(VERSI BAHASA MALAYSIA DI AKHIR ARTIKEL INI)
The price of crude oil has increased by 400 percent in the last three years. It follows that the price of products must increase, sooner or later. In other countries petrol prices had already increased. In the United Kingdom one litre of petrol sells for more than one pound sterling or RM7. In the United States it is about RM5.
That the price in neighbouring countries has gone up is shown by the rush to fill up by Thai and to a lesser extent Singapore vehicles.
The Government has now announced an increase in petrol price by 78 sen to RM2.70 per litre, an increase of more than 40 per cent.
I may be mistaken but there seems to be less vehicles on the road today. But obviously that is not all that will happen. All other consumer goods, services and luxury goods would increase in price.
The cost of living must go up. Put another way there will be inflation and the standard of living will go down.
Obviously our increase in petrol price is far less than in the United Kingdom or the United States. But our per capita income is about one-third of theirs. In purchasing power terms our increase is more than in the UK or the US.
The increase hurts but the pain is greater not just because of the increase percentage-wise is higher than in developed countries but because of the manner the increase is made.
A few days ago the Government decided to ban sale of petrol to foreign cars. It flipped. Now foreign cars can buy again. Flopped.
Knowing that in a few days it was going to raise the price and foreigners would be allowed to buy, why cannot the Government just wait instead of banning and unbanning.
But be that as it may what could the Government have done to lessen the burden on the people that results from the increase in petrol price.
In the first place the Government should not have floated the Ringgit. A floating rate creates uncertainties and we cannot gain anything from the strengthened Ringgit. Certainly the people have not experienced any increase in their purchasing power because of the appreciation in the exchange rate between the US Dollar and the Ringgit.
Actually the Ringgit has increased by about 80 sen (from RM3.80 to RM3.08 to 1 US Dollar) per US Dollar, i.e. by more than 20 per cent. Had the Government retained the fixed rate system and increased the value of the Ringgit, say 10 per cent at a time, the cost of imports, in Ringgit terms can be monitored and reduced by 10 per cent. At 20 per cent appreciation the cost of imports should decrease by 20 per cent. But we know the prices of imported goods or services have not decreased at all. This means we are paying 20 per cent higher for our imports including the raw material and components for our industries.
Since oil prices are fixed in US Dollar, the increase in US Dollar prices of oil should also be mitigated by 20 per cent in Malaysian Ringgit.
But the Government wants to please the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and decided to float the Ringgit. As a result the strengthening of the Ringgit merely increased our cost of exports without giving our people the benefit of lower cost of imports.
This is not wisdom after the event. I had actually told a Government Minister not to float the Ringgit three years ago. But of course I am not an expert, certainly I know little about the international financial regimes.
I believe the people expect the increase of petrol price. But what they are angry about is the quantum and the suddenness. The Prime Minister was hinting at August but suddenly it came two months earlier, just after the ban on sale of petrol to foreigners.
If the increase had been more gradual, the people would not feel it so much. But of course this means that the Government would have to subsidise, though to a decreasing extent.
Can the Government subsidise? I am the “adviser” to Petronas but I know very little about it beyond what is published in its accounts. What I do know may not be very accurate but should be sufficient for me to draw certain conclusions.
Roughly Malaysia produces 650,000 barrels of crude per day. We consume 400,000 barrels leaving 250,000 barrels to be exported.
Three years ago the selling price of crude was about USD30 per barrel. Today it is USD130 – an increase of USD100. There is hardly any increase in the production cost so that the extra USD100 can be considered as pure profit.
Our 250,000 barrels of export should earn us 250,000 x 100 x 365 x 3 = RM27,375,000,000 (twenty seven billion Ringgit).
But Petronas made a profit of well over RM70 billion, all of which belong to the Government.
By all accounts the Government is flushed with money.
But besides petrol the prices of palm oil, rubber and tin have also increased by about 400 per cent. Plantation companies and banks now earn as much as RM3 billion in profits each. Taxes paid by them must have also increased greatly.
I feel sure that maintaining the subsidy and gradually decreasing it would not hurt the Government finances.
In the medium term ways and means must be found to reduce wasteful consumption and increase income. We may not be able to fix the minimum wage at a high level but certainly we can improve the minimum wage.
Actually our wages are high compared to some of our neighbours. The investors who come here are attracted not by cheap labour but by other factors, among which is the attitude of the Government towards the business community and the investors in particular.
From what I hear business friendliness is wanting in the present Government – so much so that even Malaysians are investing in other countries. There are rumblings about political affiliations influencing decisions. Generally Government politicians are said to be arrogant.
Malaysia is short of manpower. The labour intensive industries are not benefiting Malaysians. Foreign workers are remitting huge sums of money home.
The industrial policy must change so that high tech is promoted in order to give Malaysians higher wages to cope with rising costs of living.
The world is facing economic turmoil due to the depreciation of the US Dollar, the sub-prime loan crisis, rising oil and raw material prices, food shortages and the continued activities of the greedy hedge funds. The possibility of a US recession is real. In a way the US is already in recession. The world economy will be dragged down by it.
Malaysia will be affected by all these problems. I wonder whether the Government is prepared for this.
We cannot avoid all the negative effects but there must be ways to mitigate against them and to lessen the burden that must be borne by all Malaysians. I am sure the Government will not just pass all these problems to the people as the review of oil prices every month seem to suggest.
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Harga Minyak
Harga minyak mentah naik sebanyak 400 peratus sejak tiga tahun lepas. Lambat laun harga barangan juga akan alami kenaikan. Di negara-negara lain harga petrol sudahpun naik. Di United Kingdom satu liter petrol dijual pada kadar lebih satu pound sterling atau lebih kurang RM7. Di Amerika Syarikat harganya lebih kurang RM5.
Petunjuk bahawa harga minyak di negara-negara jiran mengalami kenaikan ialah bagaimana kenderaan Thai dan juga Singapura berpusu-pusu mengisi minyak di Malaysia.
Kerajaan umumkan kenaikan petrol sebanyak 78 sen ke RM2.70, kenaikan melebihi 40 peratus.
Saya mungkin tersilap, tetapi ternampak kekurangan jumlah kenderaan di jalanraya hari ini. Tetapi kesannya bukanlah terhad kepada itu sahaja. Barangan pengguna, perkhidmatan dan barangan mewah akan mengalami peningkatan harga.
Kos sara hidup sudah tentu meningkat. Dilihat daripada sudut lain akan tercetus inflasi dan taraf kehidupan akan menurun.
Memanglah kenaikan harga petrol di sini jauh lebih rendah daripada di United Kingdom, mahupun Amerika Syarikat. Tetapi pendapatan per kapita kita adalah lebih kurang satu pertiga mereka. Berasas kepada kuasa membeli kita kenaikan harga adalah lebih tinggi dari UK atau Amerika Syarikat.
Kenaikan ini menyakitkan, tetapi sakitnya lebih dirasai bukan kerana kenaikan dari segi peratusan adalah lebih tinggi daripada negara-negara maju, tetapi kerana cara kenaikan tersebut dibuat.
Beberapa hari lepas Kerajaan putuskan untuk haramkan penjualan minyak kepada kenderaan milik asing. Tunggang. Sekarang kenderaan asing dibenar membeli semula. Terbalik!
Mengetahui yang ianya akan menaikkan harga minyak dalam beberapa hari dan orang asing akan dibenar membeli, kenapa Kerajaan tidak menunggu sahaja daripada keluaran arahan larangan dan kemudian benarkan semula.
Namun begitu apakah yang Kerajaan boleh lakukan untuk meringankan beban kepada rakyat hasil daripada kenaikan harga petrol.
Pertamanya, Kerajaan tidak patut mengapungkan Ringgit. Kadar apungan menyebabkan ketidak-tentuan nilai Ringgit dan kita tidak akan meraih apa-apa keuntungan daripada kekuatan Ringgit. Sudah tentu rakyat tidak menikmati peningkatan kuasa membeli walaupun terdapat peningkatan nilai Ringgit dari segi tukaran dengan Dollar Amerika.
Sebenarnya Ringgit mengalami peningkatan lebih kurang 80 sen (daripada RM3.80 ke RM3.08 pada 1 US Dollar) satu US Dollar, melebihi 20 peratus. Jika Kerajaan teruskan sistem tambatan kadar dan menaikkan nilai Ringgit pada kadar 10 peratus pada satu masa, kos import, dalam Ringgit boleh dipantau dan dikurangkan sebanyak 10 peratus. Pada kadar kenaikan 20 peratus, kos import patutnya turun 20 peratus. Tetapi kita tahu harga barangan import dan perkhidmatan tidak kurang. Ini bermakna kita bayar 20 peratus lebih tinggi untuk import termasuk bagi bahan mentah dan komponen untuk industri
Oleh sebab harga minyak disebut dalam Dollar Amerika, kenaikan harga minyak dalam Dollar sepatutnya dikurangkan sebanyak 20 pertaus dalam Ringgit Malaysia.
Tetapi Kerajaan hendak turut Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa dan Bank Dunia dan telah putuskan untuk mengapung Ringgit. Akibatnya kekuatan Ringgit hanya meningkatkan kos export tanpa memberi sebarang keuntungan kepada rakyat menerusi kekurangan kos import.
Ini bukanlah kecerdikan selepas sesuatu itu terjadi. Saya telah beritahu seorang Menteri Kerajaan supaya Ringgit tidak diapungkan tiga tahun lalu. Memanglah saya bukan pakar dan saya hanya tahu serba sedikit tentang rejim kewangan antarabangsa.
Saya percaya umum terpaksa menerima kenaikan harga petrol. Tetapi apa yang menimbulkan kemarahan ialah jumlah kenaikan serta keadaan tergesa-gesa. Perdana Menteri sebelum ini seolah-olah mencadangkan kenaikan hanya pada bulan Ogos, tetapi ianya datang dua bulan lebih awal, sejurus selepas pengharaman penjualan kepada orang asing.
Jika kenaikan berperingkat, rakyat tidak akan terlalu terasa. Tetapi ini bermakna Kerajaan perlu terus beri subsidi walaupun tahapnya akan menurun.
Mampukah Kerajaan terus beri subsidi? Saya “penasihat” Petronas tetapi saya tahu sedikit sahaja berkenaannya dan tidak lebih daripada apa yang dilaporkan dalam akaunnya yang diumumkan. Apa yang saya tahu mungkin tidak begitu tepat tetapi cukup untuk saya membuat beberapa penilaian.
Malaysia mengeluar lebih kurang 650,000 tong minyak sehari. Kita guna 400,000 tong dan selebihnya 250,000 tong di export.
Tiga tahun lalu minyak mentah dijual pada kadar USD30 satu tong. Hari ini ianya USD130 – kenaikan sebanyak USD100. Hampir tiada peningkatan di dalam kos pengeluaran oleh itu lebihan USD100 boleh dianggap untung bersih.
250,000 tong yang dieksport sepatutnya memberi kita pulangan 250,000 x 100 x 365 x 3 = RM27,375,000,000 (Dua puluh tujuh bilion Ringgit).
Tetapi Petronas untung lebih RM70 billion, yang kesemuanya milik Kerajaan.
Kerajaan ini melimpah dengan wang.
Selain minyak, harga minyak sawit, getah dan timah juga meningkat lebih kurang 400 peratus. Keuntungan syarikat perladangan dan bank-bank juga mencecah sehingga RM3 billion tiap satu. Cukai yang dibayar juga sudah tentu mengalami peningkatan yang tinggi.
Saya percaya jika subsidi dikekalkan dan dikurangkan secara berperingkat ianya tidak akan mengekang kewangan Kerajaan.
Di dalam jangka masa terdekat cara untuk mengurangkan pembaziran dan menaikkan pendapatan mestilah diperkenal. Kita mungkin tidak dapat menetapkan gaji minima, tetapi sudah tentu kita boleh meningkatkan sedikit jumlah gaji minima.
Sebenarnya pendapatan kita tinggi berbanding sesetengah jiran kita. Pelabur yang datang ke sini tertarik bukan dengan harga buruh murah, tetapi faktor-faktor lain termasuk sikap dan pendekatan Kerajaan tehadap komuniti perniaga terutamanya pelabur.
Daripada apa yang saya dengar, sikap mesra peniaga amat berkurangan pada Kerajaan sekarang hinggakan orang Malaysia juga melabur di luar negara. Terdapat cakap-cakap berkenaan hubungan politik mempengaruhi keputusan. Secara amnya ahli politik Kerajaan dikatakan sombong.
Malaysia tidak punyai cukup tenaga kerja. Industri yang memerlukan tenaga pekerja yang ramai tidak menguntungkan Malaysia. Pekerja asing menghantar jumlah wang yang besar ke negara asal mereka.
Polisi industri mestilah bertukar agar teknologi tinggi dapat dipromosikan untuk memberi rakyat Malaysia lebihan pendapatan bagi menampung kos sara hidup yang meningkat.
Dunia sedang menghadapi kecelaruan ekonomi akibat penurunan nilai Dollar Amerika, krisis pinjaman sub-prima, kenaikan harga minyak dan bahan mentah, kekurangan makanan dan akiviti tamak “hedge funds” yang berterusan. Kemungkinan berlakunya resesi ekonomi Amerika Syarikat adalah benar. Sebenarnya Amerika Syarikat sedang mengalami kelembapan ekonomi. Ekonomi dunia akan turut ditarik turun.
Malaysia juga akan terjejas kesan daripada semua masalah ini. Saya tertanya adakah Kerajaan bersedia untuk menghadapi semua ini.
Kita tidak boleh lari daripada akibat negatif tetapi mestilah ada cara untuk mengatasinya agar beban yang terpaksa ditanggung rakyat dapat dikurangkan. Saya harap yang Kerajaan tidak akan melepaskan sahaja segala masalah ini kepada rakyat seperti ynag digambarkan cadangan untuk menilai harga minyak setiap bulan.
The price of crude oil has increased by 400 percent in the last three years. It follows that the price of products must increase, sooner or later. In other countries petrol prices had already increased. In the United Kingdom one litre of petrol sells for more than one pound sterling or RM7. In the United States it is about RM5.
That the price in neighbouring countries has gone up is shown by the rush to fill up by Thai and to a lesser extent Singapore vehicles.
The Government has now announced an increase in petrol price by 78 sen to RM2.70 per litre, an increase of more than 40 per cent.
I may be mistaken but there seems to be less vehicles on the road today. But obviously that is not all that will happen. All other consumer goods, services and luxury goods would increase in price.
The cost of living must go up. Put another way there will be inflation and the standard of living will go down.
Obviously our increase in petrol price is far less than in the United Kingdom or the United States. But our per capita income is about one-third of theirs. In purchasing power terms our increase is more than in the UK or the US.
The increase hurts but the pain is greater not just because of the increase percentage-wise is higher than in developed countries but because of the manner the increase is made.
A few days ago the Government decided to ban sale of petrol to foreign cars. It flipped. Now foreign cars can buy again. Flopped.
Knowing that in a few days it was going to raise the price and foreigners would be allowed to buy, why cannot the Government just wait instead of banning and unbanning.
But be that as it may what could the Government have done to lessen the burden on the people that results from the increase in petrol price.
In the first place the Government should not have floated the Ringgit. A floating rate creates uncertainties and we cannot gain anything from the strengthened Ringgit. Certainly the people have not experienced any increase in their purchasing power because of the appreciation in the exchange rate between the US Dollar and the Ringgit.
Actually the Ringgit has increased by about 80 sen (from RM3.80 to RM3.08 to 1 US Dollar) per US Dollar, i.e. by more than 20 per cent. Had the Government retained the fixed rate system and increased the value of the Ringgit, say 10 per cent at a time, the cost of imports, in Ringgit terms can be monitored and reduced by 10 per cent. At 20 per cent appreciation the cost of imports should decrease by 20 per cent. But we know the prices of imported goods or services have not decreased at all. This means we are paying 20 per cent higher for our imports including the raw material and components for our industries.
Since oil prices are fixed in US Dollar, the increase in US Dollar prices of oil should also be mitigated by 20 per cent in Malaysian Ringgit.
But the Government wants to please the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and decided to float the Ringgit. As a result the strengthening of the Ringgit merely increased our cost of exports without giving our people the benefit of lower cost of imports.
This is not wisdom after the event. I had actually told a Government Minister not to float the Ringgit three years ago. But of course I am not an expert, certainly I know little about the international financial regimes.
I believe the people expect the increase of petrol price. But what they are angry about is the quantum and the suddenness. The Prime Minister was hinting at August but suddenly it came two months earlier, just after the ban on sale of petrol to foreigners.
If the increase had been more gradual, the people would not feel it so much. But of course this means that the Government would have to subsidise, though to a decreasing extent.
Can the Government subsidise? I am the “adviser” to Petronas but I know very little about it beyond what is published in its accounts. What I do know may not be very accurate but should be sufficient for me to draw certain conclusions.
Roughly Malaysia produces 650,000 barrels of crude per day. We consume 400,000 barrels leaving 250,000 barrels to be exported.
Three years ago the selling price of crude was about USD30 per barrel. Today it is USD130 – an increase of USD100. There is hardly any increase in the production cost so that the extra USD100 can be considered as pure profit.
Our 250,000 barrels of export should earn us 250,000 x 100 x 365 x 3 = RM27,375,000,000 (twenty seven billion Ringgit).
But Petronas made a profit of well over RM70 billion, all of which belong to the Government.
By all accounts the Government is flushed with money.
But besides petrol the prices of palm oil, rubber and tin have also increased by about 400 per cent. Plantation companies and banks now earn as much as RM3 billion in profits each. Taxes paid by them must have also increased greatly.
I feel sure that maintaining the subsidy and gradually decreasing it would not hurt the Government finances.
In the medium term ways and means must be found to reduce wasteful consumption and increase income. We may not be able to fix the minimum wage at a high level but certainly we can improve the minimum wage.
Actually our wages are high compared to some of our neighbours. The investors who come here are attracted not by cheap labour but by other factors, among which is the attitude of the Government towards the business community and the investors in particular.
From what I hear business friendliness is wanting in the present Government – so much so that even Malaysians are investing in other countries. There are rumblings about political affiliations influencing decisions. Generally Government politicians are said to be arrogant.
Malaysia is short of manpower. The labour intensive industries are not benefiting Malaysians. Foreign workers are remitting huge sums of money home.
The industrial policy must change so that high tech is promoted in order to give Malaysians higher wages to cope with rising costs of living.
The world is facing economic turmoil due to the depreciation of the US Dollar, the sub-prime loan crisis, rising oil and raw material prices, food shortages and the continued activities of the greedy hedge funds. The possibility of a US recession is real. In a way the US is already in recession. The world economy will be dragged down by it.
Malaysia will be affected by all these problems. I wonder whether the Government is prepared for this.
We cannot avoid all the negative effects but there must be ways to mitigate against them and to lessen the burden that must be borne by all Malaysians. I am sure the Government will not just pass all these problems to the people as the review of oil prices every month seem to suggest.
Harga Minyak
Harga minyak mentah naik sebanyak 400 peratus sejak tiga tahun lepas. Lambat laun harga barangan juga akan alami kenaikan. Di negara-negara lain harga petrol sudahpun naik. Di United Kingdom satu liter petrol dijual pada kadar lebih satu pound sterling atau lebih kurang RM7. Di Amerika Syarikat harganya lebih kurang RM5.
Petunjuk bahawa harga minyak di negara-negara jiran mengalami kenaikan ialah bagaimana kenderaan Thai dan juga Singapura berpusu-pusu mengisi minyak di Malaysia.
Kerajaan umumkan kenaikan petrol sebanyak 78 sen ke RM2.70, kenaikan melebihi 40 peratus.
Saya mungkin tersilap, tetapi ternampak kekurangan jumlah kenderaan di jalanraya hari ini. Tetapi kesannya bukanlah terhad kepada itu sahaja. Barangan pengguna, perkhidmatan dan barangan mewah akan mengalami peningkatan harga.
Kos sara hidup sudah tentu meningkat. Dilihat daripada sudut lain akan tercetus inflasi dan taraf kehidupan akan menurun.
Memanglah kenaikan harga petrol di sini jauh lebih rendah daripada di United Kingdom, mahupun Amerika Syarikat. Tetapi pendapatan per kapita kita adalah lebih kurang satu pertiga mereka. Berasas kepada kuasa membeli kita kenaikan harga adalah lebih tinggi dari UK atau Amerika Syarikat.
Kenaikan ini menyakitkan, tetapi sakitnya lebih dirasai bukan kerana kenaikan dari segi peratusan adalah lebih tinggi daripada negara-negara maju, tetapi kerana cara kenaikan tersebut dibuat.
Beberapa hari lepas Kerajaan putuskan untuk haramkan penjualan minyak kepada kenderaan milik asing. Tunggang. Sekarang kenderaan asing dibenar membeli semula. Terbalik!
Mengetahui yang ianya akan menaikkan harga minyak dalam beberapa hari dan orang asing akan dibenar membeli, kenapa Kerajaan tidak menunggu sahaja daripada keluaran arahan larangan dan kemudian benarkan semula.
Namun begitu apakah yang Kerajaan boleh lakukan untuk meringankan beban kepada rakyat hasil daripada kenaikan harga petrol.
Pertamanya, Kerajaan tidak patut mengapungkan Ringgit. Kadar apungan menyebabkan ketidak-tentuan nilai Ringgit dan kita tidak akan meraih apa-apa keuntungan daripada kekuatan Ringgit. Sudah tentu rakyat tidak menikmati peningkatan kuasa membeli walaupun terdapat peningkatan nilai Ringgit dari segi tukaran dengan Dollar Amerika.
Sebenarnya Ringgit mengalami peningkatan lebih kurang 80 sen (daripada RM3.80 ke RM3.08 pada 1 US Dollar) satu US Dollar, melebihi 20 peratus. Jika Kerajaan teruskan sistem tambatan kadar dan menaikkan nilai Ringgit pada kadar 10 peratus pada satu masa, kos import, dalam Ringgit boleh dipantau dan dikurangkan sebanyak 10 peratus. Pada kadar kenaikan 20 peratus, kos import patutnya turun 20 peratus. Tetapi kita tahu harga barangan import dan perkhidmatan tidak kurang. Ini bermakna kita bayar 20 peratus lebih tinggi untuk import termasuk bagi bahan mentah dan komponen untuk industri
Oleh sebab harga minyak disebut dalam Dollar Amerika, kenaikan harga minyak dalam Dollar sepatutnya dikurangkan sebanyak 20 pertaus dalam Ringgit Malaysia.
Tetapi Kerajaan hendak turut Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa dan Bank Dunia dan telah putuskan untuk mengapung Ringgit. Akibatnya kekuatan Ringgit hanya meningkatkan kos export tanpa memberi sebarang keuntungan kepada rakyat menerusi kekurangan kos import.
Ini bukanlah kecerdikan selepas sesuatu itu terjadi. Saya telah beritahu seorang Menteri Kerajaan supaya Ringgit tidak diapungkan tiga tahun lalu. Memanglah saya bukan pakar dan saya hanya tahu serba sedikit tentang rejim kewangan antarabangsa.
Saya percaya umum terpaksa menerima kenaikan harga petrol. Tetapi apa yang menimbulkan kemarahan ialah jumlah kenaikan serta keadaan tergesa-gesa. Perdana Menteri sebelum ini seolah-olah mencadangkan kenaikan hanya pada bulan Ogos, tetapi ianya datang dua bulan lebih awal, sejurus selepas pengharaman penjualan kepada orang asing.
Jika kenaikan berperingkat, rakyat tidak akan terlalu terasa. Tetapi ini bermakna Kerajaan perlu terus beri subsidi walaupun tahapnya akan menurun.
Mampukah Kerajaan terus beri subsidi? Saya “penasihat” Petronas tetapi saya tahu sedikit sahaja berkenaannya dan tidak lebih daripada apa yang dilaporkan dalam akaunnya yang diumumkan. Apa yang saya tahu mungkin tidak begitu tepat tetapi cukup untuk saya membuat beberapa penilaian.
Malaysia mengeluar lebih kurang 650,000 tong minyak sehari. Kita guna 400,000 tong dan selebihnya 250,000 tong di export.
Tiga tahun lalu minyak mentah dijual pada kadar USD30 satu tong. Hari ini ianya USD130 – kenaikan sebanyak USD100. Hampir tiada peningkatan di dalam kos pengeluaran oleh itu lebihan USD100 boleh dianggap untung bersih.
250,000 tong yang dieksport sepatutnya memberi kita pulangan 250,000 x 100 x 365 x 3 = RM27,375,000,000 (Dua puluh tujuh bilion Ringgit).
Tetapi Petronas untung lebih RM70 billion, yang kesemuanya milik Kerajaan.
Kerajaan ini melimpah dengan wang.
Selain minyak, harga minyak sawit, getah dan timah juga meningkat lebih kurang 400 peratus. Keuntungan syarikat perladangan dan bank-bank juga mencecah sehingga RM3 billion tiap satu. Cukai yang dibayar juga sudah tentu mengalami peningkatan yang tinggi.
Saya percaya jika subsidi dikekalkan dan dikurangkan secara berperingkat ianya tidak akan mengekang kewangan Kerajaan.
Di dalam jangka masa terdekat cara untuk mengurangkan pembaziran dan menaikkan pendapatan mestilah diperkenal. Kita mungkin tidak dapat menetapkan gaji minima, tetapi sudah tentu kita boleh meningkatkan sedikit jumlah gaji minima.
Sebenarnya pendapatan kita tinggi berbanding sesetengah jiran kita. Pelabur yang datang ke sini tertarik bukan dengan harga buruh murah, tetapi faktor-faktor lain termasuk sikap dan pendekatan Kerajaan tehadap komuniti perniaga terutamanya pelabur.
Daripada apa yang saya dengar, sikap mesra peniaga amat berkurangan pada Kerajaan sekarang hinggakan orang Malaysia juga melabur di luar negara. Terdapat cakap-cakap berkenaan hubungan politik mempengaruhi keputusan. Secara amnya ahli politik Kerajaan dikatakan sombong.
Malaysia tidak punyai cukup tenaga kerja. Industri yang memerlukan tenaga pekerja yang ramai tidak menguntungkan Malaysia. Pekerja asing menghantar jumlah wang yang besar ke negara asal mereka.
Polisi industri mestilah bertukar agar teknologi tinggi dapat dipromosikan untuk memberi rakyat Malaysia lebihan pendapatan bagi menampung kos sara hidup yang meningkat.
Dunia sedang menghadapi kecelaruan ekonomi akibat penurunan nilai Dollar Amerika, krisis pinjaman sub-prima, kenaikan harga minyak dan bahan mentah, kekurangan makanan dan akiviti tamak “hedge funds” yang berterusan. Kemungkinan berlakunya resesi ekonomi Amerika Syarikat adalah benar. Sebenarnya Amerika Syarikat sedang mengalami kelembapan ekonomi. Ekonomi dunia akan turut ditarik turun.
Malaysia juga akan terjejas kesan daripada semua masalah ini. Saya tertanya adakah Kerajaan bersedia untuk menghadapi semua ini.
Kita tidak boleh lari daripada akibat negatif tetapi mestilah ada cara untuk mengatasinya agar beban yang terpaksa ditanggung rakyat dapat dikurangkan. Saya harap yang Kerajaan tidak akan melepaskan sahaja segala masalah ini kepada rakyat seperti ynag digambarkan cadangan untuk menilai harga minyak setiap bulan.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1201 – 1400 of 1489 Newer› Newest»Tun Oh Tun...
Tun, pls show us your magic power again. The longer Pak Lah stays up there will make all of us suffer.
Tun, the BIGGEST MISTAKE you ever made was to appoint Pah Lah as PM.
Tun placed him there and now you should show your Magic Power to remove him as PM. You owe us that!!
Julius Sui
TDM, I hope to be proved wrong, but I have not seen many comments disagreeing with your goodself/articles witten.
Hidup Tun,
saya berharap agar Pak Lah SEGERA meletakkan Jawatan,ikut je cakap Tun.
Itu pun Susah nak buat,memang keras kepala
Zaman Pak Lah :
1. merasa makan ubi kayu bakar
2. naik kereta lembu
3. jalan kaki (jarak kurang dari 3km)
4. tanam padi, bela ayam dll sendiri
5. pakai lampu pelita
6. mandi sungai
MAHUKAH ANDA KEMBALI PADA ZAMAN ITU SEMULA??!! PERJUANGANKAN HAK RAKYAT, TANAHAIR KITA!! JANGAN BIARKAN RAKYAT DITINDAS KERANA RAKYAT ADALAH ASET NEGARA.
JANGAN BIAR RAKYAT MENDERITA. KITA BANGUN DAN MENENTANG. RAKYAT HARUS BANGUN BERSUARA.
Masa zaman TDM banyak memperjuangan rakyat miskin...tapi zaman Pak Lah menambahkan lagi rakyat miskin..ramai yang akan masuk "BERSAMAMU"
TDM berfikiran 20tahun kehadapan tetapi Pak Lah berfikiran 60tahun kebelakang.
Banyak pendatang asing masuk ke Malaysia dan tidak lama lagi wujud pendatang tanpa izin dari Malaysia kerana negara kita tidak terkawal..rakyat miskin bertambah miskin...rakyat yang banyak mengampu akan terus maju.
BANGUN WAHAI RAKYAT MALAYSIA!! JANGAN ANGGAP KENAIKAN INI SEKADAR MIMPI..BANGUN WAHAI RAKYAT MALAYSIA
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Saya setuju kenaikan itu perlu tapi berpada-padalah janganlah terlalu drastik yang menjadi beban adalah golongan yang berpendapatan rendah termasuklah org kampung.Bagi kebanyakan peg-peg besar tidak menjadi masalah kerana mereka disediakan kemudahan.Sekarang RM2.70 kalau rm4.00 apa yang akan terjadi.Tun sepatutnya kena jadi menteri mentor supaya mereka perlu rujuk dgn Tun untuk buat keputusan.Sekian
Salam Tun,
Petronas perlu lebih serius untuk membangunkan dan membina lebih banyak dan pantas stesyen NGV di seluruh negara. Kerajaan juga mesti benarkan semua syarikat minyak untuk membuka stesyen NGV. Selain itu, insentif atau rebat perlu diberikan kepada pengguna yang memasangan peralatan NGV pada kenderaan mereka. Jika perkara semudah ini pun kerajaan tak boleh lakukan, RAKYAT MALAYSIA MESTI BOIKOT ACARA-ACARA RASMI DAN PERHIMPUNAN RAKYAT YANG DIANJURKAN OLEH KERAJAAN sehinggalah langkah yang lebih bertanggung jawab dilakukan oleh kerajaan Pak Lah.
terima kasih kerajaan malaysia..
mari kita mengundi mereka lagi agar harga Barang kita sentiasa Naik.. pada mlm pegumuman harga minyk di naikkn.. saye xtawu ape perasaan saye..sedih,gembira tau terharu=gila.. only ALLAH can save us.. ayuh, pray to ALLAH...
Dear Tun,
FUEL HIKE - A POLITICAL SUICIDE
One amazing flip flop policy confused peoples of Malaysia, from Aug initial announced by minister of domestic trade, next evening PM put immediate hike for fuel at RM 1.00 on diesel,RM 0.70 on petrol, with out notice,in 4 hours cabinet close door meeting.
First question, why so desperate suddenly, although had been a key problem world oil price touched USD 130+,this unwise move could be BN political suicide move because it side effect are more powerful then any issue or UMNO,ketuanan melayu,hak melayu, perjuangan melayu,is pain from BN new gift wining this slim election margin direct fury the rakyat,why ABB dare to make this potential political suicide move, not Aug or Dec?It create a doubt about Petronas and MOF likely in financial dispute where the billions of profit goes missing.
Let look at what if in a scenario Petronas does have hedging in oil price in future market, we know all oil company in world trade in future market, that buy or sell oil contract in advance for future delivery, hedging in high risk exposure in millions barrel .It short and long a position in order took advantage of world oil price movement. What if just example,for understanding how Petronas sell and buy oil & petroleum(1) Petronas in May 2007 when world oil priced at US65 per barrel early entered future oil contract for physical year for June 2008 at US 70-75 to be delivered June 2008.in order that oil delivery contract inline financial budget for MOF in advance.(2) When in Oct 2007,it entered a short position for June 2008 when price touched US 100 per barrel, a predicted highest benchmark in oil price, predicted price don’t stay over US 100 and fall in year 2008, then both position went total opposite against it, in (1) Petronas didn’t lost any money when delivered oil production to it buyer in June 2008,but received only US 70-75 per barrel, not at present rate of US130,a big half not account to profit. (2) It lost US 30 per barrel each short position entered with price reached US 130+.
The problem here is June 2008 sold at US 70-75 but need to import petrol & diesel at over US 130+ for Malaysia consumption, this mean it need another US 60-70 to buy petroleum products, this could wiped out it profit, of cause many contract with higher price does might had made in US 130 or more, but trouble sensed in such urgent lead Petronas do not had profited what it seem and partly explained in where Tun wrote:
Roughly Malaysia produces 650,000 barrels of crude per day. We consume 400,000 barrels leaving 250,000 barrels to be exported.
Three years ago the selling price of crude was about USD30 per barrel. Today it is USD130 – an increase of USD100. There is hardly any increase in the production cost so that the extra USD100 can be considered as pure profit.
Our 250,000 barrels of export should earn us 250,000 x 100 x 365 x 3 = RM27,375,000,000 (twenty seven billion Ringgit).
when missing in Petronas account. It could also one possible do not have enough extra for reinvesting it profit, lead to MOF to figure out fuel subsidy scheme have to be floated.
Another scenario is MOF need Petronas money for RM 9 and many new projects which announced but couldn’t took place, either projects will KIV or subsidy will removed partly let rakyat to pay for it, in this position,ABB will had billions for MOF to move on. That how he pushed politic suicide button, between pain of Malaysia government and pain for rakyat,upon executed this on 4th June.
Clearly one big effect not answered, with immediate drastic hike of diesel RM1 per litre,the construction sector hit biggest volume first, everything hike up to max price,projects implemented by ministries also hit,either contract sum revised or it progress will halt KIV till new agreement reached,One particular especially I like to highlight is syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad( SPNB). where high amount of low cost housing project designed for poor income rakyat and poor peoples could be abandon by SPMB if fail to resolve a clear pricing mechanisms between contractor and SPMB. what about the poor buyer who made deposit signed up ban loan just sit and wait cried paying more price and interest .A chaos created a unsure market price in trade, food hike,electricity,higher cost living without any measure counter greater rakyat income, lead to giant economical uncertainty. while one turning chao ,one another generated up another drastic effect, the cash flow in Malaysia market will suck out 10 of billions in few months, unlike other trade, the cash pay to pump station will go oil company oversea or Petronas will not be injected back in market, created a big cash dry vacuum burble busted with highest inflation rate resulted more complex issues everyway harmed our long steady grow of economy for ABB to handle compared by putting fuel subsidy stay in the first place.
Why in such hurry to reduce subsidy in 1 cut, not in stages? Why cant wait after UMNO election? It seem ABB definite try everything to stay as PM, to regain it president seat in UMNO by Dec, he had no more weapon but need RM 9 projects politic to silent and holding those MPs to stay put with him not to abandon ship to PR, and he ignored the pain created in fuel hike for rakyat face with it, with limited billions from Petronas, ABB need to decide RM 9 for his crony continue vote for him or subsidy stay for rakyat, He indeed made 1 bad move – A Political Suicide to BN, a path he chosen had no return as now rakyat who voted the BN turn completely against him want him to resign and step down, turning anger favored opposition, is not only UMNO damaged, whole BN components reliability will be rejected. Thus created a new era more peoples protest against his fuel hike policy are no longer interest to find who should succeeded him but want the whole BN to be replaced.ABB have gamble the whole UMNO and BN future just to stay on in power as PM. The rakyat of Malaysia should never be cheated again for ABB next move. Please explain to rakyat the TRUE where Petronas money billions had gone in 5 years as PM.
Dear Tun M,
Before I read your article, I already had the same thoughts as you, that is, with the increasing oil price and Malaysia being a net oil exporter, we're in fact gaining more windfall revenue. Hence, the government's argument that they are no longer able to continue with the subsidy is totally groundless.
If, the reason behind the removal of the subsidy is to direct these money to somewhere else, it's fine, but implement it in a gradual manner and make sure that the implementation plan is well thought through. However, it is very sad that the way it is implemented now, it's as if, it's a last minute decision. I even read in the newspapers today that Pak Lah has directed his working committee to come up with ways to overcome the burden on the rakyat and they're very 'hardworking' and even need to work over the weekend. Come on! Only now to think about how to relieve the burden? Isn't this a bit too late? This should be thought through and to seek various views from all parties before doing this!!
And also, where will all the money be directed to now? Why the urgency to remove all the subsidy? Why can't it be gradual? These are all unknown and not properly explained to the rakyat.
I hope Tun you can give recommendations on how to rectify this situation...things are really really getting out of control..
