Is PM, Najib, dreaming?

I've got so many relatives living overseas. Some of them even accepted citizenship over there, mainly in Australia, UK and USA. They are professionals and having a great life. What's there to attract them to return? Perhaps, when M'sia accepts Anak Malaysia i.e. 100% equal rights, they might. As it is, the rich bumis are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. The rich that can afford houses gets 7% or so discount when buying houses, mar.

What about education? Just this morning, I was talking to an Indian friend, Bala, while having our regular breakfast together. He's one of a charity foundation founder/member. He told me he visited a family that have 3 daughters. They lived in Kampong Gandhi, in a dilapidated wooden house, which is, really a room. With no electricity and an outdoor toilet cum bathroom. The 3 girls each got 14 A1 in their SPM. They couldn't get the PTPTN loan, not to mention getting a place in the local Uni. When my friend found out, he approved their loan to study medicine in India. The eldest of the girls is now on her forth year.

What about promotional opportunities for non-bumis in the civil service, not to mention they being accepted there? Sure, the govt can spin that they are not interested to be in the armed forces and police. In reality, he who holds the weapons control, right?

I could go on and on... on the issue of the govt being biased and racist. Best is to let a neutral party and writer to the talking. If this author is writing garbage, he'll be sued a long, long time ago. In his book, names and dates and transcripts were provided as evidence. Even the cause of May 13, 1969 racial riots were exposed. Who is this brave man? He's none other than the ex-PM of Singapore, Harry Lee Kuan Yew. His 1st book is entitled, 'The Singapore Story'.

Last but not least, if the M'sian govt can only do 10% of what Harry Lee did, we'll be the richest nation in the world. We have so many natural resources and land, yet, if one venture into the kampongs, one can still find people living in abject poverty... many still without water and electricity. Whereas, take a look at the type of cars and houses that our ruling BN/UMNO people are having? It boggles one mind that they can have all that with just their salaries. Then, they build 'white elephants'. Send a man into space, buys submarines, starts a Formula 1 team, etc... Now, they want to build a bridge to link Malacca to Indonesia. Why they wanna do this is obvious to at least 90% of the population. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why.

Back to the subject matter. Dream on dear Najib, if you wanna reach out to M'sians living abroad. As mentioned by one of the Parlimentarians a couple of days ago, 20,000 professionals are US citizen and/or permanent residence there.

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Sunday November 15, 2009

Reach out to Malaysians abroad to help promote country, says Najib

By NELSON BENJAMIN

SINGAPORE: The Malaysian Government is reaching out to Malaysians abroad to help promote the country.

“The new dimension in our consideration now is that we do not look at Malaysians abroad as having lost them for good. I think they want Malaysians to reach out to them,” said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“Let’s make the connection and benefit from them. We want to reach out to all of you and you help us,” he said, adding that they could help promote Malaysian interests while doing their own jobs in their respective countries.

Najib was speaking to more than 100 people, mainly Malaysians living or working in Singapore at a dinner hosted by him and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor on the sidelines of the Apec Summit here on Friday.

Power lunch: Najib chatting with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before an Apec Summit lunch event at the Presidential Palace in Singapore Saturday. — AFP

He stressed that Malaysians living and working overseas cannot be considered unpatriotic or disloyal.

“I find Malaysians working overseas, including Singapore, have strong feelings, vibes and wanting to do something for Malaysia.

“We should capitalise on this and leverage on their presence here to enhance our networking, promote Malaysia in Singapore, make connections and even look for investors,” he said.

The Prime Minister also talked about Malaysia re-adjusting its economic and growth strategies to take into account the changing environment and the global economy.

He said the Government realised that more excitement and buzz needed to be created about Malaysia in its efforts to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy.

“The only way we could ensure enough supply of knowledge workers with the right skills and brains was to create more opportunities in the country,” he said.

“If we can do this, we not only attract Malaysians working abroad, but also expatriates to work and live in the country.”

Najib stressed that Malaysia must not fall short of having its own number of talented people.

Speaking at a press conference later, Najib said among the strategies to get Malaysians to return to the country to work was a 15% tax incentive offered within Iskandar Malaysia.

“For Iskandar, we want Malaysians to come back and work in priority areas,” he added.

source: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/15/nation/5116710&sec=nation

Here's an article regarding 1Malaysia F1 Team Sdn Bhd.

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Formula One - a formula for disaster?

Toyota Motor joined Formula One in 2002. When they left in 2009 they had spent RM $8.11 Billion. RM $3 million a day – everyday for 7 years!

Honda quit F1 in April this year.

BMW withdrew at the end of this year season.

Toyota, Honda and BMW! What does that say about F1? F1 is simply not sustainable. And now Mokhzani Mahathir, Chairman of SIC’s announces:

“Malaysia’s plans to start up and run it’s own Formula One team….If Malaysians need to rally behind an effort to unite our people, let’s use motor sports” and most important of all he reminds us that “Contrary to popular belief, motor sports isn’t just about fun and games but is big business in other parts of the world”.

Company Name: 1Malaysia F1 Team Sdn Bhd


Team Name: Lotus F1

Team
Country: Malaysia


Team Principal: Tony Fernandes

A partnership between the Malaysian Government and a consortium of Malaysian entrepreneurs. What madness is this? You can put any spin you like into this but this is the bottom line. The Barisan Nasional Government will be using hundreds and hundreds of million, if not billions of our Ringgit to finance an entertainment spectacle that will financially benefit their cronies and big business. Najib and Rosmah will enjoy their delusion of grandeur – he having that few seconds of glory when giving away the F1 trophy to the winners at Sepang and she putting on her Islamic Fashion Show in Monaco!

Are we to be taken as idiots again? No businessman in Malaysia not even Lim Goh Tong (may he rest in peace!) if he was alive today would have the audacity to invest in Formula One anywhere in the world – what more in Malaysia! Unless that businessman has been able to conned the Barisan Nasional Government to come up with the billions of Ringgits of Rakyat money to “invest” in this Man Telor of a scheme! And it looks like Tony Fernandes and his team have been able to do just that! Congrats Tony..but that Najib guy is not that bright is he?

Call this F1 Team anything you like but not 1Malaysia F1 Team Sdn Bhd. Because when it fails, as it surely will, it is Malaysia that fails on the world stage.

Somebody better tell Najib that hitching his 1Malaysia to F1 will not make it a success.

As for what participation in F1 will bring to Proton, Lotus or Petronas in terms of innovation and product development - just understand this - with globalization everyone has access to the same material, manpower and technology. F1 is simply not sustainable. It is just entertainment and big business – not for the masses but for the political Elites and their cronies.

But what can we do? We have a government totally out of synch with the realities of what its people want. We must find a way to put the fear of God into this Barisan Nasional Government before we too are drag into the abyss of corrupt and greedy cronyism that they have all comfortably settled into at our expense. I know that we still cannot keep these bastards honest but let us not forget to keep our anger burning. Keep our anger burning so that we will not forget what we have to do come the next General Elections to kick these Barisan Nasional bastards OUT! Keep our anger!

Posted by HusseinAbdul Hamid at Sunday, November 15, 2009

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