Market sensitive Malaysians are now speaking out loud, that subsidies are no longer tenable in today's globalised economy.

One recurring theme emerges, market prices should dictate 'real prices' of goods and services.

Thomas Friedman's ‘The World is Flat’ dictum appears to influence everyman's idea of where the world is now and especially where it should be heading, "that globalisation has leveled the competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging market countries."