FMT - If you borrow, you pay, Maszlee tells PTPTN defaulters:
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KODIANG: The education ministry today called on all quarters, including the opposition, to cease linking the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) to the Pakatan Harapan (PH) manifesto for the 14th general election.
Its minister, Maszlee Malik, said borrowers, regardless of the loans they took, were obliged to settle them.
“Whatever the manifesto says, the borrowers have to pay the loan.
“The opposition, they just want to politicise the issue. When you borrow money, you have to pay, even at RM10 a month,” he told reporters after a visit to Sekolah Kebangsaan Siputeh. [...]
Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had three days ago expressed regrets with the untrustworthy attitude of PTPTN borrowers for defaulting on their loans, resulting in arrears in unpaid loans totalling RM36 billion.
According to Mahathir, the loan defaulters included those who already secured jobs.
PH, in its general election manifesto, stated that it would defer repayment of PTPTN loans for borrowers earning RM4,000 a month and below.
Its minister, Maszlee Malik, said borrowers, regardless of the loans they took, were obliged to settle them.
“Whatever the manifesto says, the borrowers have to pay the loan.
“The opposition, they just want to politicise the issue. When you borrow money, you have to pay, even at RM10 a month,” he told reporters after a visit to Sekolah Kebangsaan Siputeh. [...]
Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had three days ago expressed regrets with the untrustworthy attitude of PTPTN borrowers for defaulting on their loans, resulting in arrears in unpaid loans totalling RM36 billion.
According to Mahathir, the loan defaulters included those who already secured jobs.
PH, in its general election manifesto, stated that it would defer repayment of PTPTN loans for borrowers earning RM4,000 a month and below.
Actually I agree with Maszlee that if you borrow loans you MUST repay, though how and when can be worked out in a compassionate and practical way.
To reiterate, PH, in its general election manifesto, stated that it would defer repayment of PTPTN loans for borrowers earning RM4,000 a month and below.
Mind you, he is obviously doing exactly what Mahathir wants, and what Mahathir wants, the ministers bloody well do it, wakakaka. Be kuai kuai like Guan Eng, wakakaka again.
Mahathir as PM is not just the traditional primus inter pares (first among equals). With him, there is and can be no equal, wakakaka.
But for Maszlee to accuse the opposition of politicising the issue is plain bullshit. It wasn't the opposition who promised loan takers it would defer re-payment of PTPTN loans until they earn more than RM4000 a month. It was Pakatan and a Pakatan politicised promise.
Stop blaming others and start fulfilling your Pakatan promises, instead of merely capati-ing them.
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keep and re-cycle for GE15 |