syukur laaa.tgk skrg pn aku tgk ratiban anwart da kurang..tmbah lg anwar menang kes mahkamah..me ...
roy3 Post at 17-2-2012 19:02
mereka fikir... org tak nak undi UMNO kerana benci UMNO.. org kutuk UMNO kerana marah UMNO.. tapi mereka tak dapat selami perasaan kemungkinan akal mereka kurang menganggap org yg taknak UMNO BN benci UMNO, buang melayu.. tapi mereka tak sedar bahawa org yg tak nak undi UMNO adlaah org yg amat sayangkan UMNO dan ingin membersihkan UMNO sebersihnya... tetapi org yg masih terus menyangjung UMNO BN sebenarnya adalah perosak parti dan negara itu sendiri...
sekarang mereka masih dalam keadaan selesa, jadi mereka takkan rasai.. tapi percayalah.. mereka akan merasai apa yg dah mereka lakukan selama ini bila anak2 cucu mereka akan datang hidup susah dengan tekanan hidup.. pembelanjaan yg tak dapat menampung kehidupan.. gaji 5k seumpama 500 sahaja... dan baru nak menyesal kerana tangan dan pemikiran merekalah anak cucu mereka jadi begini sekarang...
tapi menyesal kemudian hari tiada gunanya... anak cucu para pemimpin yg mereka puja dan sanjung selama ini masih terus kaya raya dengan hasil peninggalan harta bapa, atuk mereka.. tapi anak cucu penyokong mereka..???
mereka fikir... org tak nak undi UMNO kerana benci UMNO.. org kutuk UMNO kerana marah UMNO. ...
totokreturn Post at 17-2-2012 19:10
mereka masih fikir sokong pas sokong dap..sokong umno melayu berkuasa..ingat mca dan mic tu parti cap ayam..last2 pemimpin umno gak kene tipu ngan pemimpin mca
mereka masih fikir sokong pas sokong dap..sokong umno melayu berkuasa..ingat mca dan mic tu part ...
roy3 Post at 17-2-2012 19:31
melayu dah lama tak berkuasa... sejak umno diharamkan dan seorang mamak menjadi PM.. melayu dah tak berkuasa di tanah melayu ni...UMNo dahulu yg terakhir adalah tun razak yg perjuangkan melayu di tanah air ni.. selepas itu semua berubah dan muncul atas nama melayu pegang kuasa, tapi yg menentukan adalah tokey2 cina yg besar2 menentukan hala tuju negara...
ingat lagi korek..korek..korek.. siapa yg berkuasa menentukan siapa yg paling layak menjadi ketua hakim negar.. mereka adalah india loyer dan seorang cina tokey judi terbesar malaysia yg menentukan... tanah, bukit, pulau diberi pada cina2.. sedang melayu masih menangisi dan terus menunngu geran tanah yg cuma seekar yg tak kunjung tiba tetapi digula2kan setiap kali tiba pilihanraya akan beri kelulusan cepat...
dan sekarang, cuba lihat senarai jutawan negara... siapakah mereka2 ini...lihat saja bila tiba pilihanraya, tahu baru cina, thaipusam.. apa habuan menanti mereka oleh pemerintah melayu ini.. berjuta2 budget disediakn.. tapi pada melayu..??
aku tak benci umno tapi aku benci pemimpin korup/tidak amanah yang pegang umno sekarang. seharusnya penyokong umno kalau sayangkan parti sepatutnya turunkan pemimpin2 korup/tidak amanah ini.jangan la sokong membuta tuli.lihatlah realiti sekarang ni.kehidupan makin perit.walaupun tidaklah seteruk mana tapi ada indikasi menunjukkan bahwa sumthin wrong dengan negara kita.negara kita sangat kaya dan sepatutnya kita sudah sama level dengan singapore.tapi lihatlah sekarang kita dah jauh ditinggalkan singapore. kesian pemimpin2 umno terdahulu bertungkus lumus membangun malaysia. tapi pemimpin2 sekrang ni sedap2 mak bapak diorang je perabis duit rakyat.
aku boleh bayangkan kalau anwar sekarang masih dalam umno, pasti penyokong2 umno sekarang terus sokong anwar.silap2 cium tangan. mesti ape yang anwar cakap semua disokong.
