Competitive World

We live in a competitive world. People will go to wherever that give them better benifits. America is a place that has been very attractive to many people. With the people, they also bring along their talents and skills to build not only a super but hyperpower nation.
As I travel outside of Malaysia, I begin to see how badly our beloved country has been managed. We see how clean their environment, how orderly people move around. Streets with bicycle paths. The other thing is the exchange rate of our currency has gone down significantly.
For a nation to thrive and be competitive we need the best to rule. Look at BN for the past 50 years, have they put up the best to lead? Only the connected and cronies and yes men got promoted. The top posts in UMNO, MCA and other component parties have hardly been challenged, always hand picked, like Mahathir picking Ahmad Badawi, Ahmad picking Najib, now Ong Ka Ting picking Ong Tee Kiat, Samy Vellu for 32 years still holding on his presidency inspite of being voted out of the parliament in the recent GE.
With a system like that we have been perpetuating the weak to the top posts and their performance has left much to be desired.
Look at America, how though it is to be even becoming the candidate of The Democrates, the one Obama had gone through recently.

The International Trade and Industry Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said recently that his ministry will be looking into attracting investors who are pulling out from China because of high costs there.

Has Malaysia become more competitive in the past few months since the March 8 General Election? The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has failed to deliver his numerous long-overdue reform pledges.

This is one important reason why the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) has plunged to its lowest level since the 2006!
Abdullah had assured Malaysians that he had heard Malaysian voices after the GE, and would begin to implement reforms to regain public confidence in his administration.

Many months have passed and apart from rhetoric,what has Abdullah done?

In the three areas of police, judicial and anti-corruption reforms which Abdullah had mentioned specifically, Abdullah has nothing to show.

Worst still, the scandal of the two statutory declarations by private investigator Bala Subramaniam and his disappearance, the continued harassment of Anwar Ibrahim and Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the abuse of police powers and the lack of accountability by the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar over the three-day 1,600-strong police lockdown of Kuala Lumpur and Klang Valley based on the false intelligence of a non-existing Pakatan Rakyat top leadership meeting to plan massive demonstration in Parliament, have further undermined national and international confidence in the Abdullah government.

As a result, the past few months have witnessed the continued deterioration of the crisis of confidence confronting Abdullah, although the Barisan Nasional had been returned with a majority of 58 MPs in the recent general election – with even leaders in Barisan Nasional losing confidence in Umno and BN government.

Is Malaysia going to be attractive to foreign investors? Is the nation capable of being globally competitive? Major institutional reforms and with top priority giving to meritocracy in all spheres of national endeavour are urgently needed.