" Foreign forces " are in foreign countries.

Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, whose parents migrated from India, launched an attack on the Obama administration. Speaking in front of the Conservative Political Action Conference he said," The Obama administration is at the nexus of liberalism and incompetence and together that's a deadly combination." But why is liberalism a word of abuse in the US? Why is it wrong to be kind to the poor and to pass laws to help them? To find the answer we have to return back home to India. Lok Sabha Speaker, Meira Kumar has travelled abroad 29 times in the last 35 months which makes it once every 37 days. Reported by TOI. She has travelled abroad for 146 days costing the exchequer Rs 100 million. She has visited US, Panama and Thailand once each and Switzerland 4 times. Apparently it was her work with the Inter-Parliamentary Union ( what that? ) which just forced her to go abroad so much. But isn't Zurich in Switzerland and isn't it the place where the gnomes hang out? Our most revered President has spent 91 days abroad during her term visiting 22 countries with son-in-law and grand children at a cost of Rs 2 billion or $40 million. Her last trip was to Seychelles and South Africa over 12 days. There are more than 80 ministers, 552 Lok Sabha MPs and 250 Rajya Sabha MPs who get lots of money,rent-free accommodation in Delhi, free phone calls, free electricity, free water, free washing facilities, free cars with drivers, free travel in air-conditioned first class in railways and 125% of air fare on any airlines. For sure our government is very liberal - liberal with taxpayer money. No wonder Ms Meira Kumar said that " the parliament is the light pillar of democracy ". Very light indeed. Floating around on all that money. However, money has to come from somewhere so the Congress has been raising taxes to exorbitant levels. This helps them to be liberal and to reduce the pesky middle class to the level of the naked, hungry aam aadmi. After all, how can you be liberal without a huge underclass? No wonder, also, that our politicians get extremely angry when we object against corruption. That is why they combine together to abuse Anna Hazare and his team who are demanding a clean up of the government. Mr V Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office ( what a huge post with huge name )said," Anna is a simple man, but he is surrounded by anti-national elements and people who have been supported by foreign forces." But surely " foreign forces " reside in foreign countries and our politicians are forever roaming around abroad. Is Italy a foreign country and can we say that an Italian is a foreign force? Just wondered. At least in the US there are people who speak up against liberalism and for smaller government. In India the freeloading journalists just echo what the politicians say. That is why the US is rich and we remain forever poor.