In an effort to reduce its budget deficit the Greek government is cutting by 30% three bonus salary payments its civil servants receive at holiday times, cutting pension benefits and withholding pay rises for civil servants. This has, naturally, led to great anger with unions calling for national strikes. It has taken a financial disaster for the Greeks to realise that civil servants are, for the most part, a useless drain on the treasury. In India the government employs hundreds of millions of people in various capacities. There is the administrative service, an immensely powerful and totally corrupt cancer eating away at the heart of the nation. They award themselves huge salaries, have permanent jobs for life, huge pensions, cheap housing and the best thing of all is that they cannot be charged with crime without permission from superiors. This allows them to steal, extort and betray making them hugely wealthy. Then there are teachers, cleaning staff, non medical hospital staff, bank employees, railways, airways, mines, oil companies, electricity production and distribution companies and companies manufacturing anything from electrical to earth movers. All are heavily paid and mostly corrupt. Government teachers earn over Rs. 20000 as compared to Rs. 10000 for teachers in unregistered private schools, yet the poorest of parents strive to send their children to the private schools because government teachers never turn up for work. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is said have famously remarked that of every rupee spent by the government only 10 paise reach the people. Like cancer these have spread through the veins of the country and, unless destroyed, will kill the nation.