YOURSAY ‘What we want to know is how you financed Umno during GE13.’
PM unveils political funding plan for GE14
Anonymous_1421806811: It is really pathetic to see someone who had used all means within his disposal to hide the truth from the public behaving so childishly innocent as though all the woes of the country are attributed to everybody else, except him and his stupidity.
I sincerely hope GE14 will send PM Najib Razak back to the real world for he has been living in ‘dreamland’ for far too long.
Anonymous 2305141436452229: While the reforms on political funding is a step in the right direction, I cannot believe that intelligent people like Paul Low and Idris Jala are not making a stronger stand on the RM2.6 billion ‘political donation’.
So far it is unknown what the money was actually used, which brings up issues regarding money laundering, tax issues, possible graft/bribery and also issues of national security with such a large amount being pumped into the personal account of the prime minister from an unknown foreign donor.
n1: It would be very difficult for the people to believe in the effectiveness of such committee when those in power have totally disregarded the basic principles of law and order.
Pahatian: Please PM, don't try to distract. We are not interested in the political funding for GE14.
What we want to know is how you financed Umno during GE13. Did the candidates of other BN component parties also given the same sum of money as Umno's?
We also want to know how the RM2.6 billion was distributed and if there is any leftover money, where is it now?
That's all we want to know. Will you, or can you, disclose the details?
Kingfisher: An old adage states that, “After having successfully laughed all the way to the bank it is still, while seemingly officious, morally acceptable and upright to seek ways and means to contain any scope for others to do a similar feat in the absence of a moral code.”
In layman terms, it is good statesmanship in certain settings and certain individuals. Of course, the conditions being right in that there were no previous moral code as sanctioned by law.
Aziz Kader: Don’t tell us that existing laws in Malaysia allow any politician to receive money from any source into one’s personal bank account.
If a police officer receives RM1,000 and claims it is to be used for the coming election as he plans to contest a parliament seat, do our laws allow this?
Justice Pao: After being caught stealing from a cookie jar, the thief is trying to justify that the cookie jar is too exposed such that others will be tempted like him to also steal from it!
Five ways to save the Malaysian economy
Ksn: Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong, these are good, valid and essential recommendations to save our economy and our country. But who are you talking to?
What we need is nothing less than a change of government to implement all the suggestions and more.
We need a government of capable leaders with unquestionable integrity who are focussed on nation building, and only that. Anything less will not do.
Are we up to it? Imagine with so much of natural resources, we should be doing much better than most countries, Singapore included.
Prudent: I agree with all of Liew's points except point 4. As much as I dislike and disagree with crony projects, it is now part of the demand side of the economy. It is capital investments.
The economy cannot adjust overnight to drastic cuts in project spending, even crony project spending.
To cancel crony projects would: 1) shake business confidence further, and more important, 2) decrease liquidity in the economy and hence demand in a situation where the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the steep fall of the ringgit have already slashed demand drastically - as much as 30 percent in consumer spending from GST alone.
Legit: I think changing this government with an interim unity government would solve all the problems. We have a bunch of useless ministers starting with the PM who are ruining this country.
With that of course many of the senior government officials have to be changed and replaced with people who are competent, honest and trustworthy. Desperate measures are required in desperate times.
Snake-in-the-Grass: Here are my five steps: eat one meal per day, walk to work, stay in bamboo houses, close all the schools and factories, and burn all books and go back to the Stone Age.
Fair Play: Liew, no need five ways. Only one way would suffice. The first one in your article (get Najib to quit as prime minister), that is, if it could be done.
But he has dug his heels in, and deep too.
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