
How do you explain the following?
1. Millions wasted in tourism projects overseas by Pempena.
2.26 million wasted in 7 years due to delay in campus.
3.$214 million army camp incomplete,but falling apart.
4.$165 Million for 'unused'baggage handling system.
5.$110 million of farmer's incentives not paid
6 Mara's $54 million allocation was utilised to purchase related items at 100% more than market price.Examples are as follows:
a. An oven at RM1,200 compared to the market price of RM419, for baking and pastry- making courses in Kelantan
b.Folding beds at RM500, against the market price of RM100
c.Two-burner gas cookers at RM200 each, rather than RM59.90
d.Hair clippers supplied at RM250 each, instead of RM79
e.A blender at RM140 instead of RM60
The above are only the tip of the ice berg. Wastage, incompetency and dishonsty covers practically the civil service and all govt linked instituitions.
The ordinary citizens have a right to ask the govt. when will this carnage of public funds stopped? The govt's debt is an all time high of $407 billion and no sign of declining. Meanwhile, the P.M and the DPM is handing out money to various constituencies like money has gone out of fashion, all for the express purpose of wining votes for the coming election. The way the country is managed only leads to one path and that is the path to destruction.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Blue Wave Taking over Selangor?
DPM, Muhyiddin has been busy of late scouring five Selangor state constituencies and telling Selangorians they should vote back the B.N govt. But are Selangorians willing and ready to accept back the B.N Govt? Based on DPM evaluation and feed back the Blue wave is going to ensure B.N is returned to power.
But how far is this evaluation correct?Based from statistic given so far by the Selangor state govt the revenue till june this year have totalled $1.1 billion. A record in the history of Selangor. Never in its history under the B.N administration have they ever accumulated so much revenue.
Therefore it will be interesting to see whether Selangor will revert back to B.N in the next election as predicted by the DPM.
But how far is this evaluation correct?Based from statistic given so far by the Selangor state govt the revenue till june this year have totalled $1.1 billion. A record in the history of Selangor. Never in its history under the B.N administration have they ever accumulated so much revenue.
Therefore it will be interesting to see whether Selangor will revert back to B.N in the next election as predicted by the DPM.
Why National Schools cannot be the Choice of All Malaysians
Khaiy Jamaludin has become one of the latest growing lists of proponents that a unitary or singular school sysytem would be an all encompassing solution to our current racial polarisation.. The introduction of a singular school system would means the abolition of vernacular schools.For some one of Khairy's educational background it is indeed sad that he could not even be unbiased in his evaluation of the dilemma facing our present education system which has caused ethnic division .
The question is why is Khairy only focusing his attention on vernacular schools? What about Mara schools , religious agama schools and even tertiary university level like UITM where the students strictly only cater exclusively for one race.?
Is Khairy implying that only vernacular schools are the sole cause of ethnic polarisation and that Mara schools, Religious Agama schools and tertiary university like UITM are exempted from any blame for the ethnic division? It is really sad that someone of Khairy's educational background can be so biased in his evaluation of the cause for such racial polarisation.
The simple and unpalatable truth is that ever since Tun Razak became the second P.M, we had the misfortune of having Education Ministers who could not understand why National schools could not become the choice of all Malaysians. All of them were incompetent or were not interested in finding out the truth. In the end we had education policies that were ad hoc and flip flop. Even till now there is no clear define policies whether we should adopt English as a medium of instructions.
However, tribute should be given to our first P.M, Tuanku Abdul Rahman. He did not tinker with our education system when we got our independence. He was a visionary leader who knew the importance of the English language. and during his tenure kebangsan schools flourished.. I was a product of that era . The schools were populated with 50% malays, 40% chinese and 10% indians. There was camaderie in all our activities and we accepted each other as Malaysians. We did not look through our differences through any racial or religious lens.We did not bring religion to schools. Religion was something personal where individually we practice our faith at home.Each of us accepted our cultural diversity and each of us respected our religious beliefs. During this time, vernacular schools suffered enrolment problems since majority of chinese and indians and malays all opted for National schools.For practical and financial reasons one by one vernacular schools was slowly decimated without any govt forced closure.
The schools during this era was composed of different ethnic compositions.There was mat sallehs, chinese, indians and malays and through their own cultural diversity we learned to accept diversity, tolerance and respect of each others religious beliefs. All these we didnt learned from our school curriculum but through our impressionable minds we were able to acquire from our various teachers of different origins.
