To put it simply, it has never been part of Mahathir's or UMNO's agenda to align salaries with cost of living.
UMNO is content to allow corporations and big businesses to determine the rate of wages they feel like paying.
This is because the people is always last on UMNO's mind. The corporate leaders, cronies, people with big monies are the people that UMNO care about. After all, the people has only one function to UMNO and that is to vote for them once every five years. The rest of the time, the people are nothing but a nuisance to UMNO.
Before 2008, UMNO has nothing to worry about. No matter what UMNO does, the people will keep on voting for them. Before 2008, UMNO can step, trample, spit and bruise the people, Malaysians will keep coming back for more.
In short, before 2008, UMNO has little concern about about the stagnating wages of the people. They have no motivation to get themselves worried about the people since caring for the cronies are more rewarding.
CALL FOR HIGH INCOME NATION IS WAY TOO LATE
After the 2008 shock treatment, BN under Najib for the first time begins to show concern about the level of wages among the people.
Suddenly, the UMNO President is planning to turn Malaysia into a High Income nation.
However, not only the call sounds completely insincere and absolutely desperate, many Malaysians now believes that the only way for wages to increase is to replace UMNO with another government altogether.
So long as UMNO remains in power, there will be no change. Wages will continue to stagnate and cronies will continue to become richer.
I am sorry UMNO, but you had more than 25 years to take care of the people's wages. I believe giving you another 4 years will not bring any significant change. We will be stuck with the same empty promises and slogans
TULANG BESI
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