Tuesday, February 13, 2007

'Bad Boy' Samy

I'm not a bad boy, Datuk Seri Samy Vellu, the Works Minister who is under the spotlight would like to tell you.
"Many people think I'm a bad boy as if I decide on the tolls, as if I put people in trouble, that I go for blood and all that. I'm a minister of the government and I implement the decision made by the Cabinet. It's not my decision to raise the toll or to reduce it," said the agitated minister.
So, maybe Datuk Seri Samy Vellu really isn't a bad boy, for surely Will Smith did a much better job at being one. In this case, Datuk Seri Samy Vellu is just a clueless, hapless hatchet man and spokesperson for the UMNO-led Barisan Nasional (BN) government. Of course, the Works Ministry title is just a convenient facade to give the impression that he actually has executive powers.

But then, he went on to "lash out at certain quarters" who said they would buy up the toll companies if they were in his position. Datuk Seri Samy Vellu said that he the toll companies were taken over, "it would cost the government nearly RM500 billion".

Now, not only is Datuk Seri Samy Vellu clueless and hapless, he probably failed his Mathematics (badly) as well. If the overall construction cost of all the 5 highways affected by the unreasonable toll hikes added up to RM4.13 billion, how is it that the Government would need to pay some RM500 billion for the highways?

Is Datuk Seri Samy Vellu and the BN Government out of their minds? Or are we that stupid?

12 comments:

Unknown said...

simple. he is saying thtat he is just the messenger and executioneer and is therefore not responsible. he is also not responsible for the MRR2 fiasco coz he is just the messenger and executioneer for i dont know who in this case.

for the sake of the country, lets have some ministers who is responsible.

Anonymous said...

It keeps coming back. We voted in the BN government. We voted in the Ministers. Can't do much from now till the next GE

Trashed said...

Perhaps we need a "Hugo Chavez' to nationalise the toll roads.

Hmmm, perhaps a referendum on the nationalisation of the toll roads could work ? Agree to a small premium above the cost (not the absurd RM 500 billion mentioned). After all, if the rakyat wants it ....

Somebody pinch me !

zewt said...

yok hoong, i think it's a tough call to have responsible minister.

Anyway, 500b... i wonder if he knows how much money is that... translate that to USD... that's like US' campaign on iraq!

zewt said...

tony, should have an archieve counter as sidebar so that ppl like me who is now hooked to your blog can check out your old posts.

Anonymous said...

The Great SAMY VELOO has fired his shots at AIMST recently...

The VC and registrar have been sacked...at last!

Anonymous said...

Samy has a big powerful khram!

Anonymous said...

Samy is the baddest boy of the whole damn town..

Seriously, if you think about the old Dr. M Cabinet, Dr. M may have been king but Sam the man is the bad boy. Dr. M did not get rid of as many challenger as this guy. Dr. M never screwed over ordinary Malays and his friends really liked him. This guy, everybody even his cronies hate him and yet they still do his evil deeds...

He the man....

Khun Pana aka johanssm said...

What this Thamby india from Bn trying to say is " the general election is near please vote for me again,i am a good pariah dog..opps boy"

that is what he tried to say.
Notices how suddenly the economy now?
Notices badawi said malaysian in this country very happy?
Notices public servants will gets their increments?Notices suddenly the education gets 1 billion ringit?Samy the boy never bows so low before " If you wants to use you must pay" thats his philosophy.So why suddenly he changes the tune?
General Election is this year.

Anonymous said...

the $500B number COULD mean that the govt will not only buy out the cost of construction of the highways, but also the X number of years of concession given to the toll operators. but dont quote me cos my maths is just as bad, if not worse than this Dato' Seri fellow.

Bennyloh said...

Bad/naughty boy..
http://malaysiancartoons.blogspot.com/2007/02/lets-have-more-osa-games.html

moses said...

no body is perfetch ok. he is also a human , not to 4 get , that he is bless my great almighty lord our god, to care country, peoples welfare, to all malaysians, n indians as an mic precident.do u all think that if u as a minister u all will make no mistakes , or u alll b 100% perfetch.think , n ask ur self are u all perfetch on ur family, how many people u have help, is it daily, or once a week, or a day 60 to 70 people u c n lissend to their problems. n look after them, .n not 4 get that when u do good things , there will b bad peole to condem u always coz their bad, like u all write tis without knowledge. yes datuk seri samy veloo is my idol.i love his politics, think,ya let me tell u all one thing that there a person ask are we all that stupid , . n i moses say yes u all are that stupid talk bad about datuk seri samy people who has done a lot 4 the country, n peoples. first go n find what he has do 4 30 years in as menteri kerjaraya, n 4 the peoples welfare,.