The Horrors
Posted on 2008-Jun-12 at 09:48
You've read the front page news.
Ministers are getting their entertainment allowances cut by 10%. Their PAID holidays are now confined to local or ASEAN destinations only.
Oh wow!
If I were them, I'd wept by now. No, I'd cried buckets. Such atrocity! Such devoted sacrifices made in the face of hardship.
Sheeesshh !
PUH-LEEEZE !
Hang on! I didn't know all this before. I didn't know I paid taxes so that they can go skiing in the Alps or eat scones and tea in those fanciful cafe at Covent Garden. I didn't know all that before.
So, when we're all been forced to berjimat-cermat, which we HAVE already done from the very beginning, the most they could do was cut the blinking entertainment allowance by 10%. 10 measly percent! WTF?
It shouldn't be there in the first place. Paid holidays? Don't they already get annual leaves? Why is it that I'm paying for their holidays too? Heck! No one pays for mine. I'm just thankful to be able to stay home using my 28 days annual leave to care for my feverish child.
You know. The strategy must have been that since the rakyat is been advised to berjimat-cermat, they, the minister must at least exhibit they ARE with us too. They too must demonstrate how this has pained them.
You think this is at par with the guy who's wife had to stop studying because they couldn't afford the petrol to commute to her uni? You think this is even comparable to the folks at the rumah panjang who have to pool RM400 thenm now about RM680 just to light their homes for a 2 hours a day? What about the low-income folks who will now fall into the poor status? What are they gonna live on ?
I'm vexed beyond belief. Justice, I seek.
Ministers are getting their entertainment allowances cut by 10%. Their PAID holidays are now confined to local or ASEAN destinations only.
Oh wow!
If I were them, I'd wept by now. No, I'd cried buckets. Such atrocity! Such devoted sacrifices made in the face of hardship.
Sheeesshh !
PUH-LEEEZE !
Hang on! I didn't know all this before. I didn't know I paid taxes so that they can go skiing in the Alps or eat scones and tea in those fanciful cafe at Covent Garden. I didn't know all that before.
So, when we're all been forced to berjimat-cermat, which we HAVE already done from the very beginning, the most they could do was cut the blinking entertainment allowance by 10%. 10 measly percent! WTF?
It shouldn't be there in the first place. Paid holidays? Don't they already get annual leaves? Why is it that I'm paying for their holidays too? Heck! No one pays for mine. I'm just thankful to be able to stay home using my 28 days annual leave to care for my feverish child.
You know. The strategy must have been that since the rakyat is been advised to berjimat-cermat, they, the minister must at least exhibit they ARE with us too. They too must demonstrate how this has pained them.
You think this is at par with the guy who's wife had to stop studying because they couldn't afford the petrol to commute to her uni? You think this is even comparable to the folks at the rumah panjang who have to pool RM400 thenm now about RM680 just to light their homes for a 2 hours a day? What about the low-income folks who will now fall into the poor status? What are they gonna live on ?
I'm vexed beyond belief. Justice, I seek.
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