Recently, many Internet news portals have reported on the http://facebook.com/NoMegaTower page.
If you don't know what is this link about, let me explain.
Behold, the "1M Malaysian Reject 100-storey Mega Tower" Facebook page.
Why? Why the protest?
If you don't know, well check your old newspaper, or the internet, and search "Budget 2011 Malaysia", and you will see, that the 100-storey Warisan Merdeka Mega Tower project is under one of them, and it costs RM5 billion.
Some people think that it's cool to have a 100-storey tower, higher than the Petronas Twin Towers. Others think that it may boost tourism.
Let me tell you-it may be cool to have a tower at such height, but it's DEFINITELY NOT COOL TO USE THE RAKYAT'S MONEY TO SUPPORT A PROJECT LIKE THAT.
If the project is not going to use the public's fund, why bother to table at the parliament as in a part of the Budget?
Immediately after the budget, there are already negative response on the project. Of course, who would agree using the taxpayer's money to sustain a project which is deemed useless?
Then, there is a berhad company saying that it is their project, and they intended to have a new office building for the company. And it's not the rakyat's money to be used in this project. This company is called Permodalan Nasional Berhad, or PNB.
Ooh, not the rakyat's money. This might be the response of some, but again, let us think back on that day during the Budget Bill was tabled. Why was it there at the first place, since the project is going to be a private company's project?
Obviously, this is just a response to shut up the negative responses.
Well, if it's really PNB going to sustain the project, why there is still negative response?
Ask your father, ask your mother, about Amanah Saham, or 1Malaysia Amanah Saham, and they may know, and some of you all even buy them. These FUNDED PNB'S OPERATION, HENCE THE MONEY TO BUILD A 100-STOREY WARISAN MERDEKA.
It always goes back to the rakyat. From the cause to the effect.
Yes, you may say that the Petronas Twin Towers have attracted tourists around the world to visit, hence the boost of tourism. But what you don't know is, during the planning of the Twin Towers, there were also a lot of dissatisfaction, and then end up the budget bill is passed because the parliament is lopsided. Fortunately, it's been a highest building of the world once, if not it will be the greatest joke of the year.
Now, this building has not much features in it. It's not the highest, and it's nothing special, just one skyscraper. Who will come and see a building if nothing is special? Oh, you may say that this will be a green building, guess what, there are many, many buildings in the world have go green, so what is so special about it anymore?
Plus, the location of the tower makes the people living or working in KL suffer even more. Traffic. Yes, the infamous traffic that becomes a headache to many city dwellers. Now, with the existence of this building, the traffic will become worse. It's just a nightmare in a nightmare. Only that it is a real nightmare.
But who knows that it will fully occupied and cause a massive chaos in traffic? There are 100-storeys, and so, the PNB would not occupy all of the building space. Who will occupy the rest then? You cannot build a building and there is no tenant, that is call a loss. Even Dayabumi is not fully occupied, nor Wisma Sambathan.
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See, how it becomes a waste of public fund.
RM5 billion ringgit, not RM5! Even in other countries like Switzerland, RM5 of graft is still a graft! 5 billion ringgit can do a lot of things, like upgrading educational environment, or upgrading transportation system, or upgrading lives of the indigenous living in Sabah and Sarawak below the poverty line!
But why spend on a Warisan Merdeka tower? It's not even a "warisan" (heritage) building. Come to think of it, RM5 billion could have save Bok House, could have save Pudu Jail, and might save the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Centre!
This is just one part of the whole unscruplous budget, but it already create lots of dissatisfaction. If you are on the same road with me, that thinks that this project has no beneficial value, and should be used at somewhere even beneficial, then call up your member of parliament of your constituency, express your dissatisfaction. If it's a PR MP, call him/her to be present when the voting session of the Budget Bill is held, and vote an against vote to avoid it from passing on. If it's a BN MP, don't hesitate to call him/her also to express your dissatisfaction. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT REPRESENTS YOU IN THE PARLIAMENT, REMEMBER THAT. Call him/her to either be present and against the bill, or do not be present at all to protest the Bill, like last year.
Do your action now, before last year's incident, where the Budget for 2010 is passed with MINOR MAJORITY, reoccurs this year.
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