Ya,saya amat bersetuju.Kuasa membeli rakyat kita masih kauh lebih rendah.Sudah tiba masanya kerajaan di bawah Kementerian Sumber Tenaga menkaji semula gaji bukan hanya sektor awam malahan sektor swasta juga harus di beri perhatian.Syarikat semakin berkembang,pekerja masih dok dibayar ciput.Seharusnya kerajaan menaikkan 50% gaji semua pekerja di Malaysia.Time tue,tanpa subsidi pun tak pe.
http://thenewmalaysia.blogspot.comggxq
TUN, SAYA CADANGKAN SUPAYA MUKHRIZ BERTANDING JAWATAN PRESIDEN UMNO. KENAPA BERTANDING JAWATAN KETUA PEMUDA. YANG TIDAK MEMPUNYAI KUASA TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PAK LAH. SELAGI PAKLAH MASIH MENJADI PRESIDEN PARTI. SAYA MENYERU SEMUA AHLI UMNO KALAU MASIH MAHU MELIHAT UMNO TIDAK BERKUBUR PADA PILIHAN RAYA AKAN DATANG PILIH LAH MUKHRIZ MENJADI PRESIDEN. PEMIMPIN YANG LAIN SAYA LIHAT HANYA MENJADI PAK TURUT. DAN TIDAK MEMPUNYAI PENDIRIAN SENDIRI. YANG HANYA PENTINGKAN PERIUK NASI SENDIRI.
Hello Tun,
All Malaysians are damn angry and felt misled by the BN government on the increase prices of petrol and eletricity today.
Please read the quoted petrol prices of the world from Reuters today.
Malaysia is such a lowest population country as compared with Indonesia and Beijing China. Even after a 40.6% and 63.3%increase, its petrol and diesel prices are still one of the lowest in the world said PM Malaysia.
(All prices in US Dollar per liter petrol)
Malaysia....$0.85
Indonesia....$0.65
Beijing.....$0.61
OOps ! Malaysian per capital income is the lowest with weakest ringgit as compared with other major currencies like US, UK, Singapore, Japan and Australia where their people have huge 5 to 10 times per capital income, strong currencies and purchasing power. Why Malaysia needs to pay USD0.85 per liter petrol as compared with the said strong countries like:
(All prices in US Dollar per liter petrol)
USA.........$1.00
London......$2.15
Singapore...$1.58
Tokyo.......$1.50
Sydney......$1.39
The poorest and very populated countries with huge gross import of petrol like India, Bangladesh and Vietnam are paying a peanut more than US0.85 paid by people of Malaysia is a net exporter of petrol and ranked top 20 oil producer countries in the world.
(All prices in US Dollar per liter petrol)
Delhi.......$1.19
Bangladesh..$0.97
Vietnam.....$0.90
The compensation of RM625 for cars and RM150 for motorbikes one time off rebate for petrol are useless to cover the actual losses when both the increase of petrol and electricity prices.
End of the day, who is lying and deceiving the people of Malaysia today ?
Kata pepatah Melayu proverb:
" NASI SUDAH JADI BUBUR" or " RICE BECAME PORRIDGE".
Yes, YOU have voted the only "RIGHT" choice not to change the leaders but they changed by increasing the prices of petrol, electricity and rice and asked YOU to change your lifestyles today.
YOU blamed no one because
YOU VOTED THE "RIGHT" CHOICE OF LEADERS TODAY.
TAK PAYAH PROTEST DAN MARAH-MARAH LAGI !!
NO NEED TO PROTEST AND ANGRY AGAIN !!
MALAYSIA BOLEH...BRAVO !!
KASIHAN,
RAKYAT BANGSA MALAYSIA
My dear Tun,
Firstly, I was so happy to have met you and your beloved wife accidentally at the DOME KLCC recently,.. well i was so touched, when i saw so many people regardless or race and colour including foreigners who came and shook hands with you. This goes to show that the people still have a place in their heart for you despite the fact that you are no longer THE PRIME MINISTER of this country. I was with an Iraqi friend that time, and he commented that he has the high regard for you, it reminded him of the economic down turn during your tenure of office, wherein the late President of Iraq showed his concerned and you did tell to all the nation through the media not to forget the Iraqis,...
About the increase of the price of petroleum which gave a great shock to all MALAYSIANS,.. what the present PM (PAK LAH) wanted to do? Is it kind of "revenge" to Malaysian for letting few states to be lost during his term.
By reading comments from the bloggers, I totally agreed, what happen to people like me? like them? who earn an average income??? We are badly affected by the sudden increase of the price of petrol!!!
My dear TUN,..
You have made a big mistake? WHY? by choosing PAK LAH to be your successor,.. I don;t think he has his "spinning Doctor" for all i believe he his the master mind of every single action taken by him... KJ and whoever,.. is only his scape goat!!!!
Please, if you... PAK LAH or the so called friends to PAK LAH, happen to have read this posting,.. please give the priority to the COUNTRY and NATION not only thinking for your own benefit,...
ALLAH knows what you are doing and sooner of later punishment will be meted out! but by that time,.. it will already be too late...because the punishment not only goes to you and the family but to all the MALAYSIANS too...WAKE UP!!!! stop squabbling! be united!
Tun I really pity you, but what ever you intend to do for the sake of the nation, you have my blessing. Sincerely...from yr strong appreciator of yr leadership style...
Assalamualaikum Tun,
I have always been proud of being a Malaysian. But with current situation, I don't think that I want to work in Malaysia after I graduate. The increase in oil prices have made us suffer. My parents lived in Singapore. While I was there, I have never used the car to go anywhere. The efficiency of public transportation and at a minimal cost have made it a wise option for everyone. As a consumer, we would love to save our budget and we want to get the highest level of services when we purchase/use anything. But when it comes to public transportation in Malaysia, I doubt that KL will achieve the same standard in the next 2 years. I have tried to use the public transportation to some of the places in KL. I have to wait for 1.5 hours and the traveling time is really long. IMHO, this is due to poor route planning for the buses.
I don't think that I can survive here in Malaysia after I graduate with a degree in engineering. A mere RM2500-RM3000 pay for a fresh graduate can never make us, low/middle income people improve our way of living. When I do the maths of what an ordinary Malaysian at my age with equal qualification will spend for a month, I realized that we don't even have the extras to save up for the rainy days.
With RM2500.
PTPTN- RM250
CAR- RM500
FUEL- RM500
MEAL- RM10 X 30= RM300
HOUSE- RM300
TOLL- RM3.20 X 30= RM96
PARENTS- RM200
BILLS- RM200
TOTAL= RM2346
When I think of this situation, deep down inside I realize that I'm not happy or even proud being under the ruling of this kind of people being the leaders. I try to deny what my heart tells me, that I will feel some kind of dissatisfaction (or maybe hate?) living in Malaysia soon.
I'm just a 17 years old girl. But this increase affects me too.
I asked my mother for her permission to learn how to drive. So I can go around back and forth to my school or tuition centres since the school schedule itself is a tremendous mess. My mother said since the increasing of petrol, it's no use of me learning and that I should learn it after I graduate from university which is another 5 years?
I can't depend on my mom to go back everytime at 5 (she's working) and not able to stay out late with my friends working on school stuffs or whatever. Sometimes it frustrates me because I can't go back home after school cocurriculum to rest myself (so I can study at night) because I have to follow my mom's schedule. By the time I get back home, I'm exhausted and I don't get to study.
Other than that, our budget is getting tighter and tighter. The food price will be increased too and our canteen operators somehow are leeches. For one plate of rice and a chicken can cost me about 3 bucks sometimes.
Since I'm schooling in the heart of KL, it's irritating when I'm out of money often. I even skip meals and only eat dinner when I get back. Because I'm afraid to ask my mom for extra money and I never told her this.
I know this rambling is too long and maybe there's no point of me writing because the truth is already said. I wish something better is done for Malaysia.
We're turning to Indonesia and India where there is no middle class anymore
berdasarkan my small knowledge of Ekonomi Asas Form 4,...
every 10 years, the world will face these economic problems...
i guess, 1992 was inflasi..
1997-1998 kegawatan ekonomi...
n we malaysia recover very fast.
thanks to you~*hugs*
mari berdoa aLOT supaya all these things will go away fast.
or else, this 31st August,.. wont be the same like before...
gaaah. jauhkan!! amiin.
Tun.
Banyak kesan akan berlaku bila minyak naik.
Bila minyak naik, syarikat tempat saya kerja memutuskan untuk mengurangkan kos termasuk memotong elaun dan ot kami yang bekerja dalam bidang pengangkutan. Kos sara hidup makin tinggi. Matilah kami sekeluarga.
Malah mereka mengarahkan pemandu bas menambah jumlah trip dan mencari penumpang sebanyak yang mungkin untuk menampung kos operasi bas. Ini tentu membahayakan keselamatan penumpang bas kerana pemandu terpaksa memandu laju mengejar trip. Memang benar kerajaan bagi subsidi kepada pengusaha bas. Tetapi cuma 70 peratus sahaja. Lagi 30 peratus perlu ditanggung oleh pengusaha bas.
Malah kos lain seperti cukai jalan dan insuran juga tinggi kecuali bas sekolah yang mana cukai jalan cuma RM2.00 setahun. Pengusaha bas lain perlu membayar cukai jalan RM1476.00 setahun satu bas.
Kami berharap agar Tun dapat kembali dalam Kerajaan.
Apa yang dilihat sekarang Malaysia dah jadi huru hara.
Harap Tun dapat kembali menjadi PM Malaysia kerana apa yang dapat kami lihat, Tun mempunyai pandangan yang jauh ke depan.
i think increase price is normal thing.cause it will finish 1 day.better early face it.but hope government will use the money to improve public transpot.take ktm need go so far and wait long.m'sia a lot highway.but less public transpot.government always said KL too much car.if i have chance.i won't use car go KL.as i count.KL all thing is increase more than singapore.that's unfair 4 stay at KL people.now a person stay at KL must have RM1600 only can survive.
Assalamualikum semua
Saya ada video klip pasal kenaikan harga minyak yang menjejaskan kehidupan harian (Sangat menarik).
Tetapi saya dalam vidoe klip tu tak dak nampak keta Pak Lah.
For me, it is not the market price but the way they manage..
1. We have managed to make communist surrender
2. We managed to handle economic crisis 1998 with Tun's formula
3. Why we can't managed fuel price?
Because we are very weak now..Tun do something and visit my blog for video clips
http://www.funtoosurf.com
Thanks.
tun
can born in M'sia and be M'sian really happiness.cause we have few race in a country.i don't think we can WAWASAN 2020.now you see what we have this few year.now government always said don't compare with other country.but end up they compare with other who really poor country.that's no points.built so much highway and didn't built and public transpot.how we going no need use car.i think should be as the goverment take KTM.that's very lousy and slow transport that i saw.if i take KTM go work.i think sure give boss fire.cause always late.always said no money earn.can't upgrade this and that.if that until die also can earn money.our government give too much excuse.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Nak cakap byk tp semua org di blog dah cakap.Jadi, ini ada satu lagu yg digubah dr Lagu Angkatan Tentera Malaysia " Barisan Kita ".
Undilah Barisan Nasional,
yang ikhlas berjuang,
siap sedia berkorban,
untuk DIRI SENDIRI.
Malaysia telah berjaya,
Pah Lah meranapkan pula,
Inilah sumpah "pendekar" kita,
Hishamudin, Khairi Jamaludin.
Andainya Malaysia jahanam semua,
Pah Lah masih di atas takhta,
Kami mohon doa,
Hindarkan sengsara
Semboyan telah berbunyi,
Menuju.... refomasi..
Lets go to the fundamental. Thus we have to take a little history lesson because it seems that we never learn from our past mistakes.
Take USA, they have been independent for more than 2 centuries and being called one of the most civilised nation, and yet the last race riot was not more than three decades ago, or 170 years after independence!
Lets look at our close neighbours; Thailand and Philippines. Basically they have one main religion and one main race. And yet in recent years (for Philippines) or recent months (for Thailand) there have been riots due to unhappiness with the government.
In fact when we look closely at most of the major protest and riots or civil unrest anywhere in this world; people are not happy because of a common reason: irrespective of race or religion. That two reason (race and religion) were just an excuse or we are blinded by it so as to be distracted from the real reason.
So what is it? The answer is simple and very fundamental. Food on the table. Yes, I do not want to elaborate it in fine detail, as that would take several pages, maybe chapters. But I want you all to really think about it, open your mind and really ponder into it.
What I mean by food on the table is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; food, shelter, security and the likes.
Thailand and Philippines: the disparity between the “have it” and “have not” was so great that people were very angry, because the very powerful few (Thaksin and Marcos) were having lavish life while the poor is without food and shelter. More so for a group of minority that was marginalised and treated unfairly (Muslims in the Thai’s and Philippines’ south).
The USA was no exception, the blacks were then not given power (sharing) and they were ignored. But it is now “under control” because the government has at one time put in an affirmative action that put a strong message to the general public that actually works, and whether by design or by coincidence (or fluke); makes it into law. That is: you cannot discriminate a person based on his colour or religion in hiring for a job; for studying in a school or university; or even to enter a club!
Effectively this law of indirect affirmative action ensures equality. That is why companies were “prone” to hire other races as well in their companies, or else being accused of being racist. At the same time, the US government realise that the blacks (or non-whites for that matter) were coming from poor families, poor neighbourhood, etc. Thus the Government do the natural thing; give support in whatever manner possible in many areas; at least and most fundamental; food on the table and a roof for shelter. The riots and protest were gone; and slowly the non-whites were given more opportunities to go up. And we now have a black (lady some more!) as US state secretary.
You look at Japan and some of the most advanced European countries as an example, the poverty line is almost nil, because of that there are practically no riots, etc. But you will notice that UK and a very few European countries have riots because some of these people who riot are actually poor without food or shelter. The government take the convenient excuse that they are Muslims (riots in UK), while quoting race as the reason behind it.
If that is true, then they must use the same rationale that because the Thais are Buddhist that there are riots in Thailand, or because the Pilipino are Christians that there are riots in Philippines. You will now begin to see that in both cases it is the hungry and the poor are behind the riots. It is also the same that happened to the Roman civilisation. It was religion that save these people, because it gives them hope and strength to fight against the powerful but selfish leaders. That is also the same reason why the old Communist China and Russia were having atheist government because they knew that religion binds poor people, without religion there is no hope or strength. The same again that happened during the Roman Empire.
In Singapore, it is a communist state. They are using the loped-sided law and selected people to their advantage. Any dissent will be prosecuted. The Muslims and Malays are marginalised but how can they protest?, their numbers are too small and they don’t have the resources (e.g. money). As for Indonesia, the Chinese are very rich, that is why the majority of the poor are angry and are “bullying” them, because the Chinese are not sharing it. (Sounds familiar?).
In Malaysia, it is important that all it citizens irrespective of race must be aware of its history as to why we have become like this and why there has been poor improvement in terms of the equity sharing.
During the colonial days, it was to the advantage of the colonist to divide and rule. It makes sense and easy to do. The Chinese flock among themselves in towns and mining areas. The Indian at the estates, while the Malays at the coastal and farming areas. It is natural for the colonist to do this because unity among us would bring strength and independence (which it did in 1957).Thus, it was good for the colonist to separate us, but the disparity in terms of being poor and rich were getting worst, naturally the poor Malays and Indians were angry and jealous of the Chinese and colonist, it boils down in the fundamentals: food and shelter.
We have recently celebrated our 49th year of independence. The question of race and religion is a misguided notion that it is splitting us. The more serious notion is that the NEP is causing us harm. On the contrary! The NEP is keeping us in the balance as long as the equity factor is not corrected.
Try to imagine if suddenly the NEP is taken out! Automatically, the Chinese will stop hiring the Malays and Indians. The Chinese will thus get richer and the non-Chinese will get poorer and it will come to a point where it may blow up (sounds familiar?).
Why did I state the word “ automatically”? It is because the Chinese in Malaysia has this notion that Malays are lazy and Indians are useless. They did not realise that this is not Singapore, where the power is in one particular group and the largest. Thus, what will happen in Malaysia would be the same to the Indonesian Chinese, not because they are Chinese but because they have food and shelter; plenty of it! While the non-Chinese are poor and hungry.
The hungry or poor couldn’t care less about who is the ruling government as long as there is food on the table. At the ways things are going now (as from 2 Dec 2006), with the rise in petrol, the toll, the electricity, the water, practically everything; the majority of the lower income (irrespective whether they are Malays, Chinese or Indian) will be hard pressed. There will be less food, no shelter (houses being taken away by the banks), as there are no jobs, etc. If the government is not doing anything about this, there might be a riot soon. The signs are there. There are already pickets and protests around Malaysia but the news are being censored and suppressed.
The issue on race, NEP, religion, higher crime rate, suicide, Alongs, people leaving the country, etc, are only manifestation to find an excuse of people complaining of becoming poorer each day.
The equity ratio is important so that all races will enjoy a fair share of the cake. But the Malays and Indians cannot achieve the targeted ratio because of this unsubstantiated fear by the Chinese that they will be marginalised. Look at 80% of the large Chinese business communities in Malaysia; you will not find Malays or Indians holding key or critical positions. Thus it is in a precarious balance; the Malay needs to uphold the NEP to give opportunity to the Malays (for food and shelter) because the Chinese are not willing to give opportunities to the Malays (or Indians) because the Chinese fear that they will be less powerful later. Thus this cycle will never end. Their fears are unfounded.
To me, once everybody is given the opportunity to share the equity equally (thus food and shelter to everybody), only then the need for the NEP becomes unnecessary. The founding partners/architects in the construction of the NEP were right and knew that it would bring equilibrium among the races, but if one party was not given the opportunity or equal share of the pie, then the NEP has to continue to prevent unhappiness to the other. As long as the targeted equity is not reached, the need to have the NEP is necessary for the good of all the races. Otherwise the consequences are obvious, it has happened throughout history in one form or the other in all parts of the world and yet we never learn.
The current state of events in Malaysia is getting critical, many basic related needs are getting more expensive: petrol, toll, electricity and water. As these things increase, all other basic essentials will go up too. It also makes one wonders whether we are living in this country or “renting” to stay in it. What is the use of paying income tax then, and yet to pay toll, to pay high prices for petrol that this country get from underneath us, what are the benefits in this country then? Even to feel safe I have to pay security guards to look after my family/house/community, what is the police doing then?
Everything now as if we have to pay to get anything. The matter is compounded by companies that are closing down, companies that are merging, etc. which result in people out of jobs, etc. The government are having new projects to spur the economy; what is key is that it must ensure that the masses have jobs so that the masses have money to buy food and shelter for themselves and their families. There is no point to have mega projects that would benefit the few, benefit the foreigners only or projects that are being done overseas. If the government do not address this, there goes the election and bye-bye the harmony in Malaysia the land that I love so much.
So Tun, Save Us.
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Salam tun tuan penasihat petronas
Tun kalau setakat nak jadi penasihat 25 persen petronas baik berenti saja. buat rugi duit petronas bayaq gaji kat tun. itu duit rakyat juga. tak perlu nak hurai yg lain2 lagi.
tuan penasihattttt... 25 persennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!
Assalamualaikum Tun...
Tun, i just read an article about NGV (Natural Gas Vehicle)that can spare the use of petrol for vehicles.
From what i read, this NGV method can spare the use of petrol instead use of natural gases as a fire starter for vehicles to move on. This NGV gases cost RM0.68 per Litre.
So any vehicles that use the NGV mechanisme can refuel their vehicles with NGV gasses or petrol at the station that have the sign NGV on it. Most of the station that has this sign is Petronas Station.
But the problem is not all state in Malaysia have this station yet. Most of the station that provide an NGV services is at Kuala Lumpur, Johor and Selangor.
Most people said the cost to built in the NGV to vehicles is about RM3000++.
For more information, you can go to www.ngv.net.my.
Sekian Tun, Wassalam..
Assalammualaikum......
Harga minyak naik adalah isu hangat buat masa ini. Rata-rata diseluruh dunia merunggut, so ini bukan perkara luarbiasa, ia perkara rutin kerana perkara ini pasti akan berlaku jika bukan sekarang mungkin masa depan.
Tetapi yang saya ingin nyatakan disini dan untuk mengingatkan kepada semua pembaca blog Tun Dr Mahathir ini anda perlu bersiap sedia menghadapi sebarang kemungkinan yang akan berlaku diantaranya :-
1. ketidakstabilan politik negara
2. kestabilan mental rakyat
Malaysia akan terganggu.
3. Indeks jenayah yang tinggi.
4. perpecahan masyarakat akibat
perbezaan fahaman dan pendapat.
5. keruntuhun intitusi
kekeluargaan.
6. keruntuhan moral
7. dan banyak lagi perkara negatif
yang telah wujud dinegara ini
akan meningkat
Saya menyeru kepada pembaca bersabar dan berdoa agar perkara ini dapat diminimumkan.
Disamping itu juga kita mendesak agar pemimpin kita memikirkan kesan permasalahan yang timbul akibat kenaikan mendadak harga minyak ini.
Saya bukanlah rakyat yang mempunyai pendapatan tinggi. Gaji saya cuma RM 20 sehari. Cuma saya rasa berkecil hati dengan sikap pemimpin kita ini seolah-olah tidak memikirkan rakyatnya yg berpendapatan kecil seperti saya.
Beliau seolah-olah juga merasakan semua rakyat malaysia ini berpendapatan tinggi seperti penjawat awam yang lain.
Beliau tidak sepatutnya bertindak begini ketika negara masih lagi tidak stabil akibat tsunami politik tempoh hari.
Orang melayu seperti yang pernah saya katakan kepada pemimpin-pemimpin bawahan dahulu akan mengemis dinegaranya sendiri tidak lama lagi.
Kita cuma perlu tunggu dan lihat sahaja. Adakah perkara ini akan berlaku dalam masa terdekat ini atau dalam jangka masa 15 tahun lagi.
Umno yang ditubuhkan untuk memperjuangkan nasib orang melayu hanya duduk ditepi pintu ibarat menanti mayat orang melayu kembali kepangkuan mereka.
Umno tidak langsung bersuara tentang perkara ini. Kerana Umno itu melayu dan sikap orang melayu ialah " biarlah ".
Dengan ini BIARLAH
Hidup Umno mati Melayu.
Saya juga akan bertindak seperti Tun untuk keluar Umno sebagai protes saya terhadap pemimpin yang lembab, tidak berakal dan tidak berperikemanusian itu.
Begitulah juga anda semua. Mengapa anda tidak bangun untuk menyuarakan hak anda sebagai rakyat Malaysia. Jika kita bangun pasti pemimpin ini memikirkan tentang nasib kita dan juga nasib generasi kita akan datang.
Bertindaklah demi generasi kamu.
YU8Kepada saudara azman(jangan bagai cupak pesuk);
Sy harap anda fahamlah akn pepatah Melayu dan bahasa Melayu...
"Jangan salahkan lantai tak rata kalau diri sendiri yg tak pandai menari.."
Kalau anak tu dh dididik dgn penuh kasih syg, tunjuk ajar, tp bile dh besar, tetap jd anak derhaka, jangan pulak nk salahkan ibu yg mengandung...
Jangan salahkan org lain kalau diri sendiri yg bersalah..
Pesanan buat semua,
"Jangan bagai cerdik terkedik, bingung terjual..."
Kepada pemimpin2 sekalin;
"Jika berpuluh-puluh kali batang beralih, cacing di bawah juga..."
~Wallahualam~
Assalamualaikum TUN,
Kita perlu melakukan sesuatu yang DRASTIK sebelum negara ini hancur.PM hari ini mewarisi dua sifat yg apabila digabungkan bersama akan mendatangkan BALA dan MALAPETAKA,Iaitu DEGIL dan KURANG CERDIK.TUN pun seorang yang DEGIL tetapi BIJAK.Kita dah kesuntukkan masa sebelum semuanya terlambat.Saya doakan TUN panjang umur dan sihat sejahtera.
Assalammualaikum Dr Mahathir.
Saya (27) anak Felda dari Kota Tinggi, Johor.
Saya selalu fikir Dr. Mahathir mesti sedih sebab serahkan nasib rakyat pada Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Malah saya sangat bersyukur kerana saya hidup dalam era pemerintahan Dr Mahathir.
Dr Mahathir menjaga rakyat tidak mengira lapisan masyarakat.
Tidak seperti pemerintah sekarang yang tidak memikirkan kesusahan orang lain. Pemerintah sekarang berfikiran asalkan anak cucu mereka dapat makan, itu sudah cukup. Anak orang lain tak payah makan.
Saya masih ingat di zaman masa saya sekolah rendah dimana era 1980-1890. Diwaktu itu minyak kelapa sawit mengalami penurunan harga yang teruk di pasaran antarabangsa sehingga gaji bapa saya lebih kurang RM24.50 sebulan. Mujurlah bapa menjaring ikan dan udang.
Dimasa itu saya "nampak" usaha Dr Mahathir meningkatkan harga kelapa sawit di pasaran dunia.
Saya tahu Dr Mahathir "susah hati" jika rakyat tak makan. Ini satu sifat yang "sangat-sangat mulia". Dia tahu dia akan di soal nanti di akhirat.
Pemimpin sekarang tak fikir samada rakyat makan atau tidak. Semua berlumba-lumba tunjuk pandai walhal masing-masing tidak berotak. Tin kosong sahaja.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi mungkin tak sedar di satu masa nanti Allah akan tanya setiap perbuatan dia sebagai pemimpin.
Jika dia "pergi" tiada siapa pun yang sudi nak buang air mata untuk dia.
salam janjiabai.....
apa yg bg anda mendesak kerajaan kita untuk naikkan harga? macam tun terangkan, kita tak dak efek pun.. kita negara pengeluar minyak.. jgn la bandingkan dengan negara2 jiran.. mereka tidak menghasilkan minyak.. kalau nak bandingkan, bandingkan la dengan negara2 pengeluar minyak. rakyat bukan kurang bijak nak permainkan macam ni saja.. Bandingan harga minyak dikalangan Negara pengeluar minyak : UAE RM1.19 seliter, Mesir RM1.03 seliter, Kuwait RM0.67 seliter, Saudi Arabia RM0.38 seliter, Nigeria RM0.32 seliter dan Venezuela RM0.16 seliter, Turkmenistan RM 0.25, Malaysia RM 2.70.Harga minyak Malaysia tidak wajar dibandingkan dengan Indonesia , Singapura dan Thailand kerana Malaysia adalah pengeluar minyak sedangkan negara ini tidak mengeluarkan minyak.. semoga Allah mengampuni pemimpin2 ini dan semoga mereka kembali ke pangkal jalan... sesungguhnya, pemerintah yg tak adil, akan menjejaskan negara yg harmoni sbgaimana malaysia....
salam....
Assalamualaikum Tun,
I have not the opportunity to read through all the comments posted in response to this article. Therefore, it is possible that this call has been made earlier. If so, then let this repetition be an iteration to the Rakyat's call for your active participation in the running of our beloved Malaysia.
I received this sms a day after the fuel price hike. I think that this is a heartfelt call for your return to the running of the country.
"Kami rakyat Malaysia mahukan TUN MAHATHIR dilantik sebagai penasihat ekonomi negara. Rakyat sekarang sudah tidak tertahan lagi menanggung beban yang dialami skrg ini akibat dari perancangan PAK LAH, KJ dan konco2nya yang bodoh dan dungu. Sila hebahkan kepada semua rakyat jelata agat TUN M dinaikkan segera bg memulihkan keadaan dan menyelamatkan negara tercinta ini. Sumbangan anda amat dihargai. Terima kasih."
Dear Tun, please consider. Thank you.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Saya pembaca setia artikel Tun dan menyokong idea-idea bernas Tun. Saya amat setuju dengan komen-komen dan idea-idea ini. Kerajaan harus mengutamakan kebajikan rakyat berbanding kepentingan golongan-golongan tertentu sebelum membuat keputusan menaikkan harga minyak.. Rakyat sudah merana dengan keadaan sekarang!!!
Saya sokong Tun, Apa relevennya Gabenor BNM mengapungkan ringgit? Siapakah yang lebih untung dari dasar kewangan ini? Adakah 'Hedge Fund'
Salam Tun,
After i've read your post... i Couldn’t agree more with you...
Sepatutnya kerajaan kini mendengar nasihat tun dan bukan bertindak dengan memburuk-burukkan Tun serta menentang Tun....
They should seek your advice... because you got the experience ...
Tun,
Apa dah jadi? Nampaknya, pemerintahan sekarang bawa rakyat ke belakang... Zaman naik basikal balik..
Overall, Malaysia is not respected & famous worldwide anymore. Tak macam zaman pemerintahan Tun dulu.
Salam Tun,
Tun perlu jelaskn pd rakyat marhain ttg kptsan zalim Pak Lah dan kabinet. rakyat dalam keadaan trtekan. kami hampir 'takut' untuk keluar rumah berikutan hrga minyak yg melampau..Spjg pentadbiran Tun, this never happened.
Rakyat dalam sengsara..satu perkara yang Tun x patut lakukan ialah, appoint pak Lah to replace u..kami merindui hari pentadbiran Tun...Semoga Allah memanjangkan usia Tun untuk terus berjuang..Kami rakyat tertekan perlukan Tun...
Milik siapakah Petronas ini? Milik rakyatkah atau UMNO sdn bhd? Mengapa rakyat tidak tahu kemana perginya duit petronas? kenapa minyak didalam tanahair malaya tidak untuk rakyat malaysia? apa guna bangunan yang besar buat rakyat yang miskin? apa guna koridor yang hebat jika tidak bersambung dengan rumah pak tani dan pak ladang? apa erti emas hitam yang Allah kurniakan jika bukan untuk rakyat yang papa kedana? dimana silapnya? kenapa rakyat tidak tahu kemana harta negaranya dibelanjakan? siapa puncanya? rakyat bukan lagi buta dan bodoh seperti dahulu ... saya hormat pada Tun tetapi bukan bererti saya akan berdiam diri atas kesilapan yang telah dilakukan.
Tahniah buat pengundi BN semua atas pilihan anda. Terima Kasih UMNO.
Salam Tun dan kepada semua pembaca..
walaupun Tun tidak lagi memimpin negara diharapkan agar ada satu agenda perjuang yang berterusan demi untuk negara tercinta..banyak dan perlu dilakukan demi melihat keadaan yang lebih baik dimasa hadapan.Dikesempatan ini dapat kiranya Tun dan kepada semua pembaca dapat memberikan pandangan dan komen mengenai pandangan dan cadangan saya melalui blog baru saya di http://mdrm-cerpana.blogspot.com amatlah dihargai segala cadangan dan pandangan tunjuk ajar dari Tun dan dari semua pembaca.
Salam Tun,
Tun perlu perjelaskan kpd rkyat hakikat sbnr disebalik kenaikan harga minyak ini..Terlalu tidak realistik dibandingkan dengan negara kita sebagai pengeksport minyak dengan ngara-negara pengeluar lain..apa sebenarnya yang tersembunyi disebalik kptsan Pak Lah dan kabinet zalimnya..mahu meneruskan projek2 mega dan tidak mahu kehilangan sumber untuk penerusan kuasa? Rakyat menjadi panik, tertekan, tpaksa mengubah cara hidup akibat himpinan kenaikan minyak dan BAKAL disusuli dengan kenaikan harga barangan keperluan lain. Jangan kata ini tidak akan berlaku. Tun, jelaskan pd setiap rakyat yang tertipu dengan apa jua channel yang ada..Perkara ini tidak pernah berlaku sewaktu Tun mentadbir negara...Kami akan menyokong penuh TUN MAHATHIR! Allah panjangkan usia TUN!!! Tumbangkan Pak lah dan regim zalimnya...
dear Tun,
mlm sblum kenaikan harga minyak, ayah & kakak saya bergegas-gegas penuhkan minyak.. kesian sy tgk because mereka terpaksa beratur untuk isi minyak...
selepas sj harga minyak naik, semua brg runcit naik tp nasib baik ayah sy beli brg dapur awl kalau tak, tak tau lah... bila pikir-pikir, kenaikan sehingga Rm 2.70 terlalu membebankan.. why not naikkan 20 sen or 30 sen dulu... tidak dinafikan harga minyak kita lebih rendah drpd negara jiran tetapi harus ingat juga akan rakyat yg berpendapatan rendah dan ahli keluarga ramai... if semua naik, kena diet lh mcm ni...
Salam Doc Che Det
u said:
"What I do know may not be very accurate but should be sufficient for me to draw certain conclusions."
so u knew.. n by all means.. does PakLah knew about this too? hadui! camne nih? he's the PM.. he must know.. n why?!! why?!!
[ahah! sorry, over-acting]
here's a good post, i hope u'd allow some link to other articles. it is just some good advice that Malaysian need to think about. its called "Yes, let us get angry, but about the right things":
http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/8433/84/
read the articles je ye.. not the comments..
cheers to all..
Izr
Dear Tun,
Ive been following your blog for a month now...
but, never had the chance yet to give my opinion.. (web being block @ office)..
I'm really disappointed with the present government..
As a Bn supporter, i felt very a shame of the policies n the ways they administered the citizens..
Its true what my circles said, there will be no more a PM like Tun, n if there is.. it'll be quite sometime for us to get one...
like what one of your bloggers had said "Why it is so hard to disagree with you.. i give up...i totally agree"...
you can actually see the future, think outside the box, analyze & plan your next move..
;.Really am a doctor's attitude..
Tun,
Please help us Malaysians...
we are on the verge of heading backwards..
i'm really worried.. Im afraid, one day, we will be another myanmar,Indonesia, India and so on...
What will happen to our vision 2020????
I'm really surprised that "NONE" at all from the present gov can see the issue from your point of view...
The best bet now is for us to get rid of badawi, n re-elect you, Tun, or maybe give ku-li the chance to head malaysia...
HE's more or less a lil' bit like you...
God! help Malaysia..
Greetings to you my dearly missed PM (former),
It is sad to know that we are all suffering as a result of a drastic increase in fuel price. While industries such as IPP and Steel Co., stand to make millions from subsidize fuel, we the citizen of Malaysia stand to suffer.
For any layman on the street, we tend to wonder a few things:-
1) What is so secretive about the contract signed between the road concessionaire and the government? Why cant the government made it public the contract concern? If transparency is what the government (present) intends to promote, then they should come clean and let the public know how much millions of ringgit the road companies have made from the public. It is time they abolish the collection of tolls as we been ripped off long enough. As much as I would like to have it removed, such policy were made during Tun's era. Maybe Tun could give an insight to the contract.
2) As for Petronas, sad to say that the Company's account has not been made public. Being our nation's arm in the dealing of fuel, it is of the nation interest to disclose information on the company. This would ensure no discrepancies and no misuse of funds by any individuals or interested parties. Tun has also been an adviser to Petronas, and I believe that Tun could also give to the public an insight to the spending of funds by Petronas.
Dear Tun,
An alternative financial system must sought as we can see in front of our eyes the USD dominant economy and financial system collapsing. The USD cannot be sustain anymore. Commodities prices do not goes up but USD had lost its value. (what ever its worth)
Dinar economy must come forth.GOLD and SILVER as currency must be implemented. No point arguing about oil prices or gold prices or food prices. Lets look at the ROOT CAUSE- PAPER CURRENCY FIAT CURRENCY. First there was currency attack and now the currency cannot purchase the goods. Ordinary people are the losers. Tun you can initiate it. It is the final challenge.
Umar
Salam Tun,
Tun,saya lahir pada zaman Tun.
Saya bersekolah bila Tun dah nak bersara.Sekarang saya tinggal di Putrajaya.Terima kasih kerana membangunkan Putrajaya.TERIMA KASIH TUN.
Jasamu tetap dikenang.
Every where have talked about it. Let's wait for 2 more weeks then see what will happen... In Sabah, SAPP againts the raised, the UPKO minister supported the government action but still no sound from the rest Sabah based Political Party. The people want to know what do they feel about the fuel price...
Assalamuallaikum Tun,
Buat renungan bersama..
The G ask me to change mylife style. I have no problem with that but how. Can anyone tell me? I live and work in Shah Alam. My office is just 5 km away. Does anyone have any idea how long does it take to travel this distance everyday if I don't drive my car?
Every where have talked about it. Let's wait for 2 more weeks then see what will happen... In Sabah, SAPP againts the raised, the UPKO minister supported the government action but still no sound from the rest Sabah based Political Party. The people want to know what do they feel about the fuel price...
mari kita semua berkabung dengan meletakkan lilitan hitam (ribon) pada areal kereta tanda kesengsaraan yang dialami rakya malaysia sekarang ini.
Alah orang UMNO semua sama...Yes Man...Tun berani cakap pun sebah Tun dah expired...kalau masa dalam kerajaan Tun pun akan buat perkara yang sama...Tun sendiri akan cakap yang kenaikan tak dapat dielakkan...tengok ajelah mcm mana royalti di terengganu masa Pas pegang...cakap tak serupa bikin...nak delete pun delete lah...
