Proton rules!

The local automobile industry players have tried to push government to do them a favour, again. In the business news in today TheStar, Proton Vendors Association has come up with some recommendations for the National Automobile Policy that expected to be unveiled on September.

The recommendations are meant to protect the local automobile industry, read Proton and Perodua, from competing with outside automobile giants. Summary of the points of their recommendations:

1. Bar vehicles with engine capacity of 2 litre or below, regardless new or used, from entering local market
   
2. AP holders required to obtain a No Objection Letter (NOL) from Proton Holdings Bhd and Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd before importing a specific model of vehicle
3. Bar vehicles over 5 years old from imported, except those classified as vintage car
4. Enforce what Singapore's having now, Vehicle End Of Life (VEOL), e.g. higher tax and maintenance fee for older car
5. Special incentives or grants to be given to local car makers and vendor

Further summarize them, we get this:

Put up a low to stop rakyat from buying foreign car but to only allow them buying national car

Further summarize them, we get:

JUST GIVE US YOUR FUCKING MONEY AND STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT OUR CARS - by Proton/Perodua to rakyat

I can see a 20 years old grown up requesting a tongkat (walking stick) from others. Why? Because he still does not walk.

The only reason that a person does not learn to walk for the past 20 years is: he is not being put on middle of street and being chased by hundreds of big trucks. All the while he has been carried by his parent crossing the road.

So, to force him to learn to walk, just put him in the middle of the street and let hundreds of cars and trucks chasing after him. If, for the past 20 years, he has used his mini-tiny brain to pickup every walk and run action from others, he would possibly start using his feet to run away, if not ahead, of the cars and trucks behind him. Else, we might just let him being run over by the trucks yet shedding no tear of him. No point helping him because he needs no help. He has no reason to existence in this world either.