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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ALBundy" data-source="post: 189954" data-attributes="member: 15">In all honesty, I am ok with NEP, especially given the wide income disparity between the chinese and other races, not only the malays but the indians and other minorities as well. Of course along the way, NEP got hijacked and only served to enrich the well connected ones and now its used as the reason to exclude non-bumis from most government jobs, projects and what not. TO me, I have no problems with the government awarding projects to bumi class F,E,D and C contractors, but why do class A contractors like UEM, Peremba Construction, Ahmad Zaki and etc still be given jobs based on negotiated contracts?? Shouldn't they compete on equal basis with others?? This is when many get pissed off.  NEP's objective of ensuring the Bumi's owning 30% of the corporate equity in Malaysia has been achieved some years back based on numerous research papers but the majority of the Malays are still poor. Therefore, there is a serious need to overhaul NEP to ensure only the poor and needy gets all the assistance they need in order to escape the poverty cycle. If you were to ask me, the Indian community is the most marginalised in this country. Cheers.</blockquote>