PEPERANGAN MESIR MELAWAN NGO

As posted by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at Che Det on March 05, 2012

1. Baru-baru ini pemerintah Mesir telah menangkap lebih daripada 10 rakyat Amerika Syarikat.

2. Siapakah mereka ini?

3. Mereka, mengikut laporan dalam sebuah majalah Amerika, Newsweek, adalah ahli beberapa NGO dari Amerika yang terlibat kononnya untuk membawa demokrasi kepada Mesir. Diantara mereka adalah NDI (National Democratic Institute), IRI (International Republican Institute) dan Freedom House. Semua mereka mengikut Newsweek “receive U.S. Government funding”.

4. Laporan yang sama berkata dalam keluarannya pada Februari 13, “But storming NGO’s, interrogating U.S. citizens, and banning them from leaving the country has strained U.S-Egypt relations and threatened the sacrosanct $1.3 billion in military aid from the U.S.” (Menggeledah NGO, menyoal rakyat Amerika, dan melarang mereka keluar dari Mesir telah menegangkan hubungan Amerika dengan Mesir dan menggugat bantuan $1.3 billion untuk tentera (Mesir) dari Amerika.)

5. Semasa Mubarak Amerika dilarang membiayai NGO Mesir yang tidak berdaftar melalui badan-badan bantuan kewangan Kerajaan Amerika seperti Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour. Sekarang agensi-agensi Kerajaan Amerika memula semula membiayai badan NGO yang tidak berdaftar.

6. (However, following the uprising that toppled Mubarak, U.S. AID once again began distributing funds to unregistered NGOs in an effort to be part of Egypt’s democratic future – Newsweek Feb. 13)

7. Campurtangan Amerika Syarikat dalam gerakan untuk menjatuhkan Kerajaan negara-negara yang tidak sebulu dengannya amatlah jelas. Sudah tentu di Malaysia juga pembiayaan badan-badan NGO dilakukan untuk menjayakan “Regime Change” (Pertukaran Pemerintah).

8. Bahawa Amerika menyokong Anwar Ibrahim untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia adalah jelas dari laporan akhbar dan majalah mereka. Apa yang sedang dilakukan oleh Amerika Syarikat di Negara Arab sudah tentu dilakukan juga di Malaysia. NGO-NGO yang sedang menghasut dan memburukkan Kerajaan supaya Anwar Ibrahim dapat menjadi Perdana Menteri tentu sekali mendapat bantuan kewangan dan media Amerika. Mereka kononnya tidak puas hati dengan dasar Kerajaan berkenaan hak asasi manusia termasuk seksualiti bebas (menghalalkan zina, perkahwinan sejenis, menghapuskan institusi perkahwinan dan kekeluargaan dan liwat). Sebenarnya tujuan mereka ialah untuk menjayakan hasrat Amerika Syarikat untuk melakukan regime change supaya Malaysia menjadi alat Amerika Syarikat. Sudah tentu setelah Anwar Ibrahim menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia, tuntutan NGO-NGO berkenaan akan dihalalkan. Sebagai penyokong kuat Israel, Amerika Syarikat tetap akan memujuk Anwar supaya mengadakan hubungan diplomatik dengan negara Yahudi itu.

9. Malaysia merdeka. Tetapi apabila kuasa asing dapat menukar Kerajaan Malaysia dengan pelbagai cara yang haram, apakah Malaysia akan terus merdeka?

10. Tetapi terpulanglah kepada rakyat Malaysia. Jika mereka suka Malaysia menjadi alat Amerika Syarikat (penyokong kuat Israel) sokonglah puak yang menerima bantuan dan sokongan Amerika Syarikat.

11. Tetapi jika kita ingin betul-betul merdeka, tidak dikongkong oleh Amerika Syarikat dan sekutunya, tolaklah mereka yang sanggup diperalatkan oleh Amerika Syarikat untuk menukar Kerajaan.

MINIMUM PAY

As posted by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at Che Det on March 02, 2012

1. We all would like to see Malaysia become a high-income country. However we must also be concerned about our competitiveness. Increasing incomes must raise the cost of production unless there is a corresponding increase in productivity.

2. But already we are having far too many holidays. To the 52 Sundays, have been added, 52 Saturdays. We now have holidays for the holy days of all religions, however small the followers. We now automatically replace any holiday which falls on Sunday or Saturday with another day of holiday. When we work a lesser number of days our productivity must decrease. So it will not be easy to increase productivity with the increase in minimum wages which will trigger pay increases throughout, so as to maintain the parity between the different grades of the employees. Working during holidays will also cost more. So will contribution to EPF and rates of pensions.

3. Between higher pay and shorter working hours, plus all the other costs, the cost of production of goods and services must increase considerably.

4. Once, during the Government of a previous Prime Minister, a 25% salary increase was given to Government servants. There is no evidence that Government revenue had increased by 25%. The normal increase is about 10%. What this means is that the increase in operation costs due to the 25% salary increases have to be met through reduction of allocation for development. Reducing needed development is not going to be good for a rapidly developing nation.

5. The West today is in great financial trouble with at least one country going bankrupt. The reason is simple. The West has been overpaying their people. High wages and salaries, huge bonuses and numerous costly benefits such as unemployment pay gave the developed West an appearance of prosperity. But their profligate ways is not sustainable.

6. Faced with competition from eastern countries, they lost their markets. For a time they benefitted from the financial markets. But the financial market is about gambling. And as happens with all gamblers, they must lose eventually. And that plunged them into this intractable financial crisis.

7. This is what happens when wages and compensations for work are not accompanied by increases in productivity. I fear Malaysia may be heading this way if we pay more for less work, as we are doing now.