The DAP Penang government (YB Phee Boon Poh) is fighting with MCA-appointed assistant welfare officers (CARI project) over poverty aid applicants.If, there are an abundant of poverty aid applicants especially the hardcore poors in Penang, they will not need to fight over them.
Just last Friday, our service center successfully assisted a senior citizen to obtain monthly monetary support from the Welfare Dept. I told the senior citizen that the best thank you is recommending more poor people!!!
The fact is – there is an acute shortage of hardcore poor in Penang.
Why?
Because the Penang BN government under the leadership of Gerakan had done exceeding well in prospering the economic and in jobs creation for the past 40 years.
Many Penangites are still the first generation, migrating from all over the country to the Pearl of the Orient, to seek a living and eventually to make it their home. Whether we are first, second, third or whatever generations; most Penangites had generally enjoyed the good life.
It is easy to forget the past, as most of us had taken it for granted.....The DAP Penang government knows that one of the easier “achievement” they can use to hookwink Penangites are telling them that DAP had succesfully eradicated hardcore poor.
The fact is, there are not many hardcore poor families in Penang.
However, if the DAP Penang government failed to further create new jobs in Penang, the poor will become poorer, and then there will be an increase in hardcore poor.
Then, there is no necessity to fight over hardcore poor applications.
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Sun online, Himanshu Bhatts
MCA 'sabotaging' Penang's poverty eradication programme
GEORGETOWN (March 2, 2009): The Penang state government today produced evidence to back its claim that the MCA has been unduly meddling in its state-wide poverty eradication programme.
State Health, Welfare, Caring Society and Environment Committee chairman Phee Boon Poh showed reporters a copy of an official state letter issued by a local welfare office signed by an MCA-appointed assistant welfare officer.
The letter, issued through the Welfare Department's Seberang Perai Utara office, gave instructions to poverty aid applicants to go to Bagan MCA's service centre with their personal documents for further action.
"This is treason," Phee said after a press conference in the Chief Minister’s office here. "They have exploited a state government letterhead for their own publicity."
Phee also showed a copy of a letter signed by the same officer in Mandarin, with the letterhead having the state crest replaced by an MCA logo.
"This is an official state project. How can they throw the state crest and substitute it with their own party logo?" he asked.
He said he had received complaints from people that they were scolded when they tried to process their applications.
Phee had on Feb 25 claimed that MCA members contracted to work as assistant welfare officers in Penang had cast aside aid forms submitted by hardcore poor applicants.
He said forms with supporting signatures by Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen were ignored, and applicants were told to get signatures of Barisan Nasional representatives instead.
He also claimed that on at least one occasion, the form was torn in the presence of the applicant.
In response, Penang MCA deputy chairman Eng Hiap Boon accused the state administration of trying to focus the blame on MCA for the delay in meeting its self-imposed March 8 deadline to remove hardcore poverty in the state.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen also told a press conference on Friday that if Phee's allegations were true, he should come up with the proof, or apologise for what he said.
It is understood that the MCA appointees were stationed in the state's welfare offices in October through Ng, who is also MCA vice-president.
It's shameful that your MCA counterparts would stoop so low as to make life even more difficult for the hardcore poor just for political gains.
Fishhook:
Phee claims sabotage. I have received feedback from the other sides (MCA) that they were the ones that was sabotaged.
Hah...hah...hah
For me, the more sources to help the hardcore poor the better - State and CARI(Federal/MCA).
Note: The State Welfare Dept actually consist of both state & federal officers working hand-in-hand for the poor people, bulk of fund from federal allocation.
The third source, Tzu-Chi Merits is doing an excellent charity work.
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