Now that the reports of the Auditor-General are out, we learn of the same old, all round abuses - both crafted deliberately and/or ingrained due to stupidity.
The incumbent AG and his predecessors had for sometime now produced almost the same negative reports. My only inference therefrom was and still is ... our managers in the government are inept and could'nt care less!
With artificially inflated costs of assets acquisitions, unchecked overruns of maintenance cost, skyrocketting operational expenditures and what-have-you's, how are we going EVER to achieve efficiency in governance?
The 'High-Income National Economy' recently touted is, it appears now, a mere figment of the 2nd. FM's imagination!
No? You tell me!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Laudable Macro-economic Goal : High Income Malaysian Economy
Our 2nd FM's recent postulate of a strived for high income national economy is indeed a worthy goal. To this end, he urged for more R & D, branding and high-value adding efforts and activities from our SME's.
Rightly so, he further pointed out the needs for developing new products as well as new markets.
I am all for these as, believe you me, these were the same clarion calls made way back in the 70's, 80's and early 90's.
Then we had mostly the bricks-and-mortar entities that competed and prided themselves in productivity gains each successive year. These were on the backs of minimal forex outflows due to relatively smaller population of employed foreign labour.
Yes, we enjoyed many years of affluence.
Contrarily nowadays, we learn of a massive size of foreigners employed in our industries as well as the social and fiduciary problems they collectively posed. No less worrying is, the persistent silence in official announcements concerning our strides or slides in productivity gains and decline, respectively.
I pray to be enlightened further as to how my children and their children will really live in the midst of a high-income Malaysian economy.
Rightly so, he further pointed out the needs for developing new products as well as new markets.
I am all for these as, believe you me, these were the same clarion calls made way back in the 70's, 80's and early 90's.
Then we had mostly the bricks-and-mortar entities that competed and prided themselves in productivity gains each successive year. These were on the backs of minimal forex outflows due to relatively smaller population of employed foreign labour.
Yes, we enjoyed many years of affluence.
Contrarily nowadays, we learn of a massive size of foreigners employed in our industries as well as the social and fiduciary problems they collectively posed. No less worrying is, the persistent silence in official announcements concerning our strides or slides in productivity gains and decline, respectively.
I pray to be enlightened further as to how my children and their children will really live in the midst of a high-income Malaysian economy.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Oh, MACC !
The order 'not to report the death' was, to say the least, really pathetic!
What were the premises for such an order from a deputy director? It is puzzling.
My hopes for some semblance of professionalism amongst the IO's and other non-directorate officers in the MACC are still there. Pray that such be brought to the fore in the final outcome of the inquest.
I must admit though that my keen interest in following the TBH-incident is dissipating. Not that it was unimportant but rather it is becoming 'stale', relative to other socio-political issues of the day. Perhaps, this "long drawn out exercise" (leading to ultimate insignificance) was and will continue to be the modus operandi of crisis-management by the powers-that-be?
I am consequently reminded of the saying, "... time will heal all the problems..."
Sad, very sad!
What were the premises for such an order from a deputy director? It is puzzling.
My hopes for some semblance of professionalism amongst the IO's and other non-directorate officers in the MACC are still there. Pray that such be brought to the fore in the final outcome of the inquest.
I must admit though that my keen interest in following the TBH-incident is dissipating. Not that it was unimportant but rather it is becoming 'stale', relative to other socio-political issues of the day. Perhaps, this "long drawn out exercise" (leading to ultimate insignificance) was and will continue to be the modus operandi of crisis-management by the powers-that-be?
I am consequently reminded of the saying, "... time will heal all the problems..."
Sad, very sad!
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