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| A big, big budget for the small people Posted: 28 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT Anwar Ibrahim says the 2013 Budget is not people-friendly. I think he was just dumbstruck. The Budget is undeniably rakyat-friendly. We are talking about the real Rakyat here, not Pakatan Rakyat. Ask the lower-income people, the government servants, pensioners, our soldiers, the cops, the old and the young, and anyone who is interested in the Belanjawan and I think everyone will say there's something for them. It's THEIR budget. What I like about the Budget is the long list of stuff and goodies for the small people: Malaysians who earn less than RM3k a month (which is a continuation of the focus since Najib's New Economic Model back in 2008) and even specifics for those earning RM2k! Maybe these guys are too small to be Anwar's people. Touch points of Budget 2013:          |
| Past cronies, our air space and Bajet 13 Posted: 27 Sep 2012 09:39 PM PDT As a former editor, headlines continue to intrigue, haunt, affect me. This morning, for example, I could not help but mess about with a headline in pro-Anwar independent news portal Malaysiakini, Bersih to Government: A Rock Concert Reminder. Certainly a more independent, and accurate, headline would be, Bersih opts for concert, abandons street protest to win back waning support after Bersih 3.0 violence. It's longer (shorter headlines are supposed to be punchier) but necessarily so: we need to tell the story of how Bersih has to shake off the images of violence captured during their "peaceful" street protest last April and at the same time, as in the run-up to the 2008 general elections, it needs to win some points for Anwar and Co in Pakatan Rakyat against the ruling government, and that is why it is going for a safer option: a rock concert, which will probably be held in a stadium (a no-no venue for previous Bersihs). This morning's headline in the Mole Fighting for Papa's Friend is intriguing and makes you smile, but it can be a tad misleading, too. For this is not a story about a gallant child but of a young, ambitious, angry politician who is being exposed for misleading the people. It is possible that Nurul Izzah does not know that xxx is a close associate of his papa, Anwar Ibrahim but the point of the story is she is not actually fighting for a better ATS, that she does not even understand the issue... Read Rabid Spinning for Past Cronyism, the original piece by Big Dog, an expert among bloggers in this kind of stuff. As his story goes, Nurul Izzah's campaign against the existing operators of our civil air transport system would unearth a bitter rivalry and jealousy between rival companies. It was learnt that the main player of AMCOP Dato' Mustaffa Abdul Rahman is an associate of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, when the latter was Finance Minister and calling the shots for all Federal Government contracts and awards. They have established the relationship a while back and now, the Princess of PKR 'Politics of Hatred' is taking up the fight for 'an old Papa friend'. The third headline that got my attention this morning is Rumah Lebih Murah on the front page of Utusan Malaysia. Other newspapers go with the usual GDP figures, etc. as a teaser for this afternoon's Belanjawan Negara 2013 to be tabled by the PM, but I like the Utusan editors' focus. Cheaper homes - not cars - are what Malaysia desperately needs to improve the quality of life. But can Najib Razak resist the housing cartels and their evil agents who have been pushing up prices of properties to the detriment of the people? Samy Velly tried and failed (through his 4P initiattive in the 80s) and Anwar Ibrahin tried and failed in the 90s! Daim Zainuddin (who was a developer himself) had warned us of escalating home prices but nothing was done. I will be very interested to listen to his Budget if only for his proposals on how to address the housing issue. Borrowing his own favourite word, it could be the game-changer for PRU13.  |
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