PM Has To Change His Advisors
Folks, the bungling is starting to accelerate. I think the Boss Man is really losing touch. Please do stop and take stock. Fire the advisors. Before its too late fire the advisors. We are going to lose PRU 14.
We thank Allah that 1Malaysia is officially dead. I think the Kedai Rakyat 1 Malaysia (KRIM) the BR1M and anything else related to 1 Malaysia are all officially dead as well.
Did you know that just one of the PM's advisors Omar Mustapha Ong (who is very, very wealthy and getting wealthier by the day) was behind this 1 Malaysia idea. I heard the same dunggu was also behind the "I Love PM" idea. Here is a picture of the guy :
This same guy was the founder of Ethos Consultancy. There is a very long story behind Ethos Consulting. In Malay, you can say that they are 'kon-sultan'. You can read more about this guy here.
In case you are wondering about his background, he is in the same category as 'Khairil Khir Johari". They trace their roots to an offspring of the Wali Songgo and some deviant Orang Asli. (Just joking ok). Here is a more contempory picture of Omar Ong. This is what recurring dreams of Tuanku Abdul Rahman our first Yang Di Pertuan Agong can do to a man.
We thank Allah that no one proposed the "I Love Rosmah Too" idea.
Imagine this campaign 'I love PM and Rosmah'. We would have most certainly lost Lahad Datu to the Jamalul Kirams. The British would have lost the Falklands to Argentina as well.
To the PM's sycophants, this is nothing personal. It is just a very stupid thing to do. And many people were already warning the PM about this. (Sycophants sounds like 'psycho-pants' doesnt it? It actually means the 'cium buntot' people).
If you cannot understand this point, then picture this - I know many people love this Blog too, but imagine the arrogance if I encourage people to carry placards saying 'I Love OSTB'. Now can you understand? Even if you are the PM, you dont do such things. It is childish and silly. People laugh at you.
(By the way, to digress sikit, the latest poll I am running 'Do you agree that UMNO should postpone elections for the top positions in the party?' has now exceeded 1139 hits in just 24 hours. 1083 people - 95% of respondents - DO NOT AGREE that there should be no contest for the top UMNO positions. That is a huge percentage. And I dont think anyone is going to vote more than once in this Poll - once at Starbucks, once at home, once at the office and once at the mamak shop. The numbers are real and they reflect what the people think. And many of my readers are Malay and also UMNO/BN. So PMO people, please do not bury your head in the sand. You will get buried.)
Here is more poor advice the PM has been following. Today's front page in The Star said this :
"Qualified foreign business investors and fund managers will be able to obtain multiple entry visas for up to five-years as part of efforts to attract more talent and investors to spur the country's economy, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Thursday. "
Fund managers? I say Mr PM since when does a fund manager spur the country's economy?
George Soros is a Fund Manager lah. Since when do 'one night stand', 'wham bam thank you maam' fund managers like George Soros spur anyone's economy? You want to give George Soros and his fund manager boys FIVE year multiple entry visas? What for?
They will come here, jack up the KLSE and then sell and pull out all their money from the Bursa Saham. That is what they want to do. They are financial speculators. Our Bursa will then collapse.
We want DFI or Direct Foreign Investment where foreigners bring technology, capital and expertise to set up industries and value added businesses in the country. That will move us up the 'higher income nation' status. Buying and selling shares on the stock market is NOT foreign investment.
And the punasihat who are advising the PM about this are probably the same guys who also bet on the stock market themselves or manage funds as well - the financial speculators. And we have many of them now around the PM, especially those crooks in Khazanah Nasional Bhd.
We are simply opening the country for the financial speculators again. PRU 14 nanti kita akan kalah.
Let me make a suggestion - there is no need for multiple entry visas for fund managers. My suggestion is cancel their visas.
If they want to buy and sell shares on the Bursa, tell them to place their orders through local stockbrokers. They do not have to be here personally to buy and sell shares. Havent they heard of the telephone? Or email? Or Facebook? Or Twitter? Or Skype? Malaysians can buy and sell shares anywhere in the world. Just go online and sign up with a million stockbrokers on the Internet. (Just search "Buying and Selling Shares on the Internet").
Via the Internet you can even buy and sell shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa. Apa susah sangat?
My suggestion is please give multiple entry five year visas to any foreign investor or foreign expatriate worker who has a Masters or PhD degree in any scientific or engineering field to enter the country on work or for investment. Isnt that a better idea?
We want real, high value, technology based foreigners to come and work in Malaysia. Not the financial speculators and other George Soros type crooks.
Here is another bungle reported in the Berita Harian today :
Perdana Menteri menegaskan, peraturan ‘ketetapan-sendiri’ itu bertujuan memastikan pengamal media sosial lebih bertanggungjawab terhadap maklumat disampaikan, sekali gus mengelak perpaduan masyarakat pelbagai agama dan bangsa dirosakkan oleh maklumat palsu.
Sehubungan itu, Najib menegaskan, tidak akan ada lagi penulis ‘tidak bernama’ dalam blog atau portal seperti sekarang bagi memastikan mereka lebih bertanggungjawab terhadap tulisan masing-masing.
