The RM250 billion stimulus package

Some (economists) called the RM250 billion stimulus package brilliant, some (business sector) called it disappointing. The former (economists) said there'll be better cash flow in the market, whilst business (eg. Malaysian Employers Federation - MEF - and SME) said millions will lose their jobs.

MEF executive director Shamsuddin Bardan 

Most economists are of the view that the government is right in supporting low-income households to survive in this very trying times, especially those facing financial constraints, retrenchments or have to be on unpaid leave.

Meanwhile Pakatan Harapan (minus those who left, wakakaka) said that only 10% of the stimulus package, ie. only RM25 billion out of the RM250 billion “Prihatin” package, would be injected directly into the economy, while the rest comes in the form of loan moratoriums, tax waiver, and guarantees.

Anwar has supported initiatives in the Prihatin package that helps the people, especially those in the B40 income group, but wants it debated in parliament

But Wahid Omar, a banker but who had also served as a then Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Economic Planning under the previous BN government, pointed out that the Harapan critics also employed similar methods when they were the government.

He said that Mahathir in his February stimulus of RM20 billion (formulated by Lim GE as boasted by my visitor TS, wakakaka), injected as direct cash only RM3.5 billion, far far less than what the Muhyiddin government proposes to do.

Incidentally, regarding Harapan's cries of "Where the eff is the money coming from", Mahathir had in February said (as reported by The Edge Markets):

“Malaysia has a lot of savings. Malaysia has almost RM2 trillion of savings, we will make use of some of these savings. Some with Tabung Haji, Bank Negara, KWAP, KWSP... All of them hold big reserves. And in the case of KWSP, it is almost RM1 trillion.”

Mucho peso, si amigo? Wakakaka.

Mahathir is pro business and less sympathetic with labour

the Emperor loves his nobles and knights rather than the serfs, wakakaka

His package would favour the business sector and eff the workers

It's a short term (tactical) stimulus package designed as a 'survival package' for the rakyat during the lockdown and also for the Perikatan Nasional in GE15, wakakaka. The long term plan (strategy) comes later and eff that in the meantime, wakakaka again.

But yes, not everybody is happy as each of us, private individual or businessman, has our own respective interests and gains (or loss). I am not the best person to talk about economics so I am quite 'neutral' on it as I was on Mahathir's.

But as a matey said: "The point is, those who are opposed to the government - such as the Pakatan Harapan people today - will always find fault and criticise the government and its policies, and whether only 100 Malaysians die or 100,000 Malaysians die in the current pandemic. Nothing is perfect. Everything is wrong. To these people, half a glass of water is always half empty, never half full. It is the nature of the beast."

I added t'was 'likewise' when Pakatan Harapan was the government and BN and PAS (not yet Perikatan Nasional) were in the opposition, wakakaka.

But that's an opposition's job, the nature of the beast, to "criticise, object, oppose, challenge, dispute, disparage, 'podah'-ise" each and every government's act, policy, programme, etc.

As my matey said of the opposition always criticising the ruling government's policies and actions: "Nothing is perfect. Everything is wrong. To these people, half a glass of water is always half empty, never half full".

Indeed, having an adversarial opposition is the very essence of political democracy in the Westminster system - the so-called much required 'check & balance'. It reflects the "finest traditions" (wakakaka) of the British-initiated political system, where it would be the rare day, when snowflakes would fall gently in Hell and tulips bloom gloriously there, if the opposition were to agree with, let alone praise, the ruling government in its policies. 

Wakakaka.