{"id":1527,"date":"2008-01-23T20:26:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2009-03-13T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T09:29:11","slug":"1522-of-pas-wants-a-welfare-state-but-we-already-a-welfare-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"[1522] Of PAS wants a welfare state but we already are one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAS earlier said that it wanted to turn Malaysia into a welfare state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Saturday, PAS said that it turn the country into a welfare state should it win the coming general election. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernama.com\/bernama\/v3\/news.php?id=309646\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PAS Should Explain Welfare State &#8211; Muhyiddin<\/em><\/a>. Bernama. January 23 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But our favorite minister said that Malaysia is already a welfare state.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SUNGAI PETANI, Jan 23 (Bernama) &#8212; The Barisan Nasional (BN) government has already made Malaysia a welfare state, Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin said Wednesday. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernama.com\/bernama\/v3\/news.php?id=309690\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Malaysia Already A Welfare State, Says Zam<\/em><\/a>. Bernama. January 23 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, I agree.<\/p>\n<p>PAS or BN, either way, we are already screwed. In fact, it is hard to find a local political party that would move away from the idea of welfare state, which usually comes together in a package with central planning policies. But if PAS does not think that Malaysia is already a welfare state, I could only shudder at its definition of the concept, which would probably sit far farther to the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAS earlier said that it wanted to turn Malaysia into a welfare state: On Saturday, PAS said that it turn the country into a welfare state should it win the coming general election. [PAS Should Explain Welfare State &#8211; Muhyiddin. Bernama. January 23 2008] But our favorite minister said that Malaysia is already a welfare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[323,205,302],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government","tag-malaysian-elections","tag-pas","tag-welfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}