Thursday, May 25, 2006

electricity hike

Oh...the cost of living is still low! Our status compare with the African nations. The mentality of our Cabinet leaders who are afraid to compare the Southern neighbour. I have been reading the factory manufactured words through the years. Yet most people just flow with it. Only when the pockets feel the pinch then I hear the protests.....You think it will last long? It will go in whimper and disappear from their radar screens. We dare not change the present government at all. We feel we are comfortable with the government. Look at the Sarawak election, the same government was shot to power. Promises never make it. Every election the same slogan change context to woo the people. After that it is forgotten again. Only in speeches to smoothen the passage and the rest leave it to the PR gurus to their jobs.

Only a few days ago before PM left to Eygpt, he said he defered the hike of power decision. Tasked the TNB to study the lower income group. Now we read it had increased the electricity by 12% effective 1/6/06. Can you imagine TNB get its facts so fast? Money is the motivating factor after all though many have not agreed. It is used to pay its huge debt of $30 billion...because of its wastage and lack of management expertise in managing the utility company. It is a failure as far as I am concerned.

Privatisation never works in the long run. It benefits certain group of people and the tax payers will be the ultimate sufferers...

The cost of goods will increase no matter what the government has to say.....

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