The 2012 Budget- A Crowd Pleaser

Let us speak with openness. Can we expect the over RM 4 billion to be spent as handouts, one off at that, be expected to be a principal transformative element of the 2012 budget? Out of the 232 billion, 180 billion will be spent as OPEX. That’s money to spend on operating the economy; paying salaries, servicing existing loans etc. Can that be the transformative ingredient? That leaves 50 billion