It is alarming to read that the government has set aside RM4 billion for the PM’s Department alone this year.
Equally shocking to hear that the number of civil servants in the same department has doubled in the space of seven years since Mahathir stepped down – from 21,045 in 2003 to 43,544 in 2010.
That’s a hundred per cent increase in headcount in seven years! Is this part of the “KPIs”?
RM4 billion is many times more than the annual budget of any state government.
For instance, the budget for the Selangor government, which has to look after over 5 million residents in the state, is RM1.3 billion for 2010. For Penang, the state government’s budget for 2010 is RM0.7 billion.
The Prime Minister needs to justify the large allocation for his department and explain what 43,544 staff are doing. The accounts for his department must also be made public to show how all this public money is being spent.
According to the Malaysian Insider, Nazri says the increase is due to the ‘creation of new agencies’ and additional posts. What new agencies? and what additional posts during a time of economic difficulties?
The PM’s Department should take a leaf from the White House and put online the list of all the employees’ names in the PM’s Department, along with their official job titles and salaries.
That’s RM4 billion of public money.
Who is subsidising whom now?
Harapkan pagar, pagar makan padi.
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Actually, RM4b is not that big compared to the number of personnel. Salary alone would be half of it. Benefits and office expense add 30% which leaves things like travel, jet planes and limos and parties, not much room. The RM4b is an underaccounting.
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It all started when our 1Malaysia PM started using this phrase: “YOU HELP ME…..I HELP YOU”.
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We all will be fools to help this X*????!*
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Bro, i think i knew why the number of staff and budget increases sharply. The new agency, Maritim Malaysia, is housed under PM’s dept. Maritim Malaysia is the amalgamation of all sea units of fisheries, customs, 1/3 of navy and a big no of marine polices. definitely ramai. As per budget, there will be purchases of heli and vessels for the unit. Mestilah besar.
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Absolutely scandalous even if we take into account the need to feed political rejects like the (political) eunuch Koh Tsu Koon and the tens of thousands of our unemployable local graduates.
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Nothing to be alarmed when you know that:
1) Need to employ jobless (because skill sets cannot meet requirements of job market) of (some) graduates…
2) Need more civil servants to vote for BN.
3) Need more fund to enable ‘I help you, you help me’ initiatives.
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the poor is subsiding the poor. that’s a huge number of civil servants and 4 billion in BN’s term sounds like peanuts nowadays. to ask for such transparency at this time is impossible. justification? yeah right, it’s not in vocab at the moment. we just have to highlight and keep up the pressure!
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We are all but FOOLs for their irresponsible, spendthrift, ‘blood, sweat & tears-money sucking’ indulgences.
Yet they have the thick-as-the-coffin wood face to ask and enforce cutting of subsidies badly needed by ordinary folks!
Question: ARE WE TO SUBSIDISE PM’S ‘GAYA’ DEPARTMENT? SUDAH NAK JADI BANKRUPPPP, BOLEH BERGAYA-GAYA LAGI? LU PM TAK MASUK AKAL?
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NEWS:
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s administration has undertook a politically risky maneuver to raise prices of fuel, sugar and cooking gas.
SO HE CAN SPEND RM4 BILLION ON HIS DEPT?…
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By next General Election, which is several months away, all Malaysians – with the exception of a few, less than 1% – would have forgotten the inflasi.
Life goes on, especially for the brainless Malaysians.
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So you alone pandai-lah? Then talk more sense.
Have you not learnt from 308?
Even the Ah Peks remember it (go to Speaker’s Square and see for yourself).
Mana boleh lupaaa?
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If the Ah Peks remember it, ask them why they have voted for BN for the past 52 years?
You go ask them la.
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At least the Ah Peks learnt from past mistakes and they are now the wiser than you think of them. And the Ah Peks ate more salts than some of you who think highly of yourselves but know nothing better than to carry … and telling lies and worst cheating the people’s national coffers.
At least the Ah Peks are decent human beings who have good brains for thinking.
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Don’t say so fast.
Wait till the next General Election is over and see if the Malaysians have smarten up, or not.
My bet is on the side of Malaysians would be as stupid as ever, and BN would still win.
