WANTON ABUSE OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

Kindred spirits passed this piece of eye-opener to me.....care to read???

In 2004, Morgan Stanley issued a report that estimated that over
100Billion US Dollars (360 Billion Ringgit) had been lost to Malay
patronage in the 20 years preceding 2003. (1984 to 2003) One economist
estimates that in the 36 years of its' existence, the NEP has been
used to channel over ONE TRILLION RINGGIT to the Malay community
through ASN, ASB and other related Govt policies.

Since 1970, the Govt has used the NEP to divert education, employment
and every other conceivable benefit to the Malays. These measures have
largely been successful with all the top posts in GLCs, Government,
Universities, Public listed companies and practically every single
area that the Govt has any control over being reserved for one race.
No company may be listed with a lower than 30% Bumi equity but there
is absolutely no problem if it is otherwise. Some industries have a
mandatory 51% Bumi ownership and some industries are reserved
exclusively for them. Petronas for example only employs Malays for
it's top managerial and executive positions and awards contracts only
to Malays.

ALL Govt and Municipal contracts are reserved to class "F" Bumi
contractors. All the proposed projects under the 9th Malaysia Plan
thus far are reserved for 100% Bumi owned companies. Even open tender
projects are awarded to Malays even if their prices are higher with
blatantly inferior materials.

Micro business loans, business licenses, discounts on property
purchases, new Govt employment, EVEN LICENSES FOR HAWKER STALLS are
reserved for one race.

The list goes on and on but the summary is that the Malays now
believes undoubtedly that he is racially privileged and it is their
supposedly God-given right!

ASLI's figures of 45% are opposed to the Govt's 18.9% because,
firstly, equity value is calculated at par value. For example, if you
hold 1,000 Maxis shares of RM 5/- market value each, the Govt says
that it is only worth RM 250.00 as these shares have a par value of 25
cents each. If you owned a company with a paid up value of RM 2/- but
conducted business worth millions of Ringgit worth of transactions,
the Govt values that company at RM 2/-.

The chief setbacks of the abuses of the NEP are rampant corruption and
cronyism, worsening racial polarization, unrelenting brain drains,
warped educational system, thwarted economic competitiveness,
ineffectual bureaucracy, retarded economic growth and perverted social
values. Such anachronistic and regressive policy has no place in the
present globalizing world, and for that matter, in any civilized
society.

PM Badawi recently intensified the imprint of the perverted NEP
philosophy by prohibiting inter-religious and inter-racial discourse
which would otherwise have contributed to greater understanding and
harmony among the races. Consider the hegemony this has created....

The Jasin MP's saga of cheating millions from Customs over timber
imports went unpunished. APs are reserved for Bumis only and despite
the millions that each of them make year after year, a senator's son
has the audacity to clone the APs several times and the whole thing
gets swept under the carpet.

A Port Klang councilor buys a 43,000 sq ft plot of land set aside for
low cost housing valued at 1.8 million Ringgit for 180k and builds a
palace without any approval. He gets fined RM 5,000 and still has 30
days from today to submit his building plans. Yesterday, despite all
the bad press this issue got, the Selangor state Govt confirms his
position as still the state assemblymen representative and that of his
son and daughter in law as councilors. The message is clear. Power has
shifted from the people to the executive.

The whole issue of Bumi chauvinism started at last year's UMNO
assembly when the very very vocal UMNO Youth leaders stated in short
that "It's our turn to be rich." This greed is not going to end. We as
a nation of loyal citizens have to put a dent into this rubbish for
the sake of our children.

We don't need a change in Govt. We need a stronger opposition. We need
to send a message to the powers that be that we will not accept second
class status for our children.