What Profligate Spending

It seems that the government is telling us to be prudent about spending but yet spends taxpayers’ monies with gay abandon.

They want to spend half a million ringgit on teaching everyone how to sing the Negara Ku as many younger citizens just do not know the national anthem and worse do not know how to behave when the Negara Ku is played.

So they want to distribute CDs and posters to teach us the anthem. It seems to be an expensive and ineffective way to reach the masses.

As we know that TV is a favourite pastime of all Malaysians, why not create a short informational clip that can be played on all the TV channels?

A more effective way is to us TV and radio in schools teaching the young in Darjah 1 to 3 to learn the anthem and then to sing the Negara Ku once a week at school assemblies. That was what we did in the 60s and I can still sing my national anthem.

The NS program should also include a test to remember the NS (writing or reciting) in order to get any special awards like best trainee etc.

So I think we can save RM400k if we spend RM50k on the commercial and then another RM50k on a nation-wide art contest to promote the Negara Ku. Come to think about it, I am sure many companies will be keen to sponsor such a worthy project.

What say you, Minister of Information?