Why we fails miserably

Why we fails miserably

I am fed up with seeing so many people comparing the qualifications of our Ministers with that of Singapore and even then with inaccurate information and taking the lesser qualified among our Ministers. For example this Blogger under the title "Sketches of Life" blames Malaysia for failing "miserably" because of poorly qualified Cabinet Ministers. In doing so he even omitted the better qualified ones. If Singapore has Ministers with Masters degrees we have also several with PhDs. Why does he not use them as comparison.

To avoid being misled by such comparisons by people who already have biased minds, I suggest the official list of our Ministers produced by Putrajaya should also contain our Ministers' qualifications and the Universities they qualify from. Although the quality of one's intellectual capacity and leadership does not depend on the paper qualification the he or she possesses, I still feel that since this matter is of such an important consideration nowadays, there is nothing wrong telling the truth to the public. After all even if one did not go through a tertiary education but managed to do well in life and gains the respect of the majority, that in itself is a great achievement.

MSAbdullah.

What do we call employees of GLCs and Statutory Bodies.

There is now a new category of operatives who are neither civil servants or private sector employees. They are those who are employed by the Government Linked Companies [GLCs] and Statutary Bodies. This breed of people seem to be enjoying the benefits of both worlds. They weild the powers that are normally vested with civil sevants and at the same time enjoy the perks that are only associated with private sector employments. People who are picked by Government to lead these organizations enjoy tremendous powers and many of them behave like Semi-Royals or Mini-Nepoleons.

While the civil servants have a code of conduct or General Orders that they have to abide by it is not very clear what code of conduct this catagory of people have to observe. Most private sector companies have only very loose disciplinary codes and some only deal with them at the Board level when they are faced with one. What then is the code of conduct for this new catagory of employees, who for all intent and purpose are "linked" to Government and hence public money is used to drive the operation.

MSAbdullah.