A new party?

The Malaysian Liberal and Libertarian Party will never win a sit,
But hopefully what it will do is create a market of ideas where people will need to sell their ideas with proof and strong arguments and not because they control the media. Debate is the key for it both educates and inform.

More thoughts on equity

This letter is from Malaysiakini,
http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/61858 well it stimulated a lot of thoughts on my mind. I think it is important that people should know that it should about the size of the pie and not the size of the slice. Usually a small slice of the big pie is better than a big slice of a small pie. Well it is sort of unfair to insinuate corruption because the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise and I am not for conspiracy theories but I would like to suggest like in a my previous the Gini coefficient be measured and we will have our proof.

Monopoly of ideas in education

This is crazy,
But when you have one lecturer on a subject in the soft sciences he is basically monopolising the dissemination of information. If he is capitalist his lectures will be biased towards capitalism. Why can't lectures be debates between two opposing camps, for example capitalists veruss socialists on the need ofr minimum wages. Both have to justify their stand but at the end of the day the student thinks for himself.

On the Failure Defense League

What does it mean to be a member?
A member uses his skills, knowledge, abilities, wealth, power and influence to help the marginalised in society be it the urban poor, rural poor, indigenous tribes or simply some weirdo in class that needs someone to talk to.

A haiku

easiest to write,
most difficult to master,
and now for some verse:

spring petals falling,
children squealing in delight,
summer's reign begun.

fire cooking fish caught,
in lake full of maple leaves,
autumn's rule proclaimed.

fox tracks made on snow,
lead hunters among naked trees,
winter now resides.

farmers planting rice,
in melting-snow-watered fields,
spring has returned.

Real oppression and war for oil

Nobody here heard of the Saharawis fight,
For an independent Western Sahara against the Morrocans. http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=62889 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polisario

So will the smart ones be there?

It seems like a great idea,
To nationalise all healthcare. I thought of it once but then again doctors aren't economists http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/58533 If what that guy says happens smart people will stop becoming doctors. Only people with good hearts will be doctors but good-heartedness doesn't guarantee technological breakthroughs that will bring down the cost of medicine. Nokia is full of smart but greedy executives but now everyone can afford handphones.

Where to buy medicines?

It doesn't matter who is selling,
As long as it is the best for the lowest possible price for the patient. http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/61803 This only happens when the consumer doesn't have good knowledge( have second opinion), no choice( not to buy from the doctor) and no easy access( of course he is going to pay ridiculous prices instead of travelling two hundred miles to KL to get it). Freedom to choose.

Competition and choice

One reason why private companies aren't,
allowed in certain sectors is the argument that they will cheat the poor. What happens when the self-proclaimed protector of the poor is incompetent and not doing its job? http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/61809 To make more money private companies have to continually satisfy customers. Government monopolies don't have to. Private investment companies anyone?

Ending the government's monopoly on education

This is one reason why it should be done,
It is hearsay in court but that doesn't mean it is not truth. People be the judge. http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/61811 Competition makes things cheaper and give more choices. The parent will have choice to change to school that is better and lousy ones that try to be funny as above will wither adn die. Fancy losing your job?

GINI coefficient

I always thought this was a lousy measure,
but I realised Malaysia Gini is 0.49! This is higher than the US which is at 0.4. It is a measure of the distribution of wealth compared to an ideal in which every segment of society owns the same amount.
If it is high in rich countries it is okay because no matter what the poor is still rich by comparison(e.g. Bill Gate's billions is of many percentage points of the economy compared to my thousands but I am not poor by any standard) but in a relatively poorer nation it is bad because it means to a certain extent the elite is benefiting at the expense of the poor especially if the economy is not growing or growing slowly.
I wonder what is the Gini co-effecient among the bumiputeras. I think it highlights the Malaysian leadership's ineffectiveness more than the equity issue. And its calculations is well much more standardised. ASLI should find out.