The middle class is the enemy.

Petrol prices have been increased by Rs 7.50 to Rs 79/lit in India. The official lie, repeated by the freeloading press ad nauseum, is that petrol is subsidised. International oil prices have been falling recently. On May 23, West Texas Intermediate Crude was selling at $ 89.90, down more than $10 a barrel. Pump prices in the US are around Rs 52/lit which includes tax at 14%. So why does the Congress persist in the lie that petrol is subsidised? Because the Congress sees the middle class as its enemy. Everything the Congress does is guided by 2 facts - 1. To rise in the party you must be an invertebrate, creepy crawly lickspittle, ready to sink to any level or commit any crime in your worship of The Family as Mr Sajjan Kumar is alleged to have done when inciting a mob to kill Sikhs in 1984. 2. This inevitably means that they fear and hate the middle class who are educated and despise all politicians including the Congress. To penalise the middle class the Congress has been passing laws restricting freedom of the internet, increasing cost of school education and reducing standards of the IITs and medical education. The Right to Education Act forces private schools to reserve 25% of seats for poor children, which will be partially compensated by the government, and means that other children will have to pay much higher fees to compensate. This is a sly, underhand and immoral tax on the middle class. Yet strangely the Supreme Court upheld the Act on April 13, 2012. No citizen can comment about our judges for fear of the most severe punishment but the London Tribunal has no such fears. In 1989 Coal India Ltd, a government company, entered into an agreement with White Industries Australia Ltd for supply of equipment and development of a coal mine in UP. Disputes arose and reached the Supreme Court in 2006 which referred the case to a larger bench where it is still pending. HT online, May 23. The Australians approached the UN Arbitration Tribunal which set up a mutually agreed panel in the London Tribunal. In its judgement the London Tribunal said," ......The Indian judicial system's inability with the issue in over nine years and the Supreme Court's inability to hear the appeal for over five years amounts to delay and constitutes breach of India's obligation." It asked the Indian government to pay Rs 500 million to the Australian firm. This prompted one shocked Rajya Sabha member to term it as an " assault on the independence of the judiciary ". But is the judiciary really free in India? Why lose a nice sinecure after retirement? Previous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, KG Balakrishnan is still clinging on to the post of Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission despite numerous allegations of corruption against his family. The problem is that eroding the purchasing power of the middle class will reduce company profits and tax collections. However, the Congress is not looking to benefit the country but to somehow win the general elections in 2014. For that to happen the middle class must be suppressed.