Kita memang tidak boleh membandingkang Singapura dalam hal tertentu. Tetapi satu hal sahaja yang boleh dibuat perbandingan. Iaitu mentaliti dan kadar celik ekonomi.
Semasa Temasek Holdings kerugian SGD 24 billion, berapa ramai rakyatnya yang menjadikan itu sebagai asas memfitnah segala benda yang mereka tidak tahu. Tiada.
Kerana Singapore ramai dihuni oleh rakyat yang tidak buta ekonomi dan tahu berfikir dengan tidak menjatuhkan prasangka menjadi seolah-olah pertuduhan yang dibenarkan oleh mahkamah.
Walaupun hutang luar negara Singapura melebihi 400%, itu bukan dijadikan modal politik kerana pengetahuan rakyatnya yang maju menyedari bahawa hutang swasta tidak diwariskan untuk dibayar dengan wang awam generasi depan. Di negara kita, 1MDB adalah entiti swasta dan hutangnya bukanlah menjadi tanggungjawab kerajaan untuk membayarnya kerana ia telah jelas termaktub sebagai hutang swasta.
Tetapi adakah apabila disebut 'rugi', ia umpama peniaga goreng pisang yang kerugian akibat hujan? Tentulah tidak. Dalam perniagaan, pelaburan dan pendanaan, modal yang dikeluarkan tidak boleh disebut kerugian sekiranya tempoh meraup keuntungan telah ditetapkan mengikut unjuran. Kerana itulah Najib telah melakukan hal yang wajar untuk tidak melayan kebodohan ternakan pembangkang dengan hal-hal yang melibatkan sesuatu yang tidak benar.
Ketika Anwar dituduh meliwat, bukan main reaksinya dengan road show, hentam Mahathir malah dalam tidur, yang menyaksikan bagaimana seorang yang bersalah sehabis mungkin mempertahankan dirinya. Tetapi Najib tidak perlu melakukan semua itu. Dia tahu, rakyat Malaysia bukan semuanya bangang dan penganut fitnah. Hanya dengan reaksi-reaksi berskala rendah, dia mampu menceritakan segala-galanya apatah lagi indikasi-indikasi ekonomi menyokong gerak kerjanya tanpa perlu memaksa penyokongnya menganut kenyataan yang mereka sendiri tidak faham seperti ternakan Pakatan Hamkacan.
Malah, peratusan hutang luar negara yang tinggi tidaklah menunjukkan tahap keberhutangan tinggi negara tersebut kerana jika negara tersebut pemberi hutang, kadar hutang luar negaranya juga meningkat tinggi seperti Singapura dan Jepun.
Pun begitu ekonomi Singapura pada tahun lalu mencatatkan pertumbuhan perlahan 1.5% sementara Malaysia mencatat 4.7%. Tiada tuduh menuduh yang keterlaluan apatah lagi defisit moraliti yang menyuburkan fitnah. Siapa yang Muslim? Mereka atau kita?
Tidak terhadam pemikiran tentang mengapa rakyat terus diperbodohkan dengan angka peratusan hutang luar negara kita yang mencecah 80% ini sedangkan hutang kerajaan cuma 53%.
Seandainya ekonomi Malaysia menuju ke arah menjadi 'international creditor' tentu sahaja peratus hutang negara bertambah menjadi beratus-ratus peratus. Menggelupurlah lagi cai cai bodoh Pakatan Hamkacan jika demikian.
Pemimpin pembangkang tahu hal ini. Tetapi kerana mengetahui penyokong, cai, zombie, perkakas dan ternakan mereka adalah dari kalangan orang-orang bengap, mereka tanpa rasa bersalah menjaja hal ini.
Tuduhan rasuah tanpa bukti tidak menambah baik kedudukan negara dalam Indeks Persepsi Rasuah. Dan tanggapan para bangang makan dedak semata-mata tentulah tidak semestinya benar. Menegak fitnah dan merasa benar. Sindrom apakah itu?