Not trying to rain on your parade but the reality in Malaysia is such that the people have been dumbed down so much that they would vote for the devil in exchange for a tiny piece of candy.
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Someone with brain will never forget but someone without will definitely forget, why because it is empty, isn`t it, Pearl. Please have some common sense, op it seem you don`t have one.
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Rakyat’s money thrown about by the billions. Wonder what the budget for the infamous BTN fellas [under the PM's Dept] is.
And Musa Aman, Sabah CM, heaped praise on Najib’s wife today, saying, “Malaysia is fortunate to have a prime minister’s wife who has a lot of ideas and is highly committed to helping the government develop the country.”
Go read at:
Malaysia Lucky To Have Rosmah To Help People And Country – Musa Aman
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=513763
Meanwhile, RON95 petrol and diesel will be up 5 sen/litre tomorrow with RON97 petrol “floated”, sugar up to RM1.90/kg…
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Mr.Anil,
for our PM price hike is A SMALL ADJUSTMENT!!! BUT THEY WANT TO HAVE EVERYTHING AT THE COST of ppl sufferings.
may be spin master rocky is happy at ppl sufferings now.
go rocky go …spin on this 4 billion sharing…all bloggers will praise you as the chairman of malaysian psudo intelligent bloggers association
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Let’s put Najib and his Umnoputras to pasture come GE 13. Enough is enough. These morons must go…
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What are we waiting for. Is 52 years of suffering under UMNO BN not enough ?. Now Najib has the nerve to cut subsidies and increase the price of some of the most essential items of the people further increasing their suffering AND MISERY and enriching (certain people).
Let us not listen to any more lies and half truth from them. MAKE SURE WE KICK THEM OUT, UMNO & BN & NAJIB … ONCE AND FOR ALL..
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Who is going to listen to a machai like you?
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Pearl, they don`t listen, they read.!!
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This … son of a … Najib and UMNO is spewing half truth and true lies by saying “WE ARE MAKING SOME SMALL ADJUSTMENT ONLY“` instead of saying there will be a price increase.
Anil, can`t blame you if you make some amendment above but this is to show you what our feeling are.!!
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Here it is, a perfect example of machai.
Whenever lost in any argument the machai will turn to swearing, or CAPITALISED LETTERS, or both.
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Baby, (I assume you are a fem)
at the very least Machais know how to think rightly, evaluate conscientiously and respond timely to irresponsible Gomen actions which some class-conscious indifferents pretend the sky is forever blue.
Class has no place in politics for the common people!
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If Malaysians really know how to think they would not have voted for BN for the past 52 years.
Reality is a way better proof than whatever you want to say, and the reality in Malaysia is that the Malaysians will keep on voting for BN no matter how BN treats them.
You can argue about voting fraud. You can argue about Gerrymandering. You can argue about anything you want but at the end of the day it is still that more Malaysians voted for BN than those who opted to either not vote at all or vote for other people (Independents / Opposition).
If you really really know how to think you would know that I speak the truth.
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Let’s see the coming GE. That will be another tsunami reality.
The truth will prevail. Talking is cheap but conscious, sincere and responsible action of the Rakyat will overcome the cheats, the swindlers, … the liars…
My conscience is clear, and I can sleep well knowing that change has come ashore and will continue to change Malaysia for the better.
Who in their right mind want their country ‘deteriorate’ into another Zimbabwe?
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Friend, to tell you the truth don’t harap so much on the GE. SPR report to Najib. Look at what they have done to Hulu Selangor by election. PM (may) have already set aside (a lot of money) to prepare for next general election. Even PR win can they guarantee that their MP don’t “lompat”? There is a slim chance for Malaysian to change for better future.
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Doesn’t matter how much money he has set aside.
Even without the money most of the Malaysians would still vote for BN simply because they are too stupid.
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Its just not an increase of 5 items only. It will be a spillover that will increase many many items such as drinks, beverages, cake and kueh, hawkers food etc etc etc as these are using the 5 most essential items sugar, petrol and cooking gas.
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We are contributing 5 sen to this PM fund for every 1 litre of petrol we are paying now.
Rakyat didahulukan?
We are ready for the next GE.
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Yes, Rakyat di dahulukan.
You must dahulu your money, put your money upfront before you are counted as “Rakyat”.
