Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad described the World Bank as “useless”, saying today that it was politically motivated for putting out a report that pro-Bumiputera policies are stunting the country’s economy.The tradition continues - the man is Mr. Know-All and he is always right. :-)
The former prime minister said the World Bank report was politically motivated as it wanted a change of prime minister, seemingly referring to Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, a former chairman of its development committee.
“We have been critical of the World Bank since my time. We said that they were useless.
“They dislike us and want to have their good friend become prime minister,” Dr Mahathir (picture) told reporters today.
The World Bank said on Thursday that more than one million Malaysians live abroad as policies favouring the Malays are holding back the economy, causing a brain drain and limiting foreign investment.
World Bank senior economist Philip Schellekens was quoted as saying that foreign investment could be five times the current levels if the country had Singapore’s talent base.
He said Malaysian migration was increasingly becoming a skills migration with one-third of the one million-strong Malaysian diaspora now consisting of the tertiary educated and expected the trend to continue. CLICK HERE for more.
In another report HERE:
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today the Chinese community must choose to vote the MCA if they still wanted to represented in Putrajaya, or be left out.
Najib, who is also Umno and the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition’s chief, said its Chinese partner had sent out a clear message to voters that they cannot have it both ways.
Another report HERE said:
Perkasa warned the MCA and Gerakan today that it would tell the Malays not to vote for their candidates in the next general election if they fail to stand up for the Malays and Islam.I guess we must thank them for making it easier for Chinese to decide who to vote for in the next General Elections. First we were called 'pendatang' and now this 'love message'. I hope everyone will be enlightened to vote for the right party and the best candidate.
Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali said Barisan Nasional’s (BN) Chinese-based parties would not win any seats without Malay votes and cautioned them to “be friends with Perkasa.”
“We will see whether candidates defend Malays and Islam. If not Perkasa will give the green light to pancung (cut off) them in the general election,” he said at a gathering organised by the Malay rights group here.
Although the Pasir Mas MP extended this threat to all candidates for a general election expected within a year, he singled out the MCA and Gerakan as those that needed Malay votes to win.
“With no Malay votes, not even one can win. They better be friends with Perkasa,” he said.
If after all this hoo-ha and people still vote for the wrong party, what will happen to this country?
*shakes head*
Is there any hope?
Sighs....
Malaysians must wake up and vote for the collective good of this nation.
walla Let's see where they all are coming from.
One, if the instances of vote rigging and payoffs are anything to go by, the results of the recent Sarawak elections would actually have been different if they had not occurred because even with those crimes against due democratic process by BN possibly with the complicity of the EC, the Opposition had more than doubled their seats which meant they had swamped the urban votes and actually created a tectonic shift in the semi-rural constituencies as well. In other words, if the election had been fair and square, BN would not have won its two-third majority. That would explain why its Umno leaders have been rattling their sabres.
Two, if Najib had really said that, then one would like to ask him how it jives with his (and Muhyiddin) hopping mad at the MCA when it went public to complain on Utusan over its 1Melayu 1Bumi sloganeering. In fact, it was understood that Muhyiddin had strongly suggested that Umno go it alone and form the next government without the MCA and others. So how would that jive with what Najib has said that without the MCA, the Chinese won't be represented in Putrajaya?
Three, Perkasa is misreading the Chinese. These citizens are motivated and prompted by practicalities and principles. When they voted for BN in large numbers the first time, it was to counteract the threat of an antisecular PAS. When they voted for BN in large numbers the second time, it was because they had had enough of the racial excesses of Mahathir; that could be understood because Badawi had no record of any performance. Now when they voted against BN in 2008, it is for the same reason that they had voted for Badawi's BN, to counteract the racial excesses of Mahathir, which is now re-personified in Perkasa as Umno's prelude to the next general elections, say by 2013. So, the Chinese voters have been consistent across all political divides at all times. They have focused only on things that will ensure healthy and open progress of the nation.
If Ibrahim Ali is now threatening the Chinese voters and the MCA candidates, is he saying healthy and open progress of the nation is bad for his Perkasa members inasmuch all Malays in the country? If he says it is so, then that would in fact justify the World Bank finding of the reason for the brain drain, a finding rebuked by none other than Ibrahim Ali's godfather, Mahathir himself. See the logic of their illogicalities?