Anwar vs Shabery Debate

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By Shamsul (http://marahku.blogspot.com/)

I am quite surprised that people thought Datuk Shabery was too personal with Anwar. OK he did talk about Anwar's 1970s rabble rousing activities and pointed out that the PKR advisor was Finance Minister once and he was not known as the most populist of Finance Minister when he had the power.

But this is a political debate. You have to expect these things...

The real surprise is that Anwar was so restrained, to the point of barely making his point.

I am surprised that Anwar did not just own up to the fact that his fuel price reduction plan is a populist policy. What is so wrong with a populist policy anyway? A populist policy simply means that it will give benefit to a lot of people and thus make the originator popular.... It would have been a great foil to Shabery's explanations of why prices had to increase...

If Anwar's supporters think Shabery was playing personal, they should read their own comments and shudder from the personal-ness of many of their attacks

Anyway, the debate was a political event, to expect a deep and meaningful economic argument about the merits of fuel subsidy is to be too optimistic.

The debate probably went 50-50, in which case Anwar won because everyone thought the minister agreed to the debate because he thought he could pummel Anwar to dirt..

Subsidy itself is not a bad word. If you want to see where the US spends most of its subsidy money just look up the the term NASA....all cutting edge technology research and pure research is subsidised by the Government, the other thing they are subsidising by the billions is food production. There is a lesson there somewhere.

When it comes to oil, Uncle Sam still prefers gunboat diplomacy but that doesn't seem to be working right now. Maybe Anwar's buddy, Wolfie knows better...

Did the people really win with the debate, like Rocky said? That depends on whether we get anymore such debates, doesn't it? If the Government think they got more negative remarks than positive ones, there is no reason for them to continue...

Anyway, the excitement of the debate is now washed away by the dramatic arrest of the PKR head and the drama being played out.....ooh I am so tired of the political drama


Did anyone notice that Datin Paduka Dr Tan Yee Kew has resigned from the MCA? She says the party is not relevant for her political fight and the former Wanita MCA deputy chief declined to rule out joining PKR

She just wants to see a two-party system....
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