11/16/2009

MOUTH IS BIGGER THAN FACE


Teng Hock Nan's mouth is bigger than his face.
He has often taken the route of showing to everyone what a terribly frustrated politician he is - a desperate wannabe who had his dreams of being the Chief Minister of Penang dashed in 2008.
And before he continues his ongoing criticism over the US$3 billion investment deal that the Penang state government turned down, he should move his precious butt and visit the operating sites of some of our much herald GLCs and local manufacturing companies.
He will find that many of our locals who have graduated as engineers are not engineers per se but just "engine-near" - who do not have the ability to think on their feet nor able to string 2 sentences in English without lapsing into their mother tongue.
The Penang state government and Gerakan continued bickering over the decision to turn down a US$3bil (RM10.1bil) investment deal because the state government could not guarantee 1,000 electric and electronic (E&E) engineers required by the company.
In a statement yesterday, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s special investment officer Jeffrey Chew lashed out at Gerakan for using hit-and-run tactics and practising a “promise first hope later” attitude.
Chew said this in response to criticism from Penang Gerakan chief Datuk Dr Teng Hock Nan who said the state could not afford to turn away investors.
Chew said the Malaysian Employers Federation, among other bodies, had detailed the shortage of E&E engineers in the country.
Dr Teng, he said, should tell the Federal Government to stop discriminating against Penang by refusing to treat it equally in terms of grants, taxes or airport charges.