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PREPOSTEROUS!! WHAT KIND OF A GOMEN IS THAT?
So all the poor and below class who cannot afford to pay don’t belong to this country?
WHAT KIND OF HUMANITY IS THAT?
You think this country is like a private hospital – pay first before you’re served!
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That is the reality.
See what the son of Mahathir drives? Porche.
See what kind of houses the children of the VVIP live in? Villas.
In Malaysia you either have to fork up your money or you will be left alone to rot. That is a fact that nobody can deny.
I am not saying that this is right. I am saying that this is what happen in Malaysia.
Rakyat di dahulukan. Of course. If you don’t have money you are not an asset to those VVIPs.
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(The) Perverted … live that lifestyles undeserving of them. That is also your perverted reality of the highest order.
But this is not my kind of reality, but my perception of injustice and prostitution of humanity. Pay first! Preposterous!
They … may not rot now, but in the here after they will definitely rot stinking hell!
God is watching closely, Pearly.
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Haha ! As if those VVIPs believe in the “here after”.
See what Mahathir is doing? If that guy truly believes in the “here after” at least he would do some good for the people.
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See you in the here after. And do remember this blog and what I said to you.
If this is the only world we think we exist to cheat, rape, swindle and corrupt to satisfy our desires, thinking it will be forever, too bad.
Then what the grandious self piousness we want to profess a religion for? And yet can commit all the unspeakable sins even hell itself cannot imagine!
As an example, see what God can do to unleash an earthquake like the ones of 2004 to warn mankind. Think for a moment.
If man can still dream on and act on their unspeakables, there will be another awakening to come for all of us.
And don’t be too haughty to say where is the here after.
It could be tomorrow! God is watching very, very closely.
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tunglang,
Pearl is asking you to pay first before you are considered a rakyat. So remember to put your money upfront to those … and their cronies.
This is one example of an UMNO BN & Najib sycophant
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Reduction of subsidies to help the poor? Now they r helping the designer in designing the National Day Attires, WHO GETS D HELP?
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We are surely on the way to bankruptcy with this unnecessary RM4 billion spending, not counting other self-siok expenses and gaya projects of no use to the Rakyat. Our Ah Kong’s money will not last till the next generation.
Some may call it bad Feng Shui, we should curse it as ‘No.1 Leech’ leadership.
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We are not on the way to bankruptcy.
We already (appear) bankrupt.
There is (perhaps) nothing left in the coffer or the government would not have raised the sugar price.
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Pearl
16 July 2010 at 9.48pm : Now you are talking sense
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If the UMNO … have any brain in managing the national fiance, they would not have put so many malays on crutches!
Hav’nt you heard Anil,the new agencies were to seek
UMNO PM popularity internationally, an audience with the US President and propping up the image of the “First Lady”
Sorry old chap, you were made a blooming sucker again!!
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There are two kinds of blind people.
Those who are born blind, and those who are can see but prefer to not see.
The first group of people are actually not blind. Their eye-sight might not be perfect but at least they can “see” with their hearts.
The latter group? More blind than the bats.
Extension of the above comparison, there are two types of lame people.
Those who are born with legs that can’t support their body weight, and those who can actually walk on their own two feet but prefer not to.
What do you say about the former? At least they are striving to live a full life.
The latter? Umnoputras !
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Business as usual, what is 20% of 4 billion? My dull brain is wrought and can’t give an answer but, can use my imagination!
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Fuel prices are moving up today.
Contrary to what the PM says, it is not about the gradual removal of fuel subsidies to strengthen the Malaysian economy. It is to maintain the largely inefficient civil service which UMNO had created as a vote bank (at 4.68% of the population) for their party.
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actually you all can agree to change government in GE13 because all of you who read this are clever.
But what about those stupid Malaysian who can’t read, and the only reading material they could barely understand is Utusan, B.harian.
So in order to achieve your right… you all must teach this stupid malaysian… go start now …you have to do it, it is for you own sake.
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kll,
Thats why from now onward until the next GE, let us go down and start telling the people especially those poor and illiterate not to be misled again.
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Machai wants to tell lie again?
That we all must bow to your “Supreme Leader” again?
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It is amazing that this oppressive government constantly shoots itself in the foot and yet gets re-elected. Hulu Selangor is a sore case that comes to mind. Why?
