The 10MP Key Points and what it means
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By Hakim Joe
First of all, let us analyze the so-called “Thrust”.
| “Charting development for a high income nation” | It doesn’t say much about the inflation factor though and neither does it make comparison to other nations. Let us put it this way; Indonesia is a high income nation whereby the average income is IDR250,000. Work four months and you are a millionaire! |
| “6 pct growth target” | Wishful thinking. Ahem … 6% growth in 4 years equates 1.25% growth a year. |
| “Per capita income to increase to RM38,845 (US$12,139) by 2015” | And a sack of 10kg rice will cost RM100 by then. |
| “Creating private sector-led economy” | Meaning the government will privatize more profitable government agencies and leave those non-profitable ones for the next PM to handle. |
| “Supporting innovation-led growth” | Whatever it means… |
| “Full employment” | Kakakakakakakaka |
| “Restructuring of subsidies” | From almost non-existent to absolute zero. |
Now we shall analyze the “Allocations”. The 10MP has been allocated a total of RM230 billion which will be separated into “60% physical development” and “40% non-physical development”.
The 10 Big Ideas (who came up with all these monikers anyway?) are:
| “Internally driven, externally aware” | Sound like someone being raped. |
| ”Leveraging on diversity internationally” | As quoted by Koh Tsu Koon … but what does it mean? |
| ”Transforming to high-income through specialisation” | Specialization of WHAT??? |
| ”Unleashing productivity-led growth and innovation” | Do you mean that we have been hoarding them so far (to finally unleash them now?) |
| ”Nurturing, attracting and retaining top talent” | All clever dicks are to have their passports impounded. |
| ”Ensuring quality of opportunities and safeguarding the vulnerable” | Applicable to civil servants only |
| ”Concentrated growth, inclusive development” | Slogan for (failed) Iskandar Development Region (IDR) |
| ”Supporting effective and smart partnerships” | Umno-Umno partnerships |
| ”Valuing environment endowments” | Go hug a tree (I said “hug” not “f…”) |
| ”Government as a competitive corporation “ | Sounds like tax hikes |
And we have the 12 National Key Economic Areas:
| Oil and gas | Oil: To remove all local subsidies.
Gas: What we let go from indigestion. |
| Palm oil and related-products | Get BNM to do another “corner the market” like what we attempted to do with tin ore. |
| Financial services | To have more Swiss accounts |
| Wholesale and retail | To charge RM100 per license for individual products being retailed in shops. Sell 100 items, need 100 licenses. |
| Tourism | Grab those Thai tourists now that their people are uprising against their Gomen. |
| Information and communications technology | Get Mossad in to do the wiring of the new Parliament. |
| Education | Get more Nigerians to study here. |
| Electrical and electronic | Electrical: More coal fired IPPs
Electronic: MEC redux? |
| Business services | PKFZ??? |
| Private healthcare | Build more super-expensive private hospitals with hotel-like foyers. |
| Agriculture | Felda??? |
| Greater Kuala Lumpur | What’s so great anyway? Anyone seen the massive potholes here of lately? Greater “potholed” KL… |
Now we get to the Key Sectors:
| ATTRACTING TALENT | |
| Talent Corporation to be set under PM’s Department in 2011 to source global top talent including among Malaysian diaspora | We need more Nigerians to print more USD for us. |
| Simplify hiring of foreign talent | Did you people happen to include RELA in this? |
| Flexibility for foreign talent to change jobs | From housemaid to PRO China dolls. |
| Spouses of foreign talent to take up employment | As housewives??? |
| Exemption for foreign talent to bring in foreign domestic help | Malaysia becoming United Nations |
| No time limit on employment visa of skilled foreign talent earning more than RM8,000 per month | And charge them RM96,000 to renew their visas every year. |
| Open visas to be issued to high skilled foreign professionals | My maid is “highly skilled” in mopping floors and washing dishes. |
| Highly skilled foreign professionals allowed to purchase houses costing RM250,000 and above | Yeah, whack their pockets. |
| National Talent Blueprint by 2011 to identify talent needs of priority economic sectors | Identify, maybe. Training suitable candidates, no. |
| ENHANCING BUMIPUTERA ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION | |
