Born With ONE Mission

Born with ONE Mission

Datuk Huan Cheng Guan

President, Centre for Political Awareness

In a letter to Richard Price on 8 January 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." 

Today, that statement does not hold true because the Internet has made it possible for netizens to be informed, misinformed, and/or disinformed. This is applies for many citizens’ perception of our Prime Minister and the government.
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Disinformation is misleading false information announced deliberately by an organization/individual, especially by an intelligence agency, to influence public opinion of the government whereas misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. Malaysians today are victims of surreptitious disinformation propaganda subtly planned and executed to brainwash them against BN. The ultimate goal is to topple Barisan Nasional via whatever means by making citizens resistant to positive messages about the government and utterly receptive of any anti-government message without question.

In a recent letter to The Malaysian Insider (http://tinyurl.com/nbsbmud), the writer mocks the PM’s recent statement about the defeat of Brazil  and ineffective leadership by decrying  that statement was the result of the PM’s reflections about himself. With little faith in the PM’s leadership, he says the country is heading for troubled waters, citing issues such as racism, and corruption to support his stand. 

Despite acknowledging how economic experts have applauded the PM’s budgets, Nozmy shows his ignorance and narrow-mindedness  in his doubts about their efficacy. He cannot and will not realize that no one is God nor can anyone play God to change the circumstances of the world – not even ministers, academics, economists, analysts, the PM or even Nomy Nozwir himself!

Nomy has failed to realize that the country is NOT governed by man’s feelings – the sum of which is SUBJECTIVE, ERRATIC, and DYNAMIC. Neither can this country be governed by absolute figures, statistics, or whatever digits anyone can produce.  There is no black or white world whereby things can be compartmentalized into boxes or files. We live in a dynamic country where a myriad of forces are at work both to build and to break this nation.

Nozmy fails to realize the PM is NOT a magician, wizard, or extra-terrestrial being. He cannot, with the wave of a wand, turn deficit budgets into surplus budgets, or spike GDP figures nor  multiply FDIs statistics or increase power supply at zero cost to consumers. If it were as simple, our PM would not have hired the best to advise him. Even so, brainwashed citizens slam the PM for having a bloated budget.

Regardless of what the PM does or does NOT do, those who have been brainwashed or fed on a generous and continuous diet of disinformation can NEVER ever see the good that the PM has achieved for this nation.  Give credit when it is due. They will never acknowledge the following achievements:

Malaysia is now gaining momentum and prestige as an investment destination as a multinational marketplace in its own right, and as a gateway to Asean.

1. Our economy is liberal, connective and on track to reach our national economic ambition: to become a high-income nation by 2020, one of the few countries to cross the threshold this century.

2. The Economic Transformation Programme aims to attract 1.23 trillion ringgit in private investment by the end of the decade. Foreign capital will continue to build the businesses, infrastructure and confidence on which Malaysia's economic success depends. ETP achievements include:

• soaring gross national income

• huge increases in competitiveness

• our country is heading to high-income status

• more opportunities for young people

• more accessible financial sector

• clear balance between macro achievements and individual success

• open to foreign investment

• directing resources and policies towards key economic priorities

The government is trying its best to create growth that LASTS – not the lightning bolt type – but an economy where national development and individual ambitions unite behind common goals.

3. The following figures speak for themselves:  

GDP: 2013 The country's gross domestic product grew by 4.7 per cent.

          2014 first quarter – our GDP was 6.2% exceeding expectations.

Private consumption : 2010 = 6.9% but 2013 was 7.6%. or 51.2 per cent of GDP. We are on track to achieve around 60 per cent of GDP by 2020.

Malaysia’s private investment:  Between 2010 and 2013, it grew 15.3% i.e. tripled the compounded annual growth rate compared to the previous three-year period.

Total private investment last year reached 161.1 billion ringgit. Malaysia surpassed the 2013 target by some 8.6 per cent- a figure, which is DOUBLE the 86.7 billion ringgit, invested in 2010.

Market capitalization for Malaysian companies has grown by 184 per cent since 2009 (194 plc) to 2013 (274 public listed companies)s.

Sectors in the National Key Economic Areas have created a total of 1.3 million additional high-value jobs in the past three years. 

5. Bloomberg (http://tinyurl.com/nflwgjc) reports that Malaysia is the first in Southeast Asia to raise its benchmark rate this year, underscoring policy makers’ confidence in the nation’s economic growth as exports and domestic demand recover. 

6. “Recent economic data has been strong, which suggests the economy is healthy enough to withstand a tightening in monetary policy,” said Krystal Tan, a Singapore-based analyst at Capital Economics Ltd. 

7. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicts Bank Negara will deliver another 25 basis point increase in the benchmark rate by year-end as strengthening global growth boosts Malaysian exports, Hong Kong-based analyst Jonathan Sequeira wrote in a research note yesterday. ( http://tinyurl.com/nflwgjc)

How many Malaysians know that? How many writers, journalists, media, and online portals headlined those milestones? The absence of acknowledgement in so many sites is concrete evidence of an insidious disinformation plot to turn citizens against the PM and government. 

Malaysians often think in terms of they, themselves and the ‘I’ looming in front of them. Most choose to remain negative without acknowledging or giving credit to our government, which has improved fiscal policy practices and implemented disciplined governance - even if such moves are NOT populist policies and do not go down well with the rakyat. Citizens condemn GST, Tenaga Malaysia rate increases etc without understanding why the government reduced subsidies or  improved value management.

Fredrico Gil Sander, senior country economist for the World Bank, openly acknowledged  that “Malaysia's biggest advantage was its openness to international business communities, which had encouraged rapid improvement in its global competitiveness.” However, Malaysians such as Nozmy and other PR naysayers have NOTHING GOOD to say of the government. 

It is as if they were born to fulfil one mission – curse and condemn BN!

Considering his ignorance in economic achievements and how the economy works, Nozmy should remain in the world of fiction and continue writing his books. Leave governance and economic analysis to experts or those who BOTHER to dig for themselves what are the real statistics.

Many do not bother to find out more about things work or to discover who is telling the truth or spreading disinformation.  Malaysians must not be fooled or hoodwinked by lies of the Opposition, especially Anwar Ibrahim and his ilk. 

Stop blaming the PM or BN for anything and everything. Malaysia’s economy, environment, moral legacy, government, pride, and the quality of the life of all Malaysians now and forever depend on no one but ourselves. Is that too difficult for you to understand, Nozmy?

Let us have only one united mission – LOVE MALAYSIA! Let us support our government in practical ways that we as a nation can move forward – together!