God Save Malaysia, uncle sam coming after us

FTA with US will make us suffer more than brings benefit to us.It will kill our local business very badly, hope the government will really crack their head and think it over. Like the FTA with Japan, we bring in cheap cars and in return we export vege and fruits to them without tax, is this beneficial to us??? We kill proton business, how much vege and fruits can we export to Japan?????

Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned that a free trade agreement with the United States could harm Malaysia, claiming that a similar pact signed with Japan recently has brought no benefits.
"If you ask me, I worry that the FTA with the U.S. may have an adverse effect also on us,'' Mahathir, who has often voiced concerns about what he views as Western-dominated globalization, was quoted as saying by the national news agency, Bernama.
The U.S. and Malaysia earlier this month agreed to launch FTA talks and conclude them by the end of the year before the deal is sent to Congress in Washington for approval by July 2007.
Mahathir said he feared that Americans might try to gain access to Malaysian government procurement contracts, which have been used for more than three decades to help the country's ethnic Malay Muslim majority catch up with the wealthier ethnic Chinese minority.
"If we lose that, we would not we able to correct'' it later, Mahathir added. Mahathir retired in 2003 after 22 years in power. Over the past year, he has often been critical of how the government led by his successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, handled issues such monetary controls and the decline of the national car-making industry.
Mahathir said he has been unimpressed by a pact that Malaysia signed with Japan in December, which will do away with almost all tariffs in 10 years, spurring the flow of Japanese cars, Malaysian mangos and other goods between both nations.
"We are not the greatest producer of vegetables and fruits and these are low value things,'' Mahathir said. "It would seem to me that the FTA with Japan is not beneficial to us.''


Yesterday the US had warned Malaysia that if the deal dont go thru we will be facing hard time, this is not good thing for us. Will our leader bow to them??? I am afraid US will use the scomi issue, oil for food scandal to blackmail our "leader" and the "leader" will bow down to them.
The US had so many times threaten to call off this deal because of environment issue,human right issue,labour issue and latest our deal with Iranian oil company.
Rafidah out of surprise has woke up and said that if US keep threatening Malaysia she would suggest to our PM to cancel this FTA talks with US, but the question is will he???? Do we really need this FTA with the US???? To me to hell with US, we don't need you.We will have to bow to them all the time if this deal go thru.