Price hike and people

I was travelling by bus on 24.2.08. The bus was overcrowded. After coping with the initial hassle I started minding to the talks around me. I heard a loud voice, some time choked, of seemingly an old man. His voice overpowered all the sounds and noises around us. He was speaking as if the people, whom he holds responsible for his suffering are just in front of him. His main grievance was against the price hike of essential commodities due to which it was difficult for him to survive with his family. He was straight in saying "set aside the future goods, what we do with future goods if we do not survive at present."
As the bus was swaying so was my mind thinking over the prevailing situation. While my full sympathy went with the old man, the face of our veteran intellectual, Dr Akbar Ali Khan flashed through my mind. Many intellectuals, among them prominent is Dr Akbar Ali Khan, have been telling us that a non-elected government cannot solve this problem.
My mind was boggled in reconciling between the prevailing price hike in the country, world-wide economic recession, and capacity of an elected government ridden with corruption to solve the problem, the inability of caretaker government to solve the problem. By this time my turn came to get down.
After alighting from the bus, thought it to be appropriate to bring this story to the attention of the people at the helm of affairs so that they can understand what people on the street have to say. In other words, the writing on the wall needs to be read by the people in power. A question in this regard hovers around my mind that why should the government not spend some money from the national exchequer for a few essential commodities? Why these poor people should not get some protection from the government against unprecedented price hike. What benefit they would draw if the figure of dollars bulges in the Bangladesh Bank and the people do not survive?