Another 2008 will be disaster.

Maybe they sense an early election because there are a spate of articles full of lies and hate speech in the Congress supporting press. The strategy has 2 prongs. One is to abuse Hindus, ridicule our religion as Hindutva and praise so called " secular " politicians who would pass special laws for " minorities " even if they are against the constitution. The second prong is to praise all the social schemes started by the Congress in 2008 to win elections in 2009. One was the MNREGA scheme which pays poor people in villages Rs 162 per day for 100 days a year, for doing nothing. This scheme is praised for decreasing poverty in villages, boosting rural economy and increasing rural consumption thereby helping to increase sales of companies selling consumer goods. Sounds terrific. Only a mean, selfish person would grudge a little help for the poor. But the result has been terrible, not just for the poor, but for the whole economy. If people are paid for doing nothing naturally they would avoid work resulting in shortage of labor in villages resulting in food prices rising by over 10%. Since the poor spend most of their earning on food rising prices have hit them the hardest. A survey in Andhra, MP and Rajasthan in 2010-2011 showed that people claimed for just 45, 37 and 52, instead of 100, days of work under the scheme. TOI, 25 June. Which means either that the poor do not need the scheme or that states are not using money, given by the center, for the scheme. Also people were being paid Rs 94, 98 and 79 per day which means that local politicians and civil servants were pocketing rest of the cash. Government playing Robin Hood in robbing the middle class with extortionate taxes to throw money at the poor did not work for Communist countries and will not work for the Congress however much the freeloading press may lie. Besides the poor are also citizens of the country and should be treated with dignity and not converted into irresponsible beggars just to win votes. In 2008 the Congress increased salaries of useless, thieving civil servants by 80%. This meant that government school teachers are now earning Rs 30,000 a month as opposed to private school teachers who earn just Rs 15,000 a month on average. This colossal increase was not accompanied by any productivity agreement so these teachers continue to avoid teaching and poor people prefer to send their children to private schools. Hence the Right to Education Act which forces private schools to reserve 25% of seats for poor children for whom the government will pay an insufficient amount every month. Which means schools will have to employ someone full term who will be roaming around government offices begging for the money to be released and the middle class will have to pay higher fees. Another sly immoral tax. High inflation, falling growth, a diving rupee and falling credit rating, all because of 2008. Has the Congress learnt its lesson or is it determined to destroy the country to win the next elections?