if NEP is successful ...long time ago sudah maju lo....but looking at today is not going up....is going down

pros and cons la....the up malay getting richer lo...the average/poor wil be poorer

the minority cont strive day to day....so its a balance

NEP is never going to be successful lah.

It is done to redistribute wealth. Not create wealth.

They are so hung up on redistributing wealth from nons, ie. getting more of the pie,  instead of making the whole pie bigger so everyone gets a bigger share.

I remember reading a writing by mamakthir economic advisor. forgot what his name was sorry.

technically he argued that NEP is already a successful. in fact it far more successful than in the non community. most of bumi wealth are in the hand of M40, while most of the wealth in non community are in the hand of T20. the poor are mostly due to geographical rather than racial basically there's plenty of bumi majority area be it Kelantan, Kedah & Sabah that are poor thus skewed the B40 numbers into showcasing that bumi are poor.

I think the whole thing is a huge mess really. the social security measures we have in place for B40 is through zakat. Anwar & menteri agama did the right thing in asking for such fund to be use for nons. but public acceptance is highly problematic. zakat fund are essentially a wealth distribution social security system finance by capital gains taxes and currently it only being paid by Muslim. so Muslim might find it hard to see non get it while well off non will scream Islamisation because they don't wanna see the possibility of them paying social security taxes.

it's not so much they are blind by it. it probably due to separatism thus they don't believe in the non. and PH pretty much crashed down to due the chivunist faction trying to pull their Chinese nationalism policy on the national stage.

this country is a very centralists in nature & culture. any attempt to move it right or left would mean it would come crashing down as people reject such notions.

as for PAS. I'm not sure how they going to 'evolve' the Arab leadership are sponsoring a more 'inclusive' & modern interpretation of salafism. but if they allowed their hardcore faction to overtake their agendas like DAP did b4, PN would come crashing down.

to be fair, if we fail in our quest for efficiency, it's not like we getting bankrap or anything. more like we would continue being in the middle income trapped like most of Latin America,south Africa & Thailand. and those countries seem to have given up already. this is not the case in MY though.sucessive gov even PH had try to liberalised & reduce subsidies. so it's not much of politicians fault it's more of our own fault because we didn't want to do it. we still have a fairy tale like assumption that no personal sacrifice needed , someone else should pay the price and as long as we get the 'right' people in corridor of power. that's why sinkkie at hardwarezone just can't stop laughing at us.