CAN YOU SEE IT?
Compounding the concerns was the government’s expansionary budget for
1998. Unveiled on October 17 1997 by Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
Anwar Ibrahim, the budget further disappointed the markets as it failed to
signal fiscal austerity. As Gomez and Jomo aptly noted “the mid-October 1997
budget announcement for 1998 was seen by foreign financial interests as further
evidence of official denial of the gravity of the crisis and its causes…. Notes
by Shalendra D.Sharma on Malaysian Capital Control during the 97 financial
crisis.
Does that ring the bell?
My point? How is it that politicians can quickly forget
about how what they use to fight for? Don’t take my word for it, but do look up
the 1997 budget announcement and then tell me what Anwar is saying now, and
then look me straight in the eye and say, this is the man you want to see as
the head of state.