What Zombies and Lapiji wants Malaysia to be: 1) Free education like Norway -- (but Norway have 25% GST) 2) No GST like Hong Kong -- (but Hong Kong have among the highest income inequality in the world with Gini coefficient at 0.537 compared with Malaysias 0.431 in 2012 - falling from 0.441 in 2009) 3) Income equality as good as Denmark with Gini of 0.21 -- (but Denmark has among the worlds highest petrol prices at Euro1.50 per litre or RM6.32) 4) Lowest petrol price in the world like Venezuela -- (but Venezuela inflation rate is among the worlds highest at 62% per year) 5) Lowest inflation rate in the world like Japan which has had negative inflation for years -- (but Japans currency has fallen about 40% against Ringgit Malaysia in the past two years) 6) High exchange rate like Singapore -- (but car prices are the highest in the world where a MyVi costs Sing$87k or RM225k compared to RM41k n Malaysia) 7) Car prices as low as Brunei -- (but Brunei has no democracy) 8) As democratic as India, which is known as the biggest democratic country in the world. -- (but India has very corruption rates compared to Malaysia) 9) As corruption free as Finland -- (but Finland is in the middle of their lost decade and have experienced negative or zero economic growth) 10) Economic growth as high as Myanmar which is experiencing an economic boom right now with GDP growth forecast at above 7% - (but Myanmar has lots of race/religious conflicts that has led to many deaths) 11) No or little racial/religion tensions like Nepal which is pretty much all the same race and religion -- (but many Nepalese love to come to Malaysia to work and say Malaysia Bagus!). --- Please note that many of these ideals/goals are contradicting in nature. For example, you cant have low inflation and high economic growth and fast-rising wages. Neither can you have very liberal low-tax highly capitalist and highly competitive economies like Hong Kong and still expect low social equality. Or having low car prices with low petrol prices and not expect crippling road congestion that will stifle economic growth and cause environmental damage. Trade-offs and compromise is to be expected - especially in a developing economy like Malaysia.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:31:44 +0000