Saifur Rahman's comments
I am an avid reader of your paper's Letters to the Editor section. For the past few weeks, I was expecting the public to comment on Finance Minister Saifur Rahman's statement on the price spiral that "If people can afford building expensive houses, why can't they afford expensive foods". These comments sounded similar to King Louis the Sixteenth's wife's comment, "If people can't eat bread, let them eat cake."
We have to see who this price hike is hurting the most. Is it hurting the rich and influential people who are eating cake out of the people's coffers, or is it hurting the poor, who are more than 90% of the population. We have to assess the situation correctly before passing any comment.
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