2007年11月22日星期四

全职从政


11月20号民主行动党八打灵再也区大选筹款晚宴演讲稿

小弟名字,潘俭伟。小弟是今年年初刚刚加入民主行动党。之前,我是一家马来西亚电子商务顾问公司作为总行政主任(CEO)。这家公司是在2001年在新加坡股市上市。那时,我才29岁,刚成立公司不到5年就成功的作为新加坡最年轻的上市公司创办人。

很多人问,有些还问了再问,你为什么要放弃一切,把工作辞掉,把公司卖了,全职从政?是不是有点笨啊?他们说你要是对国家不满意的话,你可以移民啊。你是从英国名校毕业,工作经验又那么丰富,想移民去那都肯定不成问题。

以下这就是我决定从政的其中一些重大因素。马来西亚现在面对的一个最大的挑战就是人才流失。每年都有几万名大马人才移民去新加坡、澳洲、加拿大、美国、香港或英国。我的中学时就凭着获得由新加坡政府提供的亚细安奖学金去那读6年书。每一年都有几百位大马优秀生被招揽到新加坡去。

到了新加坡过后,大多数人都选择不回大马了。我的朋友之中最少有80%已经在新国成家立业、落地生根了。其中有一位同学,也是在八打灵再也出身的,很年轻,才35岁就已被新加坡航空公司的一家子公司Silkair(丝绸航空公司)委任为首席执行员(CEO)。

另一位,我的同乡Batu Pahat小学最要好的朋友,也是一样的考完中三后,获得了亚细安奖学金。中学完毕,他又拿到了东方海皇轮船有限公司(Neptune Orient Lines)的奖学金,也到了牛津大学深造。几年前,他已经被委任成为NOL在越南全国负责经理。

我的妻子是在考完SPM之后获得奖学金到新加坡深造。过后,她也去了牛津修读法律。要不是小弟手脚快了一点,嘴巴也可能甜了一点,她很有可能就在新加坡落地生根了。

为什么大马的人才那么多,但几乎大多数都想移民呢?就算没有放弃公民权,也成了外国的永久居民。

为什么我见了那么多家长,大多数都希望他们孩子能出国留学,取个红毛女子作媳妇或者嫁给个外国人也不要紧。只要他能在外国生活的快快乐乐就好,也不需要再回到本地。为什么我们需要做出那样的牺牲呢?

难道马来西亚政府的政策对人民那么不公平,那么不合理吗?是否我们的国阵政府,把国家管到那么烂,导致我们的人才被边沿化?

马来西亚的人才都出国了,这么样,剩下的大马公民没有那种福气能移民去外国的该怎么办呢?就让他们留在大马给国阵政府欺负吗?

马来西亚是我出生的祖国。小学时,每天都有唱国歌,Negaraku, 我的国家。国歌的第二句,我记得的很清楚:“Tanah tumpahnya darahku”,这片土地就是我的生命。你要我移民,离开马来西亚,我真的做不到。更何况,要是没有人才留在大马协助那些需要帮助的小市民,我们岂不是太自私了吗?

我作了这个决定,如果我把马来西亚当着是家,我就有这个责任把我这亲爱的家改得像样一点。

我们国家的经济为什么会那么衰弱呢?

在1966年,大马人民平均收入是350块美元。南韩平均收入是130块美元,差不多是我国的三份之一而已。在短短的24年,也就是九十年代,南韩就追上大马了,两国人民平均收入是差不多1900块美元。但是在更短的14年之内,南韩的平均收入已经超越大马两倍了。在2004年,南韩人民的平均收入已经超过了16500美元,但是我国的人均收入只有5000美元。

我国的经济发展就跟我们的足球队表现一样。想当年,我们的球队在亚洲可是顶呱呱。现在,我们的球队在世界排140多名;南韩呢,2004年成功打进世界杯半决赛。你说,我国可怜吗?