Someone please quickly identify the weaknesses in dissemination of information to the vast majority in the rural and even semi-urban and some even urban areas that seem to be oblivious to government excesses and downright disregard to law and ethics…
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As stated in http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/137461, one reader named Pemerhati quotes,
“There is a lot of wasteful expenditure by the government. Recently it was stated by a parliamentarian that, “Taiwan, with a population similar to us at 28 million, has only 530,000 government employees. Japan with a 120 million population employs 380,000 civil servants. But Malaysia, with a population of 28 million, has a civil service of 1.2 million.”
Going by the above figures we probably only need about 500,000 government employees and 700,000 of those extra people should be in the private sector. This would save us billions of ringgit annually and reduce our dependence on foreign workers.
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You are wrong.
Malaysia is not the leader on Civil Servant : General Population ratio.
Greece leads Malaysia lightyears ahead. 11% of their tax-paying age general public are, one way or another, Civil Servants.
Malaysia still has 3% or so to go before we are on par with Greece.
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We are fast approaching more than 11% if the economic scenario is not looking good in the coming years. To increase vote bank before the next GE, more Bumis (may) be enticed to the civil service regardless we have the resources to back up the exorbitant public expenditure.
Only tax paying fools will know too late!
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Greece is lucky. They have Germany to bail them out.
Malaysia? Who would want to bail us out?
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Yes, Pearl, and we are better of then Zimbabwe and Myanmar. Is it !! Is this how far you can go. Try again.
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Oh yes, your group of machais is better than the BN machai.
……. Nah !
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What a stupid reply, Pearl!
It is exactly the Greek meltdown that we want to avoid. We shouldn’t be managing such a high ratio of civil servants to overall population.
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Dear Mr. Anil, why are there so many un-thinkers frequenting your blog?
Or should I spell out every-single-word-kindergarten-style so they can understand what I am saying?
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Baby, you are on the wrong frequency! Read up ‘Emotional Intelligence’ by Daniel Goldman. Only then return to this blog, Baby!
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My, my ! Machai assuming the helm of ownership and starts ordering others what to do and what not before “return to this blog”.
My, my !
Mr. Anil, have you abdicate your role as the owner of this blog?
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Okay folks, could you refrain from attacking other commenters and stick to the issues instead. I don’t want to have to delete comments…
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Ai yo Pearly Girly don’t be too angrylah. After that you will be “tua” cepat … Bodoh punya Pearly.
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Ha Ha Ha Ha!
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dunno abt the other RM3 billions … (is) RM1 billion … for ‘shopping’ & may be ‘study tours’(?) …
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Why on earth is Maritim under the PM’s department? Shouldn’t it be an agency under KDN or defence?
Is this about a question about who signs the procurement contracts?
(Look at the) record for the submarine deal and the Eurocopter deal … signed 3 days before swapping portfolios with Pak Lah – without the requisite tests and evaluation being carried out on the helicopters in the competition…
Now its Maritim and their procurement…(?)
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Interesting K and Gerakan K have not turned up to support their 1PM and 1Eunuch (Political).
I disagree to subsidies, but at the same time, the Govt must also not allow leakages and Corruption to carry on unabated.
The Project Managers had allowed an (alleged) cost overrun of over RM1.4BILLION in Ipoh-Padang Besar Double tracking project.
So many lopsided projects for the rakyat are totally favoring Contractors and consssionnaires.
Enough is Enough, Najib. Make money the clean way, without screwing us up.
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What about the pending leakage of 50 million on PICC?
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PICC, there is no corruption so how can there be a leakage. At least it is a project in its right, rightly or wrongly. Do you understand.
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“No Corruption”, claims a machai.
Of course, when it comes to the doing of their “Supreme Leader” there will never be any “korapsi”.
Don’t you think these machais sound just like the BN machais?
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Next year, the AG will report whether the RM4 billion is anything unusual or as REQUIRED by the administration.
Currently there are some extremely important things needed to be done. You will know it within a few weeks or at most 2 months.
PR machai like you better shut up. Something big awaiting to be happened.
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You can tell that to the deaf and dumb, but they still have the two precious fingers to point back at you!
NAH!
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