MCA is just bitter because they never did what Pakatan Rakyat is doing right now

MCA should not resist projects benefiting the people

September 30, 2011

I refer to the FMT report, ‘Pakatan has hoodwinked S’gor folk’. I find it amusing that MCA’s Yap Pian Hon is feeling the pressure from all the people-friendly programmes initiated by Pakatan Rakyat’s Selangor government.

It shows that programmes such as these have never been implemented by the previous BN state government. This is because most of the economic programmes under the previous BN governments only benefitted BN cronies and their elites.

The people were “hoodwinked” into thinking that the so call “development” done by them were for the benefit of the people when it was not.

Yap was quoted as saying: “Since 2008 till today, we cannot see a socio-economic master plan for the state. Just because the infrastructure from BN’s time was good, Pakatan can’t claim credit for the Selangor’s developments.”

In truth, most of the major infrastructure projects in Selangor from back then were federal government projects like UKM, UPM, NKVE, ELITE Highway, KLIA, Sepang F1, “River of Life”, Greater Klang Valley Development project, etc.

Also, almost all of the housing estates in Selangor was developed by private corporations. And, office buildings in Selangor were also built by private entities.

Moreover, a look at the Selangor state government budget from the BN days shows most of BN’s spending goes towards operational expenses and not development.

In fact, most of Selangor’s development expenditures goes towards eradication of floods. So may I ask Mr Yap, where were the so called BN Selangor’s development project during their rule?

The current state government’s spending on people’s welfare is the best way forward. Since, most development projects are in the hands of the federal government, the state should concentrate on the welfare of the people.

MCA and Yap Pian Hon are just bitter because they never did what Pakatan Rakyat is doing right now. But, they had 50 years of opportunity and they blew it.

Serve MCA and BN right for their mismanagement of the state’s fiscal programmes.