国阵政府说我们的经济有进步,这的是没错的。但是,他们忘了跟人民交待,我们的进步的速度比人家慢的很多。我们就像乌龟那样慢慢地爬,跟本都没有达到我们应有的潜能。

在最近的报章上,大家可能也读了一些报告,政府很高兴地宣布我们2006年的外来直接投资达到了60亿美元,是10年以来最高的一次。但是,政府却没跟大家报告说我们本地到外国的投资也同样地破了历史上的记录,也是60亿美元。难道这不就代表了许多本地投资者对大马的经济没有信心吗?

更何况,虽然我们的外来投资终于打破了过去10年的记录,但是其他国家如新加坡或泰国每年都在打破历史上的记录。在90年代马来西亚的外来直接投资每年都比泰国多,而且还是差别很大。但是从2002年开始,泰国收到的外来投资却每一年都比我们多,而且这差别还是越来越大。在2006年,泰国接到的外来投资总额将近100亿美元,比我们多出50%。

在90年代,这是没人敢相信的一件事。要是大马还不被唤醒起来的话,我们很快地就会败给其他目前比较落后的发展中国家,如越南及印尼。

为什么我们的国家,有那么多天然资源 - 石油,由棕,树胶,锡矿等等,还会比其他国家发展得更加缓慢呢?原因很简单,问题就出现在我们的国阵执政能力,或者更准确地说:无能。

那么有些人有问我,你要是觉得参与政治是最直接的方式来改善国家,那么加入执政党不是更好吗?而且,若加入执政党,我就不需要打破饭碗,还有可能赚更多的钱。

如果加入执政党,该党有接受建设批评的文化以及有改善政策的能力吗?若有,可能加入执政党会比较有效。但是在我国执政党当中,又有哪个政党有这个条件呢?马华?民政?到底它们有改革的文化吗?

我还清楚地记得,我们的高等教育部副部长翁诗杰今年年初在麻坡提出教育部贪污的事件-学校仅做了值两千令吉的装修,但政府却需付两万令吉。过后还有许多媒体也报了其他同样的丑闻事件。

翁诗杰所做的是件让人仰慕的一项作为。但是,他反而被巫青团团长以及大马教育部部长希山慕丁公开地骂了一顿,叫他别多管闲事。巫青团还很大声地要求翁诗杰道歉。在这种被巫统欺压的情况下,翁诗杰是否有得到任何马华公会的捍卫吗?马华公会总会长,黄家定一句话都没有说。这种执政党,你说,值得加入吗?

连为自己的党领袖辩护的能力都没有的政党,那么你觉得该党会为民请命吗?

所以我的决定很简单,我如果要参政,就一定要加入一个有气节的政党。民主行动党成立41年以来都在为人民出这一口气。党领袖们都作出了很大的个人牺牲。这种精神是很值得我们敬佩的。我选择加入民主行动党就是因为这些理由。我也希望加入了民主行动党,我的贡献能把党的实力加强,一直继续地把人民的苦衷,人民的需求提出来,带给他们一个更美好的未来。

最后,我衷心希望,在现场的八打灵居民会在即将来临的大选热烈地支持民主行动党。无论谁当候选人,请各位把一支火箭送进国会,两支送进州议会,让八打灵再也区的居民带动全国进行改革行动,也为马来西亚带来一个美好的新希望。谢谢。

5 条评论:

匿名 说...

你的确让我很敬佩。。。虽然我没有见过你。。。没有听你的演讲。。。

我会注意到你。。。是因为妈妈留下来给我看的剪报 - 从《星洲日报》上一篇你和胡渐彪的报导。。。在相同的问题里,显现出你的大将之风,也凸现出对方的唯唯诺诺贪生怕死。。。
我相信你一定能够成功。。。

如果我在你的选区,我一定会投你一票。。。
然而我想我不可能在你的选区出现。。。我也才刚21岁。。。还没有去登记。。。

政党里的是是非非,不只马华有,行动党也有。。。而且华人一向来擅长内乱。。。嗨。。。我衷心希望你的选择是对的。。。

作为一个对政治有兴趣的学生,我希望和你交手。。。或许说出来你会觉得很好笑,因为我也没有什么深厚的政治底蕴,也不是什么名学府的学生,更不是什么公司的总裁。。。haha~痴人说梦。。。

你加油吧!我相信你能成功!
希望有天我能够见你一面。。。

p/s:华文的blog很好啊~我的英文虽不差,但是还是华文更能表达。。。哈哈~

匿名 说...

