Anyone with common sense can tell you that if you truly intend to eradicate poverty from a large cross-section of the society, one of the best ways would be through education - producing better graduates who have better bargaining power and can request for improved wage in which allows them to afford more to improve standard of living.
What is happening as per status quo, is a short term solution with cash handouts immediately eating up the funds of the government. It doesn't solve anything in the long run, and eventually the recipients of the cash assistance will be looking for other means to earn more.
When weighing both sides of the scale to see which solution is better, it is clearly submitted that cash handouts are a poor choice. So why execute such a plan in the first place?
Two theories come to mind:
1) In order to apply for these cash handouts, one needs to opt in and provide certain personal information to the government. Although a plethora of information is made accessible by the MyKad, the government insists on more information by applicants. What gives? In can be inferred that the confirmation of information of the applicants can and very well be used by the government in the future to keep records on who has received what kind of help by the government - allowing them to deny or reject future assistance depending on how much has been allocated to the said applicant.
Such a move can be seen as a 'ration' system of sorts. Ergo, obtaining assistance from the government may actually deny future dealings with the government or assistance from them.
2) The allocation is clearly a desperate move to receive votes of the less educated and fall within the classification of poverty. Even if this is not the reasoning, it can be inferred that in the coming general election, it is highly possible for the government to pull a 'George Bush' on the Opposition party; leaving a nation in a mountain of debt especially after the sudden allocation of financial assistance. If anything, it is a win-win for the government, if they win, it allows them to stay in power, otherwise they know the Opposition party is going to have a helluva time picking up the pieces and attempt to restore a broken state.
Just yesterday, it was announced that a rather large number of armed forces, police and civil service personnel would be receiving handsome perks and increments. While appearing as an attempt to fish for votes, it also falls neatly in the ambit of the second theory as just forwarded.
Change can be done via the ballot box. But apparently the ballot box looks like it has been tampered here and there, leading a 'democratic' state with the *same* party in power for the past 50 years. Something's gotta go, and it's more than that cross I will place in the ballot box, of course, with a very strong assumption it won't be ripped into shreds before being accounted for.
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Light and Darkness
Light alone can blind you, the luminous flash debilitates your vision, leaving you in the dark.
Being lunged into complete darkness, this too can constitute blindness, for the dark depths itself indicate no direction.
What does this mean?
Purely relying on one element will only lead to blindness, where both optical senses fail and you see darkness . The paradox of the matter is too much light leads too darkness and too much darkness still puts you in darkness. While both these elements affect the optical organs in more ways than one, the ultimate result is darkness which may equate to nothingness (but this is a whole new discussion for another day).
Light is often heralded, it connotes to holiness, religion, goodness, as well as law and order. Darkness on the other hand is attributed as demonic, evil, corrupt, chaotic and ruinous. While res ipsa loquitur, the attributes need to be examined more thoroughly.Whilst light is connoted to law, religion and organization, the rigidity binds freedom in general, and possibly slows growth of creativity by sustaining certainty that is status quo. Easily light can be used and abused to control the masses and favours those who are capable of such order. Darkness, on the other hand, is often misunderstood. Darkness, though reflected as evil, may actually be necessary evil done, where the end justifies the means as well as choosing between the lesser of two evils. When faced with such a choice, the means and the result will definitely not be desirable but would be better than the other option. Through chaos, creativity, imagination and inhibitions are set loose, it connotes to freedom and willpower.
Absolute order and absolute chaos each stirs revolution with the heart of it's inhabitants; one intending to free himself from dogma and strict rules, while the other, intends to place a limit on the amount of freedom given to all. Hence, in essence, order is merely a heart beat away from chaos.
Learn not only to accept the garish light of day, but the darkness, for if one is absent without the other, one ought to expect nothing but shades of black.
Being lunged into complete darkness, this too can constitute blindness, for the dark depths itself indicate no direction.
What does this mean?
Purely relying on one element will only lead to blindness, where both optical senses fail and you see darkness . The paradox of the matter is too much light leads too darkness and too much darkness still puts you in darkness. While both these elements affect the optical organs in more ways than one, the ultimate result is darkness which may equate to nothingness (but this is a whole new discussion for another day).
Light is often heralded, it connotes to holiness, religion, goodness, as well as law and order. Darkness on the other hand is attributed as demonic, evil, corrupt, chaotic and ruinous. While res ipsa loquitur, the attributes need to be examined more thoroughly.Whilst light is connoted to law, religion and organization, the rigidity binds freedom in general, and possibly slows growth of creativity by sustaining certainty that is status quo. Easily light can be used and abused to control the masses and favours those who are capable of such order. Darkness, on the other hand, is often misunderstood. Darkness, though reflected as evil, may actually be necessary evil done, where the end justifies the means as well as choosing between the lesser of two evils. When faced with such a choice, the means and the result will definitely not be desirable but would be better than the other option. Through chaos, creativity, imagination and inhibitions are set loose, it connotes to freedom and willpower.
Absolute order and absolute chaos each stirs revolution with the heart of it's inhabitants; one intending to free himself from dogma and strict rules, while the other, intends to place a limit on the amount of freedom given to all. Hence, in essence, order is merely a heart beat away from chaos.
Learn not only to accept the garish light of day, but the darkness, for if one is absent without the other, one ought to expect nothing but shades of black.
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