Should we feel proud or should we feel sorry…..?
1. This evening I
had coffee with a friend from the Social &Welfare Department. He said he was
just on his way home from Kuala Pilah, attending Dato’ Norhayati (State Exco
for welfare and women affairs) function. I asked him about the function he
attended and that triggered a long chat about the function.
2. According to
him, Dato’ Norhayati speech touched about what the State Government had done
for people’s benefits. One of them was widening up the Social Security Net
(SSN) so that more poor people could be grope in to receive monthly give outs
from the Social &Welfare Department. According to Dato’ Norhayati this shows the State
is stable and prosperous. Widening up the SSN is a State initiative so that
more people will benefit.
3. What Dato’ Norhayati
said in her speech was actually a mere repetition of what Menteri Besar always said
in his speech. According to my friend, Negeri Sembilan is on top of the list
for having the most number of recipients for Social Welfare’s monthly give
outs. The number is 28,000 people and the number keeps on increasing by day.
The effort to review the recipients’ list proved to be futile as the State Director
of Social Welfare is afraid that he or she be lambasted by the State for taking
the names out of recipients’ list.
4. Is this
something we should be proud of or something that we should be sorry for? The State argues that this is done solely for poor
peoples’ benefits. At the same time statistically it shows Negeri Sembilan has
the most numbers of poor people compared to other States.
5. In my humble
opinion, if this is the case, we do not have the cause to be proud and happy.
We are actually living in a State where a large segment of its citizens living
under the poverty line. At another angle of seeing it, we do not have a comprehensive
program that works to bring people out of poverty. The Federal Government
program of 1 AZAM does not show any successful and demonstrable effect in
eradicating poverty in Negeri Sembilan. We just give monthly give outs to
people and hope them to be happy with what they received. The State so far has
yet to come out with development programs to develop these poor people out of
the poverty even though the Menteri
Besar always boasts for having a huge financial reserves. The sickening part is,
Malays forms the huge part of recipients who receives monthly give outs!
6. So my friends
within and outside UMNO. Is this something that we can be proud of or something
that we should be sorry for?
Dah puluhan tahun jadi ahli UMNO. Dulu Moklan kata nak ubah UMNO dari dalam? Dah ada progress ke?
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