“AKU ANAK MELAYU” Aku ada 5 org adik beradik dalam keluarga dan aku yg paling sulong yang berasal dari negeri paling utara di Malaysia. Aku dan adik ke2 masih menuntut di IPTA,3 org lagi masih menuntut di sekolah menengah dan rendah. Ayah bertugas sebagai tukang kebun/tebang pokok dusun mengambil upah RM30 sehari yang bekerja 6 hari seminggu.Ayah mempunyai kereta DATSUN 150Y yang dah nak relai (buruk) tapi banyak berjasa kepada kami sekeluarga sehingga kini,Ayah terpaksa menggunakan kereta untuk mengangkut alatan-alatan bertukang.Jarak tempat kerja Ayah dgn rumah kami adalah 60KM darab pergi dan balik bersamaan 120KM yang memerlukan kos minyak RM20 sehari pada harga minyak petrol RM1.92 seliter,baki RM10 dibawa balik dan diberi kepada Ibu utk perbelanjaan harian.PADA HARI INI dengan kos minyak yang naik,kereta DATSUN Ayah yang paling banyak berjasa kepada kami, memerlukan RM30 sehari utk jarak 120KM.Ayah terpaksa bekerja dalam jarak yang jauh demi keluarganya. Persoalan yang timbul difikiran kami adik-beradik mcm mana kami nak menampung kos perbelanjaan harian kami,makan dan minum,PELAJARAN kami adik-beradik. Walaupun kami mendapat bantuan PTPN dari kerajaan,dengan bantuan itulah Aku dan adik ke2 dapat belajar dan dengan hasil bantuan itulah kami berdua menampung perbelanjaan adik-adik kami yang masih kecil dan bersekolah disamping pendapatan Ayah yang tidak seberapa. Adakah aku perlu berhenti belajar di IPTA? Dan mencari kerja untuk membantu dan meringankan bebanan yang ditanggung oleh Ayah. Adakah nasib yang sedemikian juga akan berlaku kepada anak-anakku pada suatu hari nanti?
Salam TUN,
Saya teringat dengan idea TUN mengenai matawang Dinar.saya rasa idea Tun untuk gunakan matawang dinar patut dipertimbangkan kerana kita tidak boleh berharap dengan matawang Dolar US..Kita bole gunakan matawang dinar sebagai platform negara islam..yang selebihnya TUN mungkin lebih tahu..Syabas TUN,teruskan perjuangan..
Assalamualaikum Tun...
I just read the newspaper today. It tell me about someday oil prices can hikes about AS$200 per tank. Maybe the price will hikes until late this year.
The factor is Israel are ready to attempt a war with Iran if Iran still go on with it's nuclear weapon program.
Besides, the unstabilize of U.S economy and money play a factor why oil prices will hikes so drastically in a year.
Tun, i just can pray for God (Allah S.W.T) that there will be no World War 3 if Israel attempt a war with Iran. I always pray for God that somehow God will protect us Muslim peoples from being diminished by the "Kafir" peoples with their cruel intention if something are about to happen in this world.
I hear PBB said if U.S and Israel still want to attempt a war with Iran, then something big is about to happen if that war occur. Wallahualam...
Tun, lastly let us pray to our God (Allah S.W.T) to protect us Muslim from harm and disaster if the war are fately to occur...Wallahualam..
Sekian Tun, Wassalam..
salam tun...
terima kasih kepada paklah..abis la kali ni..terima kasih juga kepada menteri-menteri yang jaga punggung masing2..
salam Tun,
baru terfikir, i think laaa Pak Lah is trying to balas dendam for his lost in the last election. pasal dia kalah so dia nak balas dendam pada rakyat by rising the price of oil. macam nak tunjuk, hmmmm dulu ko tak nak pangkah aku sangat kan, sekarang rasakan laaa.
i wish there is someone with balls to stand up for rakyat punya nasib. ni kalau bulan august naik lagi harga oil (as per what i heard), habis laaaaa, i might as well keluar dari malaysia and live somewhere else laaa.
Dear Sir Tun,
I cannot understand how a country that was moving forward, suddenly become loss of direction because of a small group of people up there after you handover your leadership. And nobody, the 20 million over people can do anything about it. Many malaysian ask you for help, what about other politician?
Assalamualaikum Tun...
Saya cuma ada satu soalan buat Tun... Kenapa dulu Tun tinggalkan pentadbiran Malaysia kepada Pak Lah? Apakah ciri ciri yang ada pada Pak Lah sehinggakan Tun boleh percaya bahawa Pak Lah boleh meminpin Malaysia dengan jayanya??? Bagi saya sememangnya saya tidak nampak kepimpinan Pak Lah dari dulu lagi, sewaktu Tun masih PM.
Minta Tun jelaskan kepada orang yang tak tahu seperti saya ini.....
assalamualaikum TUN...
Harga minyak sekarang amat membebankan rakyat, terutama sekali kepada mereka berpendapatan rendah, sekitar RM700 sebulan. Sudah tentu mereka hanya menggunakan motosikal sebagai penggangkutan harian. Kalau mereka perlu membayar rm5.00 sehari pada harga lama, sudah tentu akan mencecah kepada lebih kurang rm10.00 sehari pada harga baru(rm 300.00 sebulan).Baki gaji hanya akan tinggal rm400.00. persoalan saya sekarang, apakah gaji rm400.00 sebulan cukup untuk menampung hidup bagi mereka yang berkeluarga?? Makanan, rumah, elektrik, air, sekolah anak2, perbelanjaan harian (harga barang dah naik!!) tol, cukai jalan,insurans. Apakah Malaysia sudah mula membebankan rakyatnya??? Apakah kerajaan kita sudah tidak punya wang lagi?? Kerajaan mungkin akan menaikkan gaji kepada kakitangan kerajaan tetapi, bagaimana pula dengan mereka yang bekerja di private sector??? Bayangkan pekerja kilang dengan gaji rm800(belum termasuk potongan E.P.F dan SOCSO) sebulan dibebani dengan pelbagai masalah kewangan.Apa yang akan mereka lakukan?? mungkin meminjam duit dari ah long atau dari agensi haram untuk menyelesaikan masalah mereka.Adakah ini akan membawa kepada kemusnahan kepada mereka kelak?
Tun... siapakah yang akan mendapat keuntungan dari kenaikkan harga minyak ini??
Saya rasa, jawapannya ada pada Tun sendiri.........
Wassalam(Tun adalah yang terbaik)
Tun,
Hanya suara Tun menjadi wakil rakyat Malaysia yg sedang ditindas. Tiap hari PakLah mendapat doa dari rakyat yg dianaiya. Pendekatan hadari yg dijalankan menyebabkan rakyat merana. Hidup hanya sekali, berbaktilah ketika masih punyai saki baki kehidupan. Sedih tak terkata, bukan sebab minyak, tetapi seluruh aktiviti harian akan meningkat. Kemiskinan akan berkembang. Tolonglah kami Tun.
Salam TUN.
Kenapa kegawatan tahun 1997/98 tidak mengakibatkan rakyat negara ini seteruk begini. Adakah kerana pengurusan atau dugaan. Apakah rakyat harus diam diri.Apabila kerajaan telah membuat satu perubahan drastik, rakyat pun harus memikirkan satu jalan keluar dengan satu perubahan drastik. Tun, sanggup kah Tun menerima SATU POSISI DALAM POLITIK MALAYSIA. Pada dasarnya PARTI PEMBANGKANG TIDAK HARUS MEMIMPIN NEGARA. JIKA ia, ini akan jadi lebih teruk daripada sekarang,, ie: kadar bil air dengan Syabas, janji bulan Jun tapi sekarang ini masih dalam perbincangan.
Tun, apa yang boleh saya katakan melihat kepada situasi ekonomi kita pada hari ini
1)peratusan rakyat malaysia yang berkahwin/ ingin berkahwin akan berkurang
2) kadar kelahiran juga akan turut berkurang; dan
3) kadar perceraian akan meningkat dikalangan rakyat kita.
ini semua disebabkan keadaan ekonomi kita sekarang. jika tidak percaya, apa kata kita mula mengira dari sekarang.
Salam Tun,
I wonder why we,(the people) feel so hard to live in Malaysia now a days.Everyday the people topic of conversation is the way of the current government doings and how Malaysia's economy could reach this extend.We totally can understand the preasure of increasing oil pricing issues but how the government understanding towards the people that matters because they elected these people to be the leader expecting them bring progress and stability to the country not the other way around.I'am sure that if they(the government) could not solve this matter in this present years it will be a big upset for BN in the next general election.Tun are you going to sit and watch, or you going to fight for it? I'm very sure that the people will fight along and support you more than ever...
Dear Tun,
AS oil price goes exponentially, so as the nett profit made by petronas since the production exceeded the domestic consumption. Thus, mathematically the nett RM will be acummulated exponentially too..and thus huge RM should be for Malaysians, especially for the poors, like me and family. Percatipa income does not reflect the income distribution which are skewed in nature. Good voice Tun. Even higly qualified, but we are at the terrible lowest poverty!!!
Dear Tun,
AS oil price goes exponentially, so as the nett profit made by petronas since the production exceeded the domestic consumption. Thus, mathematically the nett RM will be acummulated exponentially too..and thus huge RM should be for Malaysians, especially for the poors, like me and family. Percatipa income does not reflect the income distribution which are skewed in nature. Good voice Tun. Even higly qualified, but we are at the terrible lowest poverty!!!
Dear Tun M,
It's me again. I want to give a radical suggestion and hope that perhaps through you, you can make a difference.
Well, we all know that global oil prices are rising. This is affecting everyone. However, for Malaysia, to ask the people of Malaysia to pay for oil according to market price is a bit ridiculous because we're an oil producing country.
I strongly feel that we should look far ahead. We know that oil is a depleting resource and someday, it'll run out. Currently, Malaysia is selling good quality oil to the world market while buying lower grade oil from the world market to make gains. Perhaps, it's time to change that strategy. We should always ensure that there's sufficient oil reserve for our country many many more years to come. Don't just sell it to make instant profit now.
This should be part of the defense strategy.
Apart from that, make sure that the people of Malaysia has adequate oil at a reasonable price before selling the oil to the world.
Additionally, we should also be investing in finding alternative fuel.
Salam Tun,
"Generally Government politicians are said to be arrogant."..saya bersetuju dengan kenyataan Tun ini...terutamanya bila saya perhatikan bagaimana beberapa menteri menjawab soalan rakyat yang meminta penjelasan tentang kenaikan harga minyak ini.
Assalamualaikum w.b.t.
Tun,
We had financial crisis before and Malaysia had handled it very well. Obviously there must have been a group of people in government who had handled the crisis and contributed to the country at that particular time.
And now Malaysia is in crisis again due to escalating oil prices. Where are those "thinktank" before?
salam Tun,
Naik lagi minyak. Hari itu kata ambil risiko politik kalau naikkan harga minyak. Rakyat dah lah susah sekarang ini, bertambah susah lagilah. Lepas ini kena ajar anak-anak belajar makan ubi kayu lah sebabnye semua benda dah naik bukan setakat minyak, beras pun boleh naik masuk akal ape. Kata PM nak bangunkan sektor pertanian, itu bukan membangunkan tapi nak menjahanamkan rakyat sahaja.... Bilalah kita boleh duduk stabil seperti mana pentadiran TUN dulu... Susah rakyat.... hidup tak selesa dah.
Firstly, we r net oil exporter, the petrol shd not follow market price as we r making more profits from the higher price and not poorer.
Secondly, other countries dpesnt have so much tolls to pay and definitely not within the same city.
Thirdly, our car price is still the most expensive in the world comparing dollar by dollar!!
This isnt fair rite!
A Toyota Camry costs only AUD 18,000 in Australia but their petrol only AUD 1.50...so who has better standard of living?? And they dun produce oil....and they hv no tolls......
Rebat RM625 setahun untuk pemilik kereta bawah 2000cc? Alasan menteri, kereta lebih 2000cc adalah kereta mewah! Apakah mewah atau tidak dinilai menerusi cc? Waraslah sikit!!! Adakah naza ria, naza`citra, toyota innova, toyota crown lama, teksi mercedes 200E, volvo 740L model 1980 kenderaan mewah? Apakah kereta honda accord baru, honda jazz, mercedes A170, BMW 1 series kereta bukan mewah yang ramai diguna oleh rakyat kebanyakan? Sepatutnya ikut nilai kereta atau cc?? Fikirkan wahai menteri yang arif dan bijaksana!!!!
Seperkara lagi cuba fikirkan pakcik-pakcik pemotong rumput yang terpaksa tanggung kos petrol yang tinggi dan golongan yang tiada kenderaan.....pikiaq la lebih sikit!
Tun,
I am strongly agreed with you for the gradually increment of petrol price. Actually i have a few question to ask you. Firstly, since you said Petronas is supplying 450k barrels of oil in a day to the whole nation, on top of it, i assume that, that's the usage of the nation in a day. So my question is why do the government have to subsidy Malaysia's petrol in order to cope with the global petrol price?
Recently I have just read a news about Brunei, the country's oil is their main source of income. However they have maintained the price of their own country's petrol for more than 10 years! I wonder how are they able to that but our country just couldn't at all.
I don't really understand what are the reasons for that and also do not understand every action being taken by the government. I really hope that for my insufficient knowledge and experience could you please explain a little to me regarding that?
Thank You.
salam Tun..i was born during your time Tun....we miss u so much Tun...life was not dis hard during your time...
sana..sini...ppl complaining psl kenaikan mnyk...goods becoming so expensive.....
cabinet...semua kaki bodek...tutup mata atas apa yg berlaku sekarang....
malaysia adalah ahli opec..if i'm not mistaken...
india...sbuah ngara yang bkan ahli opec...hnya menaikan 10% berbanding kita yang mengalami 40% kenaikan myk....perdana menteri kita yang sangat 'bijak' ni igt rakyat bodoh ker...
tindakan kerajaan yang ingin memberi rebate kpd sesiapa yg ingin memperbaharui cukai kenderaan amatlah lucu...itu semua gimik semata.......
apa jadi dgn dana yang ditubuhkan untuk mewujudkan perkhidmatan pengangkutan awam tempohari semasa kenaikan sebanyak 30sen diumumkan....senyap hngga kini...
kenapa secara terang-terangan..anak beranak...kaum kerabat...pm terlibat secara langsung dlm kntrak2 kjaan...rasa geram sgtlah Tun.....geram sangat...
kabinet pula dianggotai oleh kaki2 ampu...bercakap mmang pandai...in theory..superb..but in practical...zero.....
please do something Tun eventhough my request is too high....we're relying on u Tun...
terima kasih Tun...kalau Tun aDA kat depan mata...akan saya dakap Tun........terima kasih Tun....moga Allah murahkan rezeki...panjangkan umur...
Tun, I have a feeling the present government has just handed a big gift to the opposition parties. Not only did their dig their own graves, they practically nailed their own coffins and cast their own palls.
Senang saja mereka naik harga RM 0.78 sen sejali gus. kalau mereka naikkan harga gradually nanti kita akan bising dan keluh gradually. so senang saje naik harga sekali gus kita pun bising sekali saje. Selepas 3 bulan semuanya akan reda begitu saje. keadaan akan jadi seperti everything back no normal dan kita akan lupakan perkara ini begitu saje dan perkara ini akan diungkitkan semula selepas 5 tahun semasa pilihan raya. Siapa yang untung, rakyat or pemerintah ?
assalamualaikum tun..harap sihat sejahtera selalu..amin..
saya selaku rakyat malaysia ini terkejut dgn kenaikan harga minyak di negara kita ini..dan harga minyak dunia juga..tp kenapa keuntungan minyak negara kita melebihi 70 bilion tp kebajikan rakyat negara ini tidak terjaga..minyak naik pastinya yang lain lain akan naik..tapi ingatlah minyak itu datang nya dari Allah s.w.t..tuhan turunkan rezeki pada negara kite patutnya digunakan keuntungan itu untuk rakyat...kita negara islam sepatutnya tahu semua perkara ini..harap kerajaan kita usaha cari penyalesaian ini dengan terbaik dan jadikan negara kita ini selamat dan makmur..amin...moga Allah s.w.t memberkati negara kita malaysia ini supaya aman dan damai..amin..
Good day everyone,
Pak lah said one time.."there will be no morepoor people by 2010"..
...he is correct...because we'll be dead by then.....
Dear Tun.
Why not you run for calon bebas for next election, it will be another history in malaysia that a calon bebas won the PM seat...:)
CONSERVE AND PROMOTE RENEWABLE ENERGY
That is what I think the govt should do as a long-term strategy to overcome the current energy crisis. That is why I fully support the govt move to reduce the fuel subsidies. This will ensure that our nation financial stability will not be dictated by the fluctuation in global commodities prices. We have to stay competitive in order to survive and maintain our dignity in today's challenging world. Malaysian had been pampered for too long and wasting and overspending their surplus income with ignorance to the fast changing world outside them. It is time for them to think about their children future and not to think of only their selfish luxurious interest. To them it is their birthright to be shielded from the difficulties face by everybody in this world. Not knowing how hard is for the govt to sustain their current lifestyle. They should be taught to appreciate and grateful to Allah that the Almighty bless us with good leaders like you sir and others that preceded and succeeds you.
Actually, there's alternative energy sources to run vehicles, planes, etc. New Zealand is using peanut oil to fly their Air New Zealand. Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic is using palm oil mixed with other chemicals to fly their planes. So, what have we been doing ? What has Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) been doing ? What has Petronas been doing ? Aren't we have plenty of palm oil ? Right now, there's no need for R&D to be done because Virgin Atlantic is using it ! Just follow and use it maybe with modifications ...
Salam Dearest Tun....
Saya berulang kerja dari kuala pilah ke tampin, dgn petrol sebanyak rm25 sehari..... dimane nak saya mengadu, mohon tukar tak dapat2, kerana petrol naik terpaksa reschedule anak2 naik van ke sekolah, krn seawal 620am saya dah kena naik bas utk smpai b4 8am. kesian anak2 pergi sekolah tak dapat nak cium tgn mama dia, dan sedih saya tak dapat nak hantar mereka sendiri, sebelum keluar kerja, saya hanya dapat cium dan bangunkan mereka ke sekolah, pandai2 lah siap sendiri dan tungu van sekolah, apa nak jadi dengan anak2 nanti bila membesar jika setiap pagi ke sekolah seperti tidak beribu....
balik kerja tentu sampai lambat, kena lah anak tungu lama di taska, terkejar2 pulak nak jemput dan hanta tusyen atau mengaji, balik terkejar2 pulak nak masak dsbnya
Patut sebelum kami ubah gaya hidup, Menteri2 ubah dulu, jgn pakai keta besar, shoping dlm negara jer, guna barang buatan malaysia, pergi kerja jgn guna driver, naik komuter, naik motor...
Harap dengan izin Allah dapat lah saya bertukar kerja ke kg halaman saya......
terlalu sedih nak dikenangkan harga petrol naik, dan segala2 naik
Pak Lah tidak akan faham, buat2 tak faham, tak usaha nak faham....
Salam Tun, Madam Tun & semua,
1) Menteri KDNHEP ckap nak tolong kurang subsidi kerajaan utk minyak, semua kenderaan asing banned beli minyak kat malaysia. Ironically bila kurang subsidi kerajaan, harga minyak tak perlu dinaikkan, jadi rakyat tak merana...
2) Tapi banned jual minyak postponed. Nak review dulu. Mungkin pengumuman di buat tergesa2, tak habis pikir dah announce...
3) Then confirmed, banned cancel. Foreign car can buy petrol & diesel in Malaysia! So subsidi kerajaan tak turun right. Akibatnya...
4) Harga minyak dinaikkan!! Rakyat merana.... Foreign car still enjoy subsidi kerajaan. Tapi siapa yg kena tanggung effectnya?? Rakyat jugak, yg maybe some earn not as much as owners of the foreign cars
5) Foreign car owner cuma kena effect kenaikan harga minyak shj & mungkin duit makan, hotel etc. while in Malaysia. Tapi Malaysian kena effect for everything (which will increase very soon) 24hrs a day, 365 days a year...
Soalan:
1) Kenapa buat announcement psal banned jual minyak to foreign car then cancel it back when close to announcing increase of petrol?? Not logically smart kan?? So yg buat announcement tu consider publisiti murahan ke, gila glamour??!! Ke tak tahan tekanan towkey2 minyak???
2) In s'pore, the vehicle owners have almost direct impact on every increases of price of petrol. The petrol price increase every now & then. Sometimes without even noticing it.
So in a way, we're very lucky jugak & should be thankful to the 'GOVERNMENT POLICY' yg dah digunapakai sejak dulu lagi. Thankful to the 'POLICY' ok, not to Pak Lah sebab he's merely do nothing to improve the policy
3) To me, petrol increase is something unavoidable. Must be done somehow. But at least can pls do it in much smarter way??.... yg tak buatkan org marah sangat.
Nak bagi budak kecik makan ubat yang pahit tu pun ada trick, taktik & teknik nya kan. Ramai bijak pandai kat luar tu, tanya lah. Rasanya kat KDNHEP nak kena pakai ramai (utk menterinya jek, yg lain dlm kementerian tu ok).... :-)
Salam YABhg Tun
JIka dahulu Tun memeranjatkan dunia dengan idea Tun tentang tambatan ringgit, apa kata kali ini Tun cetuskan idea macam mana nak songsangkan sistem ekonomi yang dipelopori yahudi dan amerika ini.
Kita nampak dari dahulu lagi apa-apa masalah yang berkaitan ekonomi mesti berpusat di amerika. Tidak adakah makensima yang boleh digunakan untuk menentang regim ekonomi ini?
Jika tidak silap, semasa saya masih kecil dahulu , kekuatan ekonomi sesebuah negara itu disandarkan pada simpanan emas negara. Tetapi kaedah ini telah ditukar dengan menyandarkan ekonomi negara sesebuah mereka kepada dolar amerika.
Tun, pasti ada jalan daripada kemelut ini. Minta Tun huraikan sekali lagi tentang penggunaan dinar agar kami semua faham. Jika negara-negara eropah berpakat menggunakan EURO mengapa tidak negara-negara OIC guna dinar?????
I must say that I am one of the aggrieved lot with the quantum and suddenness of the fuel price increase. Life will not be the same after this.
However Tun, would like to point out some inaccuracies in your analysis with regards to this oil price issue. Firstly, you mention that the floating of the ringgit should have resulted in a lower cost of oil imports. But how can this be when ringgit has only strengthened 80 sens (ie 0.80/3.80 = 21%) whilst you yourself said that global oil prices have increased by USD 100 since three years ago (ie 100/30 = 333%). The increase in the price of oil has compeletely overwhelmed the strengthening of the ringgit vis-à-vis the US dollar. Similarly, the prices of other commodities including steel, copper and aluminium amongst others not to mention food items have also increased tremendously. It is too simplifying a statement to say that we haven’t seen the prices of imported goods decreasing. This is simply because any positive gains have been completely negated by the global price increases of such goods.
Secondly, you mention that oil production costs have hardly increased. This is very much at odds with the statement of the Petronas president, of which you are the adviser, whereby Petronas’ production costs have increased by a hefty 200% throughout the supply chain. Actually, this is expected in an high cost base industry and environment whereby the prices of many factors of production are on the rise. This is actually a global phenomenon in the oil and gas industry which I am sure you would have known, given your advisory role in Petronas.
Thirdly, you claim that given Petronas made RM 70 billion last year then it should be flush with money, enabling it and in turn the Government to foot the fuel subsidy bill. Just a few days ago, the Petronas president reiterated that Petronas paid about RM 53 billion back to the Government in the form of tax, dividends and royalty. This amount in turn is used by the Government to fund the development of the projects under the 9th Malaysia plan, for the benefit of all segments of society and not just vehicle owners. You know very well that the Government has been utilizing the money from Petronas towards the national budget, even under your administration last time. Your inaccurate assertions perpetuate the myth that the money derived from Petronas ie kept away idling somewhere or misused by the Government. If this was really the case, why would you have then gone through so much trouble to take away the Terengganu oil royalty to come under Federal Government jurisdiction in 1999? You yourself promised the Terengganu people then to use such funds towards the development of the state.
Furthermore, as Petronas adviser, you are also duty bound to ensure the sustainability of Petronas as a corporate entity, a multinational entity that all Malaysians can be proud of. You know very well that Petronas needs funds for reinvestment so that it can be sustainable and contribute to the country well beyond our oil and gas reserves. This is exemplified when Petronas bought over MISC all those years back. Irrespective whether it was a bail out of your son’s company or not, it has proven to be a successful investment for Petronas. A diversification of business which will benefit Petronas and the nation for years to come. It is these types of investment that Petronas needs to look at in such bumper times, not perpetuating the subsidy mentality amongst Malaysians. Why wasn’t Petronas money used to rescue the many failed corporations and the rakyat who got hit hard during the Asian financial crisis then? The same logic should apply now. Moreover, given your international standing as well in the global arena, you are duty bound to assist Petronas in exploring and securing more opportunities in the global oil and gas industry. I ,for one, do not want Petronas to die off as soon as Malaysia drills its last drop of oil.
I agree that the Government must do its utmost to ensure the well being of the rakyat, especially the lower to middle income groups. On this issue, the cash payment compensation system must be implemented soonest to ease the burden of the rakyat in light of the fuel price increases.
razaleigh rahman said;
CONSERVE AND PROMOTE RENEWABLE ENERGY
"That is what I think the govt should do as a long-term strategy to overcome the current energy crisis. That is why I fully support the govt move to reduce the fuel subsidies."
En razaleigh,
You might be earning a take home of more than five grand a month and that is why you can’t feel the burden felt by the majority, ie below and middle income earner.
It must be very easy for you to come out with that statement.
Agreeing and having to feel it is TWO different things.
The problem with this government is; when they took away the subsidy, they did not channel the right way.
Take for example the last price hike; Abdullah mentioned that the money government saved would be channeled to upgrade transportation in selected areas.
Where? Have you seen anything being done except for the son getting some huge contract for providing transportation services.
This alone showed that the leader of the current government is a corrupt and has not been transparent in addressing this matter and other issues at large. Do you think the current leader and his gang would take the initiative to learn or acquire expertise in renewal energy or R&D in this particular field.
If the government is serious in looking for renewal energy, there are Western or European countries that they can initiate a G2G process or perhaps give attractive benefits for companies that provide energy saving (ESCO) and that includes teaching their officers in the ministries to scrap the mental-block on new ideas and start learnng new things.
The hardest is always getting people to accept and adapt improvements.
Che Det, Tun
(your copy)
Scribe,
Abdulonomics - Intro 101
(tutorial: supply and demand)
Abdulonomics:
As far as the government is concerned, cutting back on fuel subsidies is the way to go so as to put its hard-earned taxpayers money into more productive uses like improving educational, health and infrastructure facilities for the benefit of more people rather than allowing it to be guzzled away mostly by motorists.
The government will be tackling the issue head on and will not allow the peoples anger over higher fuel prices to fester. It will announce a number of concrete measures this week to ease the burden on consumers.
Gooi agreed that there was no way that the government could continue to subsidise fuel when the price of crude oil price had reached almost US$140 a barrel. However, he said, the government should have gradually reduced the subsidies to match with the international market prices.
Goois opinions were echoed by many economists and political analysts who believed that Malaysia has to take the painful lesson while the government of the day has to take "a very risky political decision" to confront the issue.(?)
me no understand lah
we talking bulls or cocks here
a bull is a bull and a cock
a cock is an economic item
food in the basket case -
Working On Several Mechanisms
BUTTERWORTH, June 8 (Bernama) -- The government is working on several mechanisms to offset the fuel price hike and not depending solely on the restructuring of the subsidy package.
Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said due to the escalating crude oil price in the world market, the government had to find other means of easing its burden and that of the people.
He said the government had spent RM33 billion on fuel subsidies and there was no sign that the price would drop.
"The fuel price restructuring has enabled the government to save RM4 billion but when the crude oil price went up to AS$138.54 a barrel (RM450.25) on Wednesday, the saving was wiped out," he told reporters after opening Tasek Gelugor Member of Parliament's service centre at Taman Merbau Indah, Sungai Dua, here today.
He said with the rise in the crude oil price every day, the cost of subsidies borne by the government could reach RM40 billion, a huge sum and as big as one year allocation for development. Nor Mohamed said the geopolitical risk factor following the Israeli threat against Iran could surge the world crude oil price even further.
The government had to consider several other mechanisms to lessen the effects and ensure that the people would benefit from them, he added.
While admitting that the subsidies also benefited foreigners and smugglers, he said that was the reason why the government decided to give cash rebates to the people as early as possible.
He said the other measures included cutting costs on government functions, expanding the social safety net, improving the public transport infrastructure, assisting the poor and single mothers and reevaluating mega projects.
However, he said no decision had been taken to scrap mega projects in Penang. Meanwhile, he urged the people not to politicise the fuel price hike but to cooperate with the government in riding through the tough period as they had done before.
Nor Mohamed said the country had braved through economic slowdowns in 1969, 1974 and 1986, and financial crisis in 1997 with the help of all quarters.
"This is not the first time we are facing the challenge as we have overcome them and succeeded in spearheading progress.
"This time around, the people, non-government organisations and the opposition should assist the government by giving constructive proposals to solve the problem," he said.
-- BERNAMA (Govt Working On Several Mechanisms To Offset Fuel Price Hike)
Nota:
Tan Sri Nor Mat - can we stop it with the mega and call it a
mini-mega or a pseudo-mega
tans sri,
what is a floating dollar?
so sorry to disturb you, tan sri
when your are flying your kite...
I like the general's songkok, though -
(dey apa cerita?
The fuel price restructuring has enabled the government to save RM4 billion but when the crude oil price went up to AS$138.54 a barrel (RM450.25) on Wednesday, the saving was wiped out
qoute-unquote)
i think the mechanism needs lubrication, tan sri and may i suggest K-Gel
Please do not try it on me, mat
I am a muslim even when do not wear a songkok like you do
YAbhg. Tun,
Sungguhpun kesan kenaikan harga minyak itu memang pahit diterima, saya harap rakyat Malaysia banyak bersabar menghadapinya. Secara praktik saya percaya kita tidak dapat berterusan mempertahankan harga petrol RM1.92 kerana ini memerlukan subsidi yang terlalu tinggi,dan menjejaskan simpanan negara.Eloklah kita mula berjimat cermat dan ubahkan cara hidup yang membazir demi untuk generasi akan datang.
Selama ini saya anggap PETRONAS sebagai sebuah syarikat ikon negara. Ia mulai menyerlah dibawah bimbingan YABhg. Tun,dan masih terus tegak sedemikian. Kita rakyat Malaysia berbangga dengan PETRONAS, dan diharap janganlah ada tekanan politik untuk menjejaskan kewibawaan nya.
Akhir sekali, saya ada membuat analisis komprehensif tentang keputusan pilihanraya DUN Kedah. Saya jemput YABhg. Tun dan pengunjung weblog ini membacanya di DAH Ikhwan weblog dialamat dahalmi.wordpress.com
Sekian,diiringi doa untuk Tun.
DAH Ikhwan
Dearest Tun,
I feel sad and frustrated after seeing the news on the website about the petrol hike on the 4th June. flip-flop of what he said.. Only a difference of 24hrs.. which I think the whole nation is shocked as everyone expects the increase of petrol is in August.
Tun, another thing I feel sad about is part of the efforts that you have put in to improve the country for the past 2 decades has gone down the drain.
Why... why is Abdullah Badawi doing this to us...
Looking at the current situation, all the rich people will get richer and the poor will become poorer..
Isn't this a stupid thing to do? If this was done in stages at least a lot of Rakyats will not suffer. ARE WE GONNA RUN OUT OF CRUDE OIL OVERNIGHT? NO...
I am in Sales. Just like many others, will need to travel at least 150km a day around Klang Valley. The biggest joke that our current DEAREST PM did is RM 625 subsidy for cars below 2.0cc. Is he going crazy?
Assuming a Sales Person's Petrol Allowance is not by mileage claim but Fix Allowance like myself. RM300 by company.
The amount shown below is after deducting RM300 by company.
Full Tank before : RM 85
After : RM 119
Before RM380 p.m.
After RM656.26 p.m
Diff RM276.26 p.m.
RM 276.26 x 12= 3315.12
RM 3315.12- RM 625.00
= RM 2609.12 extras that we pay
RM 2600 / 12mths = RM 216.00 extra p.m.
Besides the extras that we need to pay how about the increase in other products? One day we just spend extra RM5 which i think which is more than that... One month extra RM 150...
Which means one month have to come out with another RM350 at least
From the day they announce the petrol hike ... I just wouldn't dare to think about tomorrow. Is there a tomorrow?
For the past 20 yrs Tun has been rulling the country I have never been too worry about my life from the day I started working. But now everytime I look at my daughter I will be wondering how will her future be??.. and I will shed in tears.
I am earning RM3000.00 a month. Every month is just enough for me and my family(me, my mom and my 2yrs old daughter). I still can't afford to buy a house yet. What is going to happen to my child's future? I have sleepless night since 4th June thinking about my family. How am I going to give them a good life? I am sure everyone wants to give the best to the parents and child.
I am already facing all this. HOW ABOUT THOSE EARNING RM2000 a month and has 3-4 children and 2 old folks to take care?? I am sure that there is still many family like this.
Just like many Malaysians today... I am sick and tired.
TODAY there's NO MALAYS, NO CHINESE, NO INDIAN AND DLL..
THERE'S ONLY MALAYSIANS!
For the sake of our childrens, our family, OUR FUTURE.....
LET'S UNITE FOR OUR BETTER TOMORROW.
TUN, PLEASE SAVE US...
PLEASE SAVE ALL THE MALAYSIANS.
Thank you on behalf of my family and all fella Malaysians.
Always supporting you.
Joe Yap
Selangor.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Saya tak boleh mengundi tapi kalau saya boleh mengundi, saya tak nak undi UMNO sebab Tun dah keluar . ^__^
dengarlah rintihan rakyat... gaji bawah sribu..keje sorang..anak 4.. mcmana keluarga ...kalau bini keje sapa nak urus rmhtamgga..isteri keje banyak skandal..laki pun buat sbb layanan tak cukup..anak???masalah sosial brtmbah
I found something very interesting last night.
"The Export Land Model, or Export-Land Model, refers to work done by Dallas geologist Jeffrey Brown, building on the work of others, and discussed widely on The Oil Drum. It models the effects of the decline in oil exports as a result of the peak in oil production in oil exporting countries while at the same time domestic consumption increases in those same countries. This combination of declining production and increasing domestic consumption leads oil exports to decline at a far faster percentage rate than oil production itself is falling.
Assume that an oil producing country --Export Land-- produces 2 mbpd (Million Barrels Per Day), consumes 1 mbpd, and exports 1 mbpd to oil consuming countries around the world.
Export Land hits the point of Peak Oil production, and over a five year period production drops by 25%. Over the same time period, Export Land's consumption increases by 20% to 1.2 mbpd. This causes Export Land's net exports over the five year period to fall from 1 mbpd to 0.3 mbpd, a decrease of 70% -- resulting from a combination of increasing domestic consumption in Export Land and a 25% drop in production. Counter-intuitively, the fractional decline in exports is much greater than the sum of the fractional increase in domestic consumption and the fractional decline in production.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6...rtlandmodel.jpg
As world oil exports approach (or pass) a global peak, the price of exported oil increases and further stimulates domestic economic growth and oil consumption in all Export-Land countries, creating a positive-feedback process between declining exports and higher prices. However after some point the declining level of exports outpaces the increasing oil price and domestic growth will slow. In some cases Export Land eventually becomes a net importer. It is unlikely that Export Land would constrain domestic consumption to help importing countries, in fact many oil exporting countries actually subsidize domestic consumption.
The rapid decline of the UK from peak exports to net oil importer in just six years is sometimes referenced as an example of the Export Land Model in real-world action. Mexico's domestic consumption and net exports appear to be closely corresponding with the expectations of the Export Land Model also.
Within 5 years, Mexico (the second biggest exporter of oil to the US) may become a net oil importer. This has already happened to Indonesia, and may soon happen in Iran, Algeria, Malaysia, and Norway."
-wikipedia
Comments, Tun?
Tun, tolong buat sesuatu yang mengemparkan selain keluar dari UMNO. Apa kata Tun tubuhkan parti lain, Parti Negara ke, Parti Melayu Islam ke?, Parti Malaysia (PM) atau hidupkan kembali Parti Semangat 46. Atau Tun Kuburkan UMNO sebagaimana zaman Tun, UMNO mati perlukan talqin untuk hidupkan kembali.
Atau Tun bergabung dengan PAS atau musuh lama DSAI. Politik!
Atau Tun mengepalai Demontrasi jalanan.
- Abdullah Abdul Wahab
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Saya setuju dengan pandangan Tun,saya rasa kenaikan minyak ini ada agenda tersendiri
Walau apa pun masyaAllah, sampai hati kerajaan buat macam nie pada kami. Kesian kami. Tapi takpe rezeki datang dari Allah, Allah akan memberi jalan kepada saya utk mencari rezeki yang halal
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Kenyataan yang Tun berikan mmg ada kebenarannya.
