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
criticism of Dr Mahathir Mohamad's "devil you know" remarks, Pakatan Rakyat can opposite a BN's war of ideas by describing to Malaysians what sort of supervision you will get post-BN.
Here are five major issues which you goal Pakatan will address as partial of their pass policies.
First, making multitude some-more equitable, yet some-more prepared as great as rival globally. The BN, a Pakatan said, has failed. There have been pockets of wealth, preparation is upon a decline in standards as great 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 great as with a merit-based complement in place. More importantly, who in a Pakatan will lead this initiative?
Second, race as great as religion will go upon to be thorny issues. More so when joined with economic development or a miss of it, as in a case of certain segments of a Indian Malaysian community.
Cross-Generational poverty
Hindraf leaders have been scold when they ask a BN as great as PR to insist their strategies to alleviate cross-generational misery as great as a compared amicable ills which have plagued certain segments of a Indian Malaysian community. you dare contend which there have been additionally equally critical pockets of misery in Sabah as great as Sarawak.
Ultimately, in effect as great as tolerable policies to understanding with this complaint have to take in to consideration how Malaysia is predicated upon ethnicity as great as eremite divisions.
Inherited from a British, racial categorisation has given climb to racial profiling. This has resulted in certain racial groups getting a severe as great as short-end of a "stick". In what way will Pakatan understanding with this complaint which is some-more a single after another as great as in effect than a BN?
Can Pakatan report these policies as great as how it will safeguard which policies have been ultimately translated in to practice? The BN additionally has a raft of very great policies though they have been not implemented. If a BN's failure is systemic, meaning 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 support ethnic-based affirmative action.
Third, it has to do with a transformation of a Malaysian
economy. There is no doubt which you cannot go upon to rely upon Petronas to subsidise everything from Proton to sugar. We must get productivity up but spending a children's legacy.
Her e, crime is usually a single reason since there is drawn out anger against a BN. But how will Pakatan get to grips with a underlying problem? Malaysia is just not as fit as great as productive as it should be.
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng will be a initial to discuss it you which there is usually so many cost-cutting measures as great as assets from crime will go. After a honeymoon duration is over, how will Penang pierce 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 properly trained or educated? Penang suffers from a outrageous brain-drain: so, how to spin a situation around as great as emanate brain-gain?
Whatever happens to Penang will happen to Malaysia, solely which Malaysia will not do as well. It was so during a days of trade as great as commerce; as great as it was so during a manufacturing duration where Penang's growth was upon normal 2% points higher than which of Malaysia.
So, here is a complaint which involves both short- as great as long-term policy changes. Can someone in Pakatan greatfully discuss it us how they have been starting 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 bequest issues. Pakatan has left to town inventory a raft of BN wrong-doings. From independent power-producers to a judiciary; how will Pakatan overhaul a complement to have certain which a crow is not killed in a routine of reform?
In many countries which knowledge system of administration change for a initial time, there have been two ways which things pan out. First, similar to in Kenya, a "ange! l you do n't know", turns out to be worse than a system of administration you kicked out. It is "our spin to eat" as they contend in Kenya.
With former UMNO elements in PKR, together with Anwar Ibrahim, this is a very genuine concern. Next, things spin really bad prior to they get any better. One sees this in many European countries in a early modern period. Again, how will Pakatan go about instilling fortify among a ranks as great as creation certain which all a members follow a new manners as great as standards it intends to set?
Finally, democratisation is pass to creation certain equipment a single to four have been kept in great order. The BN is right divided you do window dressing, replacing unpleasant laws which umpire particular leisure with ones which have been worse as great as even some-more draconian.
Even a BN's own rank-and-file have been not happy with newly passed legislation. 
Pakatan has highlighted this as great 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 but resorting to a law, a courts as great as Police to overpower them? Even if they have been as "extreme" as PERKASA, how will Pakatan understanding with demonstrations, student activism as great as polite multitude movements?
If it reintroduces internal elections as great as a strong antithesis to it emerges, what will Pakatan vouch not to do to have certain which internal elections as great as internal supervision indeed become a third turn of approved representation?
Devolving of energy from Putrajaya
Equally important ! as great 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 great as putting larger vigour upon non-performing state governments to become some-more efficient.
At a same time, those states which have been you do improved should be rewarded with some-more fiscal autonomy. Will Pakatan have a necessary sacrifices during federal turn to give divided energy to a states?
The five issues above have been all inter-related as great as Pakatan should have a a single after another effort to report 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 loyal if Pakatan comes to power, a BN might never recover.
This is not so many since Pakatan will make make use of of a management to crush a BN though since a BN is a bloc of convenience. Once energy is removed, a reason for being dissolves. It is not which Pakatan will make make use of of extra-constitutional equates to to forestall a BN from coming back, it is a BN that, but power, will disintegrate.
That is additionally an result which you do not wish for Malaysia. It is most appropriate to keep a two domestic camps alive, competing as great as in perpetual "gratefulness" to a electorate.
If politicians have been all power-hungry as great as hurtful untamed beasts, it is improved to have two groups of thieves jealously guarding against 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 demon you know
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