Friday, July 31, 2009

Read a pundit who opined that we have a Westminster by which he probably meant a system that originated in Britain amid the violence of the Magna Carta and the civil war in which Charles I lost his head. Britain has always been a monarchy and even today the monarch is not allowed into the House of Commons reminiscent of the times when the King could have your head chopped off. The British, therefore, evolved an adversarial system of government and we have made it worse. Our government consists of criminal politicians who immediately annoint themselves as VIPs and VVIPs and kleptocrats who believe that their brief is to keep the people under control and not to serve them. It is time that we got rid of a system that treats the taxpayer with contempt and passed laws that forces our government to serve us. The VIP system is an abomination and must be junked. Every letter must be answered within seven days. Every application must be approved within one month or clear written explanations must provided as to why it has been refused. Better still let sarkari fellows actually do our work. For instance get the tax fellows to file our returns every year. Why should have to pay an accountant to file our return and then live in fear of being summoned to the tax office to answer questions? Our passports and driving licenses should be renewed at home by a fellow who will come by appointment. Any lapse would be punished by deductions in salary. Becoming naxals is not the answer. Let us force the sarkari fellows to work and maybe all the garbage will not be so eager to stand for elections.

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