Compare both sides before choosing, voters urged
IPOH: Voters have been urged to analyse and compare the performances of both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat before going to the ballot box.
MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said he was confident that the people, particularly the young, would be able to identify right from wrong as the facts were out in the open for the people to judge.
"Please do not be influenced by what you read on Facebook, for instance.
"Being young and educated, you certainly will not just simply take things as portrayed by Pakatan," he said at the joint opening of the Perak MCA Youth and Wanita state convention here yesterday.
Dr Chua said the Opposition had gone all out to use the new media to attack Barisan.
He said such postings and comments were the works of only two or three persons.
Meanwhile, he said the various socio-economic transformation programmes in the country under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's leadership had produced good results and also gained international recognition.
Among others, the country's economic growth this year would be between 4% and 4.5% although developed countries like the United States and Britain were facing an economic downturn, he said,
"Malaysia's unemployment rate is 3.8% against 25% in Spain," he pointed out.
Dr Chua said Malaysia was also the fifth most favoured country in Asia for foreign investors.
On Barisan's track record, he cited tertiary education, saying that 45% of the people aged between 19 and 23 were studying in institutions of higher learning now, compared to less than 1% when the country achieved independence in 1957.
Dr Chua said Najib had also set a clear direction for the country for the next 10 years, and the country was on track to become a high-income nation by 2020.
He cautioned that the Pakatan's populist policies, if it were to take over Putrajaya; like the minimum RM4,000 monthly household income for all Malaysians, abolition of and PTPTN loans, would cost the Government about RM210bil a year.
The amount was about the same as the country's annual revenue, he said, adding that the country would be bankrupt within two years if Pakatan were to take over Putrajaya.
-The Star-
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