Now, here’s a multiple choice question on Najib’s plan to build a new mega-tower by 2015 that would dwarf the Petronas Twin Towers.
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Why do we need the proposed RM5 billion 100-storey Warisan Merdeka Tower (to be built by Permodalan Nasional Berhad)?
A. We have a serious shortage of commercial space in the Klang Valley. Plus the boys could do with more contracts.
B. We have a healthy fiscal surplus and we don’t know what to do with all that spare cash. RM5 billion is petty cash-lah. Huh? Fiscal deficit? What fiscal deficit? Nah, cannot be.
C. No major earthquake will ever strike our country.
D. Najib’s tower has to be higher than Mahathir’s Twin Towers. And we have excellent public transport to ensure congestion is minimal. Besides, we could call it a super-duper ‘zero-carbon’ green tower.
E. Because Malaysia Boleh! “The most important thing is that we can do it. Why should we hold back?” as Ng Yen Yen puts it. A tower is more important for the rakyat. They will be so proud.
F. I don’t know. I give up. You tell me.
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The issue has gone beyond about this 100-storey building. In reality its about Najib NOT doing his job.
That he is failing at a time when we all know things have to be done or we will pay for it soon enough. We feel its his doing because he hired Apco, he and his wife talk so fancy and behave so fancy but largely not doing what we think its his job. Its about poor accountability that we are tired of from many corners of our lives be it the police, the courts, the education, religion-politicians the civil servants and BN-related businessmen.
There is no need for 100-storey building but there is need for some much in the past, currently and in the future.
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What do you do when a ship is sinking? Let’s gasak all we can and I want it done express you hear me!
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BTW, NEM stands for N’s Erection Memorial.
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awesome…google ’100 storey megatower’ and this what i get, 1st rank meh….
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My dad need appointment at IJN and it takes 3 month for an appointment. How many are there still suffering? Why not build more IJN and health centres? Start producing quality children, we have enough idiots running the country.
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