aku boleh bayangkan kalau anwar sekarang masih dalam umno, pasti penyokong2 umno sekarang terus sokong anwar.silap2 cium tangan. mesti ape yang anwar cakap semua disokongunhas Post at 19-2-2012 00:09
Kalau Anwar masih dalam UMNO, bermakna dia tak ada masalah, dan patut mendapat sokongan. Pemimpin yang ada masalah aje yang dipecat, yg dinasihatkan berundur, yang tak perlu lagi dicalonkan sebagai Pemimpin, yang tidak perlu disokong.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — The performance of Pakatan Rakyat controlled states in attracting manufacturing investment prompted a minister today to play up the federal government’s role in their success.
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry released figures today that showed that the federal opposition controlled states of Penang and Selangor had recorded the highest levels of approved manufacturing investment in 2011, at RM9.1 billion and RM8.74 billion respectively.
This is the second year in a row that Penang and Selangor have topped the ranks for approved manufacturing investment and a sharp contrast to 2009 when Sarawak attracted the highest levels of manufacturing investment and Penang came in fourth.
Another Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state, Kedah came in fifth in 2011 with RM6.13 billion, behind Barisan Nasional (BN) controlled Sarawak which was in third place at RM8.45 billion and Johor with about RM6.5 billion.
The economic performance of PR states is closely watched as many voters and analysts use it as a gauge of whether the coalition is a viable alternative to the ruling BN.
Minister for International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said in a media briefing today that Penang had done well since the 1980’s due to strong support from the federal government.
He also said that not all federal opposition controlled states had done well.
“If my (opposition) friends want to say that Penang has done well because it’s ruled by the opposition, what do you say about Kelantan?” said Mustapa.
Kelantan, Mustapa’s home state which is administered by PAS, recorded only RM444 million in approved manufacturing investment last year.
The minister said that the federal government had continued to invest in Penang, including the expansion of the island’s airport and the construction of a second link to the mainland.
“We’re not saying that the state government’s haven’t done anything, but the federal government is working very hard,” he said.
Mustapa (picture) added that the federal government had spent large sums of money developing infrastructure in Penang, the Klang Valley and in the Iskandar region in south Johor.
In terms of total investment however, Penang lost out narrowly to Sarawak which received a huge boost from oil and gas investments.
Sarawak attracted some RM14.35 billion in total investment last year, to Penang’s RM14.038 billion
Sabah was third with RM13.68 billion, followed by Selangor at RM13.47 billion and Johor with RM12.64 billion.
Mustapa said that Sabah, Sarawak and Johor were the beneficiaries of huge oil and gas investments with Petronas alone investing RM6.7 billion in Sarawak.
In Johor, it was the huge investment by Dialog in the Pengerang oil terminal that made up the single largest chunk of the state’s investment.
US newswire Bloomberg had in October last year described Penang’s growth into Malaysia’s “biggest economic success” despite the federal government’s focus on Johor and Sarawak, as a boost to PR’s credibility.
It pointed out that under the Najib Administration’s Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), the federal government is promoting RM65.8 billion worth of private sector-led projects for Johor and a mere RM375 million for Penang.
BN terlalu tamak... rakyat yang susah... kalau negara maju, siapa yang untung? Semua rakyat untung... Kalau kerajaaan rasuah, siapa yang untung? Pikir lah sendiri....
Sekarang, kroni issue semakin terok... saya memang hairan kenepa masih ada orang yang sanngup support kerajaan yang tak ade guna sebegini. hairan betul....
Saya support PAS kerana pemimpinnya tak rasuah .... DAP kerana pemimpinnya cekdih ... keadilan kerana ada anwar.....
Whatever you may think of Anwar, he did manage to reduce the country’s budget deficit (as a percentage of GDP) and later even presided over surplus years.
Anwar was appointed Finance Minister in 1991 in the Mahathir administration and deputy PM in 1993. He was ousted from power in 1998.
Some (including me) may have reservations about what they perceive to be his neo-liberal inclinations, but it has to be said that we haven’t seen a surplus since Anwar was unceremoniously thrown out of office.
In fact, those five years of surpluses are the only years the government has achieved a surplus from 1970 until now.
No kidding – look at the figures from 1970 (figures from Bank Negara).
