"worsening income gap and price increases"you know what.... the prices are getting worse lately.... just a trip down to fairprice supermarket...our supposedly cheapest of the super markets...but check out the price increases....
just the rice sections...price increase of 40 cents to 85 cents per 10 kg...
dairy products such as fresh milk or even pastuerised ones had an increase of 40 cents to 55 cents
even the bread section is not off the hook.....they already did an increase a few months back by 10 cents to 30 cents.... i'm totally expecting further increases....
dun even talk about veg and the meat sections.... all went up easily by 10 cents to 30 cents....
yikes....looks like better start eating less and cut down on snacks hahahaha
but that is not the point....to some extend i believe eating healthy, one must eat good food and nutritious stuff.... and this happen to come from better quality food products.... and if our leaders keep on telling us dun worry about the price increase and just go for the house brand ones, then we are just being told to eat lousier quality food stuff.... just so its cheaper...
imagine how 2 different kids from different background will grow up to become...one from a poor family vs a rich family.....
the poorer kid will no doubt be worse off from the very start when it comes down to basic food....
can you imagine the rich kid having those DHA or whatever vitamin filled food products and milk....while poor kid gotta deal with plain water or lucky enough maybe a decent powdered milk? am not exaggerating here but i guess some extremes are need to explain the gap...and how the ground feels right now....
CPI was just reported having increase nearly 6% over in January alone....versus a year ago....now can you imagine they just reported how much the lowest income to middle income family had real income increased? 3% to a measly 6% thats tough life i tell you...and not writing off the 2% gst hike that came along last year....
i guess our lowest rank members citizens are worse off 5%? whilst the rest of us are easily 2% to 3% behind....but then again these are just some of my tots....
i guess i totally agree with finance minister on his take on philanthropy.... its time the rich help the poor to close the gap....but then again...how many rich folks would do so much for the poor? handful only....
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