| 30 pct target Bumiputera corporate equity remains | Hahahahaha. What has changed? |
| Develop a Bumiputera commercial and industrial community | I thought that was already achieved? These people already have their HQ at Umno Building. |
| Create stronger and more competitive industry champions | Sounds more like a Bumi enforced monopoly. |
| Broadening wealth ownership to ensure sustainability | Means more than 30%. |
| Promoting Bumiputera representation in high-paying jobs through enhanced capability building and demand-side incentives | And then get the better qualified non-bumis to work as their assistants. |
| EMPLOYMENT | |
| To grow at 2.4 pct yearly to create 1.4 million jobs mostly in services sector | All the Gomen needs to do is to chase the Indons and Burmese out from the restaurants and we would have instantly created 3 million jobs. |
| Employment to reach 13.2 million jobs in 2015 | Statistics Department maneuvers. |
| Full employment status with unemployment rate of 3.1 pct in 2015 | Full employment = 3.1% unemployment??? |
| RAISING EMPLOYABILITY | |
| Standardized and recognition of Technical Education and Vocational Training (TEVT) by Malaysian Skills Certificate | Forcing the GLCs and Foreign companies to hire MARA graduates. |
| RM150 million to train 20,000 school dropouts | Of BN descent only??? |
| RM7.5 million to train coaches, instructors and facilitators | Coaches, instructors and facilitators of what? |
| Strengthening performance culture in universities | Let us copy the Indonesian cultural dance |
| REFORMING LABOUR MARKET | |
| More flexible labour market | How??? Bend over and get … |
| Upgrade skills of existing workforce | MARA perhaps? Do remember that MARA only admits Malays … |
| Enhance Malaysia’s ability to attract and retain top talent | Foreigners to be granted Bumi status. |
| RM80 million for Relief Fund for Loss of Employment from 2010 to 2012 to provide assistance to workers retrenched without compensation | Better get retrenched between 2010 and 2012 but not after that. |
| Part-Time Work Regulations under Employment Act 1955 to be introduced to tap workforce from amongst housewives, retirees and disabled persons | Not even sufficient full-time jobs around but need to create part-time jobs. |
| Increase female labour force from 46 pct in 2010 to 55 pct in 2015 | Legalize those China Dolls!!! |
| RM500 million each to provide loans to workers and school leavers for training and skills upgrading | Great if the RM500 million reaches its intended targets … |
| RM50 million to continue the matching grants for training and skills upgrading of small and medium enterprise employees | Who is in charge of SMIDEC these days? |
| RM50 million to fund apprenticeships involving more than 8,000 students | From MARA only |
| RM50 million to co-sponsor employees to obtain industrial PhDs | Then have those PhDs migrate elsewhere |
| RM350 million allocated to continue programme of partial financial assistance for PhDs in local universities started in 2009 | Why the trouble? Just buy it lah. |
| INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT GROWTH/PRODUCTIVITY | |
| Broadband penetration of 75 pct by 2015 | With speeds of 1kb/hour |
| RM2.7 billion to build roads and rails leading to key ports and airports to improve trade efficiency and logistics systems | And who is going to get the “closed tender” contract? |
| Energy security through development of alternative sources i.e. hydro, coal and liquified natural gas by 2015 | Oh no … not another Bakun Dam. |
| INCLUSIVE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | |
| Elevate livelihoods of 40 pct of households | How??? |
| Ensure Bumiputera economic participation | From 30% to 95% (5% left for MCA & MIC) |
| Reduce poverty from 3.8 pct in 2009 to 2 pct in 2015 | Need at readjust what the classification is. Used to be RM300, now it is RM200 |
| Raise average monthly income of bottom 40 pct of households from RM1,440 in 2009 to RM2,300 in 2015 | But forgot about the inflation rate |
| Increase percentage of SPM qualification and above in bottom 40 pct of households from 30 pct in 2009 to 45 pct in 2015 | Passing mark now is 20 out of 100. |
| Education assistance for children from bottom 40 pct of households | Selective selection? |
| SOCIAL SAFETY NET | |
| Housing assistance for rural poor | With home loans only from CIMB and guaranteed by the Gomen against defaulters. |
| Affordable housing and low-cost housing expanded for urban/semi-urban poor | 161,000 new affordable housing planned but only 78,000 allocated for the poor. |