The PM has announced that anonymous Blogs will not be allowed. I think this is another terrible idea. The reason why the Internet is so successful and has been so useful to many people, especially those who live in societies which have so many things to hide, is because of the anoynimity that the Internet provides. Now you want to take away this anoynimity.
We already have enough laws in Malaysia to go after people who sow hatreds and commit crimes via the Internet. The MCMC and the Police can trace such people on the Internet anytime. Anonymous or not, they can be found. The existing laws are more than sufficient to deal with this problem.
And it will not work. Anyone can go to the Intetnet Cafe, or use the free WiFi at Starbucks, the mamak nasi kandar, the kopi tiam, on any university campus, the KLIA and a thousand other places which offer free WiFi and no one can trace you.
So what is the big deal about banning anonymous blogs when there are a thousand ways of overcoming such silly rules. Mr PM you are just making enemies with no good returns from this action. Satu perbuatan yang tidak akan berbaloi.
Forcing people to give up anonymity is looking for trouble. I see another 500,000 votes gone there Mr PM. You are really going to lose the PRU 14. Somehow I get the feeling that your advisors are really out to kill you with all this really no-brainer advise. I think they are seriously conspiring to sabotage you.
Every time he makes statements like these - the PM's popularity sinks down even further. Dato Sri, who is giving you all these strange and unpopular ideas? They are out to sabotage you. Change your team before its too late.
And here is the final bungle by the Gomen for today. This is from The Star :
- Scramble for Raya tickets on the cards
- A late scramble for bus tickets is on the cards for those planning the balik kampung trip for the coming Hari Raya period unless express bus companies get their way.
- The companies want to raise their fares by 30% and have chosen not to sell advance tickets for July and August until they get Government confirmation over an increase.
- The move, if approved, will see a bus ticket from Kuala Lumpur to Johor Baru costing about RM40 instead of the usual RM31.10
I say - what has happened to Pemandu, Pemudah, SPAD and all the other outfits that were set up just to avoid such things from happening? What about the Ministry of Transport? Who is responsible for this?
Folks recall that I was against the Minimum Wage Policy? I wrote again and again against it. Now this cry for higher bus fares is 100% one of the results of that Minimum Wage Policy.
The country is not ready for Minimum Wage because there are huge disparities between our workers' productivity depending on which part of the country they are in, or which part of the country they come from and also depending on which racial, language and religious group they belong to.
Jangan marah but in business and in the real world all these things matter. I live in the real world and I hope that you will also join me in the real world. Please stop living in La La Land.
This is why the Euro-currency zone is collapsing in Europe. How can Spain and Greece which suffer 20% - 30% unemployment and lower productivity "enjoy" usage of the same currency note as super efficient Germany? It wont work. That is why Germany is now "bailing out" Spain and Greece.
Here is another way to explain it : if you are a touirist to Europe, say you brought USD100 for shopping. You can exchange the USD100 for the same amount of Euros all over Europe. That same amount of Euros buys different amounts of goods and services in highly productive Germany and lower productivity Spain and Greece. Now imagine the lower productivity workers in Spain and Greece (suffering 30% unemployment) enjoying the same Minimum Wages as the highly productive German workers. Mana boleh? Tabley. They do not have the same levels of productivity to enjoy the same Minimum Wages. Something will crack.
But here is the real effect. Minimum Wages causes price inflation which will eventually negate or wipe out the desired effect of the Minimum Wages. This is what is happening now. Now the bus operators are screaming that the bus ticket prices have to go up.
I wrote many, many times that Minimum Wages will cause the price of things to go up.
I also predicted that we will see the negative effects of the Minimum Wages policy three to six months after it was implemented. The Minimum Wages came into effect six months ago in January 2013. It is now June 2013.
In our jewellery business, our suppliers started charging higher workmanship charges (upah) starting February, March and April. Since the Minimum Wages was implemented, the jewellery factories, their suppliers and distributors all suffered higher salary costs, labour costs and all other costs. Office boys, van drivers, lorry drivers, manual workers, toilet cleaning ladies all were paid higher salaries. All this increased their cost of production.
To recover these higher costs they have raised their prices to me - the retailer. As a result I - the retailer- have also had to raise the prices of my jewellery pieces (Oops - now you know the secret !!)
It is called 'pass through costs'. As business people, traders and merchants we 'pass through' the higher costs to you - our dearest and beloved customers and consumers. Eventually you pay the higher prices. This is also called "price inflation".
This is what is happening to the bus fares. The bus operators also suffer higher costs caused by Minimum Wages. They have no choice but to recover their higher costs or they will go bankrupt. They have no choice but to charge higher ticket prices.
So this is the end result of Minimum Wages. The workers may get higher Minimum Wages but now they also suffer higher prices of goods and services. So at the end of the day it is back to square one. Pi mai pi mai tang tu juga. At the end of the day, the workers still do not have enough money in their pockets.
Folks, the Sarawak State Elections are due in just over two years. If the BN loses support in Sarawak then you know that PRU 18 is lost.
By that time it will be too late for the PM to change his advisors. By that time it will be even too late to change the PM. The PM better change his advisors now.
Anyway here is an image of Tuanku Abdul Rahman, our first Yang Di Pertuan Agong. Try not to dream of his image too much ok. Blind love can blind.
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