Saya menyokong dengan kenyataan Tun yang Ringgit tidak seharusnya diapungkan. Tambatan Ringgit yang diperkenalkan oleh Tun merupakan jalan yang bijak dimana kita mengawal Ringgit kita dari dimanipulasi. Kita lihat sekarang Amerika yang terlalu angguh pun sekarang menggunakan cara yang sama untuk mengelakkan dollar terus merudum. Karajaan yang ada sekarang tidak seperti kerajaan Tun dahulu.. Kerajaan sekarang bukan tidak tahu ekonomi, tetapi disebabkan oleh yang teratas 'buta' ekonomi dan hanya mengikut kata orang akibatnya inilah yang berlaku. Rakyat terus menanggung kesan yang teruk. Sekarang ini pun kita tanggung kesannya akibat daripada keputusan kerajaan yang "kurang bijak" apa lagi anak cucu kita nanti yang akan tanggung disebabkan kerajaan yang ada sekarang. Kegemilangan Malaysia yang Tun bina dulu terus jatuh disebabkan PM yang ada sekarang. Projek2 yang dibuat oleh kerajaan sekarang, satu pun tidak menguntungkan negara dan rakyat. semuanya untuk menjahanamkan negara. Saya pn tak paham kenapa masih ada org menyokong kepimpinan sekarang.
opss muka saya lupa PM kita ada menyebut 'saya ada kerja yang perlu saya lakukan'. Apa kerja itu. "Kerja untuk menjahanamkan negara dan menyusahkan rakyat" itulah kerja yang nak dibuat. Sedarlah wahai pengampu-pengampu PM sekarang... apa yang diputuskan sekarang hanya akan merugikan bukan sahaja masa sekarang tetapi kesannya turut ditanggung anak cucu kita.
Tun,
Tolong kembali memimpin kita,
hidup kita semaikin mendesak sejak pak lah memerintah Malaysia.
Tolong selamatkan kami!!!
Dear Tun
Thks for your mindfull comment but i guess after this drastic fuel increase, it will change people trust toward PM, oh ya i forgotong he will leave his baton to the next PM by year end then he will sit and watch how the movie goes. What a PM we have!!! I sincerely hope there will be another election soon on DSAI so that he can speed up the process to take over the PM. I have lost confidence in our goverment.
Assalamualaikum
The recent increase in petrol / diesel prices and re-structuring of the oil prices have left most reeling with shock. Even though expected, Malaysians being largely insulated from the petrol price increase in other countries took it for granted that we will be continuously protected. Kind of foolish perception on our part.
But the thing is the most important crisis in this time will not go away so long as the energy demand stays. So why havent everyone been talking about the most obvious? Alternative energy sources?
Can Malaysia take a lead in getting the research for alternative energy source instead of saying it's someone else's problem. No one is willing to take the lead. Why not try something like what the Ansari X Prize did in getting private commercial space flight a reality?
This is what I suggest.
Malaysia take the lead and offer to buy alternative non fossil fuel technology from any inventor for EUR 1billion (since we cant trust dollars). Frankly we probably wont have to pay up as I am sure that other countries (see Japan / China) will up the ante to a couple more billion.
Either that or Malaysia lead in setting up the alternative Energy prize. Other countries can contribute and the intellectual property for the invention once bought from the inventor will be set on the world as free to download and use. Freeware!
How's that for having a role in saving the mankind from its excesses. For sure world recognition.
Would Malaysian leaders have the courage to do this? The need is obvious but the courage to execute is always lacking.
Salam Tun,
Saya telah membaca pandangan Tun dan saya rasa ia sangat bernas sekali. Kenapa Pak Lah (dan penasihat-penasihatnya, kerana Pak Lah tak pernah memikir pun) tidak memikir seperti Tun? Yang peliknya, Pak Lah tidak memanggil Agensi-agensi kerajaan yang berkenaan, untuk agensi-agensi tersebut menerangkan kepada rakyat. Tetapi Pak Lah memanggil Editor kanan akhbar tempatan untuk mnjelaskannya. Agensi seperti MKN, Jab. Penerangan, Kemas, Tentera, Polis dan sebagainya tidak dipanggil untuk mendapatkan pandangan tentang kemungkinan reaksi rakyat dan 'condition' pemikiran rakyat.Tapi, bila rakyat bantah, Pak Lah akan salahkan agensi kerajaan tak buat kerja. Perkara ini tak pernah berlaku zaman Tun dulu. Tun akan panggil dulu semua agensi kerajaan untuk bincang dan akan ada beberapa pendekatan yang diambil untuk mempersiapkan minda rakyat sebelum sesuatu polisi atau dasar diumumkan. Tolonglah nasihat Pak Lah supaya dia faham dan ajar dia sikit cara nak memerintah sebuah negara. Wassalam.
Salam Tun,
Kenaikan harga minyak is a global disaster. Bukannya saya tidak berterima kasih kepada kerajaan yg telah memberi subsidi sehingga kini, tetapi kenaikan yang drastic amat-amat membebankan. Sekiranya kenaikan dibuat secara berperingkat e.g. 30 sen, 20 sen per few months, rakyat akan lebih bersedia. Lagipun minyak je yang naik semalaman, gaji mana pernah naik semalaman.
Saranan mengubah gaya hidup tidak dapat diamalkan oleh semua orang kerana setiap orang mempunyai keperluan yang berbeza. Kenaikan minyak bererti kenaikan harga barang2 keperluan. Nak makan pun susah inikan pulak nak isi minyak kereta. Tak isi minyak kereta nanti tak boleh pulak pergi kerja. Tak kerja tak bergaji la jawabnya.
Pengangkutan awam di Malaysia amatlah tidak memuaskan. Lagipun bagi rakyat seperti saya yang perlu menghantar baju2 sekolah dan beg2 sekolah anak2 ke rumah pengasuh seawal jam 6:30 pagi. Macam mana saya nak bawak semua baju2 tu dan beg2 sekolah (sessi petang) naik bas, hantar rumah pengasuh, pastu tunggu bas lagi pergi kerja. Kena tukar la kot office hour kat Malaysia nie kul 10:00 pagi.
Ramai juga yang kata jgn guna petrol, guna NGV. Yelah, bagi mereka yang beli NAZA yang dah siap install NGV tu senang la cakap. Bagi golongan yang income tak sampai 3 ribu sebulan (suami isteri bekerja – duit rumah, kereta, bil, foods, medical, PETROL, toll, babysitter, schools) dengan anak2 yang bersekolah, nak PASANG NGV tu bukannya murah.
Subsidi RM625 bagaikan melepaskan batuk di tangga. Bagi golongan mewah yang mempunyai 3-4 biji kereta di rumah sedap2 la diaorang dapat subsidi tu, walaupun keta2 jarang bergerak (bini buat pegi pasar je). Golongan nelayan yang dapat subsidi (RM1 for 1 litre petrol) pun sekarang kena bayar RM1.43 sen per litre. Belum kira bulan Ogos bila start harga apung nanti. Tak makan la woi golongan nelayan nie. Kalau nak tolong rakyat, tolong lah betul2, kesian kat nelayan tau, turun ke laut bukannya dapat hasil tiap2 hari, kekadang balik tangan kosong je, minyak habis gak. Mana rasionalnya kata nak beri subsidi pada golongan yang benar2 memerlukan.
Entah apa punya akal fikiran la menteri2 yang ada sekarang nie. Tun, ganti Pak Lah semula la, rakyat mesti sokong punya. Tun je harapan kami. Dah muak la nak dengar cerita pasal Pak Lah. Tengok muka dia pun benci.
Sebagai orang peringkat bawahan yang tak tau sangat tentang ekonomi dan kenaikan harga, this thing really burden me and the family. Apa yang boleh dilihat, kerajaan sekarang bagaikan tidak tahu mentadbir secara sistematik. Sekejap larangan ke atas warga asing membeli petrol di kawasan Malaysia. Tak sampai sebulan, terus batal larangan tu. Errr... tak sempat kuatkuasa pun. Alangkah lembabnya mereka ini melihat ke hadapan. Nampak sangat pemikiran yang dilontarkan itu mempunyai kadar tarikh luput yang hanya dua tiga bulan je. Bukannya long term view. Aduuuhai... mengapalah malang nasib rakyat menerima pemerintah yang sebegini lembab?
Senang-senang memujuk rakyat bahawa harga barang takkan naik kerana adanya kemudahan fleet card? Iyakah? Bodoh sungguh rakyat di Malaysia ini kerana percaya kata-kata Si Menteri yang bijak pandai itu. Bagusnya kalau kata-katanya benar. Tapi semenjak kejadian pembubaran parlimen dulu, SUNGGUH! AKU SUDAH HILANG PERCAYA PADAMU WAHAI KERAJAANKU...
salam tun
tolonglah rakyat berpendapatan rendah di malaysia ni tun...
buatlah sesuatu tun...
kami semua rakyat malaysia memohon kepada tun supaya membantu kami yang dalam kesusahan akibat krisis harga minyak...
slama ni kita telah banyak ditipu oleh kerajaan yang ada sekarang ni...
TUN BANTULAH KAMI SEMUA...KAMI MEMOHON JASA BAIK TUN..
What happens now is really bringing the current government down ...
As a country with petroleum, how can we compare our petrol price with other country petrol price?
Some more, as someone living in a state with the richest with petrol and mineral yet pay higher price, this is really annoying ...
Semua naik, gaji saja tak naik, how to live? Tolak car loan, study loan, etc etc etc ... tinggal sikit, yet have to pay for petrol .. is the government trying to downgrade our living style?
I totally agree in the question and answer in NTV7. That all theh menteri must try our style of living in order to feel the impact of petrol in our life ...
Salam buat Tun dan Family.
Tun,
Mengenai isu kenaikkan harga minyak ini, ramai rakyat meluahkan rasa ketidakpuasan hati mereka dalam blog ini. Mungkin seluruh rakyat juga merasakannya cuma tidak berkesempatan meluahkan di sini.
Apa yg membuatkan saya tertanya2 mengenai keputusan kenaikkan harga minyak ini ialah masa yg digunakan utk menentukan cara peningkatan dibuat telah berlangsung selama setahun lalu. Baik... berapa ramaikan yg terlibat dalam perbincangan ini dan adakah ini keputusan terbaik yg mereka perolehi daripada PERBINCANGAN SELAMA SETAHUN? Perhatikan dialog dibawah:
A: Baiklah tuan2 sekelian. Perincangan kita hari ini adalah utk mencari mekanisma utk menaikkan harga petrol dan diesel supaya kita dapat menguragkan jumlah subsidi negara. Apakah cadangan yg terbaik boleh kita gunakan?
B: Memandangkan subsidi negara sekarang semakin meningkat, saya cadangkan supaya kita genapkan saja harga minyak dan menaikkan harga ke paras yg menguntungkan kerajaan.
C: Berapakah kadar yg sesuai utk dinaikkan?
B: Hmmmm... kita naikkan harga sehingga hampir menyamai harga pasaran sebenar. Saya cadangkan agar harga petrol dinaikkan RM0.78 sen seliter dan Diesel RM1.00 seliter. Dengan ini kerajaan akan hanya mengeluarkan subsidi yg sedikit berbanding sebelum ini.
A: Saya rasa saya setuju dgn cadangan itu... kita akan gunapakai cadangan itu dak kita akan mencari cara utk mengurangkan bebanan rakyat tanpa merugikan kerajaan pada lain masa.
Apa pendapat kamu? Sekiranya begini dialog yg digunakan utk menentukan harga minyak, adakah ianya memerlukan masa selama setahun utk dibincangkan? Mungkin masa digunakan dalam seminggu suda memadai (termasuk perbincangan utk memberikan subsidi tunai kepada rakyat). Kenapa saya boleh come up with this dialog is simply because the decision that has been made was stupid enough to be said by our PM.
Perhatikan pula cadangan saya ini:
" Sekiranya kerajaan hendak mengurangkan subsidi minyak, ada beberapa cara yg boleh difikirkan. Cadangan saya, Memandangkan KDNHEP telah mengumumkan bahawa ada kemungkinan kenaikkan harga minyak akan dibuat pada bulan Ogos. Saya setuju dgn menteri tersebut. Kerana pada masa pengumuman itu dinuat, jangka masa utk bersedia menghadapi kenaikkan iin adalah lebih kurang 2 bulan. Bijak saya katakan pada menteri ini kerana cara beliau itu dapat mengelakkan rakyat menjadi PANIK dan STRESS. Kenapa PM tidak menggunakan masa 2 bula itu utk berbincang dengan majlis tindakannya utk menyediakan satu blue print yg bernas utk menjalankan kenaikkan itu? Kenapa mesti membuat rakyat PANIK dan STRESS dengan kenaikkan yg tinggi dan mendadak? Manakan tidak mendadak, masa diberikan utk bersedia menerima kenaikkan ini hanya beberapa jam. Apa yg saya fikirkan ialah, sekiranya PM kita yg "BIJAK PANDAI" dapat memaksimimkan penggunaan masa 2 bulan itu kan lebih baik daripada membuatnya dengan tergesa-gesa. Saya pun tidak tahu kenapa harus PM kita tu membuat keputusan terlalu immediate sehinggakan tidak dapat menunggu lebih lama sedikit. Perhatikan ini pula:
Sekiranya kerajaan memang dan sudahpun membuat keputusan utk menaikkan harga Diesel sebanyak RM1.00 dan Petrol sebanyak RM0.78, bolehkan kanaikkan itu dibuat secara berperingkat? MISALNYA: Kenaikkan harga ini boleh dibuat dalam masa 18 blan dengan kenaikkan setiap 3 bulan (sukuan tahun sekali selama 18 bulan). Dengan cara ini setiap 3 bulan harga diesel akan dinaikkan harga sebanyak RM0.20 dan petrol pula sebanyak RM0.156. Setelah selesai 5 peringkat kenaikkan ini, jumlah kenaikkan akan menjangkau harga yg dibuat pada hari ini. Walaupun cara ini mengambil masa yg lama (1 1/2 tahun) tetapi ianya boleh diterima oleh rakyat sekiranya PM dapat membuat penerangan yg dapat menjelaskan kenapa tindakan ini dibuat, rakyat saya rasa akan dapat menerimanya."
Tetapi, malangnya Pak Lah tidak dapat berfikir sehingga tahap itu. Apa yg difikirkannya ialah mcm mna utk membuat sesuatu dalam masa yg singkat. Dia seperti tidak berfikir mengenai hal rakyat, kenaikkan harga barang ekorang kenaikkan harga bahan api, inflasi, permasalahan utk rakyat menaikkan taraf hidup mereka. Ada yg bercakap kepada saya bahawa dengan cara ini "Yang kaya kanan tetap kaya, yg miskin akan menjadi lebih miskin". Dengan tindakan terburu-buru Pak Lah, kita terpaksa menerima tanggungan yg tinggi sekarang utk hidup. Saranan tersirat daripada tindakan ini ialah kita kena "ikat perut" supaya Malaysia boleh jadi kaya dan orang2 yg berpengaruh didalamnya boleh menjadi kaya. Kurangkan menggunakan kenderaan berpetrol dan gunakan kudrat kita utk bergerak supaya stok minyak ini hanya orang2 yg berkemampuan sahaja boleh gunakan. Jangan simpan duit utk masa hadapan kerana kita kena habiskannya hanya utk hidup hari ini. Kerajaan mahu kita berdikari dan jangan lupa membayar Cukai Pendapatan kerana sekiranya kita tidak membayar cukai kakitangan kerajaan tidak akan dapat gaji dan mereka akan menghadapi kesusahan terutamanya mereka2 yg berada "di atas".
Jadi kita sebagai rakyat, jangan lupa, Pak Bedolah tu duduk jadi PRESIDEN dan jadi PERDANA MENTERI kerana KITA UNDI BN. Dia lupa yg kita ada mengundi, mungkin dia lupa juga kita boleh undi "pihak" lain. Tengah seronok duduk di atas dengan KUASA dan PANGKAT, jgn lupa kami yg BERSILA di tanah dan MEMBERI KAMU KUASA TU UTK BERKERJA. BUKANNYA UTK BERBULAN MADU DAN MENCARI KEKAYAAN UTK KELUARGA.
Sekian.
Salam Tun;
I simply cant resist the temptation to comment on your writing about the oil price increase. The sudden announcement really caught everyone by suprise. Frankly...i do expect the oil price is going to increase...but not at this quantum!!!. I really want to know who are Pak Lah's economic advisers. I sincerely hope not KJ and his gangs of 4th floor. I was about to went back to Kota Bharu (KB) when they announced the price increase. I queud for about 2 hrs to get my gas tank filled-up. Anyway...I had a chat with an economist when I was in KB. He himself did not understand Pak Lah's decision. I think almost all rakyat do not understand Pak Lah's decision not him alone. RM675 rebate perannum?...come on!!!..who is Pak Lah try to kid???...Agreed! Agreed! Agreed!...lets get rid of Pak Lah and his gangs...I simply fed up with his ways of running my beloved country....
Dear Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, I have just spend some precious moments visiting the Perdana Global Peace Organisation website. I read your piece on an appeal to the American people. Since early 2008, I could not understand why there are two candidates contesting in Democrat. Now that Barack Obama is a clear winner, representing Democrat, his next phase is contesting John McCain of the Republican. While this is going on, I sense that what happened in Iraq, perhaps might happen next in Iran. Iran as you know is the 4th largest oil producing country. I read yesterday's newspaper, the future price increase of the global oil, is connected to a calling to the next President of USA, after George Bush, to attack Iran, with the assumption that Iran is developing her nuclear power. I think you know more than us on this. In addition to your post on the criminalisation of war, I really appreciate that you do post on global peace, especially in relations to what is going to happen come November 2008, once USA announced the new President. I thank you in advance.
What goes up must come down. The economy is in cycle. Crude oil prices behave much as any other commodity with wide price swings. Traders and speculators profit from these fluctuations in price through buying or selling. Over time, price tends to follow lines of trend. If one can identify a trend then one could profit from those moves by selling "short" or buying "long"; following the trend. For the past three years, the oil price trend is exponential. Because of this “ trend trading strategy”, price will keep on continually higher and higher in an uptrend; until these traders/speculators realize that the price is ridiculous high and does not reflect the true underlying demand and supply; and thus reverse the price. A very high oil price is often thought of as being a late cycle phenomenon. Because they can make money when the price goes up as well as when it goes down, the price will make a U turn south. When this reversal pattern is established, the price will trend downwards, and more “trend traders” will enter to “short”. Price will go lower and lower in a downtrend. Thus the market price is in reality artificial yet real. Artificial because the price is determine by this market traders /Speculators (or market markers) whom does not hold/keep the true commodity but only the contracts. The volume traded in the Exchange at any particular time or period does not reflect the true amount of commodity that really changes hands. Moreover, as the price is quoted and determined by a single currency, in USD; any weakness of USD will tend to increase the price of oil. Real because thats what the price that real traders and consumers have to pay. So we and whole world are at the mercy of these speculators /traders/market markers because of market inefficiencies. After attacking the currencies previously, which are now more defensible, they now go for commodities. It seems that these people are more powerful than governments of any countries and OPEC. That’s the main reason why OPEC refused to increase production. However the real game is with OPEC. If OPEC sells the oil directly to its trading partners below the market price, like what Japan did on rice, the oil price will be maintained lower. However OPEC played to this so called “market forces”. Now with slowing global economy and the oil price is believed to reach its peak, the price may go lower to pre-2006 level. But the damaged has been done. Prices of food and basic items have soared. As the high oil price is a temporary phenomena ,and the government has surplus of money (as a net exporter of oil); a caring government should have weather this difficult time /cycle for the rakyat, till the price of oil goes down. Moreover the rakyat has the right to benefit from the profit earned during this high price. Not the government. What the government doing now is leaving it to the rakyat to face the difficulties of high oil price. The government is escaping from its responsibilities towards the rakyat and washing hands. Unless of course the government cannot function or is in dire strait that it cannot cope up with the current high price to justify its increase.
Salam Tun
I must say I admire your intelligence in all these years of being the PM of Malaysia
You have an exceptional control over matter attitude that held us up all this while, Now that you have stepped down, your predecessor doesnt know which string to pull and which to let go and practically losing control> Najib is not going to be any better, I actually cannot think of anybody who is going to be able to do anything.Maybe Anwar but he may just be another sweet talker. Who is going to save us all? Are we heading towards another indonesia
However, There has been some wrong doing in the "petronas" matter all said and done.
Who made that decision that Petronas need not declare its accounts to the Cabinet?
Why is Petronas Sponsoring F1 teams in the names of advert that is totally not called for?
It is our OIL, our Money, yet we have zero control over anything associated with it
PLUS is another Disaster with again a "no question" agreement that is eating the poor malaysians
They have destroyed this beautiful Country. is anybody analyzing the Brain drain we are encountering?
Take a look at what is being taught in Polytechnics, Universities.Look at what is happening to our society.
With all this, imagine what the Crime Rate is going to be?
We have been pushed to this Mess
GOD SAVE US ALL
Salam Tun..
Kenaikan petrol sejak beberapa hari ini memberikan impak yang besar kepada semua lapsan masyarakat. Bukan setakat harga petrol, bahkan harga makanan lain pun meningkat. Pagi tadi saya bersarapan di tempat biasa, mereka telah pun menaikan harga makanan sebnyk 30sen tp kuantiti makanan makin sedikit..
Saya ada membaca artikel di utusan mengenai respon Shahrir terhadap pemotongan eleaun menteri yg mana exco PAS memberi cadangan agar elaun menteri dipotong. Saya sgt bersetuju dgn kenyataan ahli PAS tersebut.Kenapa tidak? Tapi mengapa Shahrir beria-ia mengtakan pemotongan elaun menteri tidak rasional? Apa yang sy nampak,syahrir takut kehilangan elaun tersebut yang selama ini mungkin sgt byk diterima oleh menteri2. Katanya, sekiranya elaun2 menteri dipotong, tidak sampai 1 billion yg mana tidak memberi kesan kepada ekonomi negara. Apa? Apakah million (if bukan billion, kesan potongan eleun tu)pun xcukup untuk kerajaan? Saya LANGSUNG TAK NAMPAK RASIONAL SYAHRIR BERKATA DEMIKIAN. Mereka mahu rakyat susah, tapi mengapa menteri2 tak boleh berasa susah dengan pemotongan elaun2 mereka? SAya yakin, keseluruhan elaun seorang menteri mencapai ribuan ringgit. Jgn pandai cakap je, tapi perlakuan tak menunjukkan apa yang dikatakan.
Maafkan saya Tun sekiranya saya menulis dlm blog Tun untuk memberitahu apa yang terbuku di hati saya ini mengenai isu ini.. Saya tak nampak kerajaan membantu rakyat dlm isu minyak ini. Jgn dah terngadah, baru nak terhantuk.
Semoga Tun dan keluarga di panjangkan usia.
Assalamualaikum Tun yg disayangi,
Seperti biasa Tun berjaya menerangkan perkara2 yg rumit dalam bahasa biasa yg dapat difahami oleh semua golongan masyarat Malaysia. Terima kasih Tun.
Ramai org kebanyakan seperti saya, akan lebih terasa tekanannya akibat kesan kenaikan minyak yg begitu banyak(Bila minyak naik semua benda akan naik).Saya yg bukan pakar ekonomi pun boleh fikir kenapa la Pak Lah ni begitu BEBAL.
Apa yg saya boleh fikirkan pada masa akan datang akan lebih banyak berlaku Masalah -ve di Malaysia.
Kesan dr kenaikan minyak oleh Pak Lah (siBodoh lagi Sombong)
1. Masalah Sosial - akan meningkat, kesan dr kenaikan harga ibubapa akan kurang masa bersama anak2 kerana sibuk mencari wang lebih utk menampung keperluan kos yg semakin tinggi
2.Masalah Jenayah - Kesan akibat tekanan kos hidup akan mengalakkan peningkatan Jenayah, merompak, ragut etc
3.Masalah Inflasi - Kuasa membeli semakin kurang, nilai ringgit dah takde value
4.dan pelbagai2 masalah lagi sedih nak cerita.
Saya harapkan Tun masih lagi PM kami, saya akan beri sokong padu pada Tun.
“Semoga Tun sihat sejahtera dan dirahmati Allah - Amin”
p/s: Mak & Bapa saya kirim salam kat Tun.Mereka semua rindukan Tun.
p/s: MSG untuk Pak Lah boleh BLAH: PAK LAH UNDUR !!!! PAK LAH MEMALUKAN BANGSA & NEGARA !!! PAK LAH PEKAK MUKA TAK TAU MALU !!! DENGAR LA SUARA RAKYAT!!!!! PAK UNDUR!!!!
Barang dah mula naik..semalam saya ke kedai nak beli gula..tokey kedai dah maklumkan bahawa 3 hari lagi harga gula pun nak naik...
salam minyak,
Dulu kita hanya melihat, mendengar dan kini merasainya sendiri..Tragedi pentadbiran barangkali.
Seolah-olah macam menerima satu hukuman kerana 'pilihan' sendiri.
Penyelesaian kenaikan mendadak bahanapi seperti 'menyelesaikan hutang kad kredit menggunakan pinjaman Along'.
Positifnya..menyedarkan kita bahayanya tinggal dlm 'comfort zone'.
Peritnya kepada golongan golongan pertengahan kebawah yang bergantung harap kepada pekerjaan. Inilah golongan yang harus dijaga kerana seumpana nadi pengerak ekonomi.
Kesan sosial pastinya meningkat dan tak terkawal kerana desakan dan keperluan survival.
Salam Tun,
Dari pandangan saya yang cetek ekonomi makro..
Kenapa kerajaan tidak memberi subsidi minyak kepada rakyat melalui syarikat rakyat iaitu Petronas sahaja. Kawalan harga minyak seharusnya melalui Petronas... Biarlah syarikat luar sahaja yang menjual minyak dengan harga pasaran. Sekurang kurangnya kita tahu manafaat yang Petronas berikan kepada rakyat juga kerajaan tidak akan lagi menanggung subsidi yang besar... Subsidi cuma akan diberikan melalui petronas. Apakah syarikat minyak dari luar ini akan terus menjuala minyak dengan harga pasaran sekiranya Petronas dapat menjual dengan harga yang lebih murah.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Pada 28 March 2008, Tun telah menulis surat kepada media berkaitan dengan peranan Sultan dalam hal perlantikan Menteri Besar. Turut disentuh ialah perlantikan Menteri Besar Terengganu.
The Star Online telah pun menerbitkan berita perihal ini:
Saturday March 29, 2008
Mahathir: Sultan made right move
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sultan of Terengganu made the right move in choosing his own Mentri Besar and has “good reason” to do so, said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/29/nation/20792131&sec=nation
Surat Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad sepenuhnya, di sini:
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/28/nation/20080328122936&sec=nation
Apakah ada kemungkinan bahawa barangkali kaitan di antara Wang Ehsan Terengganu ini, dengan kenaikan harga petrol dan diesel yang diumumkan oleh Abdullah Ahmad Badawi beberapa hari lalu?
Konichiwa Tun DrM,
You have always been an aspiring soul and people of Malaysia need to feel lucky to have a guardian of such will. Whats happening today is obviously not people-centric.
The storm that the Malaysian Government was hoping to control, had merely barge but most likely its going to become very tough and killer to mid and small income group. Proverty will remain in dire strait and is probably true sinking like quicksand.
This doesn't utter well, with many people who had the chance to request change but remain silent. By the time they inch the toe, Malaysia would have gone into crisis mode and it will be much severe than the last spate during the 97 financial turmoil.
The recent numerous errors surfacing in Abdullah administrative, made it adamant that the current power need to shift.
Literally, if ask the current administrative to draw a public transport, I belief they would draw a wood cart without tyres, engines, parts and labour that contributes to no maintenance expense. But I beleive even a wood cart has other non-fuel expenses to calculate.
The government's way to counter the steep increase in fuel price with confusing rebates shows they are mathematically linear thinking people who choose not to understand the solution.
There's too much ignorant practise being demonstrated by the current administrative under Abdullah and yet saddened to say, we are losing it all under the name of modern patriotic.
I pray for the sun to outshine the prince of darkness.
Good health always DrM.
Ada hari Islam, ada hari tak Islam ... itulah Islam Hadari (ada-Hari). Sekejap cakap tu, sekejap cakap ni.
Tak transparent langsung.
Macam mana pelabur nak merancang pelaburan? Macam mana peniaga nak rancang business? Macam mana rakyat nak rancang perbelanjaan? Sure rating Malaysia drop dari senarai 25th best country to do business.
Dr. M is a big dreamer - dream big & able to see far future.
Mr. PL is a day dreamer - selalu orang tengok dia tidur dalam majlis. Orang dapat bini baru katakan ...
Rakyat memang menderita sekarang ni. Mr. PL pejamkan dua-dua mata layan mimpi. Kalau Tun masih PM, sure dua-dua mata terbuka besar untuk menyelesaikan masalah rakyat.
Mr. PL tunjuk pula teladan buruk: tak hormat guru (kepada Dr. M); kacang lupakan kulit (kepada Dr. M & rakyat yang mengundi BN); berdendam (kepada rakyat yang mengundi Pakatan Rakyat); dan sebagainya. Beginikah pemimpin "Ada-Hari"?
Nampak gaya nya "Rancangan September" Mr. Anwar perlu dipercepatkan ... tapi Anwar transparent ... kalau dia cakap September, memang September ... bukannya macam yang satu ini, cakap Ogos, tapi buat Jun. (My 1st choice still Dr. M but understand that he needs to give way to young bloods.)
Pasal kenaikan harga minyak ni Wak ada sedikit kemusykilan:-
Hari-hari Wak baca suratkhabar, bukan satu suratkhabar sahaja, kadang-kadang sampai tiga empat jenis suratkhabar...
Hari-hari Wak tengok berita; utama, buletin, awani, bernama dan macam-macam sumber berita di media televisyen...
Hari-hari Wak browsing website, blogs dan sebagainya...
Yang hairannya, balik-balik komen atau ulasan dari para pemimpin kecil/besar Parti UMNO secara bersungguh-sungguh ala-ala "do-or-die"...
Tidak kurang hebatnya kritikan "maha-karya" dari para pemimpin kecil/besar Parti Pembangkang (PR)...
LANGSUNG TIDAK ADA komen/ ulasan/ kritikan/ cadangan/ penjelasan/ roadshow dari Parti komponen BN i.e. MIC, MCA, Gerakan, PPP dan lain-lain. Kalau ada pun hanya "seciput-kata", kemudian kembali senyap-sunyi.
p/s: Apa sudah jadi?
Pak Lah, you messed up UMNO and BN, You messed up this country again and again... We Rakyat demand you to resign in 24 hours notice...
A'kum tun, saya sebagai rakyat malaysia begitu tertekan dgn pemerintahan skrang, apa rasionalnya mnyak di naik kan sebnyak 78sen sedangkan negara kita adalah antara negara pengeluar minyak... tidak kesian kah paklah kepada rakyat yang miskin??? alasan yang paklah berikan bahawa minyak naik tapi barang tak naik adalah bodoh... skrang mari kita lihat bnyak barang keperluan asas yang naik hasil dari kenaikan harga petrol dan diesel antaranya beras, gula, minyak makan dan lain2 lagi... saya nak ceritakan kisah 1 keluarga miskin di pahang,keluarga nie terpaksa memberi ank2nya kepada orang lain kerana tidak mampu memberi makan kepada anak2nya kerana brg2 asas naik mendadak, terutamanya beras.. kalau dah kat kmpung dh terasa bahang kenaikan harga minyak, apatah lagi yang duk di bndar2 besar seperti KL?? dahla minyak naik, barang keperluan naik, tol naik, cukai jalan x turun mcmner diaorang nak hidup di bandar besar??? adakah ini balas dendam paklah kepada rakyat akibat kekalahan PRU12 baru nie??? saya tau tun merupakan pakar ekonomi yang paling bijak kerana tun membaca 100 buku ekonomi sehari dalam mencari jln penyelesaian semasa kegawatan ekonomi dulu, tetapi paklah xde sikap seperti tun yang memikirkan tentang nasib rakyat.. paklah begitu lemah dan terlalu mengikut telunjuk kroni2 dan menantunya yang tamak... jika tun masih memerintah saya pasti perkara ini xkan berlaku, begitu jugak isu pulau batu putih, terang2 pulau itu milik malaysia, tetapi kelemahan dari paklah pulau itu terlepas ke singapura, sejarah menunjukkan semasa singapura berpisah dari malaysia, kita hanya menyerahkan pulau singapura sahaja dan tidak pada pulau2 disekitarnya.. ini jelas termaktub di dlm surat perjanjian perpisahan singapura dari malaysia, tetapi kenapa dokumen itu tidak di bawa ke mahkamah ICJ??? kalau la tun yang memerintah, saya pasti pulau batu putih pasti milik malaysia... tun tolongla nasihat anak didik tun supaya hentikan perbuatan bodoh yang menyusahkan rakyat... saya hanya meluahkan apa yang terbuku di hati, benci dengan pemerintah skrang yang tak henti2 menindas rakyat yang susah... dari pemerhatian saya paklah hendak menjadikan rakyat malaysia seperti rakyat indonesia, iaitu yang miskin makin miskin dan kaya makin kaya... tun tolong tun, jgn biarkan perkara ini terjadi....!!!
Salam
Tun, tolonglah cari penyelesaian ampuh untuk menurunkan Paklah.. Cukuplah paklah merosakkan negara.. menderitakan rakyat.. Inikah pemimpin???
Kami sokong Tun Mahathir... pak lah lemah..
Salam Tun,
Kepada pihak kerajaan,betulkan perkara-perkara ini dulu...Selepas itu baru bercakap tentang soal untuk memartabatkan bangsa Melayu...INILAH REALITINYA!!!
1-Orang Melayu masih membeli nombor ekor sedangkan benda itu terang-terangan adalah haram.
2-Farmasi ubat-ubatan menjual pil-pil mengkhayalkan kepada pelajar-pelajar sekolah.
3-Terdapat klinik yang menjual MC palsu kepada pekerja-pekerja.
4-Haramkan perjualan arak secara terbuka seperti di 7-Eleven.
Banyak lagi sebenarnya,bukalah mata...Mungkin ada orang akan menganggap saya hanya menimbulkan isu remeh temeh tapi inilah sebenarnya yang merosakkan bangsa Melayu kita.Senario ini dapat dilihat di mana-mana sahaja...
Terpulang kepad pemerintah...Tepuk dada,tanya selera...
A'kum Tun,
Tindakan tidak bijak dari Abdullah Hadari yang memberi kesan yang mendalam kepada kepimpinan beliau . AAB bukan bijak,bukan pandai dan jauh sekali seorang pemikir apalagi tentang ekonomi.Kecundanglah beliau bersama kebencian rakyat yang semakin menebal. Tak sabar menanti kehadiran Tun kembali ke UMNO.Kenduri kesyukuran akan dibuat andai perletakan jawatan AAB berlaku.Atau AAB perlu digulingkan???Bangunlah pemimpin dan rakyat Malaysia.
Every time they increased the price, they would say that our price is still cheaper than some of our neighbors but have they looked into the standard of living as a whole?
Just take a look at Singapore, the petrol price is high but they have a highly developed public transportation system where people do have alternatives. What do we have here?
It is time to change!
Asalam...Tun
Letih,sebak,kecewa dengan kepimpinan pak lah sekarang...
cakap putar belit merapu..
rakyat M'sia keseluruhannya
salahkan UMNO! punca harga minyak
mendadak naik tampa memikirkan
golongan berpendapatan rendah
Alamat duit gaji habis kt petrol
ajelah gamaknya...
Dear Tun,
Im linda...i want to know bout this email...Is it true??
.............(Penting !!fakta Ten tang Minyak Yang Semua Kena Tahu
<>Baru baru ini da lam akhbar tempatan, kerajaan telah keluarkan satu statistik kononnya harga minyak di malaysia adalah yang paling rendah di rantau ini.Kemudian mereka membandingkan harga minyak malaysia dengan hargi minyak di Thailand, Singapore, Filipina dan vietnam.Persoalan sekarang apakah asas perbandingan tersebut sedangkan negara negara tersebut bukan pengeluar minyak?Hujah seperti inilah yang di gunakan oleh barisan nasional untuk memperbodohkan orang kampung.
Ok, disini fakta yang semua orang kena tahu.Pertama sekali sila lihat perbandingan harga minyak malaysia dan negara negara pengeluar minyak yang lain:-
Negara Harga minyak seliter (da lam RM)
Malaysia RM2.70
Iran RM0.34
Venezuela RM0.16
Turkemenistan RM0.39
Arab Saudi RM0.19
Mesir RM0.81
Brunei RM 1.10 (S0.50)
Dari data di atas, membuktikan propaganda kerajaan adalah palsu dan tidak benar.Kesemua negara pengeluar minyak di atas, harga minyak adalah di bawah RM1.10 seliter.Ada sesetengah alasan mengatakan keluaran minyak kita tak sebanyak arab saudi yang mengeluarkan sejuta tong sehari.Menurut kerajaan, pengeluaran minyak kita adalah da lam lingkungan 700 ribu tong sehari.Oleh itu kalau berdasarkan ratio pengeluaran minyak antara arab saudi dan malaysia 1 juta : 700 ribu, sepatutnya harga minyak malaysia da lam lingkungan RM0.30 sen sahaja.Kenapa arab saudi boleh kekalkan harga minyak pada 0.19 sen seliter tapi malaysia pada 2.70 sen?Bukan kah jauh bezanya?Bagaimana pula dengan venezuella yang jumlah penduduk hampir sama dengan malaysia boleh kekalkan harga minyak pada 0.16 sen seliter sahaja?Ini menunjukkan ada sesuatu yang tak kena da lam menguruskan hasil minyak da lam negara.
