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Budget 2013: Both Pakatan and Barisan Should Focus on Job Creation

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 04:03 PM PDT

At present, more than 30% of graduates are unemployed due to several reasons. Prospective employers opine that our local graduates lacked the necessary communication skills and English language proficiency. Some blame the attitude and excessive remuneration demand.

Whatever the reasons, there are several issues which must be addressed before the subsidy pie grows bigger in the near future.

The Economist reported that the global economy would have to create 600 million jobs over the next 8 years. A number of developed economies such as Japan, South Korea and China are facing acute competition for jobs even though their respective economy is still growing.

Malaysia's problem is no different. We are not creating enough jobs at the top of the value chain to accommodate enough knowledge workers. The presence of more than 2 million low skilled migrant workers is a serious symptom of a lack of will to enhance quality and adopt value added processes.

The economy must start looking at the possibility of hiring local workers to fill their manpower need. The government should focus on providing assistance and incentive to companies hiring more local workers instead of being overly dependent on cheap foreign labour. With Indonesia's economy growing, there is going to be a shortage of workers in the construction and plantations sectors. We need to prepare for the eventuality. The government needs to find out why locals shunned working in these sectors. Retail and F&B are also increasingly dependent on foreign workers.

According to the report, the "job engines" of the past two centuries were usually new technologies, such as the steam engine, electricity, new seed varieties, or new types of manufacturing. Growth was also driven by more trade, easier transport, instant communications, and better rule of law.

What's Malaysia new "job engines"? Apart from the costly LRT extension, what else has been planned to provide affordable and efficient public transport to the people?

Malaysia's export oriented economy is also facing immediate risk next year from the slowdown in our traditional export markets : US and Europe. Hence, less jobs are going to be created in the next year or so. What is the government going to do to ensure that the economy continue to create jobs?

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Why MCA is more Multiracial than DAP?

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 03:38 PM PDT

1. I am sure most Malaysian are aware that DAP is not truly a multiracial political party as they self proclaim themselves to be because they will only be contesting in all Chinese Majority Area Seats.

2. Even MCA as the only official Chinese Political Party in Malaysia do contest in other mix seats area where even during Mac 2008 Tsunami more than half of the seats they won is a area where they ( MCA ) are contesting against other races .

3. As for DAP most of the seats that they won and easily more than 90% are actually seats where they won through contesting against a Chinese candidate .

4. The only difference that differentiate MCA and DAP in terms of Chinese based political party will be that MCA membership only caters to Chinese Citizenship of Malaysia where on the other hand DAP open their membership to all the other races in Malaysia. Even that more than 90% of the members in DAP is Malaysian Chinese Citizenship.

5. The people support towards a political party will be an indication of how multiracial a political will be. If MCA is truly a racist Chinese political party then they wont be winning their total entire seats where half of it they won it through defeating other races in the General Election comparing to DAP where 90% of the entire seats that they won is through defeating a Chinese candidate in the election.

6. That indicates that MCA is more acceptable among other races like the Malays and Indians Malaysian if were to compare to DAP.

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Rabu, 10 Oktober 2012

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