Thursday, August 10, 2006

Thank you Pipi, Ach and Devta. I am sorry that I cannot get online everyday and have to think about my answers so that they are logical. Ah the Congress. This party ruled India almost unchallenged for almost 50 years and brought us to the brink of bankruptcy in 1991. Unlike the present lot the politicians at idependence were all scholars yet they kept 60% of the population illiterate for all these years so as to be able to exploit them economically and politically. Nehru was an Englishman educated at Oxford yet did not see that education is compulsory for all children below the age of 16 years. Now the same party has added 3% to all taxes as Education Cess. No sharam, no izzat. Our freeloading press keeps lauding Mr. M. Singh liberalising the economy as Finance Minister under Narasimha Rao. What they conveniently forget is that they were forced by the fact that we were bankrupt and having signed the WTO had to reduce import duties. As for the telecom miracle, this was forced on us by the Americans who were angered by having to pay millions of dollars for connection charges to govt. controlled companies. They threatened sanctions and forced Singh to liberalise.

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