Sunday, March 16, 2008

So why's HE still...?

Reading news from home is like having a face full of pimples. You can't help wanting to pick at it:

NEP is no more ... it's the NDP lah!

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party president Datuk Yong Teck Lee is puzzled why there is so much fuss over the New Economic Policy when it has already been superseded by the National Development Policy.

He questioned why politicians on both sides of the political divide, in Penang particularly, were still harping in the issue of the NEP that had expired in the 1990s and replaced with the NDP.
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“The successor to the NEP was the NDP,” he said, adding that overtime Vision 2020, 10-year Outline Perspective Plan (OPP), five-year Malaysia Plans and other policies overshadowed the NDP.

“We are now busy with other new concepts like development corridors, Agenda Baru (New Agenda) and Islam Hadhari (Civilisational Islam). It is no wonder that some politicians both from ruling and opposition have lost focus on which policy to talk about,” he added.

He said the DAP-led Penang government “so-called cancellation of the NEP” was completely redundant because it no longer existed and it was disappointing that Penang Umno was still harping on the NEP like it was a valid document.

Well, maybe they're still harping on it because from what we've seen over the last decade, "NDP" is an abbreviation for "more of the same old crap". Even many Malays, who are supposed to benefit from it, weren't happy this time around.

Besides, we have leadership from the top!

Pak Lah: Most policies are federal policies

PETALING JAYA: Almost all of Malaysia's policies, including the New Economic Policy (NEP), are federal policies, said the Prime Minister.

AAB must have been sleeping when the NEP was abolished.


From Bumiputera Malaysia.
From Kickdefella ("kick the fellow"), more great movie parody posters here. I think my favourite is the "Dah Benci Kot".

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