cut subsidy? how about cut the pay of MP…

… so that they’ll know how to save, eg flying economy like penang’s CM instead of flying business class.

… or stop bailouts!

…or as tony pua, PJ MP said, how about checking on corruption and leakage? (read from his blog)

idris jala, the minister in the prime minister’s dept. warned that our country will be bankrupt in 9 years time, if the govt. continue to subsidize us on stuffs like petrol, electricity, and other staples, so he proposed steps to manage the government’s growing spending on subsidies.

Among the suggestions include slashing subsidies for 12 items, which would see prices hiking for petrol, diesel, gas, electricity, sugar and flour, among other staples over the next five years.

petrol, gas, electricity, sugar, flour…. all these are necessities that ordinary rakyat like you and me need. necessities that the poor need too! so won’t it be a burden on the poor if the prices all go up?

well the PM will later on then said ‘change your lifestyle’ so as to live beyond the means of all the BN… no no i don’t mean ‘barisan nasional’ but ‘barang naik’ (prices hike).  really? change our lifestyles? how so? when our lifestyles are already moderate? it is those MP and VIP who ought to change their lifestyles! i already travels to KL by bus, how do i change my lifestyle to travel by…. what? whereas for them, they travel by plane, they can afford to change their lifestyle to travel by train or bus!!

if you are a subscriber to malaysiakini and have read the comments there, you’ll notice many interesting comments that disagree on the cutting of subsidy and that talk about what made the country going to be bankrupt and proposals of what to do not to made the country bankrupt. oh, i think i’d better copy down the comments here.

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