In an article full of rage one Mr Kanti Bajpai mourns the collapse of the Congress with elections looming.
While reluctantly acknowledging crimes committed by the Congress he tries to justify them with the tired old excuse of ' Everyone else is also doing it '. For instance," Clearly, UPA's record on corruption has disgusted millions of voters.... Hyena cries of the opposition are justified, but their own record is dismal and largely shameful." Firstly, one crime does not justify another and secondly, Congress has been in power at the center for 56 years out of the 66 years since independence and has set the standard in immorality. Thus when the Congress wastes taxpayer money on MNREGA and Food Security others promise free color TVs, free Mangalsutra and even one free goat and milch cow for each household, in a race to economic disaster. He concludes," A Congress collapse is not good for India....The Grand Old Party of Indian politics must find a way back, for all our sakes." We hope not, at least not this Congress. The nation cannot afford a bunch of totally spineless sycophants prepared to sink to any level in corruption, to bankrupt the nation and to make it naked in defense to pour all our money into ensuring that The Family remains in power. The legacy of this government will be a complete break in trust between people and politicians which maybe a good thing as people realise that getting handouts keeps them beggars forever. Indians are the most suspicious people in the world, sometimes preferring to die at home because of their lack of trust in doctors. Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has this to say," .....no economy, not even a modern market-based economy like America's, can function without a modicum of trust." And again," Economic inequality, political inequality, and an inequality-promoting legal system all mutually reinforce one another." In ten years of power the Congress has increased inequality infinitely. By wasting taxpayer money to win elections, thereby increasing poverty by precipitating inflation, distributing coal mines to friends, such as gutka makers with no experience in mining and using the CBI to hound opponents while withdrawing cases against those who helped it to hang on to power the Congress has multiplied inequality many times over. Trust once destroyed is not so easy to recover.
While reluctantly acknowledging crimes committed by the Congress he tries to justify them with the tired old excuse of ' Everyone else is also doing it '. For instance," Clearly, UPA's record on corruption has disgusted millions of voters.... Hyena cries of the opposition are justified, but their own record is dismal and largely shameful." Firstly, one crime does not justify another and secondly, Congress has been in power at the center for 56 years out of the 66 years since independence and has set the standard in immorality. Thus when the Congress wastes taxpayer money on MNREGA and Food Security others promise free color TVs, free Mangalsutra and even one free goat and milch cow for each household, in a race to economic disaster. He concludes," A Congress collapse is not good for India....The Grand Old Party of Indian politics must find a way back, for all our sakes." We hope not, at least not this Congress. The nation cannot afford a bunch of totally spineless sycophants prepared to sink to any level in corruption, to bankrupt the nation and to make it naked in defense to pour all our money into ensuring that The Family remains in power. The legacy of this government will be a complete break in trust between people and politicians which maybe a good thing as people realise that getting handouts keeps them beggars forever. Indians are the most suspicious people in the world, sometimes preferring to die at home because of their lack of trust in doctors. Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has this to say," .....no economy, not even a modern market-based economy like America's, can function without a modicum of trust." And again," Economic inequality, political inequality, and an inequality-promoting legal system all mutually reinforce one another." In ten years of power the Congress has increased inequality infinitely. By wasting taxpayer money to win elections, thereby increasing poverty by precipitating inflation, distributing coal mines to friends, such as gutka makers with no experience in mining and using the CBI to hound opponents while withdrawing cases against those who helped it to hang on to power the Congress has multiplied inequality many times over. Trust once destroyed is not so easy to recover.
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