Thursday, November 24, 2011

一样是分钱,但是心态却天渊之别!

一样是分钱,但是心态却天渊之别!


我是毫无政党背景的槟州子民。

槟州民联政府在林冠英的领导下,靠着CAT- 廉洁,可靠和透明的政策为槟州省下了很多钱,把MPPP MPSP 转亏为营,脱离赤字,还能推出许多利民政策,比如:免费冷气及无线上网穿梭巴士,免费载送工作人士来往槟岛及威省,每年制度化拨款给各源流学校,甚至还可以每年分钱给老人,单亲妈妈,新生小孩,等。槟州的理财能力绝对不容置疑,受到国际甚组织至国家总稽查司的连声称赞。

国阵政府眼看近期要大选了,心知不妙,就急着要模仿民联槟州政府。。。首相首先宣布“所有学生将获得一次性RM100!”唯,此RM100非彼RM100。国阵的RM100和槟州民联 RM100,表面上一样,但是却差之毫厘失之千里!

首先,槟州政府是考廉洁及节俭让州财政脱离亏损后,才发放这RM100, 而且还是连续每年都发放,显示州政府是经过精打细算,准备好之后才分钱的。但是,国阵的RM100首先是在国家越亏越严重的情况下发放的,而且还是一次性,显示中央政府并不是精打细算之后,也没有准备好,只是为了应付大选而‘应酬’人民的!更严重的是,在发放了这RM100之后,教育部必须找临教开刀,榨取他们的花红及公积金,由此可见这学生的RM100可以说是间接从临教身上挖来的!这就是国阵一贯的作风,从你身上刮取金钱,然后还一部分回给你,然后叫你一定要懂得感恩!我在想,如果我真要感恩,是不是应该感恩临教呢?

接着,马华也觉得不对劲连忙宣布:一次性发放RM100给年老的党员和RM200给党员的出生婴儿!哇老,这更加是一个没有精打细算,没有准备好的宣布!金钱政治本来就不对,但是现在更甚的是,马华将它合理化。其实,从民联槟州政府,国阵中央政府,国阵马华分钱的方式看来,我初步得到以下分析:-

1.      槟州民联政府真的以民为本,所以在节省提州政府赚钱后,每年制度化拨款给有需要的州人民!

2.      国阵中央政府,还是不改以前一路以来的作风,先榨干于你再还给于你,然后要你感恩!显然这分钱方式,让人觉得有‘做戏’的感觉,应酬人民的心态大过于要以民为本!

3.      国阵马华分钱给党员,我觉得这不需要分析,因为它只是分给党员,不是人民,所以谈不上以民为本!顶多只能说,马华还是维持一贯的国阵作风,认为只要用钱就能让党员做事。

一样是分钱,但是心态却天渊之别。选民啊,你的眼睛可要擦亮一点啊!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Bloomberg praises Lim Guan Eng for Penang's success!

Bloomberg praises Guan Eng for Penang's success

12:37PM Oct 20, 2011

Bloomberg has hailed Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng as embodying the contrast between Penang’s business transparency and the four-decade old policies of the ruling party (Barisan Nasional) that favour Malays.
According to the World Bank, these policies undermine competitiveness, says the well-established New York-based international financial news service.
Headlined ‘Malaysia Losses From Racial Law Exposed by Foreigners in Penang’, the report, published on Bloomberg’s website yesterday, stated that Lim has managed to keep Penang attractive for international companies.
Lim has been able to do this even as Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak focuses federal support on regions such as Johor and Sarawak, where his ruling coalition has among its biggest parliamentary-seat majorities, said the news service.
Bloomberg described Lim, 50, the country’s only ethnic-Chinese state leader, as a fast worker when it comes to closing deals with multinational companies.
“Lim’s speed in closing deals is helping Penang achieve what every Malaysian prime minister has sought since Mahathir Mohamad started his Multimedia Super Corridor in the 1990s, near Kuala Lumpur,” said Bloomberg.
‘We’ve been sleeping’
Bloomberg revealed that Lim turned Penang into the nation’s biggest economic success after he bumped into two National Instruments Corp executives at the local airport in 2008.
He convinced the managers to set up a research and production centre in the state, and within two years the former British trading post was Malaysia’s top destination for foreign manufacturing investment, the news service added.
“The deal was struck very quickly,” Bloomberg quoted Eugene Cheong, a director at the local unit of the Austin, Texas-based maker of industrial testing and automation equipment as saying.
Bloomberg also quoted Ooi Kee Beng, senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, as saying that “Penang now has a chance to show that if you have good governance, and if you put fairness and justice as your main qualities, free of race considerations, that is actually the way to go for Malaysia.”
“We’ve been sleeping,” Ooi, the Penang-born author of ‘Era of Transition: Malaysia after Mahathir’ told Bloomberg.
Ooi said Malaysia’s efforts to woo investments in recent years may have been hampered by its policy of giving preferential treatment to ethnic Malays and some indigenous groups, collectively known as bumiputera, in government jobs, contracts, education and cheaper housing.
When the economy was booming along with its neighbours before the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the effects of the policy were less apparent, he said in Bloomberg.
When growth slowed, the race-based programme became a greater damper, he added.
Penang paid the Economist?
This glowing report on Penang follows another positive article by the Economist in its August issue titled ‘Malaysia’s Penang state - Getting back its mojo’.
In the report, the feature touched on the state reinventing itself in the industrial sector after Pakatan Rakyat took over in 2008.
This riled up Lim’s detractors, who responded immediately by saying the Penang government had paid the international magazine for the positive article, which the former denied vehemently.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg stated that Lim, elected in March 2008 as Penang’s first chief minister from an opposition party in 36 years, was struggling with the prospect of federal funding cuts.
However, in the first seven months of 2011, Penang won RM3.6 billion of approved foreign manufacturing investment, ahead of the RM3.4 billion that went to Selangor, said Bloomberg.
“Penang’s economic resurgence may bolster the opposition alliance’s claim it can be an alternative to the National Front, which has run the country since independence from British rule in 1957,” added Bloomberg.
This was backed by Ong Kian Ming, a political analyst at UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur and columnist for The Edge newspaper, who told Bloomberg that “a lot of this has to do with the dynamism of the chief minister”.
In the report, Najib has been made to look lopsided in promoting about RM65.8 billion of private- sector-led projects for Johor compared with at least RM375 million for Penang under his Economic Transformation Programme.
“The comparison excludes projects covering multiple states or those without a clear single location, which amounted to RM34.3 billion nationwide,” according to data it collected, said Bloomberg.
'Investment based on needs'
However, a spokesperson for Najib, Tengku Sariffuddin Tengku Ahmad, defended the policy by saying that “investment decisions are made on the basis of need, not politics”.
“Over the last year we have invested more than RM1 billion of federal funding in Penang and will continue to support their economic progress in whatever way we can,” he was reported as saying on Bloomberg.
In an interview in his 28th floor office, Lim told Bloomberg that the relationship between the state and the central government wouldn’t hold Penang back.
“We may have political differences but we are cordial and professional. If Penang fails, Malaysia fails,” he added, a comment the chief minister has been repeating in to the press since 2008.