There is a famous saying that it is better to teach a man to fish
than giving him a fish. The cash hand-out is an effort in futility. It will
have little or no impact on people who are struggling to make ends meet. Going
by the way prices of goods and services have escalated, the money will be gone
in a jiffy and it will be forgotten.
- Chandramukhi
Laxmanan, PJ
the Sun,
April 19, 2013
Last week while i
was having my lunch at MBPJ's cafe, I had overheard (such a busybody)
conversation of three men and two women sat next to my table. One of the guys
asked his colleagues, who will you vote to? These women confidently
declared 'of course **! They’ll give us money (BR1M)’. Frankly, I don't care
about their votes. The reason of their voting even scared me enough. Are you
really thought that you can rely on the government's season money giving
to survive here in KL and Klang Valley? Come
on!
The skyrocketing of goods and services prices were the main reason
why city citizen shortage of money. Back then, I seldom went to wet-market for
groceries. Recently, I started to do the groceries shopping (I volunteered and
kind of enjoy it) every Saturday or Sunday morning and then only I knew the
cost of meat, chicken, fishes, onion, and etc. The price keep increasing. Nowadays,
for each kilogram of ‘ikan kembung’ (the cheapest protein sources) will cost
you RM12.50 to RM13. Looking back (10 years back), the same ‘ikan kembung’ will
only cost you RM6 to RM7.
The ultimate problem that city citizen facing in daily life is uncontrollable
of daily needs prices. I did remembered last few years when the government
announced an increasing of sugar price, the minister kept remind us about the ‘bad’
of sugar, urge us to stop sugar consumption. Still, the root cause didn't resolve.
Although everyone kept talking about the increase of crude oil
price being the solely reason of rising of the goods prices, yet, the crude oil
price is not everyday sky shooting. The patent is fluctuated. Even if there was
a fall in the crude oil price, the price of goods remained the same even worst,
keep rocketing.
Regardless who’s going to win this PRU13, I begged pls control the
goods and services prices. Peace.
