People are crying out for help, is the PM listening?
The woman shoppers at one supermarts were heard saying "this is daylight robbery!" Some shoppers were alarmed and turned to see what happened, was it a snag-thief or was it real robbery in progress?
No, it was a false alarm as there wasn't any crime in progress but it was the remark of two women when they saw the price of a loaf of bread incresed by RM0.40 sen and the price of a particular canned food increased from RM2.50 to RM3.40 within a period of a few months. The price of cooking oil has been incresed so many times that we almost forgot its price last month.Most of the increses are in the region of 25-35%, and maybe the civil servant pay rise was formulated after this scenario.
Hike, hike and more hike!
The price hike hits every sector of the society, may except the top 10% of the mass and those corrupted officials and politicians. From the price of flour, cooking oil, bread, dairies products, canned food, medicines, spicies, stationaries, papers and everything you can think off.
Fuel price hike in 2005 has a direct inpact on the Inflation
Inflation caused the real value of Ringgit to depreciate by some 35%. The Managing Director of one the biggest supermarkets in Sarawak told me last week that the purchasing power of RM100 today is equibilium to RM65 of 2005. That means the true price increase was so severe that the average Malaysian is suffering from the infaltion spiral which the government does not officially recognised.
More price hike after the Raya
After this Hari Raya, the price of cooking gas will further be increased and more will follow. Many in the interior and rural areas of Sarawak have switched back to using the woods for cooking. They are forced to go backward instead and this surely warrent us to think "What is Pak Lah administraction doing?"
Burma situation is the mirror for the BN's government
For days swelling crowds of Buddhist monks and nuns along with secular protesters have marched through the streets of Rangoon (they call it Yangon) and elsewhere chanting for change.
Why were they on the street daring the military juntas leaders to open fire on them? They were not politicians and they were not nuts either, they were forced to go onto the streets to protect the iron-rule of the military and lack of democracy which caused grave hardship to the people. Fuel prices hike of a few hundred percent since last years made it impossible for the ordinary poeple to syrvive while the country's top general spent lavishly on the rich oil and gas reserves.
The Malaysian government must make sure that the economy is well managed and malpractises and corruption are cut down so that we do not have to follow Berma's footstep, ie. the hike of fuel prices to fuel the ailing economy.
David Wong
DAP Sarawak publicity sec.,
14-10-2007
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