Subramaniam Pillay looks at the worrying rising trend of federal government debt and wonders if Malaysia will go bankrupt. At our current rate of borrowing, it won’t take long before we become another Greece.
That the budget that was tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on 7 October 2011 was an election budget is very clear. There have been numerous detailed comments on the budget by politicians and analysts (since then). In this article, we are just going to focus on one of the long term issues from the budget. It concerns the increasing debt burden of the federal government.
How big is the government debt?
The accompanying chart shows the federal government’s outstanding debt at the end of the successive years. As can be seen, the debt has been increasing since 1970. From the detailed data available form Bank Negara’s website, in 1991, it reached a temporary peak of RM99bn and then decreased to RM90bn by 1997. From then, it has been virtually doubling every five years. By the end of 2011, we can expect the figure to reach RM450bn.
In other words, since the Asian crisis of 1998, we have been growing by borrowing heavily. In the 10 years since 1999, our debt has quadrupled. If we continue on this path, by 2020, our national debt will reach RM1.6 trillion. If our population is 40 million then, each Malaysian will have a debt burden of more than RM40000 and this does not include our own personal borrowing. Assuming an interest rate of 5 per cent, paying the interest alone will cost the taxpayers RM80bn per year!
The government has been reassuring us by saying that our debt is manageable. It argues that the debt at the end of 2012 will be only 54 per cent of our GDP, which is relatively low compared to the current crisis nations like Greece and Italy. (GDP is a measure of the total value of all the goods and services produced in a year in the country.) While it may not reach the levels of Greece by 2012, at our current rate of borrowing it won’t take long before we become another Greece. Just to put this in perspective, our giant neighbour, Indonesia has a debt of only 23 per cent of GDP! Singapore has no debts.
The federal government debt alone does not tell the full story. Many government-owned enterprises also have borrowings. If these figures are included, then the total debt would be much higher. It is difficult to get the complete data on these borrowings.
Why has the debt been growing so rapidly?
Since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis, the government expenditure has consistently exceeded its revenue by a considerable margin. For example, in 2011 the spending is estimated to be RM229bn while the revenue will be only RM183bn. So the shortfall of RM46bn has to be met by borrowing.
Of course it is not expected that the government balances its books every year. Prudent economic management requires the government to balance its budget over an entire business cycle. So we can have deficits during bad years and budget surpluses during good years. Since 1998, we have had at least two business cycles; yet every year without fail we have had budget deficits!
This is evidence of fiscal irresponsibility. Here is a government which does not know the meaning of saving for a rainy day. A good example is the situation in the current year.
Table 1 shows that the actual revenue for 2011 is going to be higher than the budgeted figure by RM17.6bn. This is mainly due to the increased income from the rise in oil prices in 2011. The federal government relies heavily on different forms of revenues (corporate tax, petroleum profit tax, royalties, Petronas dividends etc.) that originate from the production and export of oil and gas in Malaysia. The proportion can be 30-40 per cent of the total government revenue. Thus a rise in the world price of oil translates directly into higher income for the government. So essentially, we had a windfall income.
What would a prudent government do with this windfall? It would reduce the planned borrowing. But that’s not our BN government’s way of financial management. Uncannily, the increase in the actual spending is going to be the same amount of RM17.6bn! When asked about this at one of the post-budget forums, a Treasury official explained that it was mainly due to higher spending on salaries and increased subsidy for petrol and diesel. We can understand the increased subsidy but why the higher salary? Did we just increase the size of the bureaucracy? This is a clear case of a government which has no control on its spending.
Why is the federal government spending more than it earns?
There are a few reasons for this consistent imbalance. A major factor is the large leakage in government spending due to corruption and wasteful spending that has been highlighted by the Auditor General year after year in his annual reports. It has been estimated that we can easily save RM25-30bn without changing any of the deliverables if we can get rid of corruption and cronyism. Transparent practices like open tendering can cut down the cost of much of the procurement and project spending.
In addition, spending can be reduced on military procurements. If a fraction of the money that is saved here can be used to improve the quality of our diplomats in Wisma Putra, we can avert any potential threat to national security. We can also cut down on the excessive use of foreign and local consultants by the government for work that ought to be done by the civil service. Reduction of subsidies to the operators of privatised projects such as the independent power producers and toll road operators will also narrow the deficit.
