AP for another decade, by Muhyiddin Yassin
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 | 11:26 pm @ SK
After all the hoo-haa, we’re back to the square one.
The old lady went out and we thought things are going to look different and better with the era of this new old man, unfortunately, it’s not the case when the initial plan announced by the Prime Minister’s Department recently to abolish the Approved Permits (AP) by 31 Dec 2010 is not going to materialize.
Worse, to my utmost displeasure, it’s not a delay for additional one or two years (at most?) and if I’m to read the Minister of International Trade and Industry Muhyiddin Yassin correctly, he was quoted as saying that a decision had been made to retain the AP policy for the next ten to eleven years!
For god sake, to say that the decision came as an disappointment is merely an understatement. It’s disgusting and doesn’t reflect a sincere effort by the Government in promoting free competition in order to advance the competitiveness level among business entities in Malaysia. Where is the level-playing field that we’ve been talking about for ages?
It’s indeed a serious mistake from the Government part, especially with the recent price hike as generally, the public accepted the fact that recent price hike is a worldwide phenomenon and it’s no longer viable for the Government to continue with the subsidy system, even though we’re an oil producer country but still have to pay high price for the petrol.
Nevertheless, there is a catch, which is for the Government to scrap the AP policy too, otherwise the entire mechanism appears to be more than a joke to deceive the people into believing that the Government is no longer affordable to sustain the increment.
Unfortunately, the whole idea is now in vain, no thanks to Muhyiddin and that’s exactly what people say, when you pay peanut, you get monkey.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
cant they just tender the AP and the billions flow into the coffins (oops should be coffers, ask the toyo man) of the government instead of the freaking cronies. shit, i forgot cronies need constant feeding else they become scrawny and unsightly.
BN<, take a hike. usual gibberish from you foul-mouth fellas.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I’m not so sure if he is paid peanuts….even if he is, he’s getting golden peanuts.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:10 am
just like NEP they want it to be selama-lama nya.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
This joker wants to hire consultant to check out how the AP parasites and leeches are doing … that sounds like big $$$… another group of parasites/leeches is now added on top of the AP parasites to suck more money out from the government coffer…the rakyat money.
And 20 years of non trade barriers is still not enough for this useless buggers to grow into real business people — that is what this miti dude is implying when he say a studies need to be conducted on the existing AP holders… dont this tell you something?
people living on hand-outs will always wait for hand-out. useless is useless. why waste tax payer money?
the sooner all these goons are removed the better!
June 12th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
This is right after it was announced that the government would be phasing out APs. Aps are a wonderful tool that can be used to reward those machai who are loyal to the Minister awarding them. It will be used to garner support for the Minister in the coming UMNO elections.
And this is one important reasonm why APs should be abolised once and for all. The taxes should go to the government for use to benefit the country.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
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