Thank you barisan nasional

Amongst my friends, I am one of the few who still supports and voted for barisan nasional ( read umno)

As a matter of fact, during the last general election, I did not find a single person amongst my immediate peers who voted for barisan .

Even some of my loyal umnoristas voted for the pakatan rakyat, simply because the bn candidates in their constituencies were deemed as useless, incompetent or just not good looking enough (read old). The last one is in particular to the area of dun subang jaya and parlimen pantai dalam (where many young voters/gen y people voted for the more pretty yet charismatic dap hannah yeoh and pkr's nurul izzah, who for the past 2 months was on the front page of almost all the malay magazines in town)

I think the so called 49 percent of the voters in semenanjung malaysia, inc myself, who still and maybe , will always do support barisan nasional, must have felt a bit betrayed by the reality that we have all woken up to today.

Is this what we voted for?

I hope the govt realise, that yes we do the people do realise that the hike in petrol price was inevitable.

We also do realise, that even at rm 2 70 per litter, we are still the cheapest in the region (thailand is at rm 4).oh how lucky we malaysians..

But I wonder whether the govt realises that we the people are actually angry not only at the surprise of this announcement, but also by the most patronising way we were led into this?

Only 2 days ago, the govt said, no we are not going to increase petrol price. It will be in august.

Mentally, I think we malaysians were prepared for august.

And suddenly, in the most literal way possible, u just dropped the bombshell on us just like that!

We had barely less than 7 hours after the announcement to be informed that price will hike by more than 40percent!

how are we the people expected to except this with an open mind?? Even the most educated of malaysians would demand a gradual increase, simply because we the people need time to adjust to our supposedly 'lavish living' ! ( Well not that we travel around in private jets and have houses in london, sydney or perth)

I would have backed the govt if last night, it was up by even 30cents.

But 80 cents ?? That's just midnight robbery (literrally!)

We the people, must stand united to scrutinise where this money 'saved' will go to.

4 billion, at least, will go to dasar jaminan bekalan makanan negara.

I have never trusted my ringgit on govt expenditure, simply because many usually goes to exhorbitant over priced project, that usually goes to the same ahmad or abu.

But since I am a barisan nasional supporter, I will give them the last benefit of doubt.

6 months time from now, we will revisit.

As a parting shot, I ask also for us the rakyat to think (hint hint to the govt), well since we are now paying higher petrol price and more expensive food in subsequence, why the hell are we the rakyat,especially the people in the cities, still paying sky rocketing toll prices??

Don't all the toll money go to the govt anyways, especially through companies like plus? We already have increased income through less petrol subsidy and soaring petrol prices (less we forget we are net oil exporter), so why is the rakyat still be made to burden it all?

I think now, more than ever, we the people has the right to say

REDUCE TOLL PRICES!

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