‘2012 Budget made based on thorough study of country’s needs’

‘2012 Budget made based on thorough study of country’s needs’

Borneo Post

Posted on October 18, 2011, Tuesday

KUCHING: The 2012 Budget of the Barisan Nasional (BN) government is made based on a thorough study on the needs of the country.

PBB Youth economic bureau chief, Pandi Suhaili, said the budget was not something which any government, including Malaysia, could take lightly when preparing it.

“The government has received many feedbacks from many quarters when preparing the budget. After that, the government, with the help of many experts, has to make thorough assessment on all information it received to ensure that the budget would achieve its aims — to boost the country’s economy and the people’s wellbeing.

“The process of preparing a budget is really painstaking and it is not something which any prime minister of any democratically elected goverment can do at their whims,” he said when contacted yesterday.

He was referring to statements made by the DAP state chairman Richard Wong Ho Leng and the party’s Miri’s legal aid bureau chief Chang Choon Yee last Saturday. Both were skeptical of the budget.

Ho Leng said the budget would bankrupt the country in the long run while Choon Yee said it lacked a realistic vision.

Pandi, who is also PBB youth vice-chief, said the oppositions were making a baseless claim that Barisan Nasional government was only thinking of winning an election without regards to what happened to the country and people.

“I am not surprised when they give negative comments on anything from the government. As a matter of fact, their voices will be stronger when they know that what the government intends to do is going to be successful.

“So, they will try their best to make the people not to support the government’s efforts with the hope that this will eventually cause the noble efforts to fail,” he said.

He said that even if the oppositions knew that the government’s efforts were good for the people, they would always find ways to make the efforts look bad.

“If they (the oppositions) agree with the BN government’s efforts, then how are they going to get votes from those who have been brainwashed by them to automatically say ‘no’ to anything good done by the government,” he asked.