“If I’m the lorry driver (delivering) goods to your house, and you ask me how come the (price for) a bag of rice has doubled, I can’t explain to you,”
Hellooo…. those of us who are yet to attain Nirvana all know that commodity prices have gone way up. Why do we even need to ask the lorry driver why the price of his rice has doubled when every lorry driver’s rice has doubled in price? But this lorry driver had better be prepared to answer some pointed questions if rice prices have come down and other lorry drivers selling the same quality of rice elsewhere to people with comparable buying power are charging 82% less.
OK, Mr Lorry Driver, we know that you’re investing billions in infrastructure. What’s wrong with the current infrastructure?
“Banking and pharmaceutical sectors also require high quality power grids with minimal voltage fluctuations”?
I don’t know if you have noticed it, Mr Lorry Driver, but there aren’t too many pharmaceutical products here that are made in Singapore. I sure hope the banking sector can do with an upgrade of power grids so that we can get our money from the ATMs 0.5 milliseconds faster.
What’s so unfair about getting government funding, Mr Lorry Driver? Because it’s the people money? So increasing tariffs won’t tax the people’s pockets? How absurd can these explanations get? Would we rather spend money that is already kept by the govt? Or would we rather leave our money with the govt and dig into our pockets for more? 10 billion less in the Budget is not better than 10 billion less from the people’s savings? 10 billion less “for the people” is not better than 10 billion more from the people’s pockets?
My final question or Mr Lorry Driver is this. Why don’t you buy yourself a ticket to Hongkong, see how the lorry drivers there manage to sell their rice 82% cheaper and try to implement the more cost-effective system here? Stop trying to be unique or creative if you’re just going to make the people suffer.
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