| Income support for eligible groups within 40 pct of households when subsidies are restructured | Eligible groups? Who makes the decisions? |
| Income support for disabled old and single mothers | One of the better programs but will it happen? |
| Encourage GLCs to tailor CSR programmes to target the needy | S.L.W.K.T.K.W.S. (Sounds Like What Koh Tsu Koon Would Say) |
| 1Malaysia clinics expanded to urban poor and other underserved areas | Alias Biro Tatanegara |
| SPECIAL TARGET GROUPS | |
| Halve poverty among Orang Asli communities in Peninsular Malaysia to 25 pct in 2015 | Convert them and change their status to Bumiputeras and then put them on Gomen subsidies. |
| Reduce poverty among Sabah ethnic minorities from 22.8 pct to 12 pct and Sarawak ethnic minorities from 6.4 pct to 3 pct | |
| Financial assistance to Chinese new villages to renew land lease, upgrade homes and fund business | Operative word is “new” villages. What if there are no “new” Chinese villages? |
| Improve access to basic amenities in estates and re-skilling programmes for displayed estate workers | What does “displayed” estate workers mean? |
| BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE | |
| 6,312 km of new roads in Peninsular Malaysia, 2,540km in Sabah and 2,819 km in Sarawak to benefit 3.3 million people nation-wide | Built by BN cronies. |
| Clean water to 99 pct rural households in Peninsular Malaysia, 98 pct in Sabah and 95 pct in Sarawak | Meaning 1% in Peninsular Malaysia, 2% in Sabah and 5% in Sarawak will get dirty water. |
| Electricity for rural areas almost 100 pct in Peninsular Malaysia and 99 pct in Sabah and Sarawak | More coal-fired power plants being lined up. |
| At least one 1Malaysia telecentre in every sub-district (mukim) to promote broadband | And then limit their usage to 5G a month (very possible as the average speed is 1kB/second. |
| BUILDING A PROGRESSIVE AND MORE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY | |
| Empowering women a key agenda by increasing numbers in decision making, labour force, support for widows, single mothers and low-income women | Women to be selected as supervisors and Men to be selected as administrators. |
| Eliminating all forms of discrimination against women | One of the better plans but who do you get to enforce it? |
| Youth development programmes to create generation of forward-looking, academic driven and career achievement generation | Vroom …Vroom … (Mat Rempits) |
| National Youth Skills Institute (IKBN) skills courses to be expanded to offer greater options and also soft skills and leadership training | New skill courses include how to make $$$ without working (Political Science 101) Lecturer Extraordinaire: KJ |
| Number of youth associations to increase from 5,000 to 11,500 | More associations to make police reports against the Opposition |
| Protection of children to be enhanced through quality childcare services and enhanced rehabilitation centres and child welfare homes | Monthly fees are RM5,000 per child (meals not included). |
| Community awareness programmes to protect children interest | 1Malaysia perhaps? |
| Police screening for child carers to address issues of abuse | RM500 per applicant (No receipt given) |
| Alert system similar to U.S Amber Alert bulletin for lost/missing children | To be printed on all Maggi Mee packets becos that is all we will only be able to afford. |
| Emphasis on health and well-being of older persons to live dignified and fulfilling lives | And how is the Gomen gonna do that? |
| 100 pct tax rebate on costs to retrain older persons to be continued | Nothing new here. |
| Database under Jobs Malaysia for older persons will be promoted to increase greater awareness for those looking for jobs | First you need to get the employers to hire them. Creating a database won’t help. |
| Day care centres for older persons to be expanded | From 100 square feet to 101 square feet. |
| Government to actively pursue 1 pct employment for persons with disabilities in civil service | We already have that…we have a lot of severely financially disabled civil servants. |
| Government to look into establishing specialized learning institutions and vocational schools for persons with disabilities | “A” for “Apa macam, encik?” (Normal questioning when stopped for traffic offences) |
| EDUCATION SYSTEM | |
| Revamp education system to focus on implementation and delivery capability | And then get the teachers to sweep the floor as well. |