Another reason for the deficit is the under collection of revenues including income tax and customs duties. Better compliance to and enforcement of existing laws and provisions can increase government revenue. It is common knowledge that many business operators evade paying their full share of income tax by under declaring their true income. Similarly, evasion of customs duties is rampant due to corruption in the Customs department.
What will happen if the debt keeps increasing at the same rate in future?
As the debt gets larger, interest payments will take an increasing share of total government spending. Table 2 shows this clearly.
If the government continues with the trend of the past 13 years, by 2020 we may be spending about 18-25 per cent of the operating budget on interest payments. In fact as the borrowing increases, the government will be forced to pay higher interest rates to borrow more because its credit rating will be downgraded. (For example, in Europe, currently the German government can borrow at around 2 per cent per annum while the Italian government has to pay about 7 per cent for its loans.) So the interest cost will rise exponentially.
This will leave much less money for other social and economic spending. It will also widen income inequality as the government will have to cut spending on many public goods like education, health care and public transport. At the same time, the interest it pays goes mainly to foreigners and the better off segment of the population.
What is even more worrying is that given our large revenue from petroleum-related sources, we should not really be running deficits. It is only a matter of time before we run out of oil and gas and thus become net importers of these two commodities. When that happens, our budget situation may become very critical.
A prudent Malaysian government would have saved a sizeable portion of the petroleum revenue from the past few decades as a fund for rainy days. Many other countries have done this. Norway is a prime example. Abu Dhabi is another country which has a huge sovereign wealth fund set up from its petroleum windfall. Botswana in southern Africa saved its windfall earnings from the discovery of diamonds and invested it abroad for its long-term well being.
Going through some back copies of The Star, I came across the above headlines. My initial reaction was one of delighted amazement. Finally the local mainstream media (MSM) is drawing attention to what only the online alternative media has dared to print - illegal movement of funds out of the country. On reading further, my initial elation was replaced by utter disappointment. The report was about India, not Malaysia.
Considering the figures were taken from the same Global Financial Integrity Report 2000-2009 published on January 18, 2011, it is pertinent to question why India, which occupies 15th spot in the Top 20 list of countries with illicit outflow of funds, should be mentioned in the MSM, whilst Malaysia in 5th spot with USD291 billion of black money stashed overseas during the same period escapes mention. We are talking about almost RM888 BILLION being taken out of the country illegally.
A Malaysiakini article quoted figures from the GFI Report of RM67.7 billion illicit outflow of funds in 2000. Eight years later, this has tripled to a massive RM208 billion. What are the sources of these funds? Who are these people or companies illegally transferring funds out of the country? Where have they stashed the money?
Similar reports have appeared in The Malaysian Insider, Malaysia Today and Free Malaysia Today and other alternative news media websites. But the MSM has yet to highlight this staggering financial loss to the people of Malaysia.
DAP and PKR have called on Barisan National for a full explanation. In response, International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Mukriz Mahathir said at a recent press conference that the government did not see the need to look into claims that the RM888 billion channeled to secret banks abroad was due to corruption and mismanagement under his father's premiership.
It's just a matter of time before the truth will out. Already a former Swiss bank employee has handed over to Julian Assange of Wikileaks details of 2000 high net-worth accounts. I am sure Malaysians would be curious to know if any of their fellow countrymen are on the list.
2011/07/22KUALA LUMPUR: Walaupun ada pihak sentiasa cuba memburukkan imej negara ini, namun kajian Global Peace Index (GPI) 2011 mendapati Malaysia adalah negara ke-19 paling selamat daripada 153 negara di seluruh dunia.
Malaysia juga diletakkan sebagai negara paling aman di Asia Tenggara dan keempat di Asia Pasifik selepas New Zealand, Jepun dan Australia.
Ini adalah julung kalinya Malaysia diberi ranking setinggi itu sejak 2007 dan negara ini adalah antara enam negara bukan Eropah yang menduduki 20 tempat teratas dalam senarai berkenaan, di samping Iceland, New Zealand, Jepun, Qatar dan Australia.
