Antipoverty ra? How about PRO-middle Class diay?

[gareb]

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it doesn't seem so to me. i often heard official announcements that the gov't is implementing more poverty alleviation programs while saying also that the fight against poverty is far from over...so what's the half-cooked story on that? anyways, any portrayal is perceived in many diff. ways.

half-truths are common and are often used blatantly and shamelessly especially during SONAs.

stating the number of jobs supposedly created while being silent over the fact that these jobs are contractual(temporary) jobs that will expire/be renewed after 6 months.

ecstasy over economic growth while playing dumb over the fact that such growth was at best temporary, unsustainable, and does not affect almost anyone at all.

euphoric over growth in the industrial sector while mum over the decline of the agricultural sector which happens to be where the country gets a lion's share of its economic production, while the industrial sector is but a small fraction.

lets just say that it is fond of showing you a banana, or what's left of it, after they have hacked away most of the parts that are rotten, if only to convince you that it's fresh. and surprisingly, not only do people believe them, but they eat the banana too!

[giddyboy]

stating the number of jobs supposedly created while being silent over the fact that these jobs are contractual(temporary) jobs that will expire/be renewed after 6 months.

ecstasy over economic growth while playing dumb over the fact that such growth was at best temporary, unsustainable, and does not affect almost anyone at all.

euphoric over growth in the industrial sector while mum over the decline of the agricultural sector which happens to be where the country gets a lion's share of its economic production, while the industrial sector is but a small fraction.

ok...i just hope u r ryt on these things...

lets just say that it is fond of showing you a banana, or what's left of it, after they have hacked away most of the parts that are rotten, if only to convince you that it's fresh. and surprisingly, not only do people believe them, but they eat the banana too!

hahaha. nice analogy (or is it a simile?)...

[gareb]

i hope im not right. because if i'd be proven wrong, then it means that the country really is moving forward.

analogy. and it's too bad, this forum is not immune from banana eaters too.

[giddyboy]

analogy. and it's too bad, this forum is not immune from banana eaters too.

hahaha. u really made my day...i hope i'm not a banana eater!!!

now back to the topic, i only spotted a few gov't programs that helps somehow the middle-class. i spotted their Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) program and Export Dev't Act but wasn't able to start reading them.

[gareb]

we do try our best not to eat the bananas, though some of us find them irresistible.

i believe it's a matter of political appeal. an economic policy promoting the welfare of the middle class is not really very appealing when the majority of the population cannot be classified as such. it's not even important if their so-called poverty alleviating policies are effective. if the public can be convinced that they are, then that will suit them just fine. as long as they can convice the people to eat those bananas, their individual and collective asses are just fine.

i am not sure, but if majority of the middle class subsists on employment, then micro-credit finances would only function as the capital for their "sidelines" or secondary sources of income. something should be done with the persistenly low salaries, which act as the primary sources of income for the middle class, so as to keep the middle class afloat. that is, if they cannot control inflation and the price of oil.