| Reinforce importance of values and ethics in education system | More books for the students to carry. Schoolbags now weigh in excess of 10kgs. |
| 181 Permata centres to be set up throughout country | With an enrolment of 181 specially selected students (preferably from BN parents) |
| Pre-school enrolment to be increased from 87 pct by 2012 and to 92 pct in 2015 | One of the better suggestions … implementation is of course another thing. |
| Entry age for schooling to be lowered from 6+ to 5+ in line with many developed countries | One more year for private early learning institutions to whack the parents’ wallets. |
| RM400 million for Literacy and Numeracy Screening (LINUS) programme between 2010 to 2012 to ensure all students have basic literacy and numberacy skills after first three years of primary education | What are the teachers doing in classes (assuming that they are present in class)? |
| Strengthen learning of Bahasa Malaysia and English | Yeah, SPM “A” achievers in English who can’t speak a word of England-nish. |
| Investments in school infrastructure and facilities especially for rural schools in Sabah and Sarawak | Definitely not in Sibu or Sri Tanjong. |
| RM140 million to develop 100 high performing schools by 2012 | Managed by our “1st Lady wannabe” no doubt. |
| RM160 million for reward programme between 2010 and 2012 for head teachers and principals | What about the poor teachers? |
| Leadership training for 14,000 school officials every year by Institute Aminiuddin Baki from current level of 8,000 | Institute Aminiuddin Baki = Biro Tatanegara??? |
| VIBRANT LIVEABLE CITIES | |
| Making quality of life core of urban projects | Good quality of life or Bad quality of life? It doesn’t say … |
| Planning communities and neighbourhoods | Sounds like gerrymandering. |
| Development to encourage living, working and leisure within same compact areas | One room, 200 square feet flats. |
| Focus on seamless public transport connectivity | But you all have to turn into sardines first … |
| Pedestrian-friendly street network | 20 feet walkways and 15 feet roads equals massive traffic jams (refer to Bukit Bintang) |
| Open spaces and green corridors | Bring out the paint! |
| Restoration of rivers and waterfronts a priority in cities. Enhance culture and arts scene | More pubs to be lined up at these places. Hasan Ali … eat your heart out! |
| Support for artists in form of creative grants/loans to create art enclave or perkampungan seni | What??? |
| Encourage the hosting of international arts and cultural events | Justify spending RM500 million on the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| Attract international talent to create, premiere, perform and exhibit in Kuala Lumpur | No scantily clothed ladies and long haired men please (except Kitaro) … wonder if it can be the other way around? Ugh… |
| Malaysia Truly Asia Centre to be developed as an iconic tourism destination to showcase Malaysian culture, art and heritage | Featuring Bali dances … |
| RAKYAT-CENTRIC PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM | |
| Continued efforts to integrate transportation planning in local and national master plans | And then grant the concession to some BN fella to start collecting toll. |
| Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system to be considered to link growth centres in the Iskandar region of Johor | Need to do that becos nobody wants to invest in IDR |
| Government will review potential of expanding Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat (SPAD) scope to Sabah and Sarawak pending successful implementation in Peninsula | Botak’s reward for signing the ISA warrants. |
| Cashless ticketing system across all 16 public transport operators in Greater Kuala Lumpur | MEPS to charge surcharge of RM1 per transaction. |
| TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE | |
| Health Ministry to enforce quality care in both public and private sectors | You mean that it isn’t now? |
| Review of financing options to manage rising cost and ensure healthcare remains accessible and affordable | “Financing Options”??? |
| 197 new clinics costing RM637 million will be completed in first half of 10MP i.e. 156 clinics in rural areas and 41 community health clinic | Closing down of 197 “old” clinics in Pakatan areas … |
| 50 additional 1Malaysia clinics to be set up in urban poor and over underserved areas | Manned by 1Malaysia doctors. OMG!!! |
