It is them vs us. We are the losers.

In western countries politicians are called public servants and government fellows are called civil servants, which means that they are supposed to serve the people. Thus last year vast majority of Americans were staunchly against any US involvement in Syria so Obama refrained from any direct action against Bashar al Assad's forces despite personal inclination to do so. After the recent beheading of 2 American journalists by Islamic State fighters public opinion has shifted radically, so Obama has authorised bombing of IS in Iraq and Syria. In India politicians call themselves ' Leaders ' and civil servants are called ' IAS, IPS, IFS etc officers ' who consider themselves as masters and the people as their servants. Thus there is a constant attempt to suck up to rich people, for unknown reasons, extort money from the middle class, by imposing punitive taxes, and distribute handouts to the poor with our money to keep them begging for more. Laws are passed to punish us without any thought as to reasons or consequences. The government is set to bring in a law to increase fines on drivers by 50 times. This is for our own good, they say. The penalty for the death of a child will be a fine of Rs 300,000 and a prison term of 7 years. A National Highway Traffic Safety Authority, as in the US of A, will be set up, so the law is probably consonant with the US. But who decides whether the driver was driving rashly or too fast? Whenever there is an accident involving a car the car driver is inevitably blamed and since there is no black box in the car there is no defense. More importantly, what are children doing on roads in India? In the US there are strict laws concerning parental supervision of children and no child would be allowed to use a road alone. But in India people breed on pavements and children, some who look as little as 3 years old, run around among cars at traffic lights, begging for money. If politicians are bleeding for the safety of children surely they should first pass a law forbidding any child from begging and making adult supervision mandatory at all times. They should also stop farmers bringing bullock carts on highways, causing dangerous obstruction. After all they do not pay any tax while we pay enormous taxes on every car we buy, a road tax, taxes on petrol and toll every 30 km for the privilege of crawling along behind a cart. But will they? Hell, no. Poor people and farmers are enormous vote banks so they are above the law. The dowry law was meant to protect women but is now being misused. Women are still dying. One very important reason is that parents of the woman do nothing to protect their daughter even though they know that she is being beaten up. Should they not be charged as complicit in her death? Bad laws are enacted to keep us suppressed. Our suffering continues to increase.