Ketika dato seri anwar ibrahim menjawat jawatan menteri kewangan malaysia pada tahun 1991-1998, harga minyak di kekalkan pada 1.10 sen seliter.Bagaimana beliau boleh mengekalkan harga minyak se lam a lapan tahun sedangkan harga minyak dunia naik mendadak ketika perang teluk di iraq?Pada masa yang sama juga pembangunan dan projek projek banyak juga di jalankan da lam negara tanpa perlu naikkan harga minyak.Tapi pemimpin kerajaan beri alasan untuk naikan harga minyak supaya duit tersebut dapat tampung projek pembangunan.Masalah sekarang projek pembangunan untuk faedah siapa?Rakyat atau kroni?Berepa kerat orang yang dapat faedah dari koridor pembangunan di sana sini?
Subsidi minyak yang di tang gung kerajaan mencapai 35 billion setahun.Barisan Nasional bersungguh sungguh untuk mengurang kan subsidi minyak ini kerana kalau harga minyak tidak di naikkan dengan segera ianya akan mengganggu peruntukan kerajaan bagi membangunkan koridor koridor di seluruh negara yang bernilai ratusan billion.
Yang orang asyik berhujah ialah harga minyak perlu di naikkan kerana harga minyak dunia telah naik.Ada yang mengatakan ia masalah global.So yang kita kita fikir ialah kenapa nak risau ten tang harga minyak dunia yang me lam bung naik kerana sepatutnya sebagai negara pengeluar minyak, malaysia seharusnya gembira kerana bila harga minyak dunia naik, pendapatan petronas jadi berlipat ganda.So apa masalahnya?Walaupun malaysia ada mengimport minyak dari luar untuk kegunaan tempatan, tapi bila dah net off dari pendapatan export, masih untung besar lagi.
Adakah negara akan bankrupt kalau turunkan harga minyak??
Sudah tentu tidak.Sila lihat statistik di bawah:-
Allocation untuk mega projek:-
Koridor utara : RM17.5 billion
Koridor timur : RM112 billion
Wilayah iskandar :RM47 billion
Koridor sabah :105 billion
Koridor Serawak :107 billion
Bila kerajaan membuat pelan untuk pembangunan projek di atas, sudah tentulah kerajaan mempunyai wang yang banyak.Jadi,jika kerajaan sanggup membelanjakan ratusan billion untuk projek pembangunan seperti di atas yang hanya boleh di manafaatkan oleh segelintir rakyat sahaja, kenapa nak tampung subsidi 35 billion setahun pun tak mampu?Mana yang lebih penting?Mana yang perlu di utamakan?Kebajikan rakyat atau projek mega?
Bila menteri menteri beri komen ten tang ekonomi, semuanya berkata yang bagus bagus, tapi bila bercakap soal subsidi minyak, dah cakap lain pulak.So kalau Dato najib kata turunkan harga minyak akan buat negara bankrup,bagaimana projek ratusan billion di atas? Tak bankrup kah negara dengan projek ratusan billion tersebut?Perlu di ingat bahawa di samping pendapatan hasil petroleum, negara juga mempunyai hasil dari sumber lain seperti getah, sawit, taxation, balak dan lain lain.Pendapatan tahunan negara kalau di ambil kira harga minyak yang me lam bung naik bakal mencecah 200 billion setahun.Dari jumlah tersebut susah sangat ke nak sumbangkan 50 billion untuk beri subsidi pada rakyat?
Kepada pengundi pengundi semua tepuk dada tanya selera.
Ni korang compare ngan Turkmenistan .
Oil - production: 196,700 bbl/day (2005 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $9,200 (2007 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...s/tx.html#Econ
Ni Malaysia punya
Oil - production: 751,800 bbl/day (2005 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $14,400 (2007 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...s/my.html#Econ)....................
minyak sudah tidak dapat dielakkan kenaikannya,,, TETAPI cara paklah naikkan harga minyak macam nak balas dendam pada rakyat!!!!!!!petang umum tgh malam naik ..apa ni pak lah oi!!
minyak sudah tidak dapat dielakkan kenaikannya,,, TETAPI cara paklah naikkan harga minyak macam nak balas dendam pada rakyat!!!!!!!petang umum tgh malam naik ..apa ni pak lah oi!!
Immediate Action Plan for Survival:
LETS PUSH FOR AN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM - STARTING WITH BUSSES.
Pahlawan Volunteer Foong Wai Fong was on RTM TV2 last night (June 8) calling for all Malaysians to tell their MPs to pressure the government to do this WITHIN THREE MONTHS - beginning with busses which can be done.
To understand this campaign better, read the following articles at Pahlawan Volunteers discussion board:
1. The Era of Cheap Oil is Over: Where do we go from here?
2. Time to walk the talk and get public transportation moving.
at http://www.facebook.com/board.php?uid=33559455073
Unlike oil prices, we have very little influence over; we are at the vagaries of the international market. Working our domestic system is within our control, the government must deliver on this. PEOPLE ARE THE BOSS. The citizens will ask of the ruling party whom the people gave their votes to deliver on this basic expectation.
As such we have created a cyber campaign (in the form of an invite) at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16145208825
We need your assistance to spread the word, tell your friends to repeat this call; and to join Pahlawan Volunteers at Facebook http://groups.to.pahlawan for further updates.
Lets walk the talk. Together, we can make a difference.
Admins, much appreciated if you could message all members in this group and announce on your frontpage too.
We look forward your immediate support and participation at
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16145208825
With love from Pahlawan Volunteers
- From Conviction to Action
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33559455073
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Foong Wai Fong is co-founder of Pahlawan Volunteers ( www.pahlawan.com.my ), an advocacy and volunteer group who played an important role in the Nipah Virus Crisis and the Visit Malaysia Cyber Campaign ( www.vmcc.com.my ). She is also the Director of Megatrends Asia, and best selling author of Megatrends Asia (with John Naisbitt), The New Asian Way, We Have To Talk, Mr. Prime Minister, and Culture is Good Business.
dearest tun,
we,malaysian..especially the malays really need you right now.We're hoping for some miracles to save our economy,and i'd personally be grateful if you could do some come-back.We will always support you in any circumstances.
HIDUP UMNO!
HIDUP MAHATHIR!
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Dengan harapan apa yang Tun kata ini adalah kebaikan Rakyat Malaysia.
Saya akur dengan masalah tidak dapat dielakkan.
1. Bagaimana untuk RAKYAT yang berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana mengatasi masalah ini?
2. Adakah Kerajaan sekarang lakukan yang terbaik untuk kepentingan RAKYAT ?
3. Adakah Kerajaan sekarang cuba menunjuk kuasa Veto dengan tanpa amaran terus menaikkan harga minyak, takrif api dan sebagainya ?
4. Apa guna Kerajaan kepada Rakayat jika diberikan 4 tahun sekali bersuara pada pemilihan raya ? tapi akhirnya, tetap tiada kebaikan untuk RAKYAT.
kami sebagai RAKYAT memerlukan Kerajaan yang menjaga hak / kebajikan RAKYATnya.
P/S : Apa tugas PM sekarang ini ? menjaga hak/kebajikan RAKYAT atau tidak.
Pak lah lemah...xmampu memberi solution yg baik kepada rakyat...xmcm zaman tun dlu...BN ngn UMNO dulu membela rakyat...BN ngn UMNO skarang membela kroni2 & family jer...
Terima Kasih Tun!
Sememangnya Rakyat Jelita terasa sangat akan kenaikkan harga minyak ini. Saya juga turut menagis bila kenaikan minyak diumumkan dengan keadaan yang tergesa-gesa.
Apa lagi memikirkan orang kampung saya yang jauh nun di hutan belantara Sabah yang sememangnya taraf hidupnya jauh lebih rendah daripada yang dilaporkan oleh kerajaan dalam KDNK atau garis % kemiskinan tegar. Kenapa Tidak! Semua pegawai apatah lagi PM tak pernah pun turun melihat keadaan sebenar penduduk kampung! Cubalah datang ke pelusuk sabah dan saya percaya juga di sarawak atau kelantan dan pahang, tak perlu sebulan, cukuplah seminggu dengan keadaan orang yang kampung yang miskin. Saya percaya dan yakin bahawa para pegawai atau PM tak cukup seminggu da mengeluh dengan keperitan, kepayahan dan penderitaan yang dialami.
Oleh itu, dengan kenaikan harga minyak ini lebih membebankan penduduk kerana saya difahamkan ada sudah beberapa tempat di kampung di sabah yang sudah menaikkan tambang kenderaan lebih 50%.
Saya juga berfikir, apakah ini yang dikatakan balasan dari kerajaan kepada rakyat yang tidak memberi sokongan majoriti? Sebab sewaktu berkempen dulu, pihak kerajaan bermati-matian mempertahankan hujah bahawa harga tidak akan naik jika kerajaan diberi peluang memerintah sekali lagi!
Tapi dengan keputusan yang drastik ini mendedahkan kepada masyarakat bahawa KERAJAAN YANG ADA SEKARANG INI SEBENARNYA SUDAH TIDAK KERUAN, GOPOH DAN TIDAK TAHU MENTADBIR!
Saya cukup menyokong benar peranan pihak-pihak tertentu agar elaun dan gaji menteri dipotong agar sama-sama berganding bahu untuk berusaha berjimat! bukan cakap kosong saja! tapi menteri yang bertanggungjawab dengan beraninya hari ini menafikan bahawa tidak wajar elaun dan gaji mereka di potong sebab mereka tidak mahu menderita bersama dengan rakyat.
Sebab pemimpin atau kerajaan tidak susah pun!...
Great day Tun,
I always wonder what the government will do about the subsidies, give is wrong, don't give also wrong.
http://www.sgpropbiz.com/dollar-news/when-help-become-burden.html
now i wondering what the gov can do in respond to the petrol crisis coming in 3 - 5 years, 15 years and 40 years. Some economist have foreseen strong countries, might "War" around middle east in 5 years time.
Personally I feel most Malaysian are not ready nor aware of what is coming ahead.
If put aside all our bad felling to the current gov, do you have any suggestion on how can we change our economy structure so to prepare for the worst to come?
tun.
adakah ini rancangan pihak bn untuk menaikkan kemarahan rakyat.
biarkan rusuhan berlaku. ramai yang kena tangkap. kononnya untuk naikkan balik parti bn?
Dear Tun,
What i am about to type here, i am very sure is supported by many.
The people of Malaysia need you back in office Tun.
Many will not dare to publicly admit it, but i sincerely believe once you make a move to come back, you will see the enormous support.
Granted, Malaysians had their grouses while you were in rule, however, we all know you took care of the "rakyat" very well.
My wife and I understand you may not want to come back, maybe for health reasons, however, the people will be at ease even if you are the advisor to our beloved country.
Please Tun, Malaysia needs you.
A letter to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Dear Tun,
I still remember the first time my mother told me about a person by the name of Dr.Mahathir Mohamad since my geneology of family originated from the Kilang Ais Community in Alor Setar.Somehow Tun, i know this country was blessed by Allah when you were delivered to us thus becoming our leader.
But i know there will come a time that you will step down and that has placed a worries in me years before you make a decision of stepping down from the government’s and somehow i know that your successor would not be able to be as good as you but still i hope, wish and pray that at least your successor would maintained what you have given to us. Somehow it didn't happen.
As such, most Malaysian now is sufferings from the decision making by the Pak Lah government especially Malay people but at the same time i am thankful to god since you still around to stood up for the Malaysian citizen. Tun, you have spend most of your life to take this country and its people to another level but unfortunately thing start to go the other way around and it doesn’t take a scientist to know that we have a bad government at hand.
If our film industries had P.Ramlee as an impeccable icon then surely Tun you are our P.Ramlee and maestro in this lifetime for developing this nation and its citizens. However Tun, it is a continuous heartbreak knowing that most Malaysian and Malays struggling in their own countries due to an incompetent government ruling this countries at the moment.
Again, I pray that god will gives you strength and wisdom and may you be our last savior in this time.
Assalamualaikum Tun and May god blessed you and your family
Sincerely
Amanshah b.Abbas
i was wondered..why you chose him to be ur TPM at the 1st place?..(*_*)
i love UMNO only when u was the PM..not now...*sigh*
~if only we could turn back time~
Tun,
I have always respected your 'leadership by example' mantra.
The fact that you took the trouble to explain the reasoning behind such projects and the calculations presented to substantiate your views on the waste by the current administration, is crystal clear!
CekikDarah.com - Fuel Price up by 41%!!!
Pak Lah is suck, he need go back to school and learn back economy, but now he just learn econo-money. Why he didn't find the solulations like this. I remember before that you suggested to used riyal on the international trade market. But why they did not listen. Just to listen to old man like najib and his son in law. On the matters, they did not bring the oil matters to discuss at parliemen before the price were increase at Malaysia? Its just can belive what was happended. Hope tun will continue write your opinion of others issues for our good contries.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Saya amat bersetuju terhadap apa yg dikatakan oleh Tun tentang isu kenaikan harga minyak. Jika dilihatkan dengan teliti, ekonomi negara kita sekarang sebenarnya sudah cukup stabil. Jika harga minyak dinaikkan secara mendadak, bagaimana dengan hidup segelintir rakyat yang miskin dan tidak berkemampuan? Mereka akan berasa lebih sengsara. Mereka telah berusaha sedaya upaya untuk mengubah taraf hidup mereka tetapi kenaikan harga minyak menambahkan lagi beban mereka. Selain itu, kita tidak terlepas daripada inflasi jika perkara sebegini diteruskan. Kami harap Tun mungkin mempunyai cadangan untuk menangani isu ini. Hidup Tun!!!
Help us please.
Salam Tun,
Mohon Kepada Tun mem bukakan Mata Kerajan selaku org yg paling berpengaruh di Malaysia untuk mengkaji semula kepada kenderaan luar yg menggunakan subsidi kerajaan. Patut Charged mereka pada harga negara mereka. Hanya 2 hari mereka tidak boleh mengisi minyak ni negara kita. Pelbagai pihak kertawakan kerajaan kerana 2 hari sahaja bertahan. Ini memalukan Malaysia di mata dunia. Mohon kaji semula harga minyak ke rm2.20-rm2.30.
Terima Kasih Tun kerana membaca.
as usual pak lah will keep on lying just like he did all this while.Today cakap lain tapi petang cakap lain.Ini semua adalah kriteria atau contoh2 seorang pemimpin yang tidak layak langsung untuk menjadi pemimpin tetapi still tak malu untuk pegang kuasa sebab kekayaan malaysia masih banyak untuk diboloti oleh ahli keluarga dia.He said that malaysia tak ada duit but yet can still pay ex gratia to judges yang derhaka,he said kita tak ada duit tapi menteri2 dia masih ber'vacation' di europe, dia kata kita takde duit dan suruh rakyat berkimat cermat tetapi tak pernah terlintas untuk potong gaji menteri untuk tolong rakyat,dia kata kita takde duit tapi sebenarnya rakyat yang dah tak berduit disebabkan oleh pak lah yang gila duit...kerajaan malaysia sekrang adalah sebuah kerajaan yang tidak tahu malu dan tidak ada kedaulatan di mata dunia..disebabkan seorang pemimpin yang teramat lemah..habis satu negara jadi mangsa terutamanya rakyat-rakyat dari pihak swasta yang sentiasa tak berduit..pergi mampos dengan pemimpin sebegini!Lebih rela diperintah oleh monyet dari pemimpin sebegini, sekurang-kurangnya kita dah tahu monyet macam mana!
Its so good to read your comments on the oil price hike and sad to think of how we the middle class people would have to struggle to make ends meet as I am sure this is just the beginning to everything else too!
the missus has been bugging me to go somewhere very expensive. . . without much hesitation, I said why not n let' dress for the occassion;
We drove to Bangsar where else!!! to the PETROL STATION!
Go for alternative n save 'coz looking the way things are; we are heading for multiple recession with no sign of the world price of oil going to be stable; in fact it will hit above USD150 anytime now...then what!!!!
Kepada TUNＤＲ．ＭＡＨＡＴＩＲ dan rakan rakan sekalian
Kini negara negara seperti JEPUN, SWEEDISH DAN FINLAND TELAH BERJAYＡ
ＭＥＮＣＩＰＴＡ Loji Letrik DAN kenderaan yang dikendalikan oleh JATROPHA(minyak pokok jarak).Macamana dengan negara kita, adakah kita terlalu lambat dalam aspek ini.
Bersama dengan perutisan saya juga setakan maklumat yang berkenaan dengan kegunaan JATROPHA
久米島ＢＤＦ生産 株式会社
[営業内容】
１、ヤトルファの栽培、集荷、搾油製造、加工販売、輸入、輸出
２、バイオディーゼル燃料、バイオエタノールの製造、販売、輸入、輸出
３、ディーゼル発電機の販売、賃貸
４、特殊塗料の販売
５、植物の組織培養技術の研究開発及び生産物の販売
６、前各号に付帯する一切の事業
油脂作物ヤトルフャ(Ｊatoropha curcas L)は作付け、種子を収穫し搾油→BDF→発電を行い電力、代替ディーゼル燃料を生産するプロジェクトをスタートしました。この生産により出来る廃棄副産物からも固形燃料、バイオエタノール等の生産を行いゼロ・エミションを目指します。
http://www.citydo.com/prf/okinawa/guide/sg/565001279.html
February 2009.
Finland: Wärtsilä delivers world’s first CHP plant using crude jatropha oil to produce electricity and heat
24 April 2008
Wärtsilä has secured an order for an engine-driven combined heat and power (CHP) plant that will run on the liquid biofuel, which is extracted from the seeds of the jatropha plant. This CHP plant will be the first power plant in the world ever to produce both electricity and heat using crude jatropha oil as fuel. The contract is valued at approximately seven million euros.
The plant is to be located in an agricultural area in Merksplas, Belgium. The plant will be owned by Greenpower NV, a joint venture between Thenergo (50%), the Belgian developer of sustainable energy projects, four local agricultural companies (40%), and a private investor (10%). Commercial operation of the plant is scheduled to begin in
“The significance of this order is that it will be the first in the world whereby our engines are to run on vegetable oil from the jatropha plant and to produce both electricity and heat. Jatropha oil is a liquid biofuel that has great potential since jatropha can also be harvested outside the world’s rainforest areas, even near deserts. It is a step towards using CO2-neutral fuels that do not compete with other valuable food crops.” says Ronald Westerdijk, Business Development Manager, Wärtsilä Benelux countries.
Heat from the plant will be used primarily for farming processes, such as in nearby greenhouses. It will also be used in a drying process, which is part of a livestock farming manure digester plant that processes biogas and dry fertilizer material. Electricity will be sold to the grid.
Under this turnkey contract, Wärtsilä will deliver a Wärtsilä 32 engine with an electrical output of 9 MW, sufficient to serve approximately 20,000 households. The scope of supply also includes exhaust gas cleaning equipment and heat recovery systems. The plant will have a gross electrical efficiency of 44.2% and an overall efficiency of more than 85%. Also, Greenpower and Wärtsilä have signed a letter of intent for a 10-year operations & maintenance (O&M) agreement.
Wärtsilä is seen as a reliable and experienced partner with a strong portfolio of references in supplying CHP plants operating on liquid biofuel, and the supply of long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) services.
Jatropha - A promising fuel
Jatropha oil is extracted from the seeds of the jatropha plant. The seeds are a non-edible, high-energy fruit grown on semi-arid or wasteland. As it is not a food or forage crop, it plays an important role in deterring cattle, and thus protects other valuable food or cash crops. Jatropha seeds can be pressed into vegetable oil that can be used to run diesel engines. The pressed residue of the seeds is a good fertilizer and can also be used for electricity and heat production.
For the past five years Thenergo has been researching the sustainable potential of jatropha. The CHP plant project will help Thenergo’s multifuel approach to the production of sustainable energy. Its strategy is to diversify its feedstock base, namely biogas, natural gas, bio-oil, woody biomass and secondary fuels.
Thenergo in brief
Based in Antwerp, Belgium, Thenergo is a fast growing, fully integrated and independent developer and operator of sustainable energy projects using biogas, natural gas, bio-oil, woody biomass and secondary fuels. Thenergo creates value for its partners and shareholders as a one-stop provider of sustainable energy solutions, transforming clean and renewable fuels into electricity and heat. Since 14 June 2007, Thenergo has been listed on Alternext, Paris.
Wärtsilä in brief
Wärtsilä enhances the business of its customers by providing them with complete lifecycle power solutions. When creating better and environmentally compatible technologies, Wärtsilä focuses on the marine and energy markets with products and solutions as well as services. Through innovative products and services, Wärtsilä sets out to be the most valued business partner of all its customers. This is achieved by the dedication of 17,000 professionals manning 150 Wärtsilä locations in 70 countries around the world. Wärtsilä is listed on The Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, Finland.
Organization name: Wärtsilä Power Plants, Benelux countries
Contact Person: Ronald Westerdijk Business Development Manager
E-mail: ronald.westerdijk@wartsila.com
Phone: +31653285190
Country: Finland
Web: http://www.wartsila.com
yang ikhlas
HOHO
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Saya terbaca komen/keluhan Caestro di sini dan berhasrat membantu beliau.
Kepada saudara Caestro sila layarai
http://waadat.blogspot.com/
Barangkali pengalaman saya yang hampir sama dengan saudara dapat membantu.
Terima kasih.
Tun,
I really don't agree if you compare our petrol price with countries like United State, United Kingdom, Singapore, Thailand and all those countries with NO Gas production.
Try compare with gas price on oil producing countries. I've listed some of the petrol price per litre as at 30th May 2008 as belows which currency conversion based on USD1 : RM3.23
1) United Arab Emirates = RM1.19
2) Egypt = RM1.03
3) Bahrain = RM0.87
4) Qatar = RM0.68
5) Kuwait = RM0.67
6) Saudi Arabia = 0.38
7) Iran = RM0.35
8) Nigeria = RM0.32
9) Turkmenistan = RM0.25
10)Venezuela = RM0.16
11)Brunei = RM1.12
12)MALAYSIA = RM2.70
What do you think Tun..? Is Malaysia one of the highest petrol price among all the oil producing countries..?
Why the government wanna put all the burden to the people but Petronas gaining a huge profit with a non transparent account.
I'm a BN supporter in the last GE but I believe, if a fresh election been call now, definitely PKR will take over and be the new government and I might vote for them as well as other people who dissapointed with the present BN government.
As reiterated by DSAI that petro price will cut down if PKR lead the government..? Why he can said(do)it but not the BN government..?
I waiting to listen to your reply and I also believe the whole Malaysian waiting as well.
Thank you.
Kepada Semua ,
Biarlah Pak Lah and the Geng menjadi Raja dalam menentukan harga minyak , Raja dalam politik sendiri , Raja dalam Perniagaan sendiri , Raja dalam Konsep Hadharinya , Raja dalam Istana nya , tetapi harap-harap dia bukanlah Raja Lawak .
Saya bukanlah pakar ekonomi , bukanlah orang kaya , orang politik yang hebat berkata-kata ,saya hanyalah manusia biasa yang menanggung susah dan bertambah susah dengan kenaikan harga minyak yang melampau . Mereka ,orang-orang politik , orang-orang kaya , takkan terasa , tetapi bagi golongan peniaga kecil-kecilan terutamanya bumiputera ,yang makan komisen aja ,amatlah terasa .
Kalau naik se ton 0.78 sen oklah juga ini seliter ..Pak Lah ,janganlah engkau selalu membuat lawak di siang hari akibatnya Kerbau Jantan pun akan pandai ketawa nanti .
Khairy , janganlah engkau suka mengatur sana dan di sini , alamatnya rosak binasa ,sesama bangsa sendiri .
Kita ada gas asli sendiri , tetapi hari-hari dieksport ke sana sini . Apa kata, kita gunakan sumber asli LNG untuk kilang-kilang ,stesen janakuasa , dan juga untuk kenderaan NGV . Kenapakah kerajaan tak terpikir untuk mengoptimumkan penggunaan NGV untuk kenderaan komersil dan juga persendiriaan . Kasilah subsidi atau kemudahan pinjaman untuk mengubahsuai tangki NGV di kenderaan . Adakah kerajaan telus dalam soal membantu rakyat ? Macaman kalau 10 tahun lagi harga minyak akan terus naik disebabkan loeh spekulasi ,bukannya permintaan dan penawaran sehingga mencecah 200% nanti . Kerajaan sudah bersedia kah?
Jangan asyik kasi Petronas buat untung aja ...... rakyat pun nak untung juga . Jangan asyik kamu ( keluarga politik ) saja yang untung, kami nak cikit aja kesenangan . Kami tak makan angin di luar negara ,kami tak nak merasa Porche mewah ,kami nak hidup senang cikit untuk anak-anak .
Kenapa kerajaan tak serius untuk usahakan teknologi hibrid ? Kenapa negara maju lain sibuk mengeluarkan kereta teknologi hibrid di pasaran tetapi kita sibuk mengeluarkan kenyataan harga minyak naik .Kenapa tak masukkan aja kereta-kereta berteknologi hibrid di pasaran Malaysia secara besar-besaran tanpa cukai ,untuk tolong rakyat jimatkan 1/3 penggunaan minyak ?Kenapa ?
Apa pun , kita hanya boleh terima aja , sebab Kerajaan tahu ,selepas Pak Lah bawa isu-isu lain untuk melupakan isu kenaikan minyak ,rakyat akan berdiam diri ,dan Pak Lah serta anak menantu boleh tersenyum puas .
Malaysia Boleh, Malaysia Gemilang , Malaysia Terbilang , tak Terbilang dengan kenaikan harga minyak .
tun,
ramalan saya, pada pilihanraya akan datang, kita akan betul2 mengalami 'tsunami' politik jika cara pemerintahan pak lah masih sebegini.
rasanya tidak membebankan jika harga minyak dinaikkan sedikit demi sedikit menjelang ogos. dengan cara itu rakyat tidak akan terasa dan sedar akan kenaikannya.
rakyat akan membandingkan zaman pak lah dan zaman tun. jika di zaman tun, rakyat tidak menderita sebegini. tetapi kini?
sekarang sibuk kerajaan mempamerkan 'figure' tentang fakta minyak bagi memujuk rakyat. tetapi ketika pilihanraya, rakyat tidak peduli akan 'figure'. jika rakyat menderita, rakyat tidak akan memangkah pada yang menyebabkan mereka menderita.
tun, please do something before it to late.
Saya tertarik apabila membaca membaca kisah al-Imam al-Nawawi (631-676H) yang diminta oleh Raja pada zamannya al-Malik al-Zahir untuk memberikan fatwa bagi mengharuskan Raja mengambil harta rakyat untuk digunakan memerangi musuh yang mengancam negara iaitu tentera Tatar. Tujuan itu pada zahirnya baik kerana mempertahankan negara dari ancaman musuh. Harta itu pun hendak digunakan untuk keperluan jihad.
Namun ramai ulama yang telah dibunuh ketika itu kerana enggan mengeluarkan fatwa berkenaan. Al-Nawawi juga enggan menulis surat sokongan terhadap tindakan Raja Zahir itu sekalipun beliau tahu pengambilan harta itu untuk kepentingan negara juga.
Apabila Raja bertanya kepada beliau mengapa beliau enggan menyokong? Beliau menjawab:
Setahu saya engkau dahulunya seorang hamba, tidak mempunyai harta. Kemudian Allah memberikan kurniaan kepadamu lalu diangkat engkau menjadi seorang raja. Aku dengar engkau memiliki seribu hamba lelaki yang setiap mereka memiliki talipinggang daripada emas. Engkau juga ada memiliki dua ratus hamba perempuan, dan setiap mereka memiliki sebekas perhiasan. Jika engkau belanjakan itu semua, sehingga hamba-hamba lelakimu hanya memakai tali pinggang kain, dan hamba-hamha perempuanmu hanya memakai baju tanpa perhiasan, juga baitul mal sudah tiada simpanan wang, harta dan tanah lagi, maka aku akan fatwakan untukmu keharusan mengambil harta rakyat itu. Sesungguhnya yang menolong jihad dan selainnya ialah penyerahan diri kepada Allah dan mengikut jalan nabiNya s.a.w. (lihat: ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Daqar, al-Imam al-Nawawi, 144-145, Damsyik: Dar al-Qalam).
Saya suka dengan jawapan al-Imam al-Nawawi ini. Saya tahu, selepas ini banyak forum-forum perdana, ceramah-ceramah di radio dan televesyen akan memperkatakan tentang kewajipan berjimat cermat. Maka ustaz, ustazah dan penceramah pun –atas pemintaan penaja yang membayar harga ceramah- akan bersungguh-sungguh menyuruh orang-orang bawahan untuk berjimat cermat.
Dalil-dalil pun akan dibaca. Mungkin akan ada ustazah yang mencari cerita-cerita ajaib yang baru untuk dikaitkan dengan bab jimat cermat dan jangan membazir. Mungkin akan ada penceramah yang cuba menangis-menangis –seperti seorang pelakon berjaya yang menerima anugerah- bercerita kepada makcik-makcik yang kusyuk menonton tentang azab seorang yang membazir ‘nasi lemaknya’.
Datanglah orang-orang kampung mendengar forum perdana dengan basikal atau motosikal sebagai menyahut seruan agar tidak membazir petrol. Adapun penceramah, datuk-datuk pengajur, YB-YB hanya menggunakan kenderaan mewah yang berkapasiti atas daripada 2000cc. Tujuannya untuk mengelakkan pembaziran wang kerajaan yang terpaksa dibayar kepada empunya kenderaan 2000cc ke bawah, lebih tinggi daripada 2000 ke atas.
Maka insaflah mak cik dan pak cik yang barangkali teringatkan tulang ikan yang pernah dibuangnya padahal masih ada sedikit sisa isinya yang melekat. Itulah membazir namanya. Maka, atas keinsafan dan taubat itu, mungkin ada yang akan mula mengurangkan makan nasi lemak daripada sebungkus seorang kepada sebungkus yang dikongsi bersama. Air kopinya yang memang sudah ‘ceroi’ akan ditukar kepada yang warna hitamnya antara kelihatan dan tidak. Maka selamat negara kita ini, disebabkan pakcik dan makcik, pak long dan mak long, pak lang dan mak lang di kampung sudah mengubah gaya hidup mereka.
Jika saya hadir ke forum yang seperti itu, saya ingin bertanya soalan, tapi soalan yang belum ‘dijakimkan’, “apakah agama ini dihantar oleh Allah untuk menghukum manusia bawahan dan menghalalkan yang lain tidur dalam kekenyangan dan kemewahan?”.
Sebelum harga minyak naik, telah sekian mereka yang berada di teratak usang itu menjimat makan dan pakai. Saban hari mereka mengira belanja untuk memboleh mereka terus hidup di kala negara dunia belum menghadapi krisis harga minyak.
Saya tidak mahu membicarakan tentang kenaikan harga minyak dari sudut perjalanan ekonomi antarabangsa. Telah banyak pakar-pakarnya bicarakan. Tapi saya ingin bincangkan tentang soal pembaziran dan jimat-cermat. Ya, memang Islam memusuhi pembaziran. Bahkan al-Quran tidak pernah mempersaudarakan antara mana-mana pembuat dosa dengan syaitan, melainkan mereka yang membazirkan.
Allah menyebut dalam al-Quran: (maksudnya): “Dan berikanlah kepada kaum keluargamu, dan orang miskin serta orang musafir akan haknya masing-masing; dan janganlah engkau membazir dengan pembaziran yang melampau. Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang membazir itu adalah saudara-saudara syaitan, sedang syaitan itu pula sangat kufur kepada Tuhannya”. (Surah al-Isra: 26-27).
Demikianlah Allah persaudarakan pembazir dengan syaitan. Kesan pembaziran sangat besar. Lihat negara kita yang kaya dengan berbagai hasil. Sepatutnya kita akan tetap kukuh dan setiap rakyat akan menikmati kekayaan ini dengan adilnya. Namun, disebabkan pembaziran, harta negara yang sepatutnya dapat dimakan puluhan tahun, tetapi surut mendadak dalam masa beberapa tahun.
Maka, yang patut mendapat bantuan dan hak, tidak cukup untuk sampai kepadanya. Barang keperluan pula bertukar menjadi mahal. Pembaziran memusnahkan kehidupan rakyat bawahan dan menghalang hak yang sepatutnya sampai kepada mereka. Maka betapa wajar untuk para pembazir itu dipersaudarakan dengan syaitan. Apatah lagi dalam banyak keadaan, pembaziran itu lahir dari keangkuhan dan kesombongan. Sifat-sifat itulah jua yang menjadi asas kepada kekufuran syaitan.
Soalannya, mengapakah apabila kita membicarakan tentang pembaziran, kita hanya terbayang orang-orang bawahan di kampung ataupun bandar. Jika kita ingin meminta supaya setiap warga negara ini berjimat dan jangan membazir, maka bermulalah daripada atas. Bukan sekadar untuk ‘mengenakan si miskin yang sekian lama telah berjimat dan sudah tidak tahu apa yang hendak dijimatkan lagi. Mengapa kita hanya terbayang rakyat yang berada dalam rumah persendirian dan berbelanja dengan wang poketnya yang sudah lelah?
Kita sepatutnya terlebih meneliti semula bagaimana perbelanjaan yang menggunakan harta negara dan rakyat yang sedang berjalan di istana-istana, kediaman-kediaman rasmi kerajaan di peringkat negara dan negeri?. Apakah wajar di kala ini keraian untuk orang-orang besar sama ada sultan atau menteri begitu mewah? Makanan yang dihidangkan untuk mereka, harga satu meja kadang-kala boleh dimakan oleh ratusan rakyat bawahan. Karpet yang dipijak oleh mereka harganya ribuan bungkusan nasi yang dimakan oleh ‘orang biasa’.
Apakah patut di saat yang sebegini, ada istana atau kediaman rasmi menteri yang hendak ditambahmewahkan? Apakah patut orang-orang besar ini diraikan dengan hiburan atau pertunjukan dan konsert yang menelan puluhan ribu ringgit sempena sesuatu kunjungan mereka. Wang itu, wang negara. Wang itu, wang rakyat.
Apakah dalam masa yang sebegini mereka masih mendapat peruntukan untuk bersantai, bermain golf dan ‘berhiburan’ dengan menggunakan wang rakyat bawahan yang disuruh menjimatkan nasi lemak dan air kopi mereka?. Pembaziran sebegini lebih rapat menjadi saudara syaitan dibanding wang persendirian yang dibelanjakan.
Meminjam falsafah al-Imam al-Nawawi yang saya sebutkan tadi, jika orang atasan telah benar-benar berjimat, maka wajarlah untuk dikurangkan subsidi rakyat. Al-Nawawi telah dibuang negeri kerana enggan bersekongkol dengan perkara yang seperti ini. Namun, jika itu tidak dilakukan, ulama bukan burung kakak tua.
Saya mengambil risiko menulis hal ini. Tanggungjawab di hadapan Allah lebih besar daripada segala-galanya. Para ulama dahulu jauh lebih mulia, tidak dibandingkan kedaifan saya ini. Pun mereka telah menunaikan tanggungjawab al-Amr bil Ma’ruf dan al-An-Nahy ‘an al-Munkar ini. Semoga Allah menimbang tinta para ulama dengan darah para syuhada.
Telah berlaku tahun kesusahan dan kelaparan yang amat sangat di Semenanjung Arab pada zaman Amirul Mukminin ‘Umar bin al-Khattab. Dikenali dengan ‘Am al-Ramadah kerana seakan bagaikan warna ramad atau abu disebabkan kekurangan hujan, warna tanah dan warna kulit manusia yang bertukar disebabkan kekeringan. Ini berlaku pada antara tahun 17H dan 18H selama sembilan bulan.
Amirul Mukminin telah berhempas pulas menguruskan harta negara ketika itu bagi mengatasi kesusahan rakyat. Di samping kecemerlangan pengurusan, yang ingin disebutkan di sini kecemerlangan pendirian dan sikap. Ibn Jarir al-Tabari meriwayatkan bahawa ‘Umar bin al-Khattab tidak memakan pada tahun berkenaan lemak haiwan, susu dan daging sehingga orang ramai dapat memakannya. Barangan makanan berkurangan di pasar.
Pada suatu hari pekerjanya dapat membeli untuknya lemak dan susu namun dengan harga yang agak tinggi. ‘Umar enggan makan bahkan berkata:
“Engkau telah menyebabkan lemak dan susu menjadi mahal, sedekahkan keduanya, aku bencikan pembaziran. Bagaimana aku dapat memahami keadaan rakyat jika tidak mengenaiku apa yang mengenai mereka?”. (Al-Tabari, 2/358, Beirut: Dar al-Fikr).
Juga diriwayatkan bahawa suatu hari pada tahun berkenaan disembelih unta lalu dimasak dan dibahagikan kepada orang ramai. Lalu diceduk masakan itu untuk dihidangkan juga buat ‘Umar. Tiba-tiba yang diceduk itu bahagian belakang unta dan hatinya. Lalu ‘Umar bertanya:
“Dari mana diperolehi ini?”. Daripada unta yang kita sembelih hari ini. Kata ‘Umar: “Oh! Alangkah buruknya aku ini sebagai pemimpin, jika aku memakan bahagiannya yang baik lalu aku berikan rakyat makan yang sisa” (Ibn Sa’d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, 3/312, Beirut: Dar Sadir).