| Four new and four replacements hospitals costing RM600 million will be completed in first two years of 10MP. They include National Cancer Institute and the Cheras Rehabilitation Centre | However no qualified doctors to man them because the Gomen forgot to allocate funds for them. |
| Mapping of existing healthcare providers to identify gaps to streamline health service delivery | You mean “private” healthcare providers? BTW, who owns Pantai Healthcare? |
| Mobile clinics, flying doctor services and village health promoters to be expanded to remote areas | Ring…ring…ring…ring… (no answer) |
| ACCESS TO QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING | |
| 161,00 new units of public housing | Demolishing 200,000 old public housing within the golden triangle … |
| Housing designs to incorporate Green Building design and technology | At what cost? Won’t be “affordable” anymore. |
| 78,000 units low-cost public housing units for qualified individuals of less than RM2,500 per month | 161,000 “new” public housing but only 78,000 are allocated for the poor. Who owns the other 83,000 units? |
| One federal agency responsible for federally-funded housing instead of several ministries and agencies | “One Ring to Bind Them All”…”One Pengarah to Sapu them All”. |
| RM500 million to set up Housing Maintenance Fund to assist residents of both public and private low-cost houses for major repair and maintenance based on 50-50 matching grants from residents | This means that the low cost home owners need to foot the other RM500 million. |
| Government to continue assistance to rehabilitate abandoned projects | What about going after the developers that abandon the projects after collecting the down payments? |
| SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT | |
| Federal government assumes full responsibility of solid waste management from local authorities | Full responsibility to PRIVATIZE them later? |
| Collection of household solid waste to be privatize to three concessionaires with contract negotiations expected to be completed by end 2010 | What did I tell you people … go on, ask me for the 4 numbers. |
| Other private operators to be licensed to operate solid waste management and public cleansing services | More expenses for the layman … Next in line for privatization will be the non-solid air management. You pay according to the size of your nostrils. |
| Waste collection for households twice a week and daily for wet markets. Existing 112 unsanitary landfills to be closed and rehabilitated, some to be upgraded to sanitary landfills. | Who’s gonna get this “yummy” contract? |
| SAFER STREETS AND SAFER COMMUNITIES | |
| RM2.04 billion for programmes to encourage volunteerism to fight crime | Oh … RELA. |
| Reduce crime index by 5 pct yearly 2015 to cut overall crime by a quarter | Better inform the criminals. |
| Increase volunteer police by 5,000 by 2015 | Oh no … more draculas in uniform. The odds against making a clean (and illegal) U-turn diminishes … |
| RM2.4 billion to upgrade police stations, living quarters and improve career prospects to motivate police | No comment … really! |
| Improve effectiveness of treatment of drug addicts to reduce crimes driven by drug abuse | Feed them sleeping pills by the buckets. |
| RM120 million to support Skim Rondaan Sukarela under Rukun Tetangga | Get a legal day off from work the next day. RT chits sold at RM20 each. Discount available for bulk purchases. |
| Expand Rakan Cop scheme for citizens to report crimes or suspicious behavior via SMS | But no one is manning the SMS centres. |
| RM150 million allocated for Safe Cities Programme | Safe Cities in a rising crime environment? |
| VALUING THE ENVIRONMENT | |
| Renewable energy target of 98MW by 2015 to contribute 5.5 pct to total electricity generation | But not to rural areas. |
| Phasing out incandescent light bulbs by 2014, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 732,000 tonnes and reducing energy usage of 1,074 gigawatts a year | No more street lights. |
| States encouraged to gazette forests especially water catchment areas | Thought that was a Fed Gomen job? |
| More trees to be planted with non-government organisations | What about Gomen organizations? |
| Step up implementation of Clean Air Action Plan | Tell that to the Indonesians |
| Implement Central Forest Spine of 4.32 million hectares in Peninsular Malaysia and Heart of Borneo of 6 million hectares in Sabah and Sarawak | And then grant some BN company the timber concession. |
| National Tiger Conservation Action Plan to be implemented to increase protection and increase tiger population | Roar! What about the “draculas in uniforms”? |
