In fact, the ordinary rakyat also proposed that MPs and Ministers should utilize public transport once a week for their official duties.
The ordinary rakyat concurred and agreed with the proposal by former Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) Director Muhammed Abdul Khalid who proposed to scrap pensions for all MPs and ministers, saying they should be in the same boat as the people.
It is not unfair to parliamentarians who have served their whole lives as public servants.
Just because they have contributed a lot to nation-building doesn’t mean they should be treated differently.
Public service is just a job as far as the ordinary rakyat is concerned.
It is the parliamentarians who sought the votes from the ordinary rakyat to vote for them.
The ordinary rakyat did not choose or pick them.
The ordinary rakyat did not ask to be represented by them.
Parliamentarians have a choice.
Unlike parliamentarians in the '60s or '70s who generally are out to serve the public and the ordinary rakyat, parliamentarians since then have been in politics not solely to serve the people but for other issues. Parliamentarians nowadays are remunerated and compensated with exceptional benefits far beyond the majority of the ordinary rakyat.
Based on the official classification in determining the number of T20 in this country, all the parliamentarians and the state assemblymen would automatically be included in this category.
Yes, they are public servants but it was their own choice to offer themselves as parliamentarians to the public.
Just like the ordinary rakyat working as a Grab or Food Panda deliveryman.
They are no different than a Parliamentarian.
In fact, the ordinary rakyat work harder than the Parliamentarians and civil servants as they have to endure the traffic congestion and expose themselves to the unpredictable weather and vagaries of the customers.
Not only parliamentarians work day and night.
The ordinary rakyat also works day and night and over the weekends to make ends meet.
In fact, the ordinary rakyat lives with the unpredictability of their jobs and income as compared to a parliamentarian who gets paid and remunerated regardless.
No job security for a parliamentarian?
Does the ordinary rakyat have job security?
The pension only starts when they reach 55.
Why should it be any different for parliamentarians when the ordinary rakyat only can draw out their monies in EPF when they reach 55?
It is not why the ordinary rakyat singled out the politicians.
It is not how much the country can save from placing MPs under EPF instead of the pension scheme.
It is for the parliamentarians to understand and appreciate in real-time and in real life the hardships the ordinary rakyat are facing everyday unlike presently where the parliamentarians only pay lip service to the issues surrounding the ordinary rakyat only to forget it when they turn their backs to the rakyat.
It is definitely a populist idea supported by the ordinary rakyat.
Every time the ordinary rakyat brings out issues affecting their lives, parliamentarians will reply and give the excuse that more research and discussion must be conducted or the matter at hand is a lot more complex with a lot of intricacies and complexities and a lot of government agencies needs to be consulted with or there is no one size fits all solution to the issues highlighted by the ordinary rakyat.
Yes, maybe they are not rich but only if they are first-time parliamentarians.
Those who have served for no less than 2 terms as MPs, regardless of whether the parties they are in is the government of the day or is in the opposition are definitely much better off than a lot of the ordinary rakyat.
The ordinary rakyat also wishes to suggest additionally for PM10 to make it mandatory for parliamentarians and ministers to take public transport at least once a week.
Parliamentarians must be put through and experience the sufferings that the ordinary rakyat goes through every day of the week putting up with the unpredictability of the country’s public transport system and the bad road conditions.
Parliamentarians get an allowance for the maintenance and upkeep of their cars and they are also allowed one car each at duty-free prices.
Unlike the ordinary rakyats who have to put up with the bad road conditions, a substantial portion of their monthly income is spent on repairing the damages to their cars traversing the roads that are full of potholes.
Yes, parliamentarians are just ordinary Malaysians.
They are not doing a service for the public.
They get compensated and remunerated much better than a lot of ordinary Malaysians.
As mentioned earlier, based on the official categorization of how T20 is categorized, every one of them falls into the T20 category in Malaysia.
The ordinary rakyat did not ask for the parliamentarians to represent them.
It was the parliamentarians who sought out the ordinary rakyat to support them on the general pretext that they were helping the ordinary rakyat.
If they are of the view that their role needs to be compensated well, they have a choice and can opt-out from offering themselves as parliamentarians.
Taking the cue from the saying you pay peanuts you get monkeys, the ordinary rakyat expects the parliamentarians to deliver and not monkeying around in the Dewan Rakyat.
Yes, please put all parliamentarians and ministers on EPF.
This proposal has the full support of every ordinary Malaysian.
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