MY TAKE ON CURRENT MALAYSIAN POLITICS

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Thanks, Bulbu the Great!

Dan V.
Taipei, Taiwan


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Bahasa Melayu, i.e. Malay.
b.
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:38 AM,  <interpreterman at aol.com> wrote:
 I may have missed it; what's BM?

 Made BM the national language


 -----Original Message-----
 From: Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp at gmail.com>
 To: lp <lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
 Sent: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 9:54 pm
 Subject: MY TAKE ON CURRENT MALAYSIAN POLITICS

 MY TAKE ON CURRENT MALAYSIAN POLITICS

 I feel it is best to put it into the way I normally sum up my
 engineering stuff, so...here goes:

 BN

 Pros:

 1. Been in power for 50 years. Know how to run a multi racial country.
 2. Brought considerable development as compared to many other Asian
 countries.
 3. Excellent medical policy for the public than very few other nations
 can compare with. (Malaysian pay RM 1 for medical treatment, foreign
 workers pay RM 5. No insurance policy requiments, etc as in most other
 countries)
 4. Maintaining English as mainstream media since independance (Not
 translated to Thai or Bahasa Indonesia) has made Malaysians marketable
 worldwide and made the world open to Malaysians.
 5. Made BM the national language that everyone (Indian, Chinese and
 Malay Malaysian) speaks well. (Not the "divide the population by
 language" policy adopted in Singapor
e) Gave the non-Malays an
 additional capability of speaking at lease 3 languages well.

 Cons:

 1. Deciding to use racial based politics. (UMNO, MCA & MIC)
 2. Deciding to continue with race based politics for 50 years.
 3. Rampant abuse of power. (You can put all contract
 awards/Tenders/NEP/PETRONAS/ETC all under this.)
 4. Rampant corruption. (This covers our Police Force and Judiciary)
 5. Control over the media with limited free speech.
 6. ISA used as a tool to silence opposition or unfavourable responses.


 CONS WIN 6 - 5


 PAKATAN

 Pros:

 1. Change from race based politics.
 2. Promises to eradicate poverty regardless of race.
 3. Promises to eradicate corruption and abuse of power.
 4. Promise to re-instill trust and commitment of our Judiciary and Police
 Force.
 3. Has shown promise in Penang, Perak and Selangor so far.
 4. Dynamic leaders. (Anuar, Karpal, etc)
 5. More educated leaders.
 6. Well planned agendas.
 7. Seem to have large support base and growing.

 Cons:

 1. No proven long term track record. (Mostly promises)
 2. Dynamics leaders may have hidden agendas.
 3. Weaker coalition with party members. (Keadilan, PAS and DAP have
 very different ideolody.)

 PROS WIN 7 - 3

 I GUESS, JUST AS WITH AN ENGINEERING SOLUTION, THE QUANTITY, QUALITY &
 FREQUENCY OF THE ABOVE POINTS WOULD HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED PRIOR TO
 DECIDING BUT I HOPE THE SUMMING UP HELPED THOSE WHO WERE A LITTLE
 CONFUSED WITH THE LOADS OF COMMENTS, VIEWS AND WRITE-
UPS THAT WE HAVE
 BEEN BOMBARDED WITH!!

 http://nanda666.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-take-on-current-malaysian-politics-i.html

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