Comments on Budget 2013's speech

LIVE: Budget 2013 speech - salient points

4:10PM Sep 28, 2012

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is reading his fourth budget speech which is aimed at shoring up support before the 13th general election and rein in the deficit.

"Since the last 55 years, Malaysians have placed their trust in the same government at every stage of the nation’s development. We thank you for your trust. We have never betrayed the people. Instead, we have repaid the trust given to us manifold," said Najib.

[JK’s comment –BN has made the people in Sabah and Sarawak – politically poor as voiceless; down trodden economically by grabbing most of our resources or turn blind eyes on so many Police Reports lodged by me worth up to RM30 trillions decades past and into the future; if it is not betrayal, it has been too much of a struggle for most people to use own dwindling resources to struggle against the people in power who operate through proxies very much rewarded by those in power disposing such challenges with taxpayers money and you don’t realize that it is indeed a real betrayal- a glaring  example is myself as Plaintiff in two High court cases against the Government, The Prime Minister and the Election Commission, and I incurred my personal money and ‘cheating’ at the Court to strike out my case and not interested in the merits of the cases which expose the massive rigging of the BN Government to stay in power.  A sincere Government would hear me out and reward me as a whistleblower but instead I was penalized by a hjardcore corrupted Government.  Najib calls that repayment of trust given to us manifold in the opposite direction.]

"This government has never promised the moon, the stars or the galaxy. We have never painted a pretty picture based on wishful thinking. As a responsible government, we continue to speak the truth even though it may be unpleasant.

[JK’s comment- Who expect anyone to promise the moon, the stars or the galaxy?  A public apology is now required from the Prime Minister.  If the Government is indeed responsible, it is timely that the Government albeit illegal repeals the Petroleum Development Act Act 144 now as that act alone had degraded Sabah and Sarawak with people who are begging daily.  Give us back the oil and gas as it is after 30 years of naked exploitation of colonialists.  That would be a good sign to the truth of our independence in 1963 with the formation of Malaysia to share the resources not to be robbed until today.  Get those national robbers into the prisons].

"We have never misled to the rakyat with tall tales. On the other hand, we have always offered solutions and provided good leadership to every problem faced by the rakyat.

[JK’s comment –every day in the press we read about so many misleading schemes by the Government for a selected group only and we do not know how many more are skeletons in closet like the triple 6 fatal incident in 1976.  What solutions is Najib talking about when the long overdue and much promised Royal Commission of Inquiry is still to function]

"Managing a complex multiracial country like Malaysia is not easy. It requires sincerity and intelligence because Malaysians are a discerning lot. In fact, the rakyat has given the mandate to the same Government 12 times since 1959, indicating that this Government has done the right thing.

"The trust that exists between the rakyat and the government cannot be broken no matter how strong the lies. In this regard, the Budget that I am tabling is in appreciation of all Malaysians who have placed their trust in us all this while."

[JK’s comment -The BN Government has been so long in power mainly doing the right thing by massive rigging of most General Elections with impunity.  I had brought two court cases on rigged General Elections 2004 and 2008, the illegal Government is so scared to look at the merits of the cases and simply struck them out.]

Contributed by Joshua Y. C. Kong