Penemuan edisi kelima kaji selidik oleh Institute for Economics and Peace yang berpejabat di Sydney itu diumumkan pada hujung Mei. Pada 2007, Malaysia menduduki tangga ke-37 dan jatuh ke tangga ke-38 pada 2008, sebelum memperbaiki kedudukannya daripada tempat ke-26 pada 2009 kepada tempat ke-22 pada 2010 dan tempat ke-19 pada 2011.
Indeks berkenaan mengandungi 23 petunjuk kualitatif dan kuantitatif oleh sumber yang dihormati, yang menggabungkan faktor dalaman dan luaran iaitu daripada perbelanjaan ketenteraan di peringkat nasional hinggalah kepada hubungan sesebuah negara dengan jirannya serta tahap pematuhan hak asasi manusia.
Petunjuk itu dipilih sebuah panel ahli akademik antarabangsa, ahli perniagaan, dermawan dan anggota institusi keamanan bagi tempoh 15 Mac 2010 hingga 15 Mac 2011.
Kajian itu menyatakan Malaysia mengambil alih kedudukan Singapura yang tersenarai sebagai negara paling selamat di Asia Tenggara pada 2010.
Kini, republik itu menduduki tempat kedua di Asia Tenggara dan ke-24 keseluruhan, diikuti Vietnam (ke-30 keseluruhan), Laos (ke-32 keseluruhan), Indonesia (ke-68 keseluruhan), Thailand (ke-107 keseluruhan), Myanmar (ke-133 keseluruhan) dan Filipina (ke-136 keseluruhan).
Dalam kalangan negara maju pula, United Kingdom menduduki tangga ke-26, Korea Selatan (ke-50), China (ke-80) dan Amerika (ke-82).
"Peningkatan tahap keamanan Malaysia dicerminkan oleh peningkatan kestabilan politik dan hubungannya yang lebih baik dengan negara jiran, terutama Singapura dan China," menurut kajian.
Sepuluh negara yang menduduki tangga teratas dalam senarai itu ialah Iceland, yang merupakan negara paling aman, diikuti New Zealand, Jepun, Denmark, Republik Czech, Austria, Finland, Kanada, Norway dan Slovenia.
Di kalangan negara Islam pula, Malaysia menduduki tempat kedua selepas Qatar apabila negara itu diletakkan di tangga ke-12 dan negara paling selamat di Timur Tengah.
Tempat kedua bagi kategori ini menjadi milik Kuwait yang menduduki tangga ke-29 keseluruhan.
Sepuluh negara yang menduduki tangga paling bawah ialah Libya (ke-143), diikuti Republik Afrika Tengah, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, Republik Demokratik Congo, Korea Utara, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq dan Somalia.
Kajian itu menyatakan Somalia, negara yang dilanda perang, jatuh satu anak tangga untuk mengambil alih tempat Iraq sebagai negara paling tidak aman.
Kajian itu juga menunjukkan pencapaian keseluruhan beberapa petunjuk mencatat peningkatan, paling besar ialah potensi wujudnya tindakan keganasan dan kemungkinan berlakunya demonstrasi ganas.
Ahli sains politik, Prof Dr Ahmad Atory Hussain, berkata rakyat Malaysia perlu mengiktiraf ranking itu kerana ia dikeluarkan oleh sebuah badan antarabangsa yang dihormati.
"Kini, kita perlu meletakkan sasaran lebih tinggi. Mungkin pada 2020, kita patut berada dalam senarai 10 negara teratas. Apa yang membimbangkan saya ialah ada pihak tertentu di sini, yang kecewa dalam bidang politik, akan melahirkan idea lain seperti mengadakan perhimpunan jalanan dan sebagainya. Tindakan ini akan menurunkan ranking itu," katanya.
Ahli akademik itu berkata, Malaysia dihormati di peringkat antarabangsa serta terkenal sebagai negara yang aman dan harmoni.
"Hanya segelintir golongan yang tidak tahu bersyukur saja yang enggan menerima hakikat ini kerana mempunyai agenda tersembunyi," katanya. - BERNAMA
[KAJI SELIDIK FORUM] Anda SOKONG siapa dalam PRU ke 13?
Kalo nk duit 500.. Sokong bi en. Kalo nk jmpa wakel ra ayat 4tahun skali, undi bi en. Kalo nk mengenang kenangan, undi bi en. Nak gula2 tiap 5tahun.. Sokong cap dacing. Muah
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