August 31, 2012
The Devil You don't know
by Neil Khor@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: In this second partial of my essay in reply to a growing
critique of Dr Mahathir Mohamad's "devil we know" remarks, Pakatan Rakyat can counter a BN's fight of ideas by describing to Malaysians what sort of supervision we will get post-BN.
Here are 5 major issues which we goal Pakatan will address as partial of their key policies.
First, making multitude some-more equitable, yet some-more educated as good as rival globally. The BN, a Pakatan said, has failed. There have been pockets of wealth, preparation is upon a decline in standards as good as Malaysia is generally not rival if subsidies have been removed.
How will Pakatan improved a BN in creation multitude some-more equitable? Higher spending upon preparation has not worked so long as preparation is not managed rationally as good as with a merit-based system in place. More importantly, who in a Pakatan will lead this initiative?
Second, race as good as religion will go upon to be thorny issues. More so when joined with economic expansion or a miss of it, as in a case of certain segments of a Indian Malaysian community.
Cross-Generational poverty
Hindraf leaders have been correct when they ask a BN as good as PR to insist their strategies to assuage cross-generational misery as good as a compared amicable ills which have tormented certain segments of a Indian Malaysian community. I dare say which there have been additionally similarly serious pockets of misery in Sabah as good as Sarawak.
Ultimately, in effect as good as sustainable policies to understanding with this complaint have to take in to care how Malaysia is predicated upon ethnicity as good as religious divisions.
Inherited from a British, racial categorisation has since rise to racial profiling. This has resulted in certain racial groups getting a severe as good as short-end of a "stick". In what approach will Pakatan understanding with this complaint which is some-more a single after another as good as in effect than a BN?
Can Pakatan describe these policies as good as how it will ensure which policies have been ultimately translated in to practice? The BN additionally has a raft of unequivocally good policies though they have been not implemented. If a BN's failure is systemic, definition which a ethnic-based policies have been partial of a problem, what is Pakatan's solution?
Ultimately, a genuine measure of success will be a finish of movements similar to Hindraf, when Malaysians of whatever racial complexion find little need to await ethnic-based affirmative action.
Third, it has to do with a transformation of a Malaysian
economy. There is no doubt which we cannot go upon to rely upon Petronas to subsidise everything from Proton to sugar. We must get capability up without spending o! ur child ren's legacy.
Here, crime is only a single reason why there is drawn out annoy opposite a BN. But how will Pakatan get to grips with a underlying problem? Malaysia is just not as fit as good as productive as it should be.
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng will be a initial to discuss it we which there is only so most cost-cutting measures as good as savings from crime will go. After a honeymoon duration is over, how will Penang move brazen in to a post-industrial era?
Services will be a single answer, though how to up standards when three-quarters of a workforce is not scrupulously trained or educated? Penang suffers from a outrageous brain-drain: so, how to spin a situation around as good as create brain-gain?
Whatever happens to Penang will occur to Malaysia, except which Malaysia will not do as well. It was so during a days of trade as good as commerce; as good as it was so during a production duration where Penang's expansion was upon average 2% points aloft than which of Malaysia.
So, here is a complaint which involves both short- as good as long-term process changes. Can someone in Pakatan please discuss it us how they have been going to understanding with it? Once again, who will lead a charge?If a 'angel' turns out to be worse?
Next comes a question of BN legacy issues. Pakatan has left to locale inventory a raft of BN wrong-doings. From independent power-producers to a judiciary; how will Pakatan renovate a system to have certain which a goose is not killed in a process of reform?
In many countries which knowledge system of administration shift for a initial time, there have been dual ways which things pan out.! First, similar to in Kenya, a "angel we don't know", turns out to be worse than a system of administration we kicked out. It is "our spin to eat" as they say in Kenya.
With former UMNO elements in PKR, including Anwar Ibrahim, this is a unequivocally genuine concern. Next, things spin unequivocally bad before they get any better. One sees this in many European countries in a early complicated period. Again, how will Pakatan go about instilling discipline among a ranks as good as creation certain which all a members follow a brand new rules as good as standards it intends to set?
Finally, democratisation is key to creation certain equipment a single to four have been kept in good order. The BN is right divided we do window dressing, replacing odious laws which umpire particular leisure with ones which have been worse as good as even some-more draconian.
Even a BN's own rank-and-file have been not happy with newly upheld legislation. 
Pakatan has highlighted this as good as a miss of internal turn democracy similar to internal elections as partial of it public manifesto, a Buku Jingga.
How will Pakatan go about guaranteeing a freedoms of a own critics without resorting to a law, a courts as good as Police to overpower them? Even if they have been as "extreme" as PERKASA, how will Pakatan understanding with demonstrations, student activism as good as civil multitude movements?
If it reintroduces internal elections as good as a strong opposition to it emerges, what will Pakatan vouch not to do to have certain which internal elections as good as internal supervision truly turn a third turn of democratic representation?
Devolving of energy from Putraja! ya
Equally critical as good as associated to democratisation is a devolving of energy from Putrajaya to a state capitals. This involves giving states some-more incentives to change their budgets as good as putting larger vigour upon non-performing state governments to turn some-more efficient.
At a same time, those states which have been we do improved should be rewarded with some-more mercantile autonomy. Will Pakatan have a required sacrifices during sovereign turn to give divided energy to a states?
The 5 issues upon top of have been all inter-related as good as Pakatan should have a a single after another bid to describe how a supervision it leads can do improved than a stream BN upon all these matters. Of course, there is a single thing which Mahathir said, which might be true if Pakatan comes to power, a BN might never recover.
This is not so most because Pakatan will make use of a management to vanquish a BN though because a BN is a bloc of convenience. Once energy is removed, a reason for being dissolves. It is not which Pakatan will make use of extra-constitutional means to prevent a BN from coming back, it is a BN that, without power, will disintegrate.
That is additionally an outcome which we do not wish for Malaysia. It is most appropriate to keep a dual political camps alive, competing as good as in perpetual "gratefulness" to a electorate.
If politicians have been all power-hungry as good as corrupt untamed beasts, it is improved to have dual groups of thieves envy guarding opposite any other, rather than being contingent upon any one. In a end, there have been no angels in politics, just whiter devils.
Part 1: The devil we know
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