List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got the statistics.

This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.

This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.

Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?

This list cover a period of about 50 years since independence (1957).

List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):

(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by malays

(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays

(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese

(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays

(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status

(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay staffs in Chinese companies

(7) 5% of all new intake for government army, nurses, polices, is non-malays

(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960

(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%

(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960

(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays

(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Approved Permits, Taxi Permits, etc

(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers

(14) 100 big companies set up, managed and owned by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. MISC, UMBC, UTC, etc

(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses

(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given

(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)

(18) 8000 billion ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period

(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000

(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%

(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible

(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays

(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004

(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years

(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under “Look East Policy”

(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired e.g. Medicine (in 2004)

(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays

(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003

(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957

(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957

(33) 2 million Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago

(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians had emigrated to overseas

(35) 3 million Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status

(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenship compare with the Chinese and Indians

(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is poor or rich

(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget

(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names

(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort

(41) 0 churches/temples were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built

(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No churches, no temples are required to be built in housing estates

(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004

(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)

(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins

(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less

(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969

(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed

(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s

(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960

(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s

(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendances treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200

(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record

(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays

(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum

There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of “colossal” racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.

Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the “special rights” of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.

Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.

If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.

Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on its minority races. This is what Malaysia must publish……….

We are asking for the publication of the statistics showing how “implementation of special rights of malays” had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.

匿名 说...

小生在此向您致敬。。。
雖然年方十五,但是我時時刻刻都在注意政治動向,我發現潘先生是一位令人敬佩的人。。。

希望這次大選能投下一顆玄乾轉坤的火箭,在囯民心底中划起陣陣漣漪。。。不要再令我們的國家退步了。。和50年前比,是進步了。。。和目前比較確是退步了。。。瞻仰望向未來,國家如果還不能改革,2020宏願只是一場空想,玄疑的夢。。。

人民行動黨的野心應該要更強大,不是當個制裁巫統的政黨,理應當個改革國家,改變風氣,改朝換代的一個執政黨!

胡先生也許也是個人才,但是他之前都是接觸囯陣油腔滑調的報告新聞。子曰:近朱者赤,近墨者黑。不能怪他,很少人能像潘先生如此出於泥而不染,濯清漣而不妖。。。

這裡來個改編蘇軾的水調歌頭噢。。。獻給先生您,

清風幾時有?掩臉問官員。不知政府部長,何時解民怨?我慾當個清官,唯恐歪風敗我,易
成貪官員。漸漸隨風去,何似在孤原?

清風起,拂面過,搖無眠。不應有恨,何事長向清官憐?官有兩口胡説,民有單嘴難言,此事古難全。但願官量心,與民共達願!

小生長大後就希望能像先生般,從商轉政!
所以今年統考和PMR一定要考好來!以進至文商班,前途能無量。。。。向先生學習了。。

加油吧,像星雲法師說的,只是支持良心,希望我有資格成爲選民時,先生已經是個執政官了^^

Unknown 说...

感谢潘兄的真诚的分享,我国有这么一位良心政治工作者,实在是国人的福分,更希望这福分能够持续下去。

要在这个短视功利的社会,坚持高风亮节的理想,有时真的蛮苦闷的,感觉路很长;有时也想庸俗一点,反正大家都只想顾好自己就算嘛,何必那么"多事"?

可是,世上就是有一群自命不凡,自讨苦吃的"傻瓜",不计辛劳地想把这个国家变得更好,想塑造一个更真善美的国度,甚至全世界。

别忘记,这个世界是由一群傻瓜来推动的,一起加油吧!

匿名 说...

如果你話有夢想嘅人好傻,
但我可以話俾你知冇夢想嘅人更傻.
祝你一凡風順, 政途無量
改善馬來西亞