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Chat If you are a politician. What will you do?, Politics and Economy.

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MAGAMan-X
post Jan 23 2020, 01:05 PM

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QUOTE(mat2020 @ Jan 21 2020, 09:48 PM)
I will be focusing on:

1) Human capital development

2) Infrastructure

3) Public transport

4) Investment
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For me it will be

1) reduce govt overreach (ie making the govt leaner and less powerful) and improve checks and balances (eg 2 term PM limit)

2) military

3) restoring the Federal Constitution of Malaysia as the supreme law of the land.

4) freedom of speech and expression.

5) drain the swamp (similar to 1 but specifically corruption)

6) quality education (purely secular and according to worldwide standard)

7) deregulation (also similar to 1 but with focus on easing market driven initiatives)

8) law enforcement (similar to 4 but targeting your common crooks, and double parkers and queue cutters)

9) separation of religion and state.

10) reduce dependency on foreign labor

11) infrastructure

12) greening the environment

That should cover all my free time in my 2 term as PM.
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post Jan 23 2020, 01:25 PM

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QUOTE(ViktorJ @ Jan 23 2020, 01:13 PM)
YB, how do you intend to achieve #10?

Also, what sort infrastructure improvements and military changes do you propose?

I must point out, #1 automatically makes the subsequent 10 items that much harder to implement.
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If you deregulate, you create an environment where employers do not need to pinch pennies and can focus on improving the business. I don't know about your experience, but my experience with business who use low skill foreign labor is crap, I honestly cannot go back to the same business because of the horrible level of service because pay peanuts get monkeys.

2) military, time to put that NS training to some practical use. Those who attend gets priority placement in local universities (free from brainwashing), and put talents where they belong, ie smart ones get to do high tech stuff, not so smart ones do grunt work, like building infrastructure for military and civilian use (see below)

11) infrastructure. I don't know if you have read about the Eisenhower Highway system, but that's where I still begin. The roads built are up to standards for landing aircrafts. Improve water delivery infrastructure, efficient border checkpoints, faster govt processing, eg passports, railroad, shipping ports. While this seem like more regulations it is not. It is narrowing the focus to infrastructure efficiency and less of regulating how infrastructure is used.

Get the foundations right the rest will fall into place.
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post Jan 23 2020, 02:11 PM

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QUOTE(ViktorJ @ Jan 23 2020, 01:49 PM)
By deregulate, do you mean reduce tax? Most businesses here focus more on improving margins by reducing cost i.e. hiring monkeys. If this is the route, I am unsure if dropping tax will incentivize local skilled labour vs cheaper foreign ones.

By NS do you mean PLKN or like a hardcore version like in SG, KR and ISR? I dunno man, the programme itself was just a giant money making scheme for a couple of vendors.

Would love to hear more details on your infrastructure ideas.
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Deregulate means make it simpler to do business without sacrificing efficiency. It may or may not include reducing taxes.

Example, AP system, it's prone to abuse and only benefits cronies, and brings minimal benefit to govt, so scrap the AP system. "How to potek potong like that?" Some red shirts will ask. Simple, have potong give a projection of what sales will be for the year, then give them a target. If hit target, they get tax breaks, if no hit target then tax as per normal. Only applicable for GLCs.

As for foreign cheap labor, first important thing to ask here is are these monkey cheap labors legal or illegal workers? If illegal then just enforce existing laws (point 8), if legal foreign workers then conduct feasibility study of what it takes to replace them with local workers.

By NS I mean PLKN, but instead gradually ramp it up over say.... three years, to some more serious training like in SG, so those who complete the course will be tougher stronger more disciplined individuals, with skills necessary to in the corporate world, rather than the wusses youngster are these days. Eventually people will WANT to join the service, like West Point.

 

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