In BolehLand, in recent months, the government is like some messiah, being able to feed the 'poor' and real poor with lots of dough, money that is. Billions of ringgit are being given out, free dough, money that is, such as the BR1M free money, making recipients brimming with smiles. Students were also given free money in the form of book vouchers.
Then more goodies are announced offering cheaper homes with easy loans, super fantastic returns in investments schemes and a whole lot of 'cheap' things coming our way, the poor that is way. Makes one wonder if BolehLand is a nation riddled with so many poor stricken, helpless poor or the government is refining the art of 'handouts' to a wider group eh?
1Malaysia's reasoning is it will help them to cope with the high cost of living for a whole year that is, because it is a one time assistance. Though there is now familiar you 'scratch the BN back and they will scratch yours' to ensure a yearly 'bonus' for keeping them in power. Isn't this some form of corruption?.
This free money handouts is akin to giving the people fish than teaching them to fish. Isn't these freebies an acknowledgement that not enough have been done to ensure the cost of living is reasonable so people can take care of themselves and cope with their earnings?
Won't it be better if you provide a better competitive market and allow these lower income opportunities to go into business that will help to keep the cost of living down. Say giving them land to grow food to reduce the food imports. Than only let the rich landlords in the likes of FELDA, Sime Darby, property owners and timber tycoons, a crony few to have last tracts of land for only a small group of people or race to get rich.
Even in the transport industry, free up the cartel and monopolists. Cab drives at the airport can't even practice free enterprise to benefit consumers.
The amount of free cash is a measurement of the cost of failure of the government in handling the country. Of course some will argue it shows we are super rich and we must thank the government for making so much income to be able to give such billions out just like that! Didn't we hear we would be bankrupt if we don't stop being pampered with subsidies. Now if you are going to make this one time assistance a yearly affair, who's doing a Greece on your behind huh?
The poor is the latest weapon to gain votes. You hand out the fishes to them and tell them to be grateful because you are feeding them and not doing much to let them fish on your own.
The poor is being made like pawns, prawns providing fodder to the politicians to gain votes and remain in power..
It's shameful to use the poor to show your record of success like what is being done by 1Makaysia in Sabah recently. Read story here.The question is why are our oil rich states first of oil poor? Who caused this situation to happen?
While governments in developed democracies are shameful there are poor or those living below poverty line, our government is proud to use them as report card of how good a government they are compared to the opposition! We are happy to see poverty the worse off the better in areas administered by the opposition.
On one hand, 1Malaysia shouts about inclusiveness and the religious institutions on how they protect the umat and condemn anyone who threaten religion, race and privileges. On the other hand, 1Malaysia has no qualms to withhold money taken from oil rich states and deprive them of the money to develop their state and the people?
The use of the poor and worse display them for all to see like some desperate destitutes rushing for free money or given wheelchairs or given hampers is really being insensitive.
For us to hear, Kelantan is so poor because of PAS when you are holding the federal piggy bank is really a shameful and despicable act.from those who claim to be defenders of religion, race and privileges!
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It's about time the poor and the many of us caught in the lower and income rut tell the powers be to stop giving freebies because if you take from somewhere, some others will be deprived. It's ironical, we are told of billions in the pipeline with the ETP programmes that will push us all into high income earners. Well billions have been spent on so many corridors and super ones too and yet, the large pool of fellows suffering seems to increase. Blame it on good babies producers or illegals being naturalise or the people are getting lazier?
One is inclined to think there is some consipracy to have poor people so that you can jump in and show you are the saviour by launching 1 this and 1 that. But the 1Too Many Projects are they income generators? How does the KRIM shops help the poorer income to get more income. It does not. They still earn RM1000 a month. Their income has not increased. KR1M does not increase their income. So too the whatever 1Mamak cheaper food concept. Isn't it better to increase the income so that the fellow can shop at KRIM as well as afford a better meal too?
These 1schemes are like asking the people to be where you are. Stay at your income level, I will come up with more cheaper schemes so that your RM1,000 can buy more things to survive. So till 2020 this chap is going to be at RM1000 and probably have the option of 1000 1Malaysia cheaper outlets for his or her needs. Where is the high income society.
Ok it seems simplistic. But the message is the poor is going to be kept at their status quo because you need the broken debilitated homes, you need the long queues preferably in the hot sun to collect money handouts, you need laterite roads, broken bridges to ask voters to continue to vote you in because you need another 1000 years to make things better, huh?
Let us hope the poor don't get caught in the net of deceit and worse to feel they owe the gratitude to the 1Fishmonger for throwing them the fries while he gets richer and fatter sharing the good catch with his geng and selling it to outsiders who can pay the price.
So because of BN, Sabah is richer also holds equally valid and true because of BN, Kelantan is so much poorer huh?
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