Include everyone in rescue package

IT is rather interesting to note from media reports the proposed expenditure on the Covid-19 economic stimulus package of some K5.7 billion.
There are many ways to look into the matter and deliver the dosage to boost the local economy against the imminent worldwide recession under the Covid-19 pandemic.
Whatever it takes, as long as the equations are balanced whether it be the supply versus the demand, the national income versus the expenditure, the private and public consumption versus the private and public investment and so forth, the government is obligated to keep the gross domestic product (GDP) from falling further.
The package will no doubt help the supply or the producers in the local economy (which will benefit few owners, shareholders and employees.
But what about the income subsidy to the consumer especially for those unemployed and off the payroll to contribute to the aggregate demand?
It is totally unacceptable after 45 years for a country often described as “a mountain of gold floating in a sea of oil and gas” not to have any form of social benefit scheme for the unemployed.
As it is, our economy does not make sense at all insofar as welfare gains for ordinary citizens are concerned no matter what the World Bank, IMF or our so called local think tanks would like to prescribe.
The snail paced NID scheme should have been the basis to work on a new social security policy and law to provide safety nets for our citizens.

LG,
Critical Option