THERE was a Chemistry Professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.
In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn.
"When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.
"They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. "The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.
They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in Malaysia. The government keeps pushing toward the Bumiputras and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of increments, programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, special bumi privileges, tax exemptions, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.
One should always remember two truths: One : There is no such thing as a free lunch and two : you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in Malaysia, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably delete this email. But help us all when the gate slams shut!
Quote for today:
"The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living." -- Anonymous
Rakyat tidak patut bergantung pada kerajaan sahaja, kita mestilah berusaha sendiri supaya tidak terlalu bergantung kepada bantuan orang lain.
ReplyDeletesetiap usaha kerajaan membanru rakyat harus dihargai dan rakyat harus juga merebut peluang tersebut. Berusaha untuk maju juga hanya akan tercapai sekiranya diri sendiri menginginkannya.
Deletebiarlah bantuan yang diberi kerajaan menjadi pendorong untuk terus berusaha.
DeleteIni cerita yang sangat baik, ada rakyat yang menyalahkan kerajaan yang menyebabkan mereka miskin, tapi mereka sendiri tidak pernah berusaha. Mereka salahkan kerajaan kerana tidak membantu mereka, tapi kerajaan ada bagi mereka tanah. Apa yang mereka buat ialah menjual tanah tersebut untuk mendapatkan keutungan dan bukan membangunkan tanah tersebut untuk mendapatkan keutungan berterusan. Ini hanya salah satu contoh yang pernah aku nampak.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true. They refused to come out of their comfort zone and expected help or assistance to come to them
Deleteni antara yang terjadi di Sabah.
Deleteya.. untuk berjaya kena ada usaha jgn terlalu harapkan bantuan.
Deleterakyat janganlah bergantung sangat dengan bantuan kerajaan dan kerajaan juga janganlah terlalu 'memanjakan' sangat rakyat.
DeleteMenyalahkan pihak lain lebih senang daripada mengaku kesilapan diri sendiri.
DeleteEnd of the day it's up to the people to make up their mind.
ReplyDeleteLess effort but complain too much. That is common in our society.
ReplyDeletepenulis cuba untuk menyampaikan nasihat yang baik dan berguna kepada pembaca, tetapi dalam masa yang sama menghina rakyat termasuk sekalian pembaca dengan menyamakan babi liar dengan rakyat..
ReplyDeleteramai yang membenci kerajaan hari ini kerana mempercayai bahawa pembangkang lebih cekap dan bersih pentadbirannya.. tapi apa jaminan yang boleh disandarkan kepada rakyat untuk meyakini kemampuan parti pembangkang sedangkan semua jaminan itu hanya di mulut dan diatas kertas semata2??
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