I am not EXAGGERATING. You ARE blaming the government for
everything haha.
And since you are so honest, i will be honest too. Like it or
not, you are being lazy to just complain and do nothing. Lazy
bum.
And no, I cant help to solve this by requesting the govt not to
raise fares. Neither can you by lamenting here. But I do know I can
do something by not being lazy, by working harder, spending less
time on the internet complaining. I can do something by planning my
purchases and my route while driving. I can do something by doing
lesser purchases on luxury items.
So what you done? Allow me to indulge in my honesty one more
time. You are just lazy.
Actually you know what people. Its ok to complain. I would be a
hypocrite if I said that I dun complain about the rising prices, I
am afterall just a consumer. I dun get highly paid and I drive a
1.5litre car. But as the SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
teach us (haha), we should just do what we can within our circle of
influence and not focus on things WE CANNOT change.
And guess what even if we CANNOT CHANGE something, we still have
A CHOICE like what SEVEN HABITS said. WE ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE. And
in this case, leave the country. OR join the opposition. OR another
choice as my fren here has taken, to sit behind the comp and
complain and complain and complain and realise next morning when he
wakes up, that his life is not any better off.
Nobody's blaming the government indiscriminately.
If everybody works harder, you mean to say inflation will go
down?
Growth in money supply results in inflation, provided there
are extra work in the economy. Moreover working harder could
result in displacing another worker because there are only this
much work in the economy. If you work harder say in a coffeeshop,
you take over this other coffeeshop helper's job, in the end
displacing him. (same with construction industry
& factory, there are only this many buildings to build and
this many goods to manufacture)
If the money supply continues to expand, prices begin to
rise, especially if output growth reaches capacity limits.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MoneySupply.html
1) Leave the country? There are immigration policies not many
would qualify.
2) Join the opposition? Not qualified or fear of persecution by
the ruling elite.
3) Complaints? There is a difference between complains and
constructive criticism.
There are many here that won't even give criticism about the
government, they'd rather bury their head in the sand like
ostriches and pretend everything is alright when they wake up. You
also get the usual no brainers like lionnoisy who would agree with
everything the P4P does. Say if tomorrow P4P wants to merge
Singapore with Malaysia, lionnoisy would agree 100%. Say if
tomorrow the government increases the GST to 15%, lionnoisy would
also agree.
We are making constructive criticism because we do not believe
in the government's policy of increasing GST and population. We
hope that by making overselves heard, many will understand the
misgivings of this regime and vote against them in the next
election.