Self before service.

"Calling upon the 'Gen Z' and 'Gen Alpha' generations to assume leadership and shoulder responsibility, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman...urged young graduates to put the nation first and ask what they can contribute to the country rather than asking what the country has done for them." ET. Oh please! John F Kennedy you are most emphatically not. On 20 January 1960, President Kennedy said in his inaugural speech, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." archives.gov. Kennedy commanded Petrol Torpedo (PT) boat 109 during World War II. On 2 August 1943, PT109 was rammed by a Japanese warship and exploded. Kennedy, who had been a member of the Harvard University swim team, swam for over three hours towing an injured sailor. wikipedia. What has Dear Leader risked for India? Please enumerate. And yet, in September 2022, FM Sitharaman "found fault with the Telangana government for not displaying the picture  of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the fair price shops where rice is distributed to the people below poverty line free of cost." HT. As finance minister surely she is aware that we taxpayers are paying for this election handout? As our children cannot contribute to the nation without education, they were protesting at Jantar Mantar against leak of exam questions when your government hunted them down with pellet guns (BBC) which cause permanent disabilities like blindness. Perhaps if the present lot step down others will get a chance to lead. Two days back, FM Sitharaman "challenged tax professionals and industry bodies to move beyond demands for exemptions and lower rates, asking them to identify provisions that no longer serve the tax system even when their own sectors benefit from them." ET. Why don't our leaders lead by example by trimming all the perks, some of them for life, that they get. Perhaps, if taxes are fair and sensible people would pay. In 2024, you forced the owner of the famous vegetarian restaurant Sree Annapoorna in Coimbatore to apologize in public because he joked, "Madam, a bun doesn't attract GST, but when cream is applied to make it a cream bun, it attracts 12% GST. Customers now say, 'You bring the bun and cream separately, and I'll make the cream bun." TOI. "A few large private banks, along with top law firms wealth managers, are ducking an unwritten ban to handhold Indian promoter and business families to set up family offices in Singapore and other jurisdictions." ET. We do not object to paying tax, but we get nothing for the taxes we pay. "If you look closely at India's macroeconomic indicators - such as the growth rate, inflation numbers, etc. - they project a story of robust financial discipline and economic growth. However, the average household budget portrays a far more fragile reality." "Families are increasingly relying on credit card debt, personal loans, and loans raised against gold to fill the gap between growing expenses and stagnant incomes," wrote Prof Deepanshu Mohan & Srisonia Subramonian. Ms Sitharaman has been finance minister since 30 May 2019 (wikipedia) when the Indian rupee was at 72.15 against on US dollar  (worldtradescanner), while today $1 buys Rs 95.87 (xe.com), a collapse of 32.875% in just seven years. In panic, the RBI has asked banks to borrow $127.2 billion from non-resident Indians (NRI) (Mint) at an exorbitant rate of interest of up to 7%. (Macroindicators). Not a proud record is it? No wonder economist Parikala Prabhakar has joined the "Zero BJP Movement". News Nine. No one likes a brutal fascist  government. Service before self, is our army's motto. The government is the opposite. It will fail.