Maka alangkah buruknya seorang presiden, atau sultan, atau raja, atau perdana menteri, atau menteri besar, atau menteri yang makan dengan mewah daripada peruntukan harta negara atau negeri sedangkan rakyatnya dalam kesusahan. Ketika rakyat membilang butiran beras, helaian ringgit untuk persekolahan anak, keperitan membayar sewa rumah, api dan air, sementara mereka yang berkuasa ini pula menghadiri jamuan negara dan negeri itu dan ini.
Bermewahan dengan pertunjukan dan hiburan dari peruntukan wang negara. Kemudian bercuti rehat, tanpa rakyat ketahui apakah kepenatannya untuk rakyat. Kos cuti itu pula ditanggung oleh negara tanpa sebarang pulangan keuntungan buat rakyat. Alangkah zalim! Alangkah keji sikap yang sedemikian rupa.
Saya kadang-kala begitu hairan apabila seseorang dianggap ‘berjiwa rakyat’, hanya kerana makan nasi yang dijamu oleh rakyat, atau masuk ke kampung mendukung anak rakyat untuk beberapa minit bagi membolehkan wartawan mengambil foto. Apakah itu dinamakan berjiwa rakyat?
Jika hendak diiktiraf sebagai berjiwa rakyat, rasailah apa yang rakyat rasai. Orang seperti ‘Umar bin al-Khattab lebih mulia daripada segala keturunan atau pangkat yang ada di kalangan manusia. Kemuliaannya telah diiktiraf oleh Allah dan RasulNya. Dia ahli syurga dengan jaminan Allah dan RasulNya sementara politiknya tidak ada saingan yang menggugatnya. Namun tetap amanah dan jujurnya terhadap rakyatnya. Merasai penderitaan rakyat. Beliau idola kepimpinan kita sepatutnya. Walaupun beliau tidak pernah menyuruh orang menyembah atau menjulangnya, namun beliau dipuja oleh sejarah dan diangkat oleh Allah.
Kenaikan harga minyak menaikkan harga barang. Orang berpendapatan rendah menjadi mangsa. Agama berperanan untuk menyedarkan semua pihak tentang tanggungjawab terhadap rakyat. Dalam keadaan begini, antara perkara pertama yang patut dibentang kepada rakyat adalah pengurusan kemasukan dan pengagihan zakat. Zakat yang mungkin sampai kepada peringkat bilion ringgit di seluruh negara mesti diagihkan secara telus dan bijaksana.
Mengapa masih ada fakir miskin yang bagaikan meminta sedekat kepada pihak yang menguruskan zakat? Mengapa program tv lebih menjumpai si miskin dibanding pihak yang menguruskan zakat? Mengapa zakat masih berbaki dengan begitu banyak setiap tahun sedangkan kemiskinan masih banyak? Mengapa pihak yang menguruskan zakat kelihatan bertambah mewah, sementara yang patut menerima hak kelihatannya bertambah letih dengan keadaan sekarang?
Di masa inilah peranan zakat bagi memastikan setiap yang memerlukan memperolehinya tanpa kerenah birokrasi yang bukan-bukan. Jangan sampai untuk mendapat RM150 si miskin berulang alik berkali-kali dengan tambang sendiri, sementara yang mendakwa amil zakat mengisi minyak kereta dengan wang zakat atas nama amil! Ramai kata kita berjaya menguruskan zakat sebab kutipan yang tinggi. Saya katakan, pengurusan yang berjaya itu bukan sahaja kutipan semata, tetapi juga pengagihan secara telus, bijaksana dan bertanggungjawab.
Dalam usaha kerajaan menangani kemelut ekonomi hari ini, perkara-perkara yang disebutkan ini mestilah dipandang serius. Kejayaan sesebuah kerajaan menghayati penderitaan rakyat akan menjadikan mereka lebih disayangi dan disokong. Jika orang atas mengubah cara hidup, kita akan berkempen untuk semua agar mengubah cara hidup. Jika orang agama disuruh berkempen orang bawahan agar mengubah cara hidup, sementara melupai yang di atas, mereka sebenarnya cuba menjadikan agama sebagai candu agar seseorang melupai masalah yang sebenar.
Yg Berbahagia Tun..Saya menyanjung tinggi perjuangan Tun lebih-lebih lagi perjuangan Tun untuk terus membela nasib kami rakyat bawahan. Saya mengagumi pendirian Tun yang tidak pernah berubah dan saya tetap berdiri teguh dan menyokong segala perjuangan Tun..Semoga Tun terus tabah dan kami yakin Tun di pihak yang benar..
Dear Tun,
Much have been talked about, it's time to move on and seek some new directions.
There are two aspects which personally I would like to see, in order to reduce the impact of rising oil price to the average Malaysian.
Firstly, the manner in which oil is traded in the world market. We need to remove the speculative traders/investors that is pushing the oil price into unrealistic numbers. Weakening dollar is also contributing to the bloated transactions. I'm no expert to elaborate the details, but the following articles, are some pointers.
http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/_files/052008Masters.pdf
http://www.futurefastforward.com/component/content/article/90
Also, Malaysia have good relationship with some of the biggest oil producer, particularly in the Middle East. It will be good if we can explore a new mechanism for oil trade, on mutual terms rather than being determined by speculators.
Secondly, we need to think again about Proton. This will involve in removing some of the policies that we have adopted as a way of adjustment to the current economic situation. It will also mark a turning point to the initial agenda which need rethinking to adapt to the global economic climate. Proton was conceived with the agenda of putting Malaysia in the Engineering and Industrial map, and after 20 years, Proton has reached to a point that it could no longer be seen as a national symbol. Proton has enough foundation to project itself beyond Malaysian boundaries and follow the path of Korean carmakers.
It will need a global partner, and Proton need to review again the partnership proposal with VW. Maybe we can't win all the time, but a strategic global partner is crucial for the survival of automotive industry in Malaysia. Let Proton determine its course as a private entity. Proton has to go global and put aside the national agenda. With the foundation that Proton has laid, I think we have already establish the desired agenda of putting Malaysia as part of automotive global player. We have reached that point where the agenda must change. The government has done its role, and Proton need to seriously look beyond the malaysian borders and start to play with the big boys. At least, Proton must place itself strategically in the near region with its new partner and the strength of its current foundation.
Consequential to this departure for Proton is the drastic reduction of duties for vehicles in Malaysia. Meaning cheaper cars. meaning less money spent on cars, and more on other things. Such as petrol.
Malaysian pay huge amount of money on cars and this amount to a large portion of the average salary. And we don't get much out of the money, lost due to depreciation.
If such direction is to be taken, it has to be done gradually, perhaps proportionate to Proton's global performance with its partner.
The other issue that may arise is the increase in traffic due to the affordability of cars. There are ways to deal with this - controlled access to the city, improvement of mass public transport, regulating car parking provision etc.
Giving away Proton may be painful, but only on the face of pride. Most important and above all, this will reduce the economic pain that the average malaysian has to endure. On the other hand, we could say we have tried, and succeeded to a point that the agenda has to change for the benefit of the public at large.
Global Automotive industry is very competitive and there is no way Proton can survive even under the government protection. When the industry is so competitive, cars have to be built efficiently and cheaper. It is this trend that the government has to think as the threshold between local and foreign might just be too close, for the former to maintain its comfort zone, and for the paying public just to fork out a little bit more, just for the sake of choice.
http://mmcrossings.blogspot.com/
Before decreasing the road tax of large cars, did the Government make a study?
Tun, I would like to share an article which was highlighted on CNN this morning.
Not only is the SUV user making the rakyat poorer, they are also a hazard on the road.
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Bumper Mentality
By Stephanie Mencimer, Washington Monthly
Posted on December 20, 2002, Printed on June 9, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/14839/
Have you ever wondered why sport utility vehicle drivers seem like such assholes? Surely it's no coincidence that Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tours Washington in one of the biggest SUVs on the market, the Cadillac Escalade, or that Jesse Ventura loves the Lincoln Navigator.
Well, according to New York Times reporter Keith Bradsher's new book, "High and Mighty," the connection between the two isn't a coincidence. Unlike any other vehicle before it, the SUV is the car of choice for the nation's most self-centered people; and the bigger the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to be.
According to market research conducted by the country's leading automakers, Bradsher reports, SUV buyers tend to be "insecure and vain. They are frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. They often lack confidence in their driving skills. Above all, they are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors and communities. They are more restless, more sybaritic, and less social than most Americans are. They tend to like fine restaurants a lot more than off-road driving, seldom go to church and have limited interest in doing volunteer work to help others."
He says, too, that SUV drivers generally don't care about anyone else's kids but their own, are very concerned with how other people see them rather than with what's practical, and they tend to want to control or have control over the people around them. David Bostwick, Chrysler's market research director, tells Bradsher, "If you have a sport utility, you can have the smoked windows, put the children in the back and pretend you're still single."
Armed with such research, automakers have, over the past decade, ramped up their SUV designs to appeal even more to the "reptilian" instincts of the many Americans who are attracted to SUVs not because of their perceived safety, but for their obvious aggressiveness. Automakers have intentionally designed the latest models to resemble ferocious animals. The Dodge Durango, for instance, was built to resemble a savage jungle cat, with vertical bars across the grille to represent teeth and big jaw-like fenders. Bradsher quotes a former Ford market researcher who says the SUV craze is "about not letting anything get in your way, and at the extreme, about intimidating others to get out of your way."
Not surprisingly, most SUV customers over the past decade hail from a group that is the embodiment of American narcissism: baby boomers. Affluent and often socially liberal, baby boomers have embraced the four-wheel-drive SUV as a symbol of their ability to defy the conventions of old age, of their independence and "outdoorsiness," making the off-road vehicle a force to be reckoned with on the American blacktop.
But as Bradsher declares in his title, this baby boomer fetish is considerably more harmful than the mere annoyance of yet another Rolling Stones tour or the endless commercials for Propecia. In their attempt to appear youthful and hip, SUV owners have filled the American highways with vehicles that exact a distinctly human cost, frequently killing innocent drivers who would have survived a collision with a lesser vehicle. Bradsher quotes auto execs who concede that the self-centered lifestyle of SUV buyers is apparent in "their willingness to endanger other motorists so as to achieve small improvements in their personal safety."
After covering the auto industry for six years, Bradsher is an unabashed critic of sport-utility vehicles and the automakers that continue to churn them out knowing full well the dangers they pose. He doesn't equivocate in his feeling that driving an SUV is a deeply immoral act that places the driver's own ego above the health and safety of those around him, not to mention the health of the environment. Ironically, and though most supposedly safety-conscious owners don't realize it, SUVs even imperil those who drive them.
Road Rodeo
Ask a typical SUV driver why he drives such a formidable vehicle, and he'll invariably insist that it's for safety reasons -- the kids, you know -- not because he's too vain to get behind the wheel of a sissy Ford Windstar. Automakers themselves know otherwise -- their own market research tells them so.
But Bradsher makes painfully clear that the belief in SUV safety is a delusion. For decades, automakers seeking to avoid tougher fuel economy standards have invoked the fiction that the bigger the car, the safer the passenger. As a result, most Americans take it on faith that the only way to be safe on the highway is to be driving a tank (or the next best thing, a Hummer). Bradsher shatters this myth and highlights the strange disconnect between the perception and the reality of SUVs.
The occupant death rate in SUVs is 6 percent higher than it is for cars -- 8 percent higher in the largest SUVs. The main reason is that SUVs carry a high risk of rollover; 62 percent of SUV deaths in 2000 occurred in rollover accidents. SUVs don't handle well, so drivers can't respond quickly when the car hits a stretch of uneven pavement or "trips" by scraping a guardrail. Even a small bump in the road is enough to flip an SUV traveling at high speed. On top of that, SUV roofs are not reinforced to protect the occupants against rollover; nor does the government require them to be.
Because of their vehicles' size and four-wheel drive, SUV drivers tend to overestimate their own security, which prompts many to drive like maniacs, particularly in inclement weather. And SUV drivers -- ever image-conscious and overconfident -- seem to hate seat belts as much as they love talking on their cell phones while driving. Bradsher reports that four-fifths of those killed in roll-overs were not belted in, even though 75 percent of the general driving population now buckles up regularly.
While failing to protect their occupants, SUVs have also made the roads more dangerous for others. The "kill rate," as Bradsher calls it, for SUVs is simply jaw-dropping. For every one life saved by driving an SUV, five others will be taken. Government researchers have found that a behemoth like the four-ton Chevy Tahoe kills 122 people for every 1 million models on the road; by comparison, the Honda Accord only kills 21. Injuries in SUV-related accidents are likewise more severe.
Part of the reason for the high kill rate is that cars offer very little protection against an SUV hitting them from the side -- not because of the weight, but because of the design. When a car is hit from the side by another car, the victim is 6.6 times as likely to die as the aggressor. But if the aggressor is an SUV, the car driver's relative chance of dying rises to 30 to 1, because the hood of an SUV is so high off the ground. Rather than hitting the reinforced doors of a car with its bumper, an SUV will slam into more vulnerable areas and strike a car driver in the head or chest, where injuries are more life-threatening.
But before you get an SUV just for defensive purposes, think again. Any safety gains that might accrue are cancelled out by the high risk of rollover deaths, which usually don't involve other cars.
Ironically, SUVs are particularly dangerous for children, whose safety is often the rationale for buying them in the first place. Because these beasts are so big and hard to see around (and often equipped with dark-tinted glass that's illegal in cars), SUV drivers have a troubling tendency to run over their own kids. Just recently, in October, a wealthy Long Island doctor made headlines after he ran over and killed his 2-year-old in the driveway with his BMW X5. He told police he thought he'd hit the curb.
To illustrate the kind of selfishness that marks some SUV drivers, Bradsher finds people who rave about how they've survived accidents with barely a scratch, yet neglected to mention that the people in the other car were all killed. (One such woman confesses rather chillingly to Bradsher that her first response after killing another driver was to go out and get an even bigger SUV.)
The tragedy of SUVs is that highway fatalities were actually in decline before SUVs came into vogue, even though Americans were driving farther. This is true largely for one simple reason: the seatbelt. Seatbelt usage rose from 14 percent in 1984 to 73 percent in 2001. But seatbelts aren't much help if you're sideswiped by an Escalade, a prospect that looms yet more ominously as SUVs enter the used-car market. Not surprisingly, last year, for the first time in a decade, the number of highway deaths actually rose.
No Roads Scholars Here
Bradsher blames government for failing to adequately regulate SUVs, but doesn't fully acknowledge the degree to which it has encouraged SUV production by becoming a major consumer of them. Law enforcement and public safety agencies in particular seem enamored of the menacing vehicles, a fact on proud display when officers finally apprehended the alleged snipers in the Washington, D.C., area and transported them to the federal courthouse in a parade of black Ford Explorers and Expeditions.
Judging from the number of official SUVs on the road today, law enforcement officials -- those most likely to know firsthand the grisly effects of a rollover -- are enthusiastic customers. Like the rest of America, police departments seem to believe that replacing safe, sturdy cars with SUVs is a good idea, though it's hard to imagine a more dangerous vehicle for an officer conducting a high-speed chase.
Government's taste for SUVs isn't limited to cops and firemen. There's hardly a city in America where the mayor's chauffeured Lincoln Town Car hasn't been replaced by an SUV. In Virginia, where state officials recently discovered that SUVs were wrecking their efforts to meet clean-air regulations, a few noted sheepishly that perhaps local governments should sell their own fleets, which had ballooned to 250 in Fairfax County alone. (A Fairfax County official told The Washington Post that public safety officials needed four-wheel drive and large cargo spaces to transport extra people and emergency equipment through snow or heavy rain -- proof that even law enforcement officials misunderstand SUV safety records.)
As Bradsher details, because of their weight, shoddy brakes, and off-road tires, SUVs handle poorly in bad weather and have trouble stopping on slick roads. What's more, they're generally so poorly designed as not to be capable of carrying much cargo, despite the space. A contributing factor in the Ford Explorer-Firestone tire debacle was that drivers weren't told that their Explorers shouldn't carry any more weight than a Ford Taurus. The extra weight routinely piled in these big cars stressed the tires in a way that made them fall apart faster and contributed to the spate of rollover deaths.
I have a hunch that government officials' justification for buying SUVs is mostly a ruse for their real motivation, which is the same as any other SUV owner's: image. Officials can safely load up their fleets with leather-seated SUVs, whereas using taxpayer dollars to buy themselves, say, a fleet of BMW coupes would get them crucified (even though Detroit considers SUVs luxury vehicles and designs them accordingly). Police departments may claim that they need an SUV to accommodate SWAT teams or canine units, but there is no reason that Sparky the drug dog wouldn't be just as comfortable in the back of a nice safe Chevy Astrovan.
The same is true for nearly everyone who drives an SUV today. Of course, not every SUV owner is gripped by insecurity and a death wish -- plenty of otherwise reasonable people seem to get seduced by power and size (see sidebar).
But if soccer moms and office-park dads really need to ferry a lot of people around, they could simply get a large car or a minivan, which Bradsher hails as a great innovation for its fuel efficiency, safety, and lower pollution. (And minivans don't have a disproportionately high kill rate for motorists or pedestrians when they get into accidents.) According to industry market research, minivan drivers also tend to be very nice people. Minivans are favored by senior citizens and others (male and female, equally) who volunteer for their churches and carpool with other people's kids. But that's the problem. SUV owners buy them precisely because they don't want the "soccer mom" stigma associated with minivans.
While Bradsher does a magnificent job of shattering the myths about SUVs, he has a difficult time proposing a solution. Sport utility vehicles have become like guns: Everyone knows they're dangerous, but you can't exactly force millions of Americans to give them up overnight. And because the SUV is single-handedly responsible for revitalizing the once-depressed American auto industry, the economy is now so dependent on their production that it would be nearly impossible to get them off the road.
Bradsher suggests regulating SUVs like cars rather than as light trucks, so that they would be forced to comply with fuel-efficiency standards and safety regulations. He also proposes that the insurance industry stop shifting the high costs of the SUV dangers onto car owners by raising premium prices for SUVs to reflect the amount of damage they cause. But these ideas, commendable though they are, fall short of a perfect answer.
Clearly, the best solution would be for Americans to realize the danger of SUVs and simply stop buying them. Social pressure can be a powerful determinant on car choices, as seen in Japan, the one country where SUVs have not caught on because of cultural checks that emphasize the good of the community over that of the individual. There are signs that perhaps public sentiment is beginning to shift against SUV drivers here, too, as activists have begun to leave nasty flyers on SUV windshields berating drivers for fouling the environment and other offenses.
But for a true reckoning to take place, image-obsessed Americans will need to fully understand the SUV's true dangers -- including to themselves -- before they will willingly abandon it to the junkyard. Spreading that message against the nation's biggest advertiser -- the auto industry -- will be tough work. Drivers can only hope that Bradsher's book will cut through the chatter.
Stephanie Mencimer is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly.
© 2008 Washington Monthly All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/14839/
10 June 2008 09:22
saya sayang pak lah.
terima kasih pak lah kerana berjaya memacu ekonomi negara ke arah yang lebih mampan.
saya akan ubah gaya hidup saya pak lah. saya akan lebih kedekut dalam perbelanjaan saya. saya akan makan roti kentang sebagai makanan ruji saya.
saya akan pegi keja naik basikal saja kerana tiada bas mahu lalu di rumah saya.
saya akan menggunakan lilin sahaja di rumah. kalau nak tengok tv, saya terpaksa turun ke kedai mamak di bawah. itu pun kalau mamak tu bagi tengok.
saya akan mandi di air terjun sg congkak, gabai atau pangsun.pd hujung minggu….pd hari bekerja, saya akan mandi di bilik air petronas lepas tol metramacsaya akan pegi keja naik motor walaupun saya baru sahaja beli kereta nasional yang cantik itu.(kalau berani, kasi turun harga kereta import la).
saya akan cuba menjual prepaid semula untuk menampung perbelanjaan hidup saya.
saya akan tidak lepak di mamak lagi selepas ini kerana mamak akan sesuka hati naikkan harga makanan favourite saya: roti canai dan teh tarik.
saya akan menonton tv maximum 3 jam sahaja sehari.
saya akan ubah gaya hidup.
kerana, pak lah: saya turutkan segalanya.
terima kasih pak lah.
paklah memeang best…best habis…
Salam Tun... syukran maklumat Tun.. kami rakyat di bawah pimpinan BN kini mamkin tertekan.. PM yg tidak bijak amat zalim terhadap rakyat... bongkarlar kezaliman dan salahguna kuasa agar PM yang zalim ini agar rakyat sedar bahawa rakyat sedang ditindas...
Salam Tun dan semua bloggers,
Since annoncement on petrol price on wednesday,the situation becomes upside down & topsy-turvy.I've been using public transportation since 1996 (zaman bas mini lagi sampai sekrg).
Last thursday,saya terkejut yg teramat sgt pasal semua bas especially dr Kota Damasara ke KL & ke LRT semuanya "SENGET" gara2 org xbawak kereta,berebut2 nak naik bas.Paling sakit jiwa & sakit hati bila mengenangkan inefficiency system of public transport,maka keadaan dlm bas mcm ikan sardin...
Salam Tun... syukran maklumat Tun.. kami rakyat di bawah pimpinan BN kini mamkin tertekan.. PM yg tidak bijak amat zalim terhadap rakyat... bongkarlar kezaliman dan salahguna kuasa agar PM yang zalim ini agar rakyat sedar bahawa rakyat sedang ditindas...
Ybgh Tun,
Tahniah atas penerangan dan pandangan Tun. Apa yang dapat dirasakan sekarang ni ialah kerinduan diatas zaman pentadbiran Tun meminpin Malaysia. Kini semuanya hampir hancur. Kebanyakan kita malu dengan beliau menjadi PM, melainkan Ketua ketua UMNO ..........
Berdoa semuga keadaan segera pulih
dear tun,
if only paklah read your post. kalau tak faham english, BM version pun ada... the problem is this guy just dont read....and never will
Dear Ybhg Tun,
This is the first time I write a comment on your blog and it is hope that it is not too late for me to share my thought on this topic.
During the financial crisis in 1998, You've successfully and effectively condemned the action taken by the currency speculators in bringing down the value Asian currencies including the Ringgit. My humble opinion and suggestion is for Ybhg Tun again to wake up and again condemned the action of the oil speculators who pushed up the oil price to a ridiculous level before it reaches to a higher and more ridiculous level of US150 to US 200 level.
I do not think the world is currently facing severe shortage of oil that warrants the price to increase to the current high level. However, the action by the oil speculators has been the main reason behind the current oil price to shoot up and may shoot up again to higher level if there is no force to control / curb this speculating activities.
In my opinion, nobody dares and can raise this issue effectively as compared to Ybhg Tun as our former premier and champion who won the battle in the fight against currency speculators previously.
Assalamualaikum TDM
congrats on your first Blog,
ive read your comments on Global research before, but this is impressive,
anyway nak tau pendapat TDM on oil.
Tun pernah mendengar theory Peak Oil??
ive done a bit of research on the subject and i find it is a scary thing/very disturbing
kalau peak oil theory benar, the world is in for one heck of a ride
US back in the 70's suffered an Oil Shock because of their depreciating production, they managed to solve that problem by buying from someone else (Arabs)..
now with the Worlds Oil production getting scarce, im not sure what we will do
North Sea, Cantarell,Ghawar and other oilfields are showing lower production of oil, i will bet Malaysia is following the same curve
i hope our policy makers have some knowledge on the matter
based on some of the ministries comments, they sure seem to have a grasp on our future
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the economics of energy is very interesting.
the world / econ needs energy to progress and grows
without Cheap Energy, items produced by mfrs will be expensive
and growth will bw slow, consumers purchasing power will depreciate,
credit creation will be minimal
Lower GDP growth
Without Energy, there will be no growth
no credit creation = no business
No GDP growth, just contraction
Capitalist system will fail
Hope Tun can share your thoughts on the matter
My email fuze_an@yahoo.com
Could you reveal the detail of Petronas Report?
You were in position to know it and you are still an advisor to Petronas.
People cannot accept the sudden fuel hike without enough information.
The fuel hike this time will escalate the inflation and damage the domestic consumption.
People want to know what is going on in Malaysia.
Please keep fighting!
Dua sebab mengapa Pak Lah mengurangkan subsidi minyak:
1. Beras;
2. Tekanan AS.
Hanya seorang sahaja pemimpin yang tidak 'makan saman' dengan tekanan AS: Tun.
Rencana ini sepenuhnya dipetik dari http://drmaza.com (Dr. Mohd Asri,
Mufti
Negeri Perlis)
Agama Bukan Candu Untuk Mengkhayalkan Orang Miskin
“Dan berikanlah kepada kaum keluargamu, dan orang miskin serta orang
musafir
akan haknya masing-masing; dan janganlah engkau membazir dengan
pembaziran
yang melampau. Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang membazir itu adalah
saudara-saudara syaitan, sedang syaitan itu pula sangat kufur kepada
Tuhannya”. (Surah al-Isra: 26-27).
Saya tertarik apabila membaca membaca kisah al-Imam al-Nawawi
(631-676H) yang
diminta oleh Raja pada zamannya al-Malik al-Zahir untuk memberikan
fatwa bagi
mengharuskan Raja mengambil harta rakyat untuk digunakan memerangi
musuh yang
mengancam negara iaitu tentera Tatar. Tujuan itu pada zahirnya baik
kerana
mempertahankan negara dari ancaman musuh. Harta itu pun hendak
digunakan untuk
keperluan jihad.
Namun ramai ulama yang telah dibunuh ketika itu kerana enggan
mengeluarkan
fatwa berkenaan. Al-Nawawi juga enggan menulis surat sokongan terhadap
tindakan Raja Zahir itu sekalipun beliau tahu pengambilan harta itu
untuk
kepentingan negara juga.
Apabila Raja bertanya kepada beliau mengapa beliau enggan menyokong?
Beliau
menjawab: Setahu saya engkau dahulunya seorang hamba, tidak mempunyai
harta.
Kemudian Allah memberikan kurniaan kepadamu lalu diangkat engkau
menjadi
seorang raja. Aku dengar engkau memiliki seribu hamba lelaki yang
setiap
mereka memiliki talipinggang daripada emas. Engkau juga ada memiliki
dua ratus
hamba perempuan, dan setiap mereka memiliki sebekas perhiasan. Jika
engkau
belanjakan itu semua, sehingga hamba-hamba lelakimu hanya memakai tali
pinggang kain, dan hamba-hamha perempuanmu hanya memakai baju tanpa
perhiasan,
juga baitul mal sudah tiada simpanan wang, harta dan tanah lagi, maka
aku akan
fatwakan untukmu keharusan mengambil harta rakyat itu. Sesungguhnya
yang
menolong jihad dan selainnya ialah penyerahan diri kepada Allah dan
mengikut
jalan nabiNya s.a.w. (lihat: ‘Abd al-Ghani al-Daqar, al-Imam
al-Nawawi,
144-145, Damsyik: Dar al-Qalam).
Saya suka dengan jawapan al-Imam al-Nawawi ini. Saya tahu, selepas ini
banyak
forum-forum perdana, ceramah-ceramah di radio dan televesyen akan
memperkatakan tentang kewajipan berjimat cermat. Maka ustaz, ustazah
dan
penceramah pun –atas pemintaan penaja yang membayar harga ceramah-
akan
bersungguh-sungguh menyuruh orang-orang bawahan untuk berjimat cermat.
Dalil-dalil pun akan dibaca. Mungkin akan ada ustazah yang mencari
cerita-cerita ajaib yang baru untuk dikaitkan dengan bab jimat cermat
dan
jangan membazir. Mungkin akan ada penceramah yang cuba
menangis-menangis
–seperti seorang pelakon berjaya yang menerima anugerah- bercerita
kepada mak
cik-makcik yang kusyuk menonton tentang azab seorang yang membazir
‘nasi
lemaknya’.
Datanglah orang-orang kampung mendengar forum perdana dengan basikal
atau
motosikal sebagai menyahut seruan agar tidak membazir petrol. Adapun
penceramah, datuk-datuk pengajur, YB-YB hanya menggunakan kenderaan
mewah yang
berkapasiti atas daripada 2000cc. Tujuannya untuk mengelakkan
pembaziran wang
kerajaan yang terpaksa dibayar kepada empunya kenderaan 2000cc ke
bawah, lebih
tinggi daripada 2000 ke atas.
Maka insaflah mak cik dan pak cik yang barangkali teringatkan tulang
ikan yang
pernah dibuangnya padahal masih ada sedikit sisa isinya yang melekat.
Itulah
membazir namanya. Maka, atas keinsafan dan taubat itu, mungkin ada yang
akan
mula mengurangkan makan nasi lemak daripada sebungkus seorang kepada
sebungkus
yang dikongsi bersama. Air kopinya yang memang sudah ‘ceroi’ akan
ditukar
kepada yang warna hitamnya antara kelihatan dan tidak. Maka selamat
negara
kita ini, disebabkan pakcik dan makcik, pak long dan mak long, pak lang
dan
mak lang di kampung sudah mengubah gaya hidup mereka.
Jika saya hadir ke forum yang seperti itu, saya ingin bertanya soalan,
tapi
soalan yang belum ‘dijakimkan’, “apakah agama ini dihantar oleh
Allah untuk
menghukum manusia bawahan dan menghalalkan yang lain tidur dalam
kekenyangan
dan kemewahan?”. Sebelum harga minyak naik, telah sekian mereka yang
berada di
teratak usang itu menjimat makan dan pakai. Saban hari mereka mengira
belanja
untuk memboleh mereka terus hidup di kala negara dunia belum menghadapi
krisis
harga minyak.
Saya tidak mahu membicarakan tentang kenaikan harga minyak dari sudut
perjalanan ekonomi antarabangsa. Telah banyak pakar-pakarnya bicarakan.
Tapi
saya ingin bincangkan tentang soal pembaziran dan jimat-cermat. Ya,
memang
Islam memusuhi pembaziran. Bahkan al-Quran tidak pernah
mempersaudarakan
antara mana-mana pembuat dosa dengan syaitan, melainkan mereka yang
membazirkan.
Allah menyebut dalam al-Quran: (maksudnya): “Dan berikanlah kepada
kaum
keluargamu, dan orang miskin serta orang musafir akan haknya
masing-masing;
dan janganlah engkau membazir dengan pembaziran yang melampau.
Sesungguhnya
orang-orang yang membazir itu adalah saudara-saudara syaitan, sedang
syaitan
itu pula sangat kufur kepada Tuhannya”. (Surah al-Isra: 26-27).
Demikianlah Allah persaudarakan pembazir dengan syaitan. Kesan
pembaziran
sangat besar. Lihat negara kita yang kaya dengan berbagai hasil.
Sepatutnya
kita akan tetap kukuh dan setiap rakyat akan menikmati kekayaan ini
dengan
adilnya. Namun, disebabkan pembaziran, harta negara yang sepatutnya
dapat
dimakan puluhan tahun, tetapi surut mendadak dalam masa beberapa tahun.
Maka, yang patut mendapat bantuan dan hak, tidak cukup untuk sampai
kepadanya.
Barang keperluan pula bertukar menjadi mahal. Pembaziran memusnahkan
kehidupan
rakyat bawahan dan menghalang hak yang sepatutnya sampai kepada mereka.
Maka
betapa wajar untuk para pembazir itu dipersaudarakan dengan syaitan.
Apatah
lagi dalam banyak keadaan, pembaziran itu lahir dari keangkuhan dan
kesombongan. Sifat-sifat itulah jua yang menjadi asas kepada kekufuran
syaitan.
Soalannya, mengapakah apabila kita membicarakan tentang pembaziran,
kita hanya
terbayang orang-orang bawahan di kampung ataupun bandar. Jika kita
ingin
meminta supaya setiap warga negara ini berjimat dan jangan membazir,
maka
bermulalah daripada atas. Bukan sekadar untuk ‘mengenakan si miskin
yang
sekian lama telah berjimat dan sudah tidak tahu apa yang hendak
dijimatkan
lagi. Mengapa kita hanya terbayang rakyat yang berada dalam rumah
persendirian
dan berbelanja dengan wang poketnya yang sudah lelah?
Kita sepatutnya terlebih meneliti semula bagaimana perbelanjaan yang
menggunakan harta negara dan rakyat yang sedang berjalan di
istana-istana,
kediaman-kediaman rasmi kerajaan di peringkat negara dan negeri?.
Apakah wajar
di kala ini keraian untuk orang-orang besar sama ada sultan atau
menteri
begitu mewah? Makanan yang dihidangkan untuk mereka, harga satu meja
kadang-kala boleh dimakan oleh ratusan rakyat bawahan. Karpet yang
dipijak
oleh mereka harganya ribuan bungkusan nasi yang dimakan oleh ‘orang
biasa’.
Apakah patut di saat yang sebegini, ada istana atau kediaman rasmi
menteri
yang hendak ditambahmewahkan? Apakah patut orang-orang besar ini
diraikan
dengan hiburan atau pertunjukan dan konsert yang menelan puluhan ribu
ringgit
sempena sesuatu kunjungan mereka. Wang itu, wang negara. Wang itu, wang
rakyat.
Apakah dalam masa yang sebegini mereka masih mendapat peruntukan untuk
bersantai, bermain golf dan ‘berhiburan’ dengan menggunakan wang
rakyat
bawahan yang disuruh menjimatkan nasi lemak dan air kopi mereka?.
Pembaziran
sebegini lebih rapat menjadi saudara syaitan dibanding wang
persendirian yang
dibelanjakan.
Meminjam falsafah al-Imam al-Nawawi yang saya sebutkan tadi, jika orang
atasan
telah benar-benar berjimat, maka wajarlah untuk dikurangkan subsidi
rakyat.
Al-Nawawi telah dibuang negeri kerana enggan bersekongkol dengan
perkara yang
seperti ini. Namun, jika itu tidak dilakukan, ulama bukan burung kakak
tua.
Saya mengambil risiko menulis hal ini. Tanggungjawab di hadapan Allah
lebih
besar daripada segala-galanya. Para ulama dahulu jauh lebih mulia,
tidak
dibandingkan kedaifan saya ini. Pun mereka telah menunaikan
tanggungjawab
al-Amr bil Ma’ruf dan al-An-Nahy ‘an al-Munkar ini. Semoga Allah
menimbang
tinta para ulama dengan darah para syuhada.
Telah berlaku tahun kesusahan dan kelaparan yang amat sangat di
Semenanjung
Arab pada zaman Amirul Mukminin ‘Umar bin al-Khattab. Dikenali dengan
‘Am
al-Ramadah kerana seakan bagaikan warna ramad atau abu disebabkan
kekurangan
hujan, warna tanah dan warna kulit manusia yang bertukar disebabkan
kekeringan. Ini berlaku pada antara tahun 17H dan 18H selama sembilan
bulan.
Amirul Mukminin telah berhempas pulas menguruskan harta negara ketika
itu bagi
mengatasi kesusahan rakyat. Di samping kecemerlangan pengurusan, yang
ingin
disebutkan di sini kecemerlangan pendirian dan sikap. Ibn Jarir
al-Tabari
meriwayatkan bahawa ‘Umar bin al-Khattab tidak memakan pada tahun
berkenaan
lemak haiwan, susu dan daging sehingga orang ramai dapat memakannya.
Barangan
makanan berkurangan di pasar.
Pada suatu hari pekerjanya dapat membeli untuknya lemak dan susu namun
dengan
harga yang agak tinggi. ‘Umar enggan makan bahkan berkata: “Engkau
telah
menyebabkan lemak dan susu menjadi mahal, sedekahkan keduanya, aku
bencikan
pembaziran. Bagaimana aku dapat memahami keadaan rakyat jika tidak
mengenaiku
apa yang mengenai mereka?”. (Al-Tabari, 2/358, Beirut: Dar al-Fikr).
Juga diriwayatkan bahawa suatu hari pada tahun berkenaan disembelih
unta lalu
dimasak dan dibahagikan kepada orang ramai. Lalu diceduk masakan itu
untuk
dihidangkan juga buat ‘Umar. Tiba-tiba yang diceduk itu bahagian
belakang unta
dan hatinya. Lalu ‘Umar bertanya: “Dari mana diperolehi ini?”.
Daripada unta
yang kita sembelih hari ini. Kata ‘Umar: “Oh! Alangkah buruknya aku
ini
sebagai pemimpin, jika aku memakan bahagiannya yang baik lalu aku
berikan
rakyat makan yang sisa” (Ibn Sa’d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, 3/312,
Beirut: Dar
Sadir).
Maka alangkah buruknya seorang presiden, atau sultan, atau raja, atau
perdana
menteri, atau menteri besar, atau menteri yang makan dengan mewah
daripada
peruntukan harta negara atau negeri sedangkan rakyatnya dalam
kesusahan.
Ketika rakyat membilang butiran beras, helaian ringgit untuk
persekolahan
anak, keperitan membayar sewa rumah, api dan air, sementara mereka yang
berkuasa ini pula menghadiri jamuan negara dan negeri itu dan ini.
