YOURSAY ‘How can you compare KL to the whole of South Korea?’

'KL GDP higher than S Korea, lower than Seoul'

Swipenter: Averages is not accurate measurement of real income per household. Averages is only good if income disparity is small. What is more accurate and useful is actual income disparity of Malaysians inter and intra all communities.

Khazanah Research Institute, it’s better use your time to do some research in income disparity in Bolehland. Better still, do research on why the rich become mega rich, the poor become poorer and why so many Malaysians are living beyond their means.

Debater: As one mathematician said, "What statistics show is interesting but what it hides is even more interesting". 

South Korea has Samsung, we have none. They have Hyundai and Kia, which are competitive worldwide, and we have our Proton. Their military is well-disciplined and ours slept through when a jumbo jet flew through our airspace.

Their streets are clean (not just in Seoul) but ours? Sigh. Their public transport works but ours? Well, I guess our ministers don't use public transport.

Jaycee: Tell that to a family of four living below poverty level. And why compare to South Korea? Just compare the GDP to our neighbour down south, Singapore.

The GDP gap is so high and we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, especially when Malaysia have so much natural resources.

Vijay47: As usual, I have studied this comparative analysis and must agree that the report by Khazanah Research Institute is correct. 

To regain Malaysia's lost international image which has been severely damaged by opposition leaders Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Guan Eng and Pakatan Rakyat supporters, we should move tycoons Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, Ananda Krishnan, Vincent Tan, and Dr Mahathir Mohamad's son Mirzan to Trolak in Perak.

Then we can reveal to the world that even a small kampong in Malaysia has higher per capita income than Geneva, London, or New York. 

Homesick: As one commentator said, we should compare like for like. How can you compare Kuala Lumpur to the whole of South Korea? This is just like playing Lionel Messi on his own against the whole of Malaysian football squad.

Birdbird: Next time, we should have Damansara Height's GDP vs South Korea... Sure win.

Unspin: Indeed, per capita GDP numbers should be read in conjunction with our Gini coefficient index . Otherwise, we do not need BR1M (Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia).

Lim Chong Leong: How can we compare apple with orange and say one is better than the other? KL versus Seoul, we lose. Malaysia versus South Korea, we lose again.

Odin: My brain is more intelligent than Albert Einstein's ears, but my whole body is far, far less intelligent than his. So, what am I telling you, then?

PAS: Guan Eng and DAP can quit Pakatan

Whatsup: PAS is such a shameful party - after committing all the treachery and reneging on their agreement with other coalition partners, it still continues to arrogantly sabotage the coalition. Have they no shame?

Ian2003: What is the point of having a leadership meeting when the leader is not attending the meeting?

Yes, everyone has their prerogative to attend meetings but for a leader to miss a meeting when he one of the core person, then the meeting might as well be cancelled.

Proarte: DAP must be feeling a sense of deja vu. It pulled out of Barisan Alternatif in 2001 because of differences with PAS over its insistence on forging ahead with its Islamic state agenda.

But then due to political opportunism and due to Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's assurances that PAS would adhere to a 'common manifesto', PAS was allowed to espouse its Islamic state ideology. Like BA, Pakatan was betrayed by PAS when it decided to ditch the 'common manifesto' and collaborate with Umno to introduce hudud law in Malaysia.

It is not DAP's intention to go it alone in the political arena. The political realities are such that DAP alone cannot bring down the BN, namely the Umno juggernaut.

Naively, and to my mind, rather opportunistically, Pakatan assumed that a coalition with antithetical ideologies could miraculously coalesce into a united opposition and lead us to Putrajaya.

Survivor: DAP leader Lim Guan Eng is not going to quit Pakatan just because you say so. Guan Eng is going to stay on in Pakatan and torment you guys until kingdom comes.

Who does not know that PAS and Umno Baru already strike an understanding and it is now PAS' task to deliberately cause Pakatan to implode.

There is no need for Pakatan to be the ruling parties. It is morally right to be strong opposition to give the ruling party a run for its monies. Comes GE14, those Pakatan supporters in constituencies represented by PAS need only to spoil their votes.  

The Analyser: In reality, Pakatan is stuffed. It's pretty obvious its supporters are largely anti-PAS, and without PAS as the source of votes not even Anwar at his best could make any headway.

And his best has passed. Now that DAP has Penang, Lim Guan Eng will happily turn it into another Singapore and for all intents and purposes they will go back to ignoring the rest of the country.

Azmin Ali in Selangor is sitting on a knife edge. The fickle 'perfectionist' Chinese will drop him like a hot brick if he fails to live up to their expectations.

So, as predicted, the opposition which never had anything to offer has proven to be just that. BN helped them on their way out, but the real collapse came from within. Pakatan has no substance.

Kathleen Ong: Analyser, I’ve been reading your comments. You analyse well. But on this, we have to disagree.

I would rather see these dormant and backward Taliban PAS live in their own cocoon than be a recurring nasty itch in Pakatan. I have faith in the young professional and urban Malays.

Perhaps they will find something in the DAP and PKR combo, plus with the appropriate tie-ups and strategy in East Malaysia, this country can finally be BN-Less for the next five years. 

Blackknight: As seen in the Selangor MB fiasco, PAS is clearly sabotaging Pakatan. PAS leaders including Abdul Hadi Awang and Nik Aziz Nik Mat's claim that Khalid Ibrahim did no wrong has slowly been exposed as baseless as seen in the bibles fiasco and the high severance payments made to the former staff of MBI (Menteri Besar Selangor Incorporation).

The rump exco made entirely of PAS representatives approved the payments which many Selangorians consider as morally wrong.

PAS, and especially Hadi and his cohorts, no longer occupy the high moral ground and DAP is right in demanding that Hadi stop playing his mind games and stick to the mutually agreed framework of Pakatan.

So if PAS feels that it no longer subscribes to the commonly agreed principles and framework, then the party should leave. It is clear that PAS under Hadi is no longer a reliable partner and hiding under religious labels will simply not do.

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