For me, I would like to thank the Gomen for giving my 2 children RM100 each.
And that's about it on the good thing.
I felt the budget in the negativity because :
1) More spending on the military. Question is do we need it? Even our first submarine (actually, do we need one?)was reported "karam" for hitting the reefs or something like that.
2) Not much funds is plough into education and scientific (R&D) sectors
3) After Badawi, from the previous administration, announcement on improving the agriculture and farming sector, not much funds was going into this sector as well.
4) Malaysia is attracting more and more tourists annually, but not much priority on tourism as well.
5) I do not see any initiative (eg. tax exempt or discount given) to attract foreign direct investment to boost Malaysian economy.
6) Too many of small goodies for the short term (maybe GE is round the corner) instead of long term planning for efficiency and effectiveness.
7) No attraction for foreign company to invest here
I agree with Chris's assessment on "Middle income group, majority of the ppl... No benefit afterall".
People like you and me - where is the benefit? (Well, maybe for me is the RM100 each for my 2 kids only)
And like Hanz posted :"But I am happy as long as they did not find any new ways to dig money out of my wallet."
Cheers.
(Edit: to include other members name before their "quotes")