Thursday, September 17, 2009
Austerity Circus
‘Austerity’ the latest buzz word on the scene from the political class and the media hype around it, though just cannot understand some of the circus that the political jokers resort too. Madam Sonia flies economy class and seats near her have to be kept vacant for security reason. Needless to mention the entourage of security personnel that also flies with her. Wonder where is austerity in all this besides the ugly, pompous and arrogant show of power.
Austerity would have been if these politicians could stay in a common man’s colony. This way the whole colony would get security as the amount wasted on the useless lives of our politicians could give security to additional at least hundred common men. Agriculture Minister and NCP boss Sharad Pawar claimed he could not fly economy class because of his weight. If you eat (not just food but also the ugly amounts taken in bribes) beyond levels what a human should you are bound to be a painful weight. At the same farmers are committing suicides and dying in Maharashtra due to starvation, and this joker is Agriculture Minister. I wish they had austerity in bribes they took rather than just austerity measures of display.
It’s a known and obvious fact that a good huge majority of our politicians are there to rake in the moolah. Worse still it is planned for posterity and eternity of their future generations, and we like to fool ourselves that we are a democracy when in reality today we are ruled by a family. Well bad luck as many like me only complain and do nothing to bring about a change. Many even don’t even vote, and then there are the illiterate who sell their vote for a currency note or a bottle of hooch. Thereby we getting the garbage we deserve from the political system. Any political idiot’s birthday the whole city gets plastered with hoardings wishing him / her a happy birthday. Austerity and humility could be practiced there and that money wasted on hoarding displaying their ugly faces, could be put to public use.
Take any politician who has been around for a while and check his credentials of the past. A good number are from criminal background or good for nothings who used to lick some political heads and get a ticket to contest elections and after they win, the money they amass is a known fact. So why fool us Madam Sonia by issuing instructions to your circus clowns of ministers of taking a one fifth pay cut. It won’t anyway make a difference to them as they are not there for the peanuts but the big kill in which the poor are deprived and killed. As all you are doing is telling your cronies cover the ill gotten wealth and don’t display it, as it won’t be austerity. This is not an austerity drive but a mockery drive.
Our respectable Minister of State for External Affairs Mr. Shashi Tharoor used to stay in five star hotels. No one should complain as it is alleged he was paying from his own pocket. For him flying in economy class is travelling ‘cattle class’ and his agreeing to travel economy class was out of solidarity to all our holy cows. Mr. Tharoor when you are staying in five star hotels it may be paid from your pocket, but Sir when you fly in upgraded class of travel it is from my pocket.
Thanks to politicians like your Mr. Tharoor that we travel like cattle, live like cattle and many die like it. People like you may not bring any change to the country, at least display some austerity for a change.
Austerity would have been if these politicians could stay in a common man’s colony. This way the whole colony would get security as the amount wasted on the useless lives of our politicians could give security to additional at least hundred common men. Agriculture Minister and NCP boss Sharad Pawar claimed he could not fly economy class because of his weight. If you eat (not just food but also the ugly amounts taken in bribes) beyond levels what a human should you are bound to be a painful weight. At the same farmers are committing suicides and dying in Maharashtra due to starvation, and this joker is Agriculture Minister. I wish they had austerity in bribes they took rather than just austerity measures of display.
It’s a known and obvious fact that a good huge majority of our politicians are there to rake in the moolah. Worse still it is planned for posterity and eternity of their future generations, and we like to fool ourselves that we are a democracy when in reality today we are ruled by a family. Well bad luck as many like me only complain and do nothing to bring about a change. Many even don’t even vote, and then there are the illiterate who sell their vote for a currency note or a bottle of hooch. Thereby we getting the garbage we deserve from the political system. Any political idiot’s birthday the whole city gets plastered with hoardings wishing him / her a happy birthday. Austerity and humility could be practiced there and that money wasted on hoarding displaying their ugly faces, could be put to public use.
Take any politician who has been around for a while and check his credentials of the past. A good number are from criminal background or good for nothings who used to lick some political heads and get a ticket to contest elections and after they win, the money they amass is a known fact. So why fool us Madam Sonia by issuing instructions to your circus clowns of ministers of taking a one fifth pay cut. It won’t anyway make a difference to them as they are not there for the peanuts but the big kill in which the poor are deprived and killed. As all you are doing is telling your cronies cover the ill gotten wealth and don’t display it, as it won’t be austerity. This is not an austerity drive but a mockery drive.
Our respectable Minister of State for External Affairs Mr. Shashi Tharoor used to stay in five star hotels. No one should complain as it is alleged he was paying from his own pocket. For him flying in economy class is travelling ‘cattle class’ and his agreeing to travel economy class was out of solidarity to all our holy cows. Mr. Tharoor when you are staying in five star hotels it may be paid from your pocket, but Sir when you fly in upgraded class of travel it is from my pocket.
Thanks to politicians like your Mr. Tharoor that we travel like cattle, live like cattle and many die like it. People like you may not bring any change to the country, at least display some austerity for a change.
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