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I'll take one for example...

The State government, or rather CM Lim pledged to get the government officials i.e. EXCOs to publicly declare their assets from time to time...

One year on... CM Lim said that the government wants to do it together with other governments, namely federal and all state governments...

Which basically means... No public declaration of assets...

CM Lim also argued that we probably won't see the day BN federal government publicly declaring its cabinet members' assets... and added that maybe the 5 states are going to do it together first...

Strangely, just today, the state government of Selangor announced to make its exco's assets available online...

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I believe the political will is extremely important in fulfilling some of the DAP's election pledges... such as local elections and public declaration of assets...

CM Lim should not give excuses, and should just try every possible way to fulfill them... It seems to me... or maybe to the public... that the Penang state government is trying to not wanting to:
1) Design and follow a roadmap to democratize MPPP and MPSP
2) Publicly declare its officials assets

How can one get good public perception... when it seems the state government is not willing to do... even the simplest thing to fulfill its election manifesto, by putting numbers and account sheets online?

Get a life NST and Wong CW! One year is a very short time to clean up all the shit and cock up the previous gov done! It is obvious that NST and Star editors are still taking orders from their master and talking cock!

Hmm... Jeff, may I ask.. does the making public, the declaration of assets by the State excos, takes more then one year to implement or the state govt does not intend to reveal it at all?

JEFF OOI says: I believe it can be done by now. And I hope the list is to include senior officers and Heads of Department in the State Secretariat, District & Land Offices and the local councils. So that benchmarks can be made and BN states and Fed Government can follow.

Cheers

I think rushing the asset declaration is funny. In fact, you must get a full time account clerk to sort out those stuff for you.
Take car as example. It is an "asset" to the bank when you OWE them money. If register as business, the car is an liabilities expenses. I bet the CM know this better than anyone.

While making a lots of bwahaha about asset declaration, did anyone notice how many draconian legistation must abolish to make way for a better state?

I afraid many Malaysian are not ready and lazy to take part on the more "boring" part. So instead, some prefer to "focus" on nitty-gritty stuff like asset declaration.

Thanks Jeff and I concur with you. Hopefully it will include councillors and State Assemblymen.

JEFF OOI says: I repeat. Heads of Department at the local councils, District and Land Officers etc must also declare their assets. Can you imagine a Head of Department at a local council, who draws an average salary of RM6000 per month, after working his way up from rank and file for 20 years, can own three bungalows in Penang and Putrajaya, bought a Merc SLK for cash, with extra money for another BMW 5-series? We have dealt with one in Penang, but he resigned quickly before we could start the full probe.

Cheers

Wow, you are also doing the job of MACC? Just because the officer resigned does not mean that he cannot be investigated and charged for corruption. That is if MACC really does its job.

It's only fair if everyone knows first how much revenue and supplementary funds Penang state get a year.

Both have shrunk. The state economy is challenged by the global meltdown. Furthermore, one wonders how much funds meant for opposition-run states have been diverted by federal to shore up its own interests in other states not run by the opposition.

Penang is a great state. She has much promise. The peril is from federal. If their institutions and organs don't support in national interest but instead pander to party interests, how will she be able to grow and contribute more to national development? One recalls someone they admire saying before, 'prosper thy neighbor'. They should ask themselves if they can be generous to their foreign competitors, why are they not equally supportive of their own. After all, people who had voted for the Opposition are also citizens. Perhaps even more productive, concerned, mature and intelligent ones.

Setting that in place, the State machinery should engage higher gear to:

- communicate the real situation to the people on the ground;

- deweed the legacy problems which continue to suck at efficiency measures;

- redouble efforts to increase investments and try new business models;

- set, operate and maintain higher benchmarks for service delivery to hit higher quality-of-life targets;

- interact more strongly with brain-agile voluntary bodies,

- research how other countries do it when under recession, and

- establish excellence in human capital in state administration.

If there are not enough people, send the word out, borrow concerned citizens, professionals and volunteers. There's still a lot of goodwill and change agents, people who are concerned for Penang, intelligent, educated, far-sighted, capable. They were the ones who voted for change. One more step to help the State should be welcomed.

We have belabored all these points before..as far back as March last year. All the tea leaves have been read. It's the old strategy of constrict and blockade. Perak was about blocking the freeholding initiative followed by power seizure. Selangor was about water agreements followed by character assassination. Penang and the others are about funds constriction, and so on. And the overall strategy is to delimit any media propagation of the opposition until it disappears from the minds of the rakyat, while coming out to look like champions of change for the rakyat by the expedient of creative communications on the use of funds. Especially biting when cash is king in bad times and he who is the cashier will appear to be on higher grounds. Nothing new....if you see things from the top.

Pakatan need to be more alert and to restrategize everything. Have more confidence. If even Umno veterans think that party crooked to the core, there is still hope. But the day they stop because they too have joined the gravy train, biggie as we are now made to believe, then it's time to rally the horses and get cracking.

How did this country come to such an absymal stage in everything?

I am neil.