.... our government. To be specific, our federal government.
It's true. The hike in petrol has been confirmed. From RM1.92 per litre to RM2.70 per litre = a whopping 40% increase! What next? 40% increase in toll prices too? With the massive jump in fuel prices, no doubt the price of everything else would just skyrocket! Somehow, I doubt there'd be massive skyrocketing in our salaries.
In the eyes of a disgruntled citizen as myself, I wished that there was something that we, a collection of ALL disgruntled citizens, could do about this situation. Isn't it bad enough that we are forced to settle for miserable excuses for vehicles with the likes of Proton cars when the taxes for all imported cars are preposterous?! These cars that shake and rattle so much that you can barely hear yourself think when you drive along roads with excessive potholes like Jalan Universiti??
These are the same cars that we, citizens of this country, are forced to buy because every other car that is imported that provides us with the bare necessities that our local carmaker cannot provide to us! And these bare necessities that I am talking about are not only in terms of performance and fuel efficiency...
I'm just bloody asking for an affordable car within my budget, within all young working Malaysians' budget, that doesn't have headlights that retain water when it rains. A car with power windows that actually works for more than 2 months. A car with doors that doesn't rust within the first year of purchase. A car that doesn't creak and groan and shake and rattle and basically sound like it's about to fall to pieces everytime you go over a bump or a pothole. (Speaking of potholes, why the f**k doesn't the government do anything about these road menace in PJ especially!?)
With the petrol subsidies pluging like birds' droppings, you would think that the government would reduce the taxes of imported cars so that us, citizens of Malaysia, would be able to afford better quality cars... right? That would be a sensible and logical next step - to keep our best interests at heart.
*scoff*
Best Interests at Heart? hmmph... that would be a first...
We're talking about the same people who issued a statement to the press about taking back everything that they've given to the Penang state (like the RapidPenang Bus System) when they lost the elections. Just one example of the many other childish post-election issues that were raised 2 months ago...
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the ruling government's next step to 'get back' at the public for letting the opposition win more than 40% of the seats contested. And if someone who is as politically-illiterate as I am can see this, I'm sure that there would be millions more out there who can.
From the looks of it, Malaysia is just the federal government's playpen and we are the pawns with everything to lose...
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For those who have been following the election news and info, this is something that you would have guessed would happen when Khairy won the Rembau seat and there was speculation that it was not a clean win:
Sometimes you just wonder where we are headed to, where this country is headed to...
1 comment:
Where's the give and take? I only see the taking, taking and taking. Sure all this rise is done because 'Malaysia has no other option'. But don't do it so sudden when one day they promise us that any changes will take effect only in August and less than 24 hours later..immediate rise of petrol price causing panic buying and chaos in petrol stations. This is the big brother's own doing causing this kind of rush and chaos.
Telling us we should change our lifestyle? How much can we change?
Should we resort to eating sand (maybe next time we'll be charged for sand) and using banana leaves as fan and bathing only once a week to save on cost? Don't lecture us and accuse us on changing our lifestyle and blame us, what do they know about our lifestyle?
Want to increase petrol? First the govt needs to fix up the transportation system. Our transportation system is basically 10 - 20 years behind our very own neighbours, Singapore. Our transportation system is dirty, inefficient, tardy and mostly, it is UNSAFE. Fix that for a change before lecturing us about our lifestyle!
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