On the 3rd December 2006, the Minister of Education, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein announced a budget of RM709 million to build up to 15 new Maktab Rendah Sains Malaysia (MRSMs) and more for upgrades and repairs of existing MRSMs. This announcement actually exceeds the RM90 million announced in the 9th Malaysia Plan (9MP) to build 2 new MRSMs as well as upgrade of existing facilities.
On the 9th December 2006, that is last Saturday, the same Minister of Education announced additional funds of RM2.1 million in the 9MP for the purposes of "upgrading "96 Chinese vernacular schools in the country. Grateful Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) president, Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting goes out of his way to thank the Minister for his consideration and generous allocation. This was headline news for the local vernacular dailies.
And as political analyst Khoo Kay Peng calculated the complicated sums before arriving at the conclusion that the additional allocation meant a magnanimous RM22,000 for each of the Chinese schools, we are left aghast at state of beggar politics in this country.
On the one hand, we have the richly funded MRSM system which caters almost exclusively to the bumiputera community, while on the other, we have the drastically short-changed vernacular school system which caters largely to the minority communities. Do we have a just and equitable education system in this country?
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Was that a rhetorical question? Because the answer is no.
Next time, use your head before putting the 'X'...
They are up there because they receive a lot of 'X's'in election.
So who to balame?
RM2.1mil for government-aided Chinese primary schools under the 9th Malaysia Plan but RM709 million to build up to 15 new Maktab Rendah Sains Malaysia (MRSMs) and more for upgrades and repairs of existing MRSMs! RM709 million is 337 times RM2.1million!
And this does not take into account the allocation for National schools. And Ong Kating wept with joy at the offer! The MCA should 'kating' off the useless bum before it is 'katinged' off itself in the next general elections.
This is how the UMNOputras treated the minorities who helped them garnered the 92% majority votes. Next time is the pay back time. Let's wait and see!
This is how the UMNOputras treated the minorities who helped them garnered the 92% majority votes. Next time is the pay back time. Let's wait and see!
For all the tax dollar that Malaysia collects annually, how many percent of it comes from the non-Bumiputera Malaysian?
Maybe a national boycott of witholding tax payments should be instated to remind that what we put together into the pot should be used equitably.
do you think our votes actually make a dif? it's just like how bush won....it was rigged. even if you win they will somehow use some really "non-racial" way of making it their win.
i like the metaphor "katinged" ... hAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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