Friday 22 August 2008

Permatang Pauh - Battle of Reality

I cannot see how BN can take away Permatang Pauh from PKR.

There is no credibility in the BN people :

The latest fiasco is today's petrol price reduction. How can the Minister says one thing on one day, and then hey presto, he contradicts himself the next day. "No, we will not reduce petrol price before the Permatang Pauh by-election just to get the rakyat's votes, it will still be on 1st Sep 08". Come on, this is not the first time, our dear Minister has contradicted himself.

Then poor Lee Chong Wei has to be flown specially all the way down to Permatang Pauh from KL just to get the RM300,000 incentive promised for the Silver medal in the 08 Olympic. Why now? Why not in KL since he is staying there? I would not object if he has got it in Berapit, Bukit Mertajam, his kampong. At least, the Penang Government did the right thing by saying that Lee will get his Datukship after the by-election....hmm, not bad. Announce now & get it later.

Then it's the 8.5% inflation rate just announced by the Statistical Dept, up from 1% in June 08 and by 7.5% since then. If our dear Minister has got his economics correct, he will know that this figure is not going to come down anytime sooner. I know for once, that a certain amount of subsidies must be required for some neccessity items ( I remember learning it in the Economic lessons during my schooldays 35 years ago). Doesn't the Minister know that the huge leap in petrol price increase has caused a knee-jerk reaction resulting in practically consumer goods price increases in practically everything? There's opportunity in these price increases and everybody were jumping into the band-wagon for free, like nobody's business. There's no way, consumer prices are going to come down...ask our friendly hawker friends la. We will have to live with it. Ever wonder why prices are so high in Japan, USA and the likes? At least, they are living in the first world.



Permatang Pauh. My vote goes to PKR. It's a vote against the high inflation rate. It's also a vote against the credibility of the BN actions.