Bermewahan dengan pertunjukan dan hiburan dari peruntukan wang negara.
Kemudian bercuti rehat, tanpa rakyat ketahui apakah kepenatannya untuk
rakyat.
Kos cuti itu pula ditanggung oleh negara tanpa sebarang pulangan
keuntungan
buat rakyat. Alangkah zalim! Alangkah keji sikap yang sedemikian rupa.
Saya kadang-kala begitu hairan apabila seseorang dianggap ‘berjiwa
rakyat’,
hanya kerana makan nasi yang dijamu oleh rakyat, atau masuk ke kampung
mendukung anak rakyat untuk beberapa minit bagi membolehkan wartawan
mengambil
foto. Apakah itu dinamakan berjiwa rakyat?
Jika hendak diiktiraf sebagai berjiwa rakyat, rasailah apa yang rakyat
rasai.
Orang seperti ‘Umar bin al-Khattab lebih mulia daripada segala
keturunan atau
pangkat yang ada di kalangan manusia. Kemuliaannya telah diiktiraf oleh
Allah
dan RasulNya. Dia ahli syurga dengan jaminan Allah dan RasulNya
sementara
politiknya tidak ada saingan yang menggugatnya. Namun tetap amanah dan
jujurnya terhadap rakyatnya. Merasai penderitaan rakyat. Beliau idola
kepimpinan kita sepatutnya. Walaupun beliau tidak pernah menyuruh orang
menyembah atau menjulangnya, namun beliau dipuja oleh sejarah dan
diangkat
oleh Allah.
Kenaikan harga minyak menaikkan harga barang. Orang berpendapatan
rendah
menjadi mangsa. Agama berperanan untuk menyedarkan semua pihak tentang
tanggungjawab terhadap rakyat. Dalam keadaan begini, antara perkara
pertama
yang patut dibentang kepada rakyat adalah pengurusan kemasukan dan
pengagihan
zakat. Zakat yang mungkin sampai kepada peringkat bilion ringgit di
seluruh
negara mesti diagihkan secara telus dan bijaksana.
Mengapa masih ada fakir miskin yang bagaikan meminta sedekat kepada
pihak yang
menguruskan zakat? Mengapa program tv lebih menjumpai si miskin
dibanding
pihak yang menguruskan zakat? Mengapa zakat masih berbaki dengan begitu
banyak
setiap tahun sedangkan kemiskinan masih banyak? Mengapa pihak yang
menguruskan
zakat kelihatan bertambah mewah, sementara yang patut menerima hak
kelihatannya bertambah letih dengan keadaan sekarang?
Di masa inilah peranan zakat bagi memastikan setiap yang memerlukan
memperolehinya tanpa kerenah birokrasi yang bukan-bukan. Jangan sampai
untuk
mendapat RM150 si miskin berulang alik berkali-kali dengan tambang
sendiri,
sementara yang mendakwa amil zakat mengisi minyak kereta dengan wang
zakat
atas nama amil! Ramai kata kita berjaya menguruskan zakat sebab kutipan
yang
tinggi. Saya katakan, pengurusan yang berjaya itu bukan sahaja kutipan
semata,
tetapi juga pengagihan secara telus, bijaksana dan bertanggungjawab.
Dalam usaha kerajaan menangani kemelut ekonomi hari ini,
perkara-perkara yang
disebutkan ini mestilah dipandang serius. Kejayaan sesebuah kerajaan
menghayati penderitaan rakyat akan menjadikan mereka lebih disayangi
dan
disokong. Jika orang atas mengubah cara hidup, kita akan berkempen
untuk semua
agar mengubah cara hidup. Jika orang agama disuruh berkempen orang
bawahan
agar mengubah cara hidup, sementara melupai yang di atas, mereka
sebenarnya
cuba menjadikan agama sebagai candu agar seseorang melupai masalah yang
sebenar.
Salam,
Kalau kenaikan harga petrol tak dapat dielakkan sekali pun, takkanlah sekali naik 78 sen..... Bukan semua rakyat Malaysia menikmati kenaikan gaji. Bagaimana dgn petani dan peniaga kecil. Bagi peniaga pula makin terasa, sebab perniagaan merosot ekoran dari langkah berjimat cermat yg diambil oleh rakyat malaysia.
Nazri
http://www.mytakafulcover.blogspot.com
Salam Tun,
Macam mana dengan email berkenaan harga minyak yang masih lagi sangat murah bagi negara pengeluar minyak?
Sila rujuk keratan email di bawah.
Penting !!fakta Tentang Minyak Yang Semua Kena Tahu
<>Baru baru ini dalam akhbar tempatan, kerajaan telah keluarkan satu statistik kononnya harga minyak di malaysia adalah yang paling rendah di rantau ini.Kemudian mereka membandingkan harga minyak malaysia dengan hargi minyak di Thailand, Singapore, Filipina dan vietnam.Persoalan sekarang apakah asas perbandingan tersebut sedangkan negara negara tersebut bukan pengeluar minyak?Hujah seperti inilah yang di gunakan oleh barisan nasional untuk memperbodohkan orang kampung.
Ok, disini fakta yang semua orang kena tahu.Pertama sekali sila lihat perbandingan harga minyak malaysia dan negara negara pengeluar minyak yang lain:-
Negara Harga minyak seliter (dalam RM)
Malaysia RM2.70
Iran RM0.34
Venezuela RM0.16
Turkemenistan RM0.39
Arab Saudi RM0.19
Mesir RM0.81
Brunei RM 1.10 (S0.50)
Dari data di atas, membuktikan propaganda kerajaan adalah palsu dan tidak benar.Kesemua negara pengeluar minyak di atas, harga minyak adalah di bawah RM1.10 seliter.Ada sesetengah alasan mengatakan keluaran minyak kita tak sebanyak arab saudi yang mengeluarkan sejuta tong sehari.Menurut kerajaan, pengeluaran minyak kita adalah dalam lingkungan 700 ribu tong sehari.Oleh itu kalau berdasarkan ratio pengeluaran minyak antara arab saudi dan malaysia 1 juta : 700 ribu, sepatutnya harga minyak malaysia dalam lingkungan RM0.30 sen sahaja.Kenapa arab saudi boleh kekalkan harga minyak pada 0.19 sen seliter tapi malaysia pada 2.70 sen?Bukan kah jauh bezanya?Bagaimana pula dengan venezuella yang jumlah penduduk hampir sama dengan malaysia boleh kekalkan harga minyak pada 0.16 sen seliter sahaja?Ini menunjukkan ada sesuatu yang tak kena dalam menguruskan hasil minyak dalam negara.
Ketika dato seri anwar ibrahim menjawat jawatan menteri kewangan malaysia pada tahun 1991-1998, harga minyak di kekalkan pada 1.10 sen seliter.Bagaimana beliau boleh mengekalkan harga minyak selama lapan tahun sedangkan harga minyak dunia naik mendadak ketika perang teluk di iraq?Pada masa yang sama juga pembangunan dan projek projek banyak juga di jalankan dalam negara tanpa perlu naikkan harga minyak.Tapi pemimpin kerajaan beri alasan untuk naikan harga minyak supaya duit tersebut dapat tampung projek pembangunan.Masalah sekarang projek pembangunan untuk faedah siapa?Rakyat atau kroni?Berepa kerat orang yang dapat faedah dari koridor pembangunan di sana sini?
Subsidi minyak yang di tanggung kerajaan mencapai 35 billion setahun.Barisan Nasional bersungguh sungguh untuk mengurang kan subsidi minyak ini kerana kalau harga minyak tidak di naikkan dengan segera ianya akan mengganggu peruntukan kerajaan bagi membangunkan koridor koridor di seluruh negara yang bernilai ratusan billion.
Yang orang asyik berhujah ialah harga minyak perlu di naikkan kerana harga minyak dunia telah naik.Ada yang mengatakan ia masalah global.So yang kita kita fikir ialah kenapa nak risau tentang harga minyak dunia yang melambung naik kerana sepatutnya sebagai negara pengeluar minyak, malaysia seharusnya gembira kerana bila harga minyak dunia naik, pendapatan petronas jadi berlipat ganda.So apa masalahnya?Walaupun malaysia ada mengimport minyak dari luar untuk kegunaan tempatan, tapi bila dah net off dari pendapatan export, masih untung besar lagi.
Adakah negara akan bankrupt kalau turunkan harga minyak??
Sudah tentu tidak.Sila lihat statistik di bawah:-
Allocation untuk mega projek:-
Koridor utara : RM17.5 billion
Koridor timur : RM112 billion
Wilayah iskandar :RM47 billion
Koridor sabah :105 billion
Koridor Serawak :107 billion
Bila kerajaan membuat pelan untuk pembangunan projek di atas, sudah tentulah kerajaan mempunyai wang yang banyak.Jadi,jika kerajaan sanggup membelanjakan ratusan billion untuk projek pembangunan seperti di atas yang hanya boleh di manafaatkan oleh segelintir rakyat sahaja, kenapa nak tampung subsidi 35 billion setahun pun tak mampu? Man a yang lebih penting? Man a yang perlu di utamakan?Kebajikan rakyat atau projek mega?
Bila menteri menteri beri komen tentang ekonomi, semuanya berkata yang bagus bagus, tapi bila bercakap soal subsidi minyak, dah cakap lain pulak.So kalau Dato najib kata turunkan harga minyak akan buat negara bankrup,bagaimana projek ratusan billion di atas? Tak bankrup kah negara dengan projek ratusan billion tersebut?Perlu di ingat bahawa di samping pendapatan hasil petroleum, negara juga mempunyai hasil dari sumber lain seperti getah, sawit, taxation, balak dan lain lain.Pendapatan tahunan negara kalau di ambil kira harga minyak yang melambung naik bakal mencecah 200 billion setahun.Dari jumlah tersebut susah sangat ke nak sumbangkan 50 billion untuk beri subsidi pada rakyat?
Ni korang compare ngan Turkmenistan .
Oil - production: 196,700 bbl/day (2005 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $9,200 (2007 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...s/tx.html#Econ
Ni Malaysia punya
Oil - production: 751,800 bbl/day (2005 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $14,400 (2007 est.)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...s/my.html#Econ
Sudah menjadi tanggungjawab kerajaan utk menerangkan situasi sebenar. Tapi malang sekali rakyat kita kurang membaca, lebih tertarik utk complaint sana sini tanpa mengusulkan jln penyelesaian. In fact CEO/Chairman PETRONAS, Tan Sri Hassan Marican ada buat press statement, operating cost PETRONAS meningkat 200% sejak 3 tahun dulu. Ada siapa ambil kira fakta ni?
Tak perlu diperjelaskan lagi. Kalu kita mahu menjadi bangsa bertamadun, kita patut melihat cabaran ini sebagai batu loncatan dan peluang utk gain profit. Cthnya gunakan inovasi dan kreativiti utk guna sumber tenaga alternative dan pasarkan pada dunia utk menjana ekonomi Negara. Kita ada minyak kelapa sawit utk dijadikan biofuel, biodiesel, bioethanol. Kita ada taburan hujan yg tinggi utk generate hydroelectric dari empangan. Kita ada matahari. Gunakan pendekatan seperti Honda dan toyota, buat inovasi engine hybrid. Jepun takde minyak dan gas pon. Tapi pernah ke kita dgr rakyat dia mengeluh tentang kenaikan harga minyak? Sebab dia tersepit (tanpa hasil miynak dan gas), maka dia boleh buat engine hybrid. Apa yg rakyat msia boleh lakukan walopon gunung emas di depan mata? Complaint! Complaint! Complaint! Dan complaint!!!!!!!!!! Org itu salah, org ini salah! Macam mana dgn diri sendiri? Apa sumbangan rakyat msia pd Negara?
Untuk perkongsian , harga minyak telah meningkat ke paras tertinggi USD 138.54 setong, kerana speculation Israel bersedia menyerang Iran. Tambahan pula kadar pengagguran US meningkat (tertinggi dlm 2 dekad) 5.5%. Interest rate pon dinaikkan di US, menjadikan pelabur melarikan diri atau passive utk expand business. Faktor berikut telah menyusut nilai USD, menjadikan harga komoditi emas hitam (crude oil) melambung.
Tak kira siapa yg memerintah (ikut majority pilihan rakyat yg keluar mengundi….ramai yg layak tapi tak mengundi pon…..that is Malaysian!!!), yg paling penting ialah quality individu (rakyat). Kerana kalu nak harapkan PM sorang, memang takkan berjaya. Bayangkan kita ambil jurulatih Manchester United, Alex Ferguson utk melatih pasukan Selangor…….Dapat kah pemain tempatan kita menyajikan permainan berquality seperti Manchester United? Sebab tu bagusnya sesebuah Negara bukan bergantung kepada ketua semata, tetapi setiap individu yg menjadi tonggak ketemadunan Negara.
Pernah ke org melayu Malaysia mengkaji intipati Al-Quran sebagai panduan hidup dan mengkaji keajaiban ciptaan tuhan utk menambah ketaqwaan? Adakah dgn sengaja Allah melahirkan Rasul Terakhir Baginda Muhammad saw di tanah Arab? Kenapa dia tak dilahirkan di jepun? China? US? Israil? Eropah atau di Malaysia? Baginda Muhammad saw adalah sebaik2 manusia, tetapi apa akan berlaku kalu Rasullullah dilahirkan di msia? Apa quality rakyat msia utk menyiarkan syariat Islam yg baginda bawa? Mampukah rakyat msia memberi impact yg besar seperti para sahabat nabi, even Rasulullah dilahirkan dikalangan org Malaysia????????
Pikir pikirkan………
Sedang kita sibuk memikirkan kenaikan harga minyak, kita seakan terlupa membuat persediaan utk kehidupan yg kekal di akhirat kelak. Di sana minyak dan gas bukan lagi jaminan keselamatan. Hanya iman dan taqwa menjadi nilai ukuran.
Saya bukanla penyokong paklah, BN, PAS, Keadilan….hanya hamba Allah yg hina. Dlm kesibukan kita sehari hari, kita saling memperingati diri dan berdoa utk keradhoaan dan keberkatan dunia akhirat.
Tun,
Saya memohon maaf jika ada tersalah kata, alpa budi bicara....wassalam
Dear Tun, and fellow Malaysians
Why don't we use Water as a replacement for Fuel.
There are several system available and has been proven to work. Take a look at this review.
http://simurl.com/WaterFuelReview
I believe this is a cheaper alternative than NGV. And we never know, one day Pak Lah will just increase the price of NGV without warning, and without discussing it first with our elected representatives. (why Pak Lah why?)
I hope the guy who cried all night( I was touched and my wife cried reading his comment) with his family & intend to quit his study can stay on and use this water for fuel technology and avoid quitting.
Check it out here http://simurl.com/WaterFuelReview
Looks simple and can be plugged in our car easily.
Actually, there's alternative energy sources to run vehicles, planes, etc. New Zealand is using peanut oil to fly their Air New Zealand. Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic is using palm oil mixed with other chemicals to fly their planes. So, what have we been doing ? What has Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) been doing ? What has Petronas been doing ? Aren't we have plenty of palm oil ? Right now, there's no need for R&D to be done because Virgin Atlantic is using it ! Just follow and use it maybe with modifications ...
I just don't understand,why should the government put the burden on the rakyat? I believe there are many other ways to ban our neighbours from buying oil in our country. And one more thing, I hope the government stop the flip-flopping attitute. It brings no good......
It's true Tun, I don't think oil price in Malaysia and UK is comparable. The price in UK now is 113.9p, in most places, and the minimum income of UK people is far more than Malaysian.
Dearest Tun,
Salam.......
i'm not a popular person, neither a celebrity...i'm just a kampung girl..who have been raise in the middle of a jungle, surrounded by palm oil trees..anak FELDA..
28 years ago...when i was young, i remember how hard my father work in his farm..he can't even affort to buy a motocycle...so that he used to 'tumpang' our neighbour..i knew he works so hard just to make sure that we had enough money for our study...my father never understand wht inflation is, wht kdnk is, wht currency is....but he do realize how low the value of our Ringgit Malaysia now...when he went to buy the groceries like rice, sugar....
Are the goverment now is creating a 'kasta' of life? If the price of all things never stop to raise up, do we have to eat 'keladi, ubi & keledek'? Is Pak Lah is preparing us to live back as in 'Zaman Penjajahan Jepun'? Maybe with all this nonsense, only people like Pak Lah will affort to eat rice..when i graduated as a biologist last time, i was so amaze with the 'BioValley' planning...i wish i can contribute something there...but i see a lot of my frens that have biotechnology background have been abundant..their skill & knowledge have been wasted... Che Det have prepared us with all the intelectual property resources....but Pak Lah never use them to really generate something meaningful..i doubt he can't even understand wht biotechnology is ...i'm sad to have a leader who didn't really know how to make use our 'biofuel' knowledge..maybe he just fall a sleep...again...i'm nobody...i'm not a rich family like Pak Lah & Scomi empire..i'm struggle vey hard just to reach this stage..belum pun lama dapat bai mak dan abah merasa kesenangan hidup...bring them to 'cuti-cuti Malaysia'..i still remember how proud my father is when i bring him to ride my first car - wira sedan..mengalir air mat abah...bersyukur..and with pride i told my father...one day...we can just use our plam oil for this car & PROTON can be the first manufacturer that provide the engine car for biofuel...i don't really understand wht Pak Lah think...he don't even bother about our national car....can't he see how big the potential is? It is so shame tht we hv our own car, but on our road...full of Hyundai...etc...maybe he just not as patriotik as me...and maybe he just not as smart as u Tun...Maybe he also not as concern as my father that still very sincere to pay the 'cukai tanah' every year on time..just to think that goverment need the money to spend for the rakyat...like scholarship for poor students, to build school, text book etc.... but the truth is...Pak Lah spend goverment money without thinking how to gain back...he didn't generate any new economy...as a younger generation that may don't really understand what politic is.. i just can see very clearly...Pak Lah is not a responsable leader....he always point other minister when it's come to certain issue..so who is he? Why he keep on blaming rakyat for everything? Why we must understand all the crisis in the world? Aren't you as the leader should think what the best u can do? That is why we choose u as a leader... becoz the responsibility is very huge...If not...for wht we hv u as a leader?
Arghhhhhh.......we just miss u very much Che Det! Every leader had a glory....bt Pak Lah is the one who make a history of a messy country!!!!
pak lah mmg nak bagi rakyat mampos.sok sok pakai air kencing lah tangki minyak kete ngan motor aku.kalau TUN nak naik jadi perdana menteri malaysia balik saya sokong 100%.tolonglah jangan biarkan malaysia ni jadi negara miskin
Kepada BzzIT :
Aku rasa dalam bab pemberian rebat tunai ini, kau lah yang paling tak rasional sekali.
kau tak baca surat khabar ke bagaimana pembahagian rebat itu dilaksanakan.
Kalau nak bagi subsidi ikut harga pasaran kereta, sampai mati pun tak boleh buat. Harga kereta di pasaran tak menentu, ada naik, ada turun mengikut musim. Lagipun, dengan menggunakan harga pasaran, manusia lagi bijak menipu dan dapat memanupulasi harga tersebut untuk kepentingan sendiri.
Jadi, jika menggunakan cc sebagai taruhan, manusia tidak boleh memanupulasikan harga pasaran sesuka hati serta cc tidak boleh dimanipulasikan oleh manusia.
Kau tak baca ke, rebat tunai hanya diberi kepada kereta ber cc 2000 ke bawah dan motor 250 cc ke bawah.
Selebihnya dipotong cukai jalan sebanyak rm200 untuk kereta dan rm150 untuk motor. Jadi dua-dua dapat subsidi, cuma cara subsidi dibuat berbeza.
Pakcik-pakcik petani yang tidak ada kenderaan kenapa perlu rugi pulak. Mereka tak payah isi petrol, nak rugi celah mana. Mungkin rugi sebab kenaikan harga barang dan makanan disebabkan harga petrol naik tapi bukan disebabkan pembahagian subsidi.
Assalamualaikum Ayahanda Tun,
Lepas baca Corpetro punye komen saya rasa saya pun sama.tapi nasib saya baik sebab saya bekerja dan belajar cara pjj cume setiap hari saya perlu berulang dari kuala lumpur ke shah alam..
sebagai seorang kerani berapa sangat lah yang saya dapat mana nak tampung belanja harian.. bagi kat family.. duit study.. duit buku..tol..dan sekarang ni lagi besar minyak..dengan pendapatan lebih kurang RM1000.00 saya harus belanja untuk semua nie.. setiap sem baru yuran harus di banyakk dengan kenaikkan RM2.70 ni.. ya ALLAH terasa sangat beban nya..
saya menangis sendiri.. kalau Corpetro menangis dengan family saya seorang..tapi nak buat mcm maner.. itu yang PAK LAH perihatan konon.. yer lahh sangat perihatan.. perihatin dengan poket sendiri adalahh..
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi sememangnya kelihatan berada di hadapan, namun ada beberapa orang yang menyuarakan sesuatu di belakangnya.
Sejak dahulu, ada beberapa pemimpin UMNO memang bila bercakap, suka mendengarnya.
Di antaranya ialah Shahrir Samad.
Bila diketahui diposisikan di sebuah kementerian berkaitan pengguna, terasa juga leganya.
Lagi pun sedari awal dia semacam mula merancang dan mula mengumpul maklumat melalui taklimat sebelum bergerak sebagai Menteri dijangka boleh memakmorkan jaminan hak pengguna.
Terkejut bila dia dimuatkan dalam pos di blog ini perihal duri dalam daging.
Selepas itu, tidaklah kedengaran lagi kritikan terbukanya terhadap Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Sebab dia acah sedikit, tetapi dia kena balik dari Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, sesuatu pendedahan yang ibarat "sting" yang menyucuk urat lehernya.
Kechut perut!
Barangkali banyak lagi pendedahan terhadap karektor ini.
Beberapa hari lalu, Shahrir Samad muncul di kaca TV, Bernama.
Seronok betul dia bercakap mengenai tidak berkesannya jika harga minyak naik sposen sposen sposen.
Amboi, sposen ya?
Dia juga bercakap mengenai subsidi yang mencecah biliyon.
Amboi, biliyon ya?
Kata Shahrir Samad, inilah suatu gempar. Satu kejutan, untuk mengajar rakyat supaya menukar gaya hidup.
Umpamanya bawa kereta tidak laju.
Che wah!
Itulah di antara kata Sharir Samad perihal rasionalnya menaikkan harga petrol dan diesel untuk mengajar rakyat.
Tetapi bila ada kumpulan dari sebuah parti menyentuh perihal potongan elaun para Menteri, kata Shahrir Samad, itu tidak rasional.
Berapakah elaun ini, berbanding gaji minima tuntutan MTUC?
Benarlah bila Abdullah Ahmad Badawi itu pemimpin yang lemah, maka akan ada lah pemimpin lain seperti Sharir Samad, yang boleh berbiliyon jika kena pada rakyat, dan boleh sposen, bila time kena pada dirinya.
Ini macam orang pun ada...
Tun
Good suggestion that need to be explored by the respective advisor to our PM.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
saya seorang penuntut di sebuah universiti tempatan. Baru berusia 21 tahun. Saya amat mengagumi Tun dari segi sumbangan dan pembaharuan yang telah tun berikan untuk Malaysia.
Seharusnya bagi sebuah negara pengeluar komoditi minyak (Petronas untung 70 billions last year), seharusnya pemberian subsidi minyak tidaklah memberikan satu masalah yang besar.
Jika pun untuk mengapungkan harga minyak dan menaikkan harga komoditi ini, seharusnya dengan peningkatan berperingkat menjadi tindakan yang paling relevan.
Bukan semua lapisan masyarakat mampu untuk menampung kos ini.
teruskanlah menembak ke arah AAB dan sekutunya. saya selaku generasi baru mengharapkan barisan kepimpinan yang berani dan lantang seperti suatu ketika tun menjadi Prime Minister.
Semoga Tun dan Tun Dr Siti Hasmah panjang umur dan terus memberi yang terbaik untuk Malaysia.
Amirul, UiTM
Salam Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
Consumer affairs minister, Shahrir Samad says there were no direct subsidy from Petronas???
What are these oil subsidies??? This is a hoax story to hoodwink the general public on the believe that there are the purported subsidies. There are no subsidies only a hoax to cheat the Malaysian masses. Every crude oil producing countries allocate a percentage their production for domestic consumption and the balance for export to earn foreign exchange. What is this nett producer & nett exporter of crude oil talking of the oil subsidies??? Look at Brunei & Saudi Arabia and the many more crude oil exporting countries do, both and all are nett producers & nett exporters of crude oil, there are no changes in the prices at their pumps for both petrol and diesel despite the whopping Crude Oil prices now reaching US$139/- per barrel, they are all enjoying boom and boost to their State Coffers with the greatest windfall of all times with record foreign reserves’ balances and also a boost to their economies, so why are we seeing the reverse in Malaysia??? There is obviously mismanagement of the funds from the power that be. Where are the windfall profits for Petronas gone to from the nett exports before or after being handed over to the Government??? A royal commission should be formed to investigate where have all the profits/funds earned from the exports had gone to???
Remove this deadly cancerous orang minyak/moron, cut & throw out that rotten tyranny!!!
It is the right time that this grossly rotten, corrupt and incompetent flip flop tyranny called big flop orang minyak that remove the hoax fuel subsidies & increase the electricity tariffs should also be removed… & to accomplish this, all & whoever, MPs from both BN or Pakatan Rakyat, it is your call now and as all the people of Malaysia are firmly behind you to remove this rot. Cannot imagine that a nett producer & nett exporter of Crude Oil has to do this, look at all the other crude oil nett exporters, there are no increases of prices of Petrol & Diesel at their pumps as both & all are nett producers and nett exporters of Crude Oil and they are now enjoying a boost to their state coffers & economies with a whopping windfall in oil prices of the current US$139/- per barrel that earned them huge foreign exchange reserves from their Crude Oil exports. But in Malaysia the reverse is true as there is no boost to the economy, but only sadness prevailed because the foreign exchange reserves from Crude Oil nett exports earned are poorly managed or badly mis-managed and no one knows where all the profits over the years had gone and we are saying a (large chunk of) the 700 or more Billions earned had disappeared and there is no accountability by the tyranny orang minyak/moron power that be. Otherwise, we will be having a boom time, our state coffers will be flushing with cash/gold bars and a great boost to our economy and we should be celebrating and why that stupid bloke orang minyak/moron is projecting gloom at this wonderful time. All the monies earned by Petronas must have been woefully squandered & cheated by this orang minyak/moron or Petronas' President & CEO Datuk Hassan Marican must have badly mis-managed the windfall earnings by selling our Malaysian sweet crude forward at poor low prices and buying low grade crude oil at a hefty high prices now for local consumption??? If that is the case all Malaysians including those unborn ones have been betrayed by this cancerous Orang Minyak/Moron who has caused all these serious crimes, anarchies, chaos and inflations beyond comprehensions owing to the greed & mis-management by this cancerous corrupted power hungry Moron/Orang Minyak who intended to stick to power beyond his welcome!!!
TDM and those who mislead recent Government's removal of petrol subsidies:
1/ The Government had to resort to removing the subsidies, to counter the effects left behind by the previous administration which quadrupled the increase of on-road vehicles by it's improper regulations (i.e. Proton - need I spell it out?) and inability to control the number of new vehicles in a year - what planning did TDM have on this?
2/ The Government had to resort to removing the subsidies, that will cause economic chaos if allowed to prolong as it will indirectly burden cost of living - the continued subsidies result in the Government not spending enough on critical areas such as health care, internal security and education.
3/ The Government decided on a single logical amount so not to impact it's citizen's with multiple small increases which will demoralise the people (as it does in developed countries such as USA and Australia). In Australia, not only have there been 4 increases in banks interest rate in last 17 months, but 5 increases in petrol prices in last 12 months, all because they cannot control the escalating cost of petrol globally.
4/ The Government recognises that malpractises by Petronas and it's advisory board, led none other than by TDM has affected the Government to set counter measures. I hope it will now audit Petronas for it's performance and practises over last 14 years. Petronas like Proton has indirectly affected Malaysian economy because of it's monopoly!
5/ Whatever the Government does by Pak Lah and his economic team from here on is to address some of the economic stress left behind by his predecessor. TDM cannot stand and claim his lack of poor decisions, as well global conditions are affecting this Government's ability as with most other govts. of the world to handle economic stress.
-Ravi
Dear Tun, Here is my comment for Your view....
WHAT IS NEVER MENTIONED IN Mainstream Media like NST/TheStar/ Utusan/BH are these facts....
Malaysian PerCapita Income USD 5000
VS
Singaporean PerCapita Income USD 25000
Further The Star made a comparison of prices in Thailand , Singapore and Indonesia ..
For Thailand it is quoted at RM3.90/liter, however are they aware that in Thailand new cars are cheaper than Malaysia by RM10,000? They pay only one life time for their driving license? No renewal fee after that? Also that goes for road tax as well? And do TheStar also aware that you can drive all the way from Hadtyai to Bangkok on a six lane highway without paying any Tolls ??!!
Whereas here in Malaysia you have to pay yearly renewal for road tax , driving license and TOLLS, TOLLS, TOLLS!!!
For Singapore how can you quote RM 5.20 ? Please quote in Singapore Dollars because they are earning in Sing Dollars. You might as well say Europeans are paying RM10/liter. RM5.20/liter = Sing $ 2.20/liter, still cheaper than Malaysia in view of fact that Singapore is not a crude oil exporter. Are you saying that you fill up petrol in Singapore by paying Ringgit?
In economy, dollar to dollar must be compared as apple to apple. Not comparing like durian in M'sia is much cheaper than durian in Japan !! Of course-lah, Japan is not durian producer!!! Comparing Malaysian durian with Thailand durian make more sense!!
For Indonesia we might say is cheaper there at RM2.07/liter but compare that to their level of income!
Now, let us compare the price with OIL PRODUCING countries:
UAE - RM1.19/litre
Eygpt - RM1.03/litre
Bahrain - RM0.87/litre
Qatar - RM0.68/litre
Kuwait - RM0.67/litre
Saudi Arabia - RM0.38/litre
Iran - RM0.35/litre
Nigeria - RM0.32/litre
Turkmenistan - RM0.25/litre
Venezuela - RM0.16/litre
MALAYSIA - RM2.70/litre
RM 2.70!!! Individual perspective:
As of last month a Toyota Vios would 'cause a damage' of about RM 89,000.
In the international market, a Toyota Vios is about USD 19,000
USD 19,000 = RM 62,700 (using the indicative rates of USD 1 = RM 3.30)
That makes Malaysian Vios owners pay an extra RM 26,300.
This RM 26,300 should be cost of operations, profit and tax because the transportation costs have been factored in to the USD 19,000.
RM 26,300/ RM625 petrol rebate per year translates to a Vios being used for 42.08 years.
I do understand that the RM 625 is a rebate given by the government, but it also means that one has to use the Vios for 42.08 years just to make back the amount paid in taxes for the usage of a foreign car. Would anyone use any kind of car for that long?
Now with these numbers in front of us, does the subsidy sound like a subsidy or does it sound like a penalty? This just seems to be a heavy increment in our daily cost of living as we are not only charged with high car taxes but also with a drastic increase in fuel price.
With all the numbers listed out, I urge all Malaysians to join me in analyzing the situation further.
Car taxation is government profit, fuel sales is Petronas' (GLC) profit which also translates into government profit. The government may ridicule us Malaysians by saying look at the world market and fuel price world wide. Please, we are Malaysians, we fought of the British, had a international port in the early centuries (Malacca), home to a racially mixed nation and WE ARE NOT STUPID!!!
We know the international rates are above the USD 130/barrel. We understand the fact that the fuel prices are increasing worldwide and we also know that major scientist are still contradicting on why this phenomenon is happening. Some blame Bush and his plunders around the world and some blame climate change and there are others which say petroleum 'wells' are getting scarce.
Again we go back to numbers to be more straight fwd
1 barrel = 159 liters x RM2.70/liter = RM 429 or USD 134
On 1 hand, we are paying the full cost of 1 barrel of crude oil with RM2.70 per liter but on the other hand the crude oil only produces 46% of fuel.
Msia sells crude oil per barrel at USD130 buys back Fuel per barrel at USD134. And not forgetting, every barrel of fuel is produced with 2 barrels of crude oil.
1 barrel crude oil = produce 46% fuel (or half of crude oil), therefore
2 barrel crude oil = approximately 1 barrel fuel
In other words, each time we sell 2 barrels of crude oil, equivalently we will buy back 1 barrel of fuel.
Financially,
Malaysia sell 2 barrel crude oil @ USD 130/barrel = USD 260 = RM 858
then, Malaysia will buy back fuel @ USD 134/barrel = RM 442/barrel
Thus, Malaysia earn net extra USD 126 = RM 416 for each 2 barrel of crude sold/exported vs imported 1 barrel of fuel !!!
(USD 260-134 = USD 126 = RM416)
So where this extra USD 126/barrel income is channeled to by Malaysian Govt???????? ?
Another analysis:
1 barrel crude oil = 159 liters.
46-47% of a barrel of crude oil = fuel that we use in our vehicles.
46% of 159 = 73.14 liters.
@ RM 2.70/liter x 73.14 liter = RM197.48 of fuel per barrel of crude oil. This is only 46% of the barrel, mind you. Using RM 3.30 = USD 1, we get that a barrel of crude oil produces USD 59.84 worth of petrol fuel (46% of 1barrel).
USD 59.84 of USD 130/barrel turns out to be 46% of a barrel as well.
Another 54% = bitumen, kerosene, and natural gases and so many more.
And this makes a balance of USD 70.16 that has not been accounted for.
So this is where I got curious. Where is the subsidy if we are paying 46% of the price of a barrel of crude oil when the production of petrol/barrel of crude oil is still only 46%?
In actual fact, we still pay for this as they are charged in the forms of fuel surcharge by airlines and road taxes for the building of road (because they use the tar/bitumen) and many more excuse charging us but let us just leave all that out of our calculations.
As far as I know, only the politicians who live in Putra jaya and come for their Parliament meetings in Kuala Lumpur (approximately 60+ km) are the ones to gain as they claim their fuel and toll charges from the money of the RAKYAT's TAX.
It is so disappointing to see this happen time and time again to the Malaysian public, where they are deceived by the propaganda held by the politicians and the controls they have over the press.
Which stupid idiot economist equates rebates for rich or poor with the cc of the vehicles? An average office clerk may own a second hand 1300cc proton Iswara costing $7,000 (rebate = $625) while the Datuk's children can own a fleet of 10 new cars of BMW, Audi and Volvo all less than 2000cc costing $2 millions and get a total rebate of $625 x 10 = $6,250! Wow what kind of economists we are keeping in Malaysia ...wonder which phD certificate that they bought from...
Misleading concept of Subsidy:
The word "subsidy" has been brandished by the BN government as if it has so generously helped the rakyat and in doing so incurred losses. This simple example will help to explain the fallacy:
Example:
Ahmad is a fisherman. He sells a fish to you at $10 which is below the market value of $15. Let's assume that he caught the fish from the abundance of the sea at little or no cost. Ahmad claims that since the market value of the fish is $15 and he sold you the fish for $10, he had subsidised you $5 and therefore made a loss of $5.
Question : Did Ahmad actually make a profit of $10 or loss of $5 which he claimed is the subsidy?
Answer:
Ahmad makes a profit of $10 which is the difference of the selling price ($10) minus the cost price ($0 since the fish was caught from the abundance of the sea). There is no subsidy as claimed by Ahmad.
The BN government claims that it is a subsidy because the oil is kept and treated as somebody else's property (you know who). By right, the oil belongs to all citizens of the country and the government is a trustee for the citizens. So as in the above simple example, the BN government cannot claim that it has subsidised the citizen!
Dear Tun,
While I do not agree with your view on race equality and governance, I do respect you for your intellect.
You have always had a more visionary view of things.
Labour intensive and export based industries may have been the right decision in 1970 but in a more affluent society of 2008, this will create social problems and retard the local economy.
There are already too many legal and illegal immigrants in the country, the recession will make this fact even more painful to our society when it comes.
Dear Tun
I long for a person to lead us all from this energy and economic crisis. Back during the currency crisis, when DSAI looks for a cure mandated by the WEST, you came back from Argentina and you straight away points to the real culprits, which are those currency traders that make tons of money at the expense of other developing countries.
I remember back then, how the so called world great economist, has branded you as a dangerous person to malaysia. You even has a traitor amongst your direct circle. This history is about to repeat itself.
Now, we Malaysian and the World are facing an endemic crisis that seems to spiral out of control.
I again seek the wisdom of my Dear Tun Doctor to began looking at out of box solution and help us and the world.
From the many documentaries and the reports on ASTRO, I can deduce that the real gainers from this energy crisis are the commodity traders in Wall Streets that seemingly have endless "data" to support the raising oil prices. But what is more striking is that it is not the oil that was extracted that is lacking but rather the refineries that are not able to keep up with the demand, of which the traders in Wall Streets are using the stock of inventories to start hedging. These traders needs investment to support such trading and I believe the investment comes from the banks in the rich and developed countries. We all know that most of the banks in Americas is suffering from huge losses due to the sub prime loan. I would think, then, the only way to recover from such losses would be to support in energy trading.