Fast forward to present day, everything has changed for the worse. Religious practice of the islamic faith are conspicously introduced without care to the sensitivity of the other races.Prayers or doa are recited in classes and assembly. Almost 100% of the teachers were of one race and they were employed because of their religiousity rather than their abilty to teach.Female students were compelled by some schools to wear the malay baju Kurung and some were even forced to wear tudungs.During the fasting month of Ramadam, schools canteen were closed and non malays were forced to fast with the muslim students. Some schools even disallowed students to take food in the school canteen since they view it as a sign of disrespect to the muslims.
With all these various display of islamic introductions in National schools it is little wonder non malays were avoiding the National schools like plague. Khairy almost strike the right chord when he said,'the overtly Malay and Islamic character of national schools turn other ethnic communities away. ' But he glossed over this core issue which was the chief reason why chinese and indians turned their backs on National schools. It was often argued that the chinese wanted vernacualr schools because of the desire to preserve cultural heritage and language but this was only a mere excuse. Chinese enclaves from San Francisco to London did not see any chinese clamour for chinese language education. They were so willing to send their children to the english school system and in many cases even excel better than their english counterparts.
Khairy and the present Education Minister should examine National schools during Tuanku Abdul Rahman's era and the present era to see what has caused the change in the choice of National schools by non malays.They should not behave like ostrich burying their head in the sands and think that it was the existence of vernacular schools which had caused non malays not to choose National schools
The question is why is Khairy only focusing his attention on vernacular schools? What about Mara schools , religious agama schools and even tertiary university level like UITM where the students strictly only cater exclusively for one race.?
Is Khairy implying that only vernacular schools are the sole cause of ethnic polarisation and that Mara schools, Religious Agama schools and tertiary university like UITM are exempted from any blame for the ethnic division? It is really sad that someone of Khairy's educational background can be so biased in his evaluation of the cause for such racial polarisation.
The simple and unpalatable truth is that ever since Tun Razak became the second P.M, we had the misfortune of having Education Ministers who could not understand why National schools could not become the choice of all Malaysians. All of them were incompetent or were not interested in finding out the truth. In the end we had education policies that were ad hoc and flip flop. Even till now there is no clear define policies whether we should adopt English as a medium of instructions.
However, tribute should be given to our first P.M, Tuanku Abdul Rahman. He did not tinker with our education system when we got our independence. He was a visionary leader who knew the importance of the English language. and during his tenure kebangsan schools flourished.. I was a product of that era . The schools were populated with 50% malays, 40% chinese and 10% indians. There was camaderie in all our activities and we accepted each other as Malaysians. We did not look through our differences through any racial or religious lens.We did not bring religion to schools. Religion was something personal where individually we practice our faith at home.Each of us accepted our cultural diversity and each of us respected our religious beliefs. During this time, vernacular schools suffered enrolment problems since majority of chinese and indians and malays all opted for National schools.For practical and financial reasons one by one vernacular schools was slowly decimated without any govt forced closure.
The schools during this era was composed of different ethnic compositions.There was mat sallehs, chinese, indians and malays and through their own cultural diversity we learned to accept diversity, tolerance and respect of each others religious beliefs. All these we didnt learned from our school curriculum but through our impressionable minds we were able to acquire from our various teachers of different origins.
Fast forward to present day, everything has changed for the worse. Religious practice of the islamic faith are conspicously introduced without care to the sensitivity of the other races.Prayers or doa are recited in classes and assembly. Almost 100% of the teachers were of one race and they were employed because of their religiousity rather than their abilty to teach.Female students were compelled by some schools to wear the malay baju Kurung and some were even forced to wear tudungs.During the fasting month of Ramadam, schools canteen were closed and non malays were forced to fast with the muslim students. Some schools even disallowed students to take food in the school canteen since they view it as a sign of disrespect to the muslims.
With all these various display of islamic introductions in National schools it is little wonder non malays were avoiding the National schools like plague. Khairy almost strike the right chord when he said,'the overtly Malay and Islamic character of national schools turn other ethnic communities away. ' But he glossed over this core issue which was the chief reason why chinese and indians turned their backs on National schools. It was often argued that the chinese wanted vernacualr schools because of the desire to preserve cultural heritage and language but this was only a mere excuse. Chinese enclaves from San Francisco to London did not see any chinese clamour for chinese language education. They were so willing to send their children to the english school system and in many cases even excel better than their english counterparts.
Khairy and the present Education Minister should examine National schools during Tuanku Abdul Rahman's era and the present era to see what has caused the change in the choice of National schools by non malays.They should not behave like ostrich burying their head in the sands and think that it was the existence of vernacular schools which had caused non malays not to choose National schools
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