COMMENT I have said before, and it’s coming closer to home now, what I had earlier predicted about workforce strikes and the like that would happen, with the escalating cost of living.

While politicians gloat in their ‘donations’ in billions of ringgit, Malaysian employees are feeling trapped in the lower and middle income level. If not handled properly, things could get out of hand.

The disparity between the rich and the poor even within the same race is big. When Rosmah Mansor, wife of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, spoke of her RM1,200 hairdo while commenting about the Goods and Services Tax (GST), it reminded most of us of the French Queen Marie Antoinette’s famous words to the peasants, “If they do not have money to buy bread, let them eat cake then.”