Can Malaysia Survive the next decade?

Our Vision 2020 to be an industrialised nation may be doomed to failure if we are to continue doing what we are doing. Under the new leadership we are supposed to step up our growth but it looks like we are regressing. Our statistics show that we are dropping in almost everything except for our export and this we all know is due to our Petroluem export when the price went up last year. Now with petroluem price stabilising and our stock is depleting, what will become of a great country?

Our economy is not doing well though our Stock Market has improved. The people spending power has been reduced due to the recent escallation of the prices of our bare necessities. Our money has all gone into paying more Toll, more petrol, more on water, on taxes, on sugar and all these had pushed the prices of other commodities to rise. Our Dollar may have strengthened but what has that got to do with the people in the street? The price of things are still high. Petrol price had dropped but our local petrol still remains. Is this fair?

Our relationship between races are becoming more tense. This is natural as when prices of bare necessities go up tempers flare and good logical thinking goes out of the window. Do we need to have another racial riot before the leaders in this country wake up and do something? Are our leaders gambling with our livelihood? to me it looks pretty dangerous now and at any moment, a small incident can put the whole nation into jeopardy. Something got to be done now and we should not wait till another May 13 to appear. I hope level headed leaders will take a bold move now to do something concrete to avoid any problem.

With China and India emerging, we are now being set aside. What are we doing about this? Are our leaders conscious about what is happening in the country? Businessmen are finding it difficult to make money in the country and are finding other location and where will this take us to? I shudder to think that we will be relegated to another Timor Leste.

My prayer to the Almighty will be that all the leaders in this country start to wake up and stop playing politics but seriously think of how we can make this nation great again. We must not work along racial lines, we must not work on religious beliefs and we must not work on money alone. If you love this country, you should be the agent of change. We must change in the way we run this country, we must change in the way we lead the people and we must change in the way we worship money. We whould be sincere in our promise to make this world a better place for all Malaysians in particular and humans in general. Oh Lord please bless us all and give this message to all our leaders so that they will repent and keep their promise to make this country great.