The Message From Bahau
Nedumaran Elangovan
“Bang, neenge jokka, puriyere mathiri sonningee! Anaa, ennaku government & DAP yethe pethi pesarange ne puriyelee bang!”
“Bro, you told me something that I could easily understand! But, I don’t know what Government and DAP is talking about bro!”
A reader of this blog messaged me in FB on Saturday. This guy seems to be quite young, I guess not more than 20 years old. He is from a town in Negri Sembilan, and looking at his profile, his family seems to be the semi-rural middle income Indian family .
Most likely, (with no disrespect) his parents are not professionals (in terms of career), and their main source of information is from the mainstream media. I don’t think that, they would have heard about the key issues that are being fought over by the government and the opposition, as these issues is never discussed in the mainstream media.
In any other case, this teen would have become the poster boy of the Pemuda/Putera groups. From rural Malaysia, brainwashed by the media and worshipping the ‘youth leaders’ who actually are balls carriers of the organization heads.
Thanks to the internet though, this kid did see the world from a different point of view, and he did seek clarification when he didn’t understand.
Below, I have summarized some issues that we don’t see the any pejuang bangsa 1Malaysia talking about. These are not the only issues, but these are key issues, that I have never seen any pro-Putera bloggers talking about.
For you, brother from Bahau:
1. National Feedlot Company Scandal (NFC)
Who: Government Minister and family.
What: Government give money (RM 250 million) for rearing of cows for meat, but they use for personal use, including paying for personal credit card, purchase of Mercedes and luxury apartments.
How will it affect you: The money is tax you or your family members paid. Unggal appa ode kaasu, yevan-yevano enjoy pannelama?
Last time, Indian people say "padikathi..poi maadu mei!". Nowadays, maadu keepers also become jutawan
2. 1Care Healthcare Scheme
Who: Ministry of Health
What: Government to tax you monthly (sources say 10% of salary) to improve healthcare
How will it affect you: If you are very healthy, and never get sick, you will still have to pay 1.2 times of you salary to government every year.
No use living a healthy life I guess,
3. PERKASA/Utusan Malaysia
Who: A bunch of racist idiots
What: They keep on insulting and threatening non-Malays, without the government saying anything to stop them.
How will it affect you: Even though your great-grandfather is born in Malaysia, someone who’s father is born in Indonesia can insult you, and no one will say a thing, as you are still ‘pendatang’.
4. Independent Power Producers (IPP)
Who: Private companies that produce electricity to be resold to the government
What: PETRONAS sells fuel below market rate to IPP. TNB buys electric from IPP for high price. IPP makes tons of money.
How will it affect you: User like you and me will absorb the higher electricity tariff and pay more for electricity use.
5. Highway toll
Who: Toll operator
What: Toll operators already get back all the money they use to build the road plus profit (in PLUS case, put in RM 6 billion get RM24 billion) plus they will charge toll until 2038.
How will it affect you: Your children will be paying toll even when roads should be something that government should provide free to the people, as you are already paying road tax.
6. Government Subsidies (Financial Assistance)
Who: Ministry of Finance
What: IPPs receive cheap fuel. Toll operators receive free land to build road. Make billions in profit.
How will it affect you: To offset this, government will cut down subsidies on other items, raising prices of items, especially petrol prices for your car.
M-I-C...Malaysian Indians in Crisis
How can you change things?
- If you are 21 years or above, please register as a voter.
- If you have already registered, please check and confirm your voter registration status. Please check for your older family members too.
- Read online news portals, as all TV channels and most newspapers are pro-BN. You will never hear the wrong of the BN if you rely on these sources. I personally recommend the The Malaysian Insider news portal for unbiased news updates.
- Educate your family members or friends who are not IT-savvy, print out the news that you feel is important and pass it around.
- Vote with your head, not with your heart. Think about the future of your children and your grandchildren.
- Turn up on polling day, and vote!
Our great grandfathers build the roads, the railroads and the ports. The cleared the jungles and made way for the city.
They built this country. Now we must rebuild it once again.
This is your country, no matter what any bigot has to say.
Simple and understandable… But most important, informative….
impressive though =)
Thank you Baskie
chumma muthalvan maathri list’e pottu thookitteengge bro..
simple and nicely said. we need to know our strength in politics and economy. all of us should learn from what has happened in Sri lanka and other countries. learn from history. you cant learn anything better than this.
A gUD INFO
Well said and pls check it out all these sites. I am not dare to make any comment and all i can see is another Greece in making….MALAYSIA. Dear editor,i could trace back all this article due to an eye opener mail that bounced in my inbox. I dont know how to upload it in ur blog. Pls advice me so that i can PM to you.
http://malaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/EPF-in-Trouble2.pdf
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/NA05Ae01.html
http://refsa.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Budget-and-Its-Shadow-20111201-d.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Interesting+read+Slides+to+The+Budget+and+its+Shadow+talk&utm_content=Interesting+read+Slides+to+The+Budget+and+its+Shadow+talk+CID_261656909e3c842de4cf044537b064e0&utm_source=Email+Marketing+App&utm_term=presentation+slides
Good info bro… well explained in simple and understandable way
Well explained bro. Hopefully those kids and teenagers will get an overview on the shits that are happening in our country from the way you have summarised.
i am impressed by this blog…
keep up the good work bro!
paravale nedu.. nalla nalla info kodukiringe… Hidup Nedu!!
Hi Swastika,
I read your earlier comments, the first one sounded like a threat. FYI, as per Akta Telekomunikasi 1997 and Personal Data Protection Act 2010..I would just need to make an online complaint to MCMC. You will be in a lot of trouble.
But just saying, I wont do that. I know that you are from SP and you are very young. Please be careful next time you post messages like that in a public domain ok? No use being online gangster.