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The ‘shameless’ are digging their graves deeper

KUALA LUMPUR, April 14, 2024: Blogger OutSyed the box (Syed Akbar Ali) says the problems that Malaysians face in their country are not “universal”.

“The problems that we see in the country are too, too often unique to one main race and one main religion,”  he added.

The blog post is being shared in social media and No News Is Bad News reproduces the post for our readers:

Forwarded as received!!!

Extracted from: OutSyed the box
Thursday, April 11, 2024

I have pointed out many times before in this Blog and elsewhere that the "problems" that we face in Malaysia are not major. The problems that we face are minor and easily fixable.  Sometimes these so called problems are insignificant to a ridiculous extent. I will give you an example here. Hence this sentence  "As a nation, we have no shame" is not fully accurate.

The problems that we face in this country are not 'universal'. The problems that we see in the country are too, too often unique to one main race and one main religion.

To highlight this problem, let me use the 'its not listed here' approach.

Lets take inter-racial and inter-religious relations. Please include a vice-versa:

The Dayaks in Sarawak have no issues with the Indians or the Chinese.
The Dusuns and Kadazans in Sabah have no issues with the Dayaks.
The Indians have no issues with the Orang Asli or the Chinese.
The Chinese have no issues with the Orang Asli, the Dayaks or the Dusuns.
Everybody just goes about their business.
This is also Malaysia - about 50% of Malaysia.

The Hindus have no issues with the Buddhists.
The Buddhists have no issues with the Taoists.
Both the Taoists and Buddhists have no issues with the Christians.
They just go about their own religions.
This is also Malaysia - about 50% of Malaysia. 

Can you see who is not listed here? That is the problem.

The Government Budget (2024) of RM394 Billion depends on about RM308 Billion of tax revenue or 78% of the total Budget. The huge bulk of the tax revenue obviously comes from taxpayers who are productive and hardworking people. Otherwise they will not be able to generate the sales and revenues which contribute so much tax revenue for the government. These are the people who obviously do not depend on subsidies and free handouts.

One expert recently said that in the past three years 96 out of 97 new public listed companies were non Muslim owned. That is 98.96%. This means that 98.96% of the corporate taxes collected from this group of 97 newly listed companies are from the non Muslims.

These are definitely NOT the 'we have no shame' people. These are people who work very hard.

The non-Muslim business class have little love for the 'shameless' classes but they are business people. They have to be practical. They owe money to suppliers, they have bank loans to pay, monthly salaries to pay, rental for the factories and offices and they import stuff by the shiploads from overseas. All this needs hard work and money. They have to pay for everything.

But sitting over all these are the shameless classes who don't know anything about business, who dont give a shit about almost anything and who don't care about anyone else except themselves.

And of course they want their cut. For free.

So the amoral corrupt the morals of everyday people. 

So please do not say "we" have problems. I disagree.

You must be more honest and say 'I'. "I have a problem".

Here is one example of problem solving that I mentioned above. This 'problem has been solved' provides solid evidence for what I said earlier - that the problems we face in this country are not major. The problems that we face are minor and easily fixable.  Sometimes these so called problems are insignificant to a ridiculous extent.

The example I have is education. From kindergarten to university the government education system in the country (other than the vernacular schools) is a shambles. The other cesspool that has been created are the religious schools - government and private. No one knows what type of confused minds are being nurtured in these religious schools.

What is the fix? What is the solution? 

Thankfully we allowed private education and vernacular education. From kindergarten to universities we have private education that is contributing so much to our economy.

There are now over 100,000 non-Chinese children attending Chinese vernacular schools. This means 200,000 non Chinese parents feel that the Chinese schools are a better option for their children. Chinese schools are renowned for their emphasis on discipline, tons of homework, Maths and Science subjects and now also English. (However the Tamil schools outscore ALL other schools in Maths and Science). The enrolment of non-Chinese in Chinese schools is increasing rapidly and it may double in the next few years.

Chinese schools must prepare for this ever higher enrolment of non Chinese students.

Then we have the private schools - private boarding schools, international schools etc whose medium of instruction is in English. The government run boarding schools also teach in English. There are also private 'Islamic' schools which prepare students for the British O and A levels or the Singapore syllabus who also teach in English. (Then there is also the other highly successful private schooling system that I still will not mention).

Finally we have the private universities which also teach in English. All these private educational schools and universities which teach in English are far more successful than the government schools whose main medium of instruction is in Malay.

Graduates from private universities are rarely unemployed. On the other hand the over 70,000 (figure is debateable, it could be higher) unemployed graduates are mostly from the government universities.

So here is the problem and its solution. The problem is in the government's education system and the solution is in the private education system.

Just make a simple, honest comparison.

Graduates of government education system (primary, secondary, tertiary) versus graduates of vernacular and private education system (primary, secondary, tertiary).

Where are they five years after finishing their education?
Where are they 10 years after finishing their education? 
How many have jobs?
What is their per capita income?
How many are on drugs?
How many are on subsidies and free handouts? Or government / GLC jobs?
How many are in the 'shameless' category?

Just stop following the system that has failed, failed and failed.
Just follow the system that has been proven to be succesful.
The solution is so simple.

Please do not say "we" have problems. I disagree.
You must be more honest and say 'I'. "I have a problem".

Because other people do not seem to have as many problems.

By Syed Akbar Ali on April 11, 2024