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I received this interesting SMS from my friend yesterday:

” Just went to renew maid’s permit. Model of efficiency: 1 lady to press Q number, 1 lady to pass the no. to you, 1 to process form, 1 to collect fee, 1 to stick in passport. All were sitting on their arse & gossiping. 2 min job became 45 min!”

We have the most bloated civil service in Asia, if not the world. After screwing up the education system, our UMNO led government successfully producing 100 000 unemployable undergraduates yearly. How to hire our graduates when they can’t put a string of word in English. Sometimes I fall down laughing when I see their resumé. Oh yes, sometimes you will notice that the resumé is a “cut and paste” job from a standard text, likely provided by their university! Don’t forget UiTM (the only racist university in the world) is gearing up to produce 200 000 graduates/year by 2012. I wonder where they’re going to find their job.

To overcome this unemployability of our graduates, which sadly comprises of atleast 80% Bumiputeras, the government decided to take the blame. They decided to absorb them into civil service paid by our tax!. What the hell? Now, you know why people get sick of paying tax in this country? They are even appointing graduates now as “Pembantu Tadbir” which means clerks in government office. This was previously done by diploma and certificate holders. BTW, we now have fresh graduates being taken in as lecturers in public university!! Imagine fresh engineering graduate being absorbed as lecturer without any experience of field work!! we are going to see a lot more building collapsing without a bomb in this country soon…..

There are creating more and more post in civil service just to accomodate these graduates. The above SMS explains what is happening now in the civil service. Once, I noticed at the JB/Singapore immigration complex, there were 2 staffs appointed just to distribute the “disembarkation” forms to the travellers!!

Mahathir introduced “dasar pensyarikatan” and ‘dasar penswastaan” in the mid-eighties to cut down the number of civil servants. This was one policy where he was right. The goal of the policy is to cut down the civil servants to about 500 000. Well, he did manage to maintain a reasonable number of civil servants. At the time of his retirement, there were only 900 000 civil servants. Unfortunately, the new administration after that wanted a short cut to solve the unemployment issue and thus have successfully increased the number to almost 1.5 million (in just 5 years). I wonder, how long can the government sustain this amount of civil servants, plus pensioners and contract workers.

almost 60% of our budget is now allocated as “operational budget”. This is scary! Furthermore, 60% of our revenue comes from oil and gas industry. We are net importers of petroleum by 2012. Would we have enough money to even sustain our operational budget? Time will tell. GST is coming, subsidies are being cut. Rakyat will suffer eventually.