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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Double-talking Guaneee a hypo

Malaysiakini:



DAP back at it again, stirring up Chinese emotions

by Ti Lian Ker

COMMENT | Former finance minister Lim Guan Eng and DAP were not fully committed in incorporating funding towards the Chinese community in policy frameworks when they were part of the government and in charge of the Finance Ministry.

The approaches by DAP and Lim on the needs of the Chinese community were ad hoc in nature to suit their vested political interests or to score political brownie points.

Firstly, he declared that he was not a Chinese to the applause of the public. Nowhere were the allocations included as a policy or institutionalised despite Lim having the absolute control and authority over the Finance Ministry as its minister at the time.


However, once he was no longer in power, Lim and DAP have reverted to harping on the Chinese and Indians dissatisfaction by playing on racial sentiments. DAP has orchestrated political narratives and rhetoric along racial lines again targeting MCA and inciting the Chinese and Indians community against the federal government for being largely Malays since DAP had captured nearly all of the non-Malay majority seats.

On Nov 8, Lim released a statement in the Chinese language saying that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) federal government allocated only RM177 million to the Chinese community and claimed that this total was 77 percent lower than when he was in power.

Now that DAP is in the opposition, they are back at it again. The Rocket provokes the Chinese and Indians and invokes racial sentiments by making them look and feel like victims of the PN government.



Lim is forcing the race card again to pit MCA against the Malays. DAP has returned to play the racial element once more by purposely and deceitfully highlighting allocations along racial lines, whereas many of these allocations are granted to all Malaysians irrespective of their ethnicity.

Harping on the Chinese and Indians' resentment or dissatisfaction by blaming the government and MCA, in particular for failing to deliver what they have failed at doing while having 42 MPs and wielding the financial portfolio of the country, clearly stokes the racial fire and disregards the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s call for a united effort to overcome the challenges of the nation ahead.


DAP’s failure when in govt

Meanwhile, let’s reflect - when they were in power and in a position to deliver as the strongest party in the Pakatan Harapan government, DAP failed miserably.

DAP exhorted it would abolish the bumiputera quota policy, claimed that government procurement policies would be by open tenders to all ethnicities.

However, once Harapan wrested Putrajaya, priority when bidding for projects was given to bumiputera companies, manufacturers, importers and contractors. Not only was the quota system not dismantled, it was continued and consolidated and the Ministry of Education increased the bumiputera quota entry into public universities.

Its 42 MPs with its finance minister Lim did not formulate any policies or whatsoever at a time when the Chinese and Indians voted for a change along DAP’s promises of equal or a level playing field. 



On the contrary, whether they were grants for NGOs or Tunku Abdul Rahman Alumni Association, each case was handled on a case-by-case basis, leveraging on the finance minister’s power, to bestow as and when preferences required or in accordance with their political dictates.

While in the government, they shouted out their bumiputera-friendly agendas and increased allocations for them but when faced with requests from the Chinese community, only ad hoc announcements or temporary measures were offered to appease and please their supporters and for political brownie points.

On one hand, when they were in power and Lim was the authority as the finance minister, he was busy projecting himself to be “mesra Melayu” (Malay-friendly). He failed to use his power and authority to make it a policy or institutionalise the grants for Chinese independent high schools.

Instead, he merely used his personal authority as the finance minister to announce assistance in an ad hoc basis during the Tanjung Piai by-election or functioned on a “one-off” basis to score political points.




7 comments:

  1. MCA using Capt Thaya-Pandai's Circular Logic....pusing pusing kepala pun sudah mabuk.....ha ha ha....

    AH TI's QUOTE ABOVE (and highlighted by KT so he agrees)
    .....Lim having the absolute control and authority over the Finance Ministry as its minister at the time.
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    but when Guanee was in gomen Wee KHAT Siong say:

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    Guan Eng just a bookkeeper, Azmin more powerful, says Wee
    Thursday, 19 Jul 2018
    By Yiswaree Palansamy

    KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 — Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng merely acts as a “bookkeeper” while Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali holds more power, MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong claimed today.

    In debating the royal address today, Wee, who is Ayer Hitam MP, said that the powers of the Finance Ministry have been diluted.

    “Public perception is that the finance minister’s powers have been reduced to that of a bookkeeper, given that the agencies previously under the Finance Ministry have been transferred to Azmin Ali’s Economic Affairs Ministry, which has more power,” news portal Malaysiakini quoted Wee as saying.
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    ....provisional accountant....Boh Lam Phar.....etc

    So which is which.....?

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  2. KT very crever, only publish Ah Ti's rantings but avoids the readers negative comments about Ah Ti...print lah....but when the article is about Toonsie, KT publishes all the negative comments about Toonsie....

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  3. Ah Ti, you are now the backdoor gomen, it was MCA that put backdoor gomen in power, 2 MPs can overthrow PN, DAP's 42 cannot.

    Don't blow smokescreen, address Guanees numbers, facts and figures about Budget allocation, answer his questions instead of embarrassing yourself and MCA.

    Where is the gomen help to thousands of Chinese hawkers and petty traders, SMEs.....? Billions allocated for Bumiputra (read Malay) "empowerment", "skills enhancement", "entrepreneur development" etc.

    How much for vernacular schools? Chinese and Tamil....? If Teoh Nie Ching in charge she will be toasted and roasted already.

    Jibby exposed that MCA was not even consulted about the Budget.

    Where is that picture of that hawker throwing stones at the service centre.....?

    P/S....still waiting for the UEC recognition Task Force Report that Eddin Khoo said he would hand over to Education Ministry....as reported by MCA's newspaper...education is very important to the Chinese......remember.....?

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    UEC report set for August submission
    Tuesday, 21 Jul 2020

    PETALING JAYA: The special task force on the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) will be submitting its long-awaited report to the government next month.

    UEC Policy Team chairperson Eddin Khoo said the task force planned to meet Education Minister Dr Mohd Radzi Md Jidin and Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Noraini Ahmad to deliver the document by hand mid-August.
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  4. Backdoor gomen don't need to give JASA 85.5 million to attack DAP, just make MCA beg for 40 million every year for TARUC matching grant. They will do the job.

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  5. What's Tu Lan Ker doing these days.
    Just warming his seat ?

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  6. This Backdoor Government has a Majority of 1 in Parliament.
    So MCA definitely has no grounds to say they are powerless.

    MCA is VERY powerful in the current administration, if they stop being Boh Lampah to exert the power for the good of the country, instead of (as usual) lining their own pockets.

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  7. so everything same same sama ada under sumua malay govt or lge malaysian govt?

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