BR1M IS BETTER THAN OFFERINGS TO UMNO DIVISION CHIEFS

A few former ministers’ economic advisers regarded the giving of 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) by Prime Datuk Seri Najib to the people as inappropriate, an abuse of government’s funds and does not help the people’s development in the long term.

There are some who feel that it does not teach the people to strive, not giving the people fishing rods, but fish.

I am also not  an economist, but I feel that BR1M is also a way of helping to activate economic activities at the grassroots level, co...