Lihatlah Singapura yang berada dalam Top 5 negara bersih dari rasuah tetapi mempunyai isteri Perdana Menterinya, Ho Ching sebagai CEO Temasek Holdings. Jika ini berlaku di Malaysia, penduduk negara akan tinggal 48% kerana 52% akan mati akibat sawan kebodohan yang akut.
Temasek Holdings: We lost S$24 billion in a year
July 9, 2016
Singapore’s sovereign wealth-fund company Temasek Holdings reportedly lost S$24 billion in its latest financial year report FY2016 dating March 31. The news which saw the investment arm of the country’s CPF retirement funds lost 9.02% was announced only 3 months later on July 7. Temasek Holdings lost S$24 billion to S$242 billion from S$266 billion a year ago.
Temasek Holdings’ CEO, Ho Ching, who is also the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, did not comment on her lacklustre performance but the annual report blamed “volatile markets” for the losses.
Although Ho Ching avoided commenting on the issues, her senior managing director Michael Buchaman deflected responsibility for the losses citing “volatility” and even tell Singaporeans to expect “lower returns”:
“Equity markets around the world will remain susceptible to bouts of volatility in the short to medium term. There is increased uncertainty, partly reflecting the ongoing hangover from the excesses that helped cause the global financial crisis. This suggests an environment of lower returns in the years to come.”
The Central Provident Fund has for the first time delayed the announcement of an expected increase in mandatory minimum sum, which was traditionally due on every 1st of July. Singaporeans are not allowed to withdraw their CPF unless they meet the Minimum Sum, emigrate or when they become deceased. Most Singaporean elderly are unable to retire because of insufficient CPF funds, mainly caused by the low interest generated by the CPF.
It is understood that CPF funds pays interest rates as low as 2.5% to CPF account holders while Temasek Holdings borrowed the funds at the same low interest rates to invest in high returns and lucrative investments. Temasek Holdings will pocket the difference in profits and claimed to return the profits to the national reserve. Nobody knows the amount of national reserves Singapore have, not even the elected President.
Criticisms of the husband and wife duo, Ho Ching and Lee Hsien Loong, of nepotism will result in defamation lawsuits. In 2015, online blogger Roy Ngerng was found guilty of defaming Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a default judgment and was ordered to pay S$150,000.
Temasek Holdings’ CEO, Ho Ching, who is also the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, did not comment on her lacklustre performance but the annual report blamed “volatile markets” for the losses.
Although Ho Ching avoided commenting on the issues, her senior managing director Michael Buchaman deflected responsibility for the losses citing “volatility” and even tell Singaporeans to expect “lower returns”:
“Equity markets around the world will remain susceptible to bouts of volatility in the short to medium term. There is increased uncertainty, partly reflecting the ongoing hangover from the excesses that helped cause the global financial crisis. This suggests an environment of lower returns in the years to come.”
The Central Provident Fund has for the first time delayed the announcement of an expected increase in mandatory minimum sum, which was traditionally due on every 1st of July. Singaporeans are not allowed to withdraw their CPF unless they meet the Minimum Sum, emigrate or when they become deceased. Most Singaporean elderly are unable to retire because of insufficient CPF funds, mainly caused by the low interest generated by the CPF.
It is understood that CPF funds pays interest rates as low as 2.5% to CPF account holders while Temasek Holdings borrowed the funds at the same low interest rates to invest in high returns and lucrative investments. Temasek Holdings will pocket the difference in profits and claimed to return the profits to the national reserve. Nobody knows the amount of national reserves Singapore have, not even the elected President.
Criticisms of the husband and wife duo, Ho Ching and Lee Hsien Loong, of nepotism will result in defamation lawsuits. In 2015, online blogger Roy Ngerng was found guilty of defaming Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a default judgment and was ordered to pay S$150,000.
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