Maha mis-Management!

...let's put in perspective what TDM has achieved in his 22 years of power -

In the name of development, Tun launched a number of mega projects:

1/ For Malaysia to become a truly industrialised country, TDM instilled the roots for Malaysia to produce Steel and established Perwaja. Outcome: FINANCIAL MISMANAGEMENT and CORRUPT PRACTISE.

2/ KLCC and KL Tower - not only do these structures add to the traffic burden in already congested KL, it also does not serve any purpose. If Malaysia needed a high ground for telecoms antennae, it's justification and purpose should be on the use of and applicability, not because it's existance as the tallest tower is so Malaysia can appear on the record books for a brief period.

3/ Proton - not only was the purchase of Lotus Racing car plant a bad investment, the manner Proton monopolised the local automobile industry by the legislations and unfair restrictions, just so TDM's personal investment in the company prospers is despicable. This is in the name of "protecting" local industry. Nice manipulation!

4/ TDM launched KLIA just to see it being operated below peak, and it's potential as regional hub never materialise. OUTCOME: Poor forecast and management

In addition to the above, under TDM, MAS is another good example of how you not only saw it's continued decline going unpunished, TDM also instructed use of Public funds to bail the poorly managed Airline company.

Yet, the public cannot see how TDM has selfishly utilised these agenda for his personal gains AS well losses and poor results are TDM's responsibility.

And to add insult to injury - TDM and his family sit on board of directorships on a vast number of companies, and vast amount of public funds from Petronas and EPF have been used to bail out TDM's (and kin's) bad financial decisions.

How can TDM be hypocritical and term PM Abdullah of nepotism when he himself has utilised improper means to finance and favour his kin?


Lastly, this is an excerpt from Wikipedia of how critical TDM was of the 1st PM, Tunku, whom he forced to resign from UMNO - just goes to show TDM's maliciousness and unfair competitiveness:

In 1977, having acquired substantial shares in The Star, a Penang-based newspaper, Abdul Rahman became the newspaper's Chairman. His columns, "Looking Back" and "As I See It", were critical of the government, and in 1987 Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad banned the newspaper. This led to a split in UMNO, with Abdul Rahman and another former Prime Minister, Tun Hussein Onn, setting up a new party called UMNO Malaysia, but its registration was quashed by Mahathir Mohamad, who set up his own UMNO Baru ("New UMNO"). Abdul Rahman later supported Semangat 46, a splinter group of UMNO led by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. He campaigned actively for the latter in the General election of 1990, but was already in very poor health. The well-educated, visionary Tunku could barely contain his contempt for Mahathir's brash nationalism (i.e. Ketuanan Melayu) that went totally against the Rukun Negara and brought about serious racial segregation.

So much for TDM's purported fair and just administration claims!

I am bound to receive counter arguments to the above, and I am open to listening to your views of TDM...

-Ravi