YOURSAY | 'Now that we're already in the deep end, why are you trying to behave as if you care?'

Dr M: M'sians are starving, govt not helping enough

Jetson: What do you expect from a directionless backdoor government? The Perikatan Nasional (PN) government has spent too much time politicking and concentrating on protecting its own positions.

Even now, after being responsible for the Covid-19 outbreak in Sabah and bringing the virus back to the peninsula by their irresponsible agents, they are still thinking of fighting for the parliamentary seat of Batu Sapi.

How much damage had the state elections done? Yet their power-crazy and power-hungry leaders are still at it.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad, you also have to take the blame for this. When we had a working administration that was slowly but surely leading this nation out of the quicksand, you had to make it worse.

Now that the nation is already in the deep end, why are you trying to behave as if you care? You never cared for anything except your own agenda.

Do you really care in which direction this nation is heading and whether the people have jobs, food or even quality education? You blew it all by handing this nation into the hands of these irresponsible and power-greedy leaders.

So, sit and watch these leaders take this nation further down the deep end. This is just the beginning. There will be more businesses that will shut down in the near future, more people unemployed, and who knows how they will respond to the situation.

Nine months have passed under this administration. Nothing productive has been achieved.

Only those in positions are laughing all the way to the bank with huge salaries, perks and benefits, while the ordinary people suffer the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as an administration that is in denial mode.

The recently proposed Budget 2021 of RM332 billion of taxpayers’ money may lift this nation out of the pit it is in. Yet, we know very well where these monies end up.

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and the PN government are playing the fiddle while Malaysia burns.

PW Cheng: Maybe we shouldn’t “belasah” (thrash) Mahathir when he is saying the right thing. Suggesting a cut of 10 percent from salaries of high-income earners is timely and appropriate. And he wants to lead by example by willing to part with 10 percent of his pension.

On the other hand, we will belasah him “kau kau” for his excessive bigotry, constantly playing up race and religion issues, and saying wrong things, like his inflammatory words of “Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past”.

Wsoi: @PW Cheng, at 95, given the chance to be PM for the second time, Mahathir has every means to do things right but he is not willing to just because of his own ego and selfish objectives. Does he really care about the B40 (bottom 40 percent of income earners)?

Don't blame us for not believing him. He is a true liability to the country because he knowingly birthed a bunch of corrupt specialists and dethroned all who disagreed with him.

The corrupt system he built risks putting the nation further into disaster.

Eyes Wide Open: And now you know the extent of the monster you created, Mahathir.

Had you not played politics back in February and honoured your agreement with PKR president Anwar Ibrahim for a smooth succession, our country may have had a better chance of fighting this pandemic with more level-headed ministers than the current heap of crap.

Now, with the exception of the top-10 percentile of the people, everyone else is suffering from the loss of income.

Yes, the rakyat are going hungry and the impact will last for years, no thanks to the power-crazy politicians that you have spawned.

Anonymous 79: I agree with Mahathir. What the government announced is just like older versions of previous stimulus packages. Not all Malaysians will benefit from it and the amount allocated can’t help most Malaysians to last for even a month.

Now the government is asking private-sector workers to use our own money to feed ourselves. While government servants are protected by a pension fund, once private-sector workers use up all our Employees Provident Fund (EPF) money, then that's it. Who’s going to support us when we retire?

Those people thinking about this idea are very short-sighted. The ultimate solution is to open up the entire economy, but until now no one from the government can give us an answer as to what is the master plan.

The government can't keep borrowing money and increasing the national debt. And thanks to 1MDB, Malaysians now have more debts to pay.

BrownPuma4932: Not all Malaysians are poor, some are rich. Ask Mahathir, he knows.

As reported, Malaysia ranked fourth of countries purchasing from China on online shopping day 11.11 by gross merchandise value. Malaysia came just behind the US, Russia, and France, according to Alibaba Group’s news hub, Alizila.

I believe those who spent on 11.11 sales used Bantuan Sara Hidup (BSH) money. Rightfully, the money should be spent in our own country to stimulate our economy.

Quo Vadis: At the time of the year of the French Revolution in 1789, did not Queen Marie Antoinette suggest eating cake as an alternative? How about udang galah in our time and age?

Enough is indeed enough. Cut out the overbearing pomposity and the patronising of the vulnerable.

Samm: Only 10 percent pay cut? Is that all? Is that the best you can ask for, Mahathir? Open your eyes! Some people have lost everything - savings, income, and most of all, hope.

Wsoi: Indeed, we can now really see how selfish he is. How can 10 percent of his pension sound like a great thing when he and his children already have multi-millions?

Open your eyes, those who are poor. Who took your money? Who kept your money in their pockets and still collect your earnings through TNB, tolls, Indah Water, and all other taxes?

You happily support the backdoor government for giving you some pocket money? Well, good luck to you.

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