Dear Tun Doctor
I again seek your help and ideas to look for this cure and help this country again, just like you did back in 1998.
Maybe we can build a national state own refinery, buy sour crude and refine for internal consumption for the rakyat. I am not asking for a price of $1.00 per liter but at $2.30 per liter would be reasonable enough.
A refinery can cost anyway between USD 3 to 4 billion and can take 3 years to complete. You, with the Malaysia Boleh can do anything and take on the world.
Sadly, we Malaysian now, seems to be very passive and cannot compete.
Dear Tun
This economic crisis can consume this nation. These crisis has affected ALL but I felt that the Malays are the one who suffer the most. Now the divide is much larger and time is pressing.
Dear Tun
I pray that you and your family will always be in Allah good hands.
Yaa Allah. Hamba hamba mu di bumi Malaysia ini perlukan KEPIMPINAN. Bukakan hati mereka mereka SEMUA yang di pertanggung jawabkan untuk melaksanakan tugas dengan penuh luhur dan amanah. ( Doa ini saya tujukan kepada orang UMNO )
Salam
Salam Tun..
Sekarang baru semua rakyat Malaysia merasa kehilangan seorang pemerintah seperti Tun.. dan secara tidak langsung merasakan satu kecelakaan bila mendapat pemimpin yang kurang cerdik dalam mentadbirkan negara...
Saya syorkan Pak Lah terus meneliti setiap ungkapan di blog ini supaya dia sedar betapa rakyat Malaysia amat sedih dan sesal tak sudah bila beliau terus menjadi PM dan harap-harap dia cepat berundur dari arena ini..
Pada dasarnya Pak Lah dan kuncu-kuncunyalah merupakan pelingkup parti Barisan Nasional yang kita sayangi..
Hidup Tun.. semoga beroleh sihat dan sejahtera selalu
Dear Che Det, Tun
You are even now delving into the secret world of the global oil industry - the mechanism, intrigues, and politics.
Alhamdulillah. I commend you your due diligence.
It said that the great master of thieves would study their mark such that they and their mark are one till their theivings deeds discovered too late; and the deed is kept secret by the victim for reasons only known to the closest of circle.
Alhamdulillah, Tun; but you are not applying yourself pragmatically.
I do hope to read more from you about the oil industry, Che Det.
Best wishes to you, Dr Siti Hasmah and family.
ps maybe you could refresh your sons Mokhzani and Mukhriz about the financial and oil 'industry'.
Perhaps they can figure out for you a solution that will be most beneficial to the Muslims Community - which I hope the setting of the MC foundation will be done by you and your friends muslim soon. Ameen.
i am your greatest admirer!
I have been studying economics and has been admiring and seen all the smart and clever decisions as well as contributions that you have made for Malaysia.
but, I am extremely sad with the current fluctuating situations which is happening in Malaysia. Especially the increase of the 'oil price.'
Government cant subsidize us? well, i don really agree with that.
They said we have to pay for the real price for the petrol. What about the real price of the car?
The government has incurred taxes to every car to be sold in Malaysia. I believe the taxes we paid for the cars are more than enough to cover and subsidize to our petrol. strictly speaking, could consider that we pay for the petrol in advance. If it is true that the government want us to bear the real price of the petrol, then they should not incurred any taxes towards the cars we purchased.
How i wish... The Brilliant Dr Mahathir is still leading us.
Anyway, Thanks a million to you and also thanks to your contributions to Malaysia. Wish you well and take good care.
salam tun,
Wife aku pun tak sanggup tgk aku sakit poket ujung bulan, malam tadi beliau buat keputusan untuk berenti belajar. dan kami akan pindah balik ke Seri Kembangan ujung bulan ni. Satu keputusan yg amat menyedihkan, tapi kami terpaksa menerimanya. Nak duduk asrama, anak aku nak letak mana pula…tak terjaga. Satu keluarga menangis mlm tadi. Wife aku nangis sebab dia kena berenti belajar, aku nangis sebab terharu dengan keputusan wife, anak aku nangis sebab tgk mak ayah dia nangis…terima kasih kerajaan malaysia….
ini adalah rintihan dr seorang suami.. adakah ini akan berlaku kepada org yg kurang kemampuan??
salam Tun,
Tun please do something to help us...
orang yang berpendapatan rendah macam kami ni la yang tersepit...
pengumuman untuk mengurangkan elaun menteri dah dibuat... dengar cam best jeeerr, konon menteri pun turut sama nak menanggung akibat dari kenaikan harga barang nii....
dah tuuu, apa lagi PAK LAH???? turun kan laaah balik harga minyak...
kalau keputusan jual minyak pada foreigner boleh buat dlm masa 2-3 ari... di harap keputusan untuk MENGEMBALIKAN SEMULA KECERIAAN KEHIDUPAN RAKYAT MALAYSIA pun dpt dibuat sepantas itu jugaaak....
saya tengok, rakyat MALAYSIA tak berapa nak senyum dah skrg nii...
"SENYUMLAH, SENYUMLAAAAHHH...
WAHAI.... CIK MEK MOLEK... SENYUMLAH, SENYUMLAAAH, WAHAI CIK MEK MOLEEK..." itu kan lagu yang melambangkan rakyat malaysia?????
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Minta izin nak tumpangkan article ini, insya'allah boleh dilakukan oleh rakyat Malaysia.
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HOW to force Oil companies Reducing their Petrol Price!!!!
YOU have a choice!
THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY PETROL FOR ONE DAY', BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW CAR OWNERS CAN GET GASOLINE PRICE DOWN TO US$2.00 PER GALLON BY JUST FORWARDING THIS EMAIL TO 10 PEOPLE!!!
This idea was written out by a retired Coca Cola Executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton, an oil exploration company in U.S. If you are tired of the gasoline price is going up and up, AND it will continue to rise, take time to read this please.
Mr Phillip Hollsworth offered his good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the don't buy gasoline on a certain day' campaign that was going around last year April or May!
It's worth your effort to join the campaign!!!!
I heard that price of petrol going to hit close to US$ 4.00 a gallon by next summer, and it might go up higher!
YOU want gasoline prices to come down?
All we need to do is we must take some intelligent, UNITED ACTION NOW.
The oil companies laughed at us on last year 'Don't Buy Petrol For One day Campaign' because they knew we wouldn't continue to 'hurt' ourselves by refusing to buy gasoline. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem to the oil companies. This time is different because consumers have the power to bring down the price of goods!!! This is a plan that can really work. Please read on and join us!
You're probably thinking that gasoline priced at about $2.00/gallon is normal due to oil price has hit all time high of US$118/barrel!!!
The oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the only way for the gasoline price is up, medias reporting brisk car sales in China and India, power hungry nations building more power plants to grow their economy, the growth of dragon (China) and elephant (India) will gobble up most of the world resources; oil reserve going down and depleting in 50 years time, this is how we are being conditioned (brain washed).
NOW we need to act together to show them (oil companies and OPEC) that BUYERS can control the marketplace...not sellers.
The only way we are going to see the price of gas coming down to a reasonable level is if we hit oil companies' revenue by not buying their products! And, we can do it WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
HOW? Since many of us owned and rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gasoline!!!!
But we CAN have an impact on gas price if we all act together to force a price war among the oil companies!!!
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T buy gasoline from the two biggest companies, EXXON-MOBIL and SHELL, some car owners being brain washed to use a particular brand of petrol in order to keep their car engines in tip top condition which is not true, any brand will work well for your cars, you can reconfirm this if you have a friend who is a petroleum engineer, If not, just fill up your tank with another brand which you never used before to confirm it.
When the oil companies that we are boycotting are not selling any gas for a week, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit; oil companies work like a cartel!!!!
To have an impact, we need to reach! Literally millions of Exxon-Mobil and SHELL gas buyers…In the past, it was an uphill task but now, it's really simple to reach millions even billions of people. Keep reading and I will show you how to do it through the power of internet.
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x10 =3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! This 300 millions people just email this to 5 of his/her contacts, we reached 1.5 billions people!!!
Are you excited as I am? All you have to do is send this to 10 people or more if you can, it’s so simple, isn't it? Just Do it! OK???
(If you don't understand how we can reach 1500 MILLIONS people and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.
How long would all this take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten or more people within one day of receipt, all 1,500 MILLION people could be contacted within the next 9 days!!!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had so much power, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.
If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we don't buy from EXXON-MOBIL and SHELL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
Thank you
Phillip Hollsworth
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But, please buy petrol and petroleum product from our national oil company, PETRONAS only.
Wassalam
Terong Pipit
Entertainment for PM RM18,864. TPM RM15,015. M RM12,320. DM RM6000. Not including all the other allowances, including tips allowances which run into hundreds of ringgit a day, which ministers and deputy ministers are entitled to!
I wonder who are the ministers supposedly entertaining (in private). As far as I know they are being entertained.....
How many MPs do we need? Sarawak has 31, Sabah 25, Johor 26, Selangor 22, Perak 24, etc. The MP for Putrajaya only service 6608 voters !!! Compare the amount of work that he can contribute with that of another MP, say Batu Gajah??? Malaysia needs to do more trimmings !
Its a cut & paste but WORTH sharing
GO FIGURE !!
Subject: Pantun Minyak
"pantun minyak"
Ari nie tah hari berapa Pak Lah jadi PM kami
Memang dari dulu kami sokong sampai lani
Tapi hari nie, buka mata, senak perut anak bini
Tengok Pak Lah habag minyak naik lagi
Memang kami tak tau pasai ekonomi
Yang tau semua Pak Lah ngan kroni
Tapi sampai bila nak jadi lagu nie
Dapat gaji habis tak berbaki
Pak Lah habag tak boleh buat apa
Nie semua ekonomi dunia
Kalau tak naik nanti dunia kata apa
Habis tu yang rakyat dok menderita, tak pa ka
Dulu Pak Lah kata nak jaga rakyat
Kunun Pak lah nak kerja sama sama dengan rakyat
Nie dok nampak macam nak telan kederat
Dok nampak kami yang nak melarat
Pak Lah kata masalah rakyat nak ambik berat
Kunun tak mau tengok rakyat hidup melarat
Tapi kalau macam nie punya sarat
Darah rakyat pun boleh sejat
Kerajaan ada kata rakyat manja subsidi
Kunun asyik kerajaan saja dok bagi
Sapa kata kami rakyat tak pernah bagi
Tu...yang lima tahun sekali tu....sapa bagi??
Tiap kali naik harga, dok banding sini sana
Hampa tengok, kat Thailand lagi mahai dari kita
Apa jenis depa punya kira
Awat tak ikut pulak Brunai punya harga
Brunai tak leh kira
depa punya minyak berlambak tak terkira
Awat, minyak Malaysia tak dak harga ka?
kalau tidak, tak kan jual minyak kita beli minyak depa
Ada Petronas pun tak leh buat apa
Ada duit sikit, dah nak mengada
Pi buat segala menara pagoda kembaq dua
Nak tunjuk, kami la kaya
Petronas kata kami tak tau apa
Kerajaan yang buat kira bicara
Kami ikut apa depa kata
Royalti jadi ehsan pun kami tak leh kata apa
Kunun dok habag petronas hak rakyat semua
Pakailah minyak petronas, nanti untung dapat kat kita
Nie, nak tanya la....tiap tahun untung beribu juta
Rakyat dapat apa ????? kudis buta....
Hari nie petrol naik, tahan la lagi
Tengok pulak apa cerita esok pagi
Habis ikan, ayam, cabai sampai ke cili
depa pun sama tumbas naik sekali
Nanti ada la menteri tolong bercakap
Sapa naik harga dia nak pi tangkap
Sampai bila la dia nie nak ubah sikap
Ingat yang dok meniaga kat market tu heran kot dia punya cakap
Pak Lah mau renung nasib kami
Kais hari nie makan untuk kemarin pagi
Anak kecik pun dok ada lagi
Boleh hidup ka kami lagu nie
Dah tak larat nak tanggung cukai
Sini cukai, sana cukai
Dari tanah sampai ke pintu punya ada cukai
Dah sampai masa kot Pak Lah kena guna akai
Jangan dok ingat rakyat macam Pak Lah
Gaji berpuluh ribu hidup tak susah
Ada anak pulak bisnes sebelah sebelah
Dapat tender pun tak payah susah susah
Kami rakyat bukan macam tu
Malah la nie pun dah ada rebus siput babi dgan batu
Sedih sungguh ohhhh negara ku
Biar tak merdeka terus pun tak la kalau lagu tu
Dah sampai masa Pak Lah ingat
Selesai masalah rakyat cepat cepat
Nanti kot rakyat naik meluat
satu undi pun Pak Lah tak dapat
Cukup la sampai di sini
Tobat dah...aku tak mengundi BN kali nie
Parti Barang Naik pulak kot jadi depa lani
Kot ada sapa nak Barang Naik lagi undi la depa lagi...
All our comments here will NOT be heard by the Badawi Goverment. Even though he said : "We hear U...!"
Yeah.... right!
I personally feel that Malaysia is no longer a peaceful & fruitful place. Crime, demostrations, bribery, brainless Goverment, PM who know nothing but act like smarty pants, sleeping Zzzzz.., aiyaaaah... so much more lah!
People use to call u old man & shut up, give Badawi a chance to run Malaysia are now asking "Tolong Tun! Why is Badawi like that?" "I agree with u!"
YUP! Now Badawi is running the country. To the gutters (longkang) that is!
Badawi still has many years to do that.
Oh well! We are just human.
So...! Really Tun, how now? Malaysia IS my country !
Assalamualaikum Tun
Kepada Tun yang dikasihi setelah minyak niak hampir seminggu saya rasakan di Malaysia kehidupan sama taraf di London.
Pak Lah telah berjaya menaikan taraf hidup rakyat Malaysia dengan cara menaikan harga minyak. Opss taraf hidup kaum kerabat yang menaikan harga minyak je..
Saya ada satu cadangan supaya kakitangan kerajaan dibenarkan melibatkan diri dalam perniagaan dan berdaftar atas nama Enterprise atau Sdn Bhd.Ini dapat membantu taraf ekonomi warga kakitangan kerajaan.
Kalau tak boleh kenapa sesetengah orang besar ada perniagaan sendiri secara tersorok?
Saya telah mencipta cara jimat minyak 100% dan very practical kalau nak cuba.
Layarilah http://www.funtoosurf.com untuk menonton video saya.
Sekian Terima kasih.
Salam Tun...
Saya baru je dapat tau dan terus melawat serta membaca laman ini.... Saya rasa sangat berbangga kerana Malaysia ada seorang tokoh seperti Tun.. Namun kuasa dan ketamakkan telah membutakan orang orang yang sepatutnya berganding bahu dan bekerjasama dengan Tun untuk membina kemakmuran negara ini... Namum saya masih tetap berbangga menjadi penyokong di belakang Tun... We'll always be with you...
Tun,
i have read a number of comments posted on this topic and found some of it very interesting.
there is nothing much we can do about the fuel price increase as it is a global issue but the government could have handled it better to cushion the impact on the people.the restructuring of the subsidies has not been communicated down well to the people causing them to be taken aback by the huge inrease.
as the crude oil continue to rise,the fuel price will be reviewed on a monthly basis and hence there is more to come.
the government has advised the people to change their lifestyle to cope with the rising cost of living by promoting public transportations.i very much agree with the move by the government but they have to do their bit first.
it is good the the government carried out a major overhaul on the public transportations by consolidating the bus and train services under one entity called the Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad(SPNB) but there is still much to be improved.as the train services are not very much interconnected,the feeder bus service needs to be upgraded to maintain a certain standards of service.
i believe SPNB has set out the standards for the feeder bus service but are these standards being met?i do not think it is very much happening here and this is what they need to look into.if they need to provide more buses to maintain the standards,say at a frequency of every 15 minutes once,do it.if the government feels that they need to further subsidize public transportations for that matter,then be it.
once the level of efficiency of the public transportations has improved,the SPNB should then embark on campaigns and roadshows to promote the same to the people.
i believe by undertaking the above only we can change the people's mindset towards public transportations and thus changing the people's lifestyle.
regards,
worriedaboutoilprice
Salam Tun,
Today the PM annouced creating RM 2 billion in savings.
Whats this? its like looking for money to pay off his mistakes.
For the last 4 years,so much taxpayer money have been pumped into projects tapi hasil pun tak nampak.
If PM and gang betul-betul buat strategy dan jimat cermat dulu semua ini tak akan jadi.
I'm sad that we have to pay for his mistake.
Slip Pendapatan Bulanan bagi Menteri Penuh Malaysia termasuk Ketua-Ketua Menteri:
1. Gaji Pokok RM18,000
2. Elaun Keraian RM10,500.00
3. Elaun Perumahan RM10,800.00
4. Elaun Wakil Rakyat RM10,650.00
5. Elaun parking RM 5,700.00
Jumlah pendapatan bulanan RM55,650.00 yang wajib diterima sama ada sakit atau tidak bekerja:-
Lain-lain kemudahan
1. Bercuti keluar negara sekali setahun terutama selepas persidangan Dewan Negara- semua perbelanjaan ditanggung oleh kerajaan termasuk tiket penerbangan, hotel, duit poket sebanyak RM50,000.00. Kalau tidak bercuti keluar negara seorang menteri boleh menuntut sebanyak RM50,000.00 tanpa resit.
2. Bil letrik percuma ditanggung oleh kerajaan Malaysia
3. Bil Air percuma ditanggung oleh kerajaan Malaysia
4. Bil telefon percuma ditanggung oleh kerajaan Malaysia
5. Peruntukan perkakasan dapor/perhiasan rumah dan lain-lain boleh dituntut setahun sekali sebanyak RM40,000.00
6. Sebuah kereta Mercedes S320, di lengkapi dengan telefon bimbit,satu pemandu,minyak percuma.Kalau guna khidmat pemandu kementerian, dapatlah duit percuma.
7. Semua pemberian derma seperti kepada perkahwinan, kematian,atau pemberian kepada badan kebajikan kebajikan boleh dituntut.
8. Boleh mengadakan rumah terbuka setiap hari raya, segala perbelanjaan ditanggung oleh kerajaan. Kebiasaan Menteri menuntut sebanyak RM400,000.00
9. Setiap menteri biasanya tuntutan mereka sebanyak RM45,000.00 semua elaun perbelanjaan tidak termasuk elaun-elaun dalam slip pendapatan bulanan.
Slip Pendapatan Bulanan Bagi Timbalan Menteri ialah:-
1. Gaji Pokok RM15,000
2. Elaun Keraian RM9,500.00
3. Elaun Perumahan RM9,800.00
4. Elaun Wakil Rakyat RM10,650.00
5. Elaun parking RM 5,700.00
Jumlah pendapatan bulanan RM50,650.00 yang wajib terima samada sakit atau tidak hadir bertugas.
Tun: i am glad you mentioned about GDP pe capita. Just curious that when you were running the government, did you consider this when you propose the toli for NS hway and around KL?
even before you moved out from your office, it seems to me that the cost to operate a car in malaysia is much higher than singapore after you take into the account of toll and as price relative to per capital income.
i am not attracking you but it is nice to know that you are still a clear minded person.
anyway, the current problem is not one's problem. It is a world issue.
pleae take good care of your health and maybe this country may need your opinions in one fine day. this blog is a good channel to voice your ideas. every one is listening but i hope your could limit your actions that inspire others only.
Lastly, petronas salvage Bank Bumi a few times, this funds are belong to malaysian, during your ays in office, do you think it was a right decision to salvage them with our future generation resources? they fund should have been used for upstream exploration or other activities. The current situation may be a different one if we have manage the funds in better returns.
p/s- generally, i dont think you have done an excellent job too during your days in office. some may think so, but i am still reserved to think about this question in detail.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Apa yang sedang berlaku sekarang amat menyedihkan. Tanya semua rakyat, tak kira penyokong atau pembakang , kakitangan kerajaan atau swasta, orang bandar atau orang kampong semuanya sedang menyumpah kerajaan.. Jika tiada sesuatu dilakukan segera maka nama-nama pemimpin sekarang akan tercatat dalam sejarah Malaysia sebagai yang paling lemah, bodoh dan kejam. Kelemahan kepimpinan dan ketandusan idea mereka telah diambil kesempatan dan menafaat olih rakan dan musoh mereka dengan sebaik-baiknya.
Bukan saja orang, malah menantu kesayangan PAKLAH yang bijaksana itu juga sedang mengunakan kedudukkan beliau sebagai PM untuk kepentingan Peribadi. Mungkin disebabkan keegoaan dan kesombongan beliau sebagai PM, maka beliau menafikan kenyataan ini, tetapi tindak tandok beliau menjelaskan segalanya, Sebagai contoh, apa kepentingan pasokan Myteam kepada negara hingaa beliau sebagai PM sanggup pergi melihat perlawanan mereka. Tak cukup dengan itu beliau sanggup turun melihat pasokan itu menjalani latehan. Malah rakyat tertanya-tanya bagaimana FAM yang telah memberi kata putus untuk tidak menentang pasokan Myteam dan menghantar kedua-dua pasokan ke Singapora untuk menjalani latehan, tiba-tiba memanggil pulang pemain-pemain mereka sebaik saja PM pulang dari luar negara pada pagi hari perlawanan tersebut.
Walaupun PM bukan saorang lulusan sejarah Malaysia, tapi saya cadangkan supaya beliau belajar dari sejarah kerana banyak yang bolih beliau perolihi agar tidak mengulangi sejarah hitam yang pernah dialami olih pemimpin lain. Anwar Ibrahim jatoh kerana Nalakarupan, nama baik Tun tercemar kerana Lingam, Sultan Melaka juga dikianati olih jenis orang yang sama. Kini menantu PM bagitu rapat dengan Tony Fernandes hingga beliau berani mencabar Idris Jala untuk berdebat secara Terbuka. PM sendiri tentu tahu bahawa orang jenis ini tak ubah seperti lalang. Lihat sendiri bagaimana mereka melayan orang Islam di India dan tindakan mereka di Sri Langka. Saya bukan meminta PM melayan mereka sebagai rakyat kelas dua, tetapi PM dan pemimpin Melayu yang lain jangan mudah terbuai dengan pujian mereka yang penoh dengan muslihat. PM harus ingatkan menantu kesayanngannya bahawa dia bukanlah sebijak mana jika dibandingkan dengan orang lain. Kalau dia bijak dan berpengalaman, dia tidak akan membuang masa berkempen dan membawa balik pelajar-pelajar universiti untuk mengundi. Sebagai bekas pemimpin pelajar, PM tentu tahu bahawa pelajar-pelajar universiti kebanyakannya bersikap anti-establishment. Jadi menantu beliau sebenarnya telah membantu pembangkang dengan membawa balik penyokong mereka.
Saya berharap PM tidak dibuai mimpi indah dan tertipu dengan pujian Ezam yang memberi alasan kemasokan beliau kedalam UMNO kerana ingin menyokong langkah perubahan dan sikap keterbukaan beliau. Terimalah hakikat bahawa sikap kerterbukaan dan perubahan yang dilakukan olih beliau setakat ini tidak menambah pendapatan rakyat sedikit pun. Kalau setakat membenarkan rakyat bersuara tetapi semua cadangan dan rungutan hanya masok telinga kiri keluar telinga kanan apa faedahnya. Tindakan beliau yang terburu-buru menaikkan harga minyak tampa perangcangan yany rapi dan tindakan susulan yang konkrit dan berkesan, telah menarik turun kuasa beli dan taraf hidup rakyat dengan terok. Tampa kuasa beli rakyat yang kukoh, seluruh perkembangan ekonomi dan pembangunan negara akan terbantut. Saya tertanya-tanya bagaimana saorang PM yang dikelilingi olih mentari-menteri dan penasihat-penasihat yang bijak bolih mengambil tindakan terburu-buru keatas isu yang bagitu penting dan memberi kesan kepada negara dari segenap aspek, tampa difikirkan secara teliti. Tampa perlu berada didalam mesyuarat kabenet pun, sesaorang bolih membuat kesimpulan bahawa tindakan ini di buat secara hentam kromo. Kalau tidak masakan Shahril Samad perlu bercakap seperti Yahudi. Pagi cakap lain, petang cakap lain dan malam cakap lain. Hari ini haramkan jualan minyak pada warga asing tapi besok bolih pula. Hari ini kata harga minyak akan dikaji setiap bulan, besok pula kata akan dikaji bila cukup tempoh setahun. Kalau urus kedai runcit macam ni dah tentu tutup kedai. Jadi tak dapat saya bayangkan apa akan jadi pada negara kalau baginilah cara mereka menguruskannya. Langkah memberi rebate hanya membazirkan wang negara.kerana ia bukan saja tidak berkesan di dalam membantu meringankan beban rakyat, malah penoh dengan ketirisan dan terdedah kepada masalah perlaksanaan dan penyelewengan.
Bukan rakyat yang perlu berfikir di luar kotak, tetapi PM dan mentari-menterinya.. Tindak tandok beliau dan mentari-menteri beliau sejak kebelangan ini seperti orang yang dah hilang akal. Semua kerana tiada keiklasan dan kurang keperihatnan terhadap tanggungjawab yang telah diamanahkan olih rakyat. Mungkin bahana pilehanraya lalu masih menghantui mereka, tetapi jika ia dibiar terus menguasai pemikiran, maka lebih banyak kesilapan yang akan mereka lakukan dan akhirnya ia akan mengikis habis kepercayaan rakayat kepada mereka dan UMNO.
Yang membezakan PM dan Tun ialah keberanian didalam mengambil tindakan. Tun berani dan jelas dengan tindakan yang hendak diambil, cuma silapnya kerana Tun memberi kepercayaaan kepada orang-orang seperti Daim dan kuncu-kuncunya yang tamak untuk melaksanakan tindakan-tindakan tersebut. Sebab itu Tun dapat melihat hasil tangan Tun, walaupun viable tetapi ada yang telah menelan belanja yang tak masok akal. PM pula tidak yakin dengan tindakan beliau dan terlalu bergantung kepada orang lain. Akibatnya mereka mengambil kesempatan dan hasilnya tiada, sedangkan wang rakyat habis. Langkah beliau membekukan pengambilan pekerja baru hanya akan memburokkan lagi keadaan terutama kepada lepasan universiti dan saya tidak melihat bagaimana ia bolih membantu meringankan kos sara hidup rakyat
Menyedari keadaan yang sudah tidak terurus sekarang, sebagai rakyat biasa saya ingin mengambil langkah Tun didalam menangani krisis kewangan sebagai pedoman. Pemberian subsidi petrol dan diesel yang diamalkan dulu dan sekarang tak ubah seperti melibatkan diri didalam peperangan yang mustahil untuk dimenangi. Ini ialah kerana kita lansong tidak mempunyai pengaroh untuk mengawal penyangak minyak antarabangsa yang sebenarnya disokong olih syarikat=syarikat gergasi minyak yang pernah dikenali sebagai 7 sisters. Adalah lebih baik harga minyak diapongkan terus mengikut harga pasaran terbuka dan penjimatan subsidi minyak yang besar setiap tahun digunakan untuk mengawal elemen-elemen dan factor-faktor dalam Negeri yang berada dalam kawalan kita bagi menurunkan kos sara hidup rakyat. Langkah-langkah jangka pendek, sederhana dan panjang untuk menstabilkan kos sara hidup rakyat hendaklah dijalankan dengan cepat, bijak dan iklas. Melalui cara ini, rakyat akan terus hidup selesa dan waktu yang sama mereka akan mengator pengunaan minyak mengikut keperluan dan kepentingan. Ini akan menurunkan oermintaan keatas minyak dan jika semua negara mengambil langkah yang serupa, ia akhirnya akan menekan harga minyak keharga yang menasabah. Kesan seperti ini telah pun dapat dilihat apabila jualan runcit minyak di Malaysia telah jatoh secara mendadah sejak beberapa hari yang lalu.
Berdasarkan kepada penjelasan diatas dan selepas menapongkan harga minyak sepenuhnya, saya ingin mensyorkan beberapa langkah untuk difikirkan olih kerajaan bagi membantu rakyat dan menstabilkan kos sara hidup di negara ini. Syor-syor nya adalah seperti berikut;
1) Menghapus atau mengurangkan cukai kerana apa juga cukai yang dikenakan,
secara lansong atau tidak, yang membayarnya adalah penguna iaitu rakyat.
2) Mengambil alih syarikat-syarikat konsesi lebohraya dan menghapuskan tol.
Apabila harga minyak turun dibawah paras RM2 seliter maka kadar tol yang
minima bolihlah dikenakan semula bagi menampong kos penyelegaraan..
3) Membatalkan cukai jalan bagi semua kenderaan selagi harga minyak berada
diatas paras RM2 seliter.
4) Menuboh atau mengambil alih syarikat seperti BERNAS dan memecahkan
monopoli bagi memastikan bekalan dan harga makanan asas saperti beras,tepong
gula dan minyak masak dapat disalorkan terus kepada peniaga tampa melalui
orang tengah pada harga subsidi yang berpatutan dan mampu dibeli olih rakyat.
5) Menuboh dan mengambil alih syarikat pengeluar dan pembekal bahan binaan
seperti besi, simen dan lain-lain yang dianggap mempunyai kesan stratejik
keatas pembangunan negara. Syarikat-syarikat ini bolih memastikan bekalan
dan menjadi penimbal harga barangan tersebut agar ia tidak diekploit olih
peniaga-peniaga yang rakus.
6) Mengemaskini dan memperkukoh jentera agensi-agensi kerajaan seperti FAMA,
LKIM, Persatuan Peladang, RISDA, FELCRA dan lain-lain lagi. Selain
mengemaskini fungsi asal, mereka diarahkan membeli dan memasarkan hasil
petani dan nelayan terus ke pasar borong. Subsidi kerajaan disalorkan kepada
petani dan nelayan melalui agensi-agensi ini berdasarkan jumlah hasil yang di
beli. Agensi-agensi ini juga akan menyediakan pinjaman tampa faedah kepada
nelayan dan petani sebagai modal operasi dan di potong dari hasil jualan seperti
mana yang dilakukan olih orang tengah sekarang. Melalui cara ini nelayan dan
petani mendapat harga yang tinggi dan penguna pula mendapat bekalan pada
harga yang berpatutan.
7) Menubah atau mengambil alih syarikat pengangkutan bas dan lori yang besar
dan menambah jaringannya ke kawasan luar Bandar. Diwaktu sama KTM perlu
meningkatkan kecekapan dan menambah kekerapan perjalanan
untuk barangan dan penumpang. Selain untuk memberi pilihan kepada penguna
ia juga digunakan sebagai penanda aras bagi mengawal tambang di seluruh
negara. Selain dari itu seluruh sistem pengangkutan negara harus di rombak dan
disusun semula untuk mengelak pembazairan. Ini ialah kerana selain dari
hujung minggu, cuti sekolah dan musim perayaan, tidak menghairankan jika
kita melihat bas-bas ekspres yang berulang-alik dengan hanya membawa
beberapa orang penumpang. Manakala lori-lori balak dari Kelantan membawa
balak ke Perak dan Kedah untuk di proses, dan waktu yang sama lori-lori lain
membawa balak dari Perak dan Kedah ke Kelantan untuk di proses. Ini semua
adalah pembaziran kepada sumber tenaga negara akibat ekonomi bebas yang
tidak terkawal. Akhirnya ia menyebabkan ketidak cekapan dan hasilnya rakyat
terpaksa membayar harga yang tinggi untuk perhidmatan tersebut.
8) Mengambil langkah-langkah penjimatan di dalam pengurusan dan perbelanjaan
Kerajaaa. Langkah-langkah yang di umumkan seperti mengurangkan jumlah
delagasi keluar negara, penanggohan projek-projek mega dan mengurangkan
kos majlis-majlis keraian adalah tidak berkesan. Dalam menanggoh atau
membatalkan sesesuatu projek, bukan nilai yang harus menjadi ukuran tetapi
keperluan kepada rakyat dan negara yang harus difikirkan. Jika ia hanya suatu
kemegahan walaupun nilainya hanya satu juta maka ia mesti dibatalkan, tetapi
jika ia untuk menjamin kesejahteraan rakyat dan negara, maka walaupun
nilainya beribu juta ringgit maka ia harus diteruskan. Jika kerajaan benar-benar
serius dan iklas untuk menjimatkan perbelanjaan, maka kerajaan harus berani
menkaji dan mengubah falsafah dan cara kerja dan pengurusan kerajaan
selurohnya. Sebagai contoh darisegi perbelanjaan pertahanan negara. Kita
harus menjawab apakah perlu dan berbaloi kita membeli jet-jet pejuang, kapal
selam dan kereta kebal yang harga pembelian dan penyelengaraannya menelan
beratus ribu juta ringgit. Siapa musoh yang hendak kita hadapi dan apakah
kemungkinan berlaku peperangan terbuka dengan mereka. Kalau Amerika,
Britain atau Rusia, mereka tak pandang sebelah mata pun dengan apa yang kita
ada. Tetapi jika kita mempunyai simpanman peluru berpandu, meriam jarak
jauh dan tentera yang mahir dengan perang gerila dan dilengkapi dengan alat-
alat yang lengkap seperti teropong waktu malam dan senapang sniper, maka
mereka akan berfikir dua kali untuk menyerang dan mendudoki negara ini. Bagi
saya musoh utama kita ialah lanun, penyeludup, pengedar dadah dan pendatang
haram, Jadi tak perlulah kita berhabis wang untuk peralatan yang akhirnya di
simpan di museum sebagai pameran. Semua hasil penjimatan ini hendaklah di
gunakan di dalam usaha untuk menurunkan kos sara hidup rakyat.
9) Mengarahkan TNB untuk menambah pembinaan janakuasa haidro dan
memulakan kajian segera untuk memulakan pembinaan janakuasa nukler bagi
menjamin bekalan letrik jangka panjang yang murah. Alasan keselamatan dan
isu alam sekitar tak perlu dilayan kerana negara kita berada di luar lingkaran
gunong berapi, tiada musoh seperti Amerika dan tahap kecekapan dan
profesional yang tinggi untuk menyelenggara loji tersebut berbanding
sesetengah negara yang telah memilekinya.
10) Menaikkan upah atau gaji asas minima sector swasta sekurang-kurangnya
sebanyak 30% dan di waktu yang sama menurunkan kadar cukai korperat bagi
membantu syarikat-syarikat swasta untuk menampong kenaikan kos mereka
Kerajaan harus sedar bahawa kebanyakan pekerja swasta terutama pekerja
kilang dan ladang tidak pernah menikmati semakan gaji walaupun gaji sector
awam telah beberapa kali disemak. Bayangkan bagaimana saorang pekerja
yang menerima gaji asas RM450 sebulan atau upah harian sekitar RM15 ke
RM20 sehari bolih menyara diri dan keluarga dalam keadaan sekarang.
Disebabkan factor gaji inilah kebanyakan kerja-kerja di sector ini di penohi
olih pekerja asing, tetapi ini hanyalah untuk sementara kerana pekerja asing
sendiri sekarang sudah mula pandai memilih, Sebagai conroh sector
peladangan kini menghadapi kesukaran untuk mendapatkan pekerja dari
Indonasia dan sebagai pilehan kini mereka mula beralih ke Bangladesh dan
India. Jadi persoalan sekarang adakah kita akan terus membiarkan ekonomi
. negara ini terus bergantung kepada pekerja asing yang banyak menimbulkan
masaalah sosial dan kerugian besar darisegi aliran keluar wang negara, atau
kita mengambil peluang kenaikan harga komoditi sekarang untuk menarik
balik pekerja tempatan ke sekator-sektor berkenaan dengan kadar upah dan gaji
yang munasabah.
Saya berharap pemimpin-pemimpin negara akan membaca dan mempertimbangkan syor-syor yang dicadangkan diatas dengan hati yang terbuka. Apa pun PM harus sedar bahawa perasaan marah rakyat kepada beliau sekarang sedang meluap-luap hinggakan mereka membuat jenaka bahawa kalau nak tembak Paklah kena tembak di punggong sebab otak beliau berada disitu bukan di kepala, Dari jenaka ini tentu beliau faham bagaimana penilaian rakyat kepada beliau..
SAYA BERDOA SEMOGA ALLAH MEMBERI PETUNJUK DAN JALAN PENYELESAIAN YANG SEBENAR KEPADA KITA.. WASSALLAM.
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I hope things get better....the overnight hike of oil price not only affected my expenses on transportation only, but also many other things, with very small salary, I am desperately hope that the gov evaluate again on their inexpedient decision...thanks Tun...at least you are still here.....;|
salamm tun...
first of all, we salute ur blog..
berikutan kenaikan hrga minyak yg mendadak, kami sebagai pelajar postgraduate paling banyak menerima tempiasnya..bayangkan kami hanya dibayar elaun rm1100 sebulan, dan terpaksa menanggung kos sara diri, kos rumah sewa, dan kos pengangkutan...
peningkatan harga minyak ini sangat tidak adil...langsung tidak relevan...dan kejam terhadap rakyat..harap2, tun pertimbangkan la untuk membantu memulihkan keadaan ini...kasihani kami =(
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