“Abdullah attacks ‘populist’ claims while presenting populist budget”
This thought occurred to me when the Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced a string of goodies in his 2009 Budget in Parliament today, including the following:
“Those who use less than RM20 of electricity per month will not be charged.”
One would have thought that Abdullah is preparing to fight an early general election if one had not been held just less than six months ago from which Abdullah and the Barisan Nasional emerged badly mauled – followed by another blow to the solar plexus in the Permatang Pauh by-election only three days ago.
But Abdullah was fighting for his political life when he presented the 2009 Budget. Continue reading “2009 Budget – Abdullah fighting for his political life”