Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Will there be accountability from subsidy removals? By R Nadeswaran
Sunday, June 05, 2022
The Downtrodden Masses
Vgeorgemy : We live in a country every citizen holds a chip-enabled MYID that can be used for Fuel subsidy with a click of a second. All the RTD records are based on the MYID number. We can identify the type of vehicles we want to pay the subsidy to. All the vehicles with less than 1000cc are a parameter for the subsidy, even if billionaires own them. Let them enjoy the wealth of the nation proportionately.
Almost 90% of the vehicles are registered with actual users. The subsidy system is enabled through the MYID in the petrol station as the debit/credit/e-wallet. The cost to administer such a program is negligible compared to the RM30 billion yearly subsidy.
What about those users who don’t own the vehicles? We have more than enough programs to identify such users to assist them through MYID directly.
Why doesn’t it happen? 90% of the ownerships of Hummers, BMWs, and SUVs belong to these politicians and decision-makers at the policy level. They don’t want to let go of the lifestyles that differentiate them from the general population. They want to keep the subsidy for all to enjoy the extravagant lifestyle financed by us. The exact process can be done to help the poor with their daily provisions by crediting the monthly assistance directly to MYID Card, as we have 95% broadband coverage that connects provisional stores anywhere in the country.
The solutions are aplenty, but they won’t implement them as they want to keep the subsidy to finance their extravagant lifestyles. The poor and marginalised continue to suffer amid aplenty as the elites skewed the distribution of the nation’s wealth for themselves only.
Sir, they even branded citizens like you in the category of “Cap Ayam” for fighting for the poor and marginalised economic rights.
Malaysiakini : COMMENT | In February 2010, Prime
Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who was then the domestic trade, consumer
affairs and cooperatives minister, chaired a long and absorbing
discussion on the removal of subsidies.The room was packed with
high-level government officers, and I was one of the few "outsiders" who
were invited to discuss the issue, and there was diversity in the
responses.
For too long, we have been used to and have adapted
ourselves to the "subsidy mentality". For too long, the government has
adopted the "rob Peter to pay Paul" theory. For too long, we have lived
in comfort zones knowing well that the government would intervene to
afford us "protection" when prices go up on the global commodity
markets.
Increasing taxes or cutting subsidies are never popular measures and are painful too for the government as well as the people.
