PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH – CONGRESS’ AUSTERITY DRIVE IS ALL BUT A HOAX! (15th Sept 2009, 2020 Hrs)
For three long months, Shashi Tharoor and SM Krishna were staying in Five-Star Hotels because it was in Congress 100-Day-Programme. While all these months, they were having conferences, meetings and entertaining guests… but Sonia Gandhi, PM and Pranab Mukherjee woke up only after the newspapers report came out to reveal the AUSTERITY of these ministers, splurging on public’s money to live lavishly…
Almost like a thief caught red-handed, Pranab Mukherjee immediately asked these ministers to vacate the Five-Star Hotels accommodation. Tharoor, as every thief caught, denied the allegations of using public money and said that he was paying his bills. And wonder of wonders, when the minister said that he required the Five-Star Hotel accommodation because he needs gym every day and some privacy. It is common sense that if Tharoor was not guilty of living in Five-Star Hotel with his own money, why did he gave explanation and reasons for his stay? Point to be noted, guilty conscience pricks the mind.
SM Krishna’s immediate reaction was much more vocal than Tharoor’s. He went on record to say that he would go on making such Five-Star accommodation with his own money. However, since the orders came from the Congress High Command Sonia Gandhi and was issued by senior leader Pranab Mukherjee, his initial outburst was followed by silence.
When a thief is caught, his immediate reaction and action is to cover up the crime. Pranab Mukherjee was so quick to justify his action that he was heard saying – “Austerity measures is nothing new. Earlier also it was there but it was not practiced.” Point to be noted… if Austerity measures were there, why the Congress was not practicing it according to Pranab Mukherjee’s statement? It clearly shows the Double-Standard of the Congress!
Surprise and more surprise follows, courtesy our TRP hungry News Channels. While the qualified Editors and news readers seem to be too intelligent as compared to the common public, they supported the government’s austerity drive like any pound foolish traders would do, thinking he was saving a penny… Point to be noted: Public money is being wasted in millions now because of Congress Austerity Drive – Hundreds of News correspondents of electronic and print media, editors, news channels, police and security personals are wasting their time unnecessary just to cover Congress Austerity Drive (which minister is traveling economy and who is traveling by train) – if one will calculate the salaries of all these people, it would run in crores and the time wasted by them surely shows how callous, stupid and foolish our whole system is… because the outcome of the drive will not save but spend more money as we are all seeing with our blind eyes.
Congress has surely failed the nation because of various reasons: Continuous Price Rise of Essential food Grains; No Drought and Flood Aid or Relief to poor farmers and poor villagers; Failure to contain Swine Flu in the nation by not being prepared before the epidemic; False promises made by PM and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar about having enough stock of Food Grains while food grains in various places were rotting in open rain, sugar shortage is evident because of its rising price week after week; Unable to contain the regular inflow of Fake Currency in various banks and system; Have failed to check corruption in the system because corruption cannot be checked by mere statements of PM in various high-level conferences… well, the list is endless…
Penny wise, pound foolish – Congress’ Austerity Drive is just a hog wash to fool the public and nation for the State Assembly polls to be held in October… Indian citizen needs a government who performs and not show double standard by shouting aloud about their acts of Austerity by spending pound and show the world that they have saved a penny!
For three long months, Shashi Tharoor and SM Krishna were staying in Five-Star Hotels because it was in Congress 100-Day-Programme. While all these months, they were having conferences, meetings and entertaining guests… but Sonia Gandhi, PM and Pranab Mukherjee woke up only after the newspapers report came out to reveal the AUSTERITY of these ministers, splurging on public’s money to live lavishly…
Almost like a thief caught red-handed, Pranab Mukherjee immediately asked these ministers to vacate the Five-Star Hotels accommodation. Tharoor, as every thief caught, denied the allegations of using public money and said that he was paying his bills. And wonder of wonders, when the minister said that he required the Five-Star Hotel accommodation because he needs gym every day and some privacy. It is common sense that if Tharoor was not guilty of living in Five-Star Hotel with his own money, why did he gave explanation and reasons for his stay? Point to be noted, guilty conscience pricks the mind.
SM Krishna’s immediate reaction was much more vocal than Tharoor’s. He went on record to say that he would go on making such Five-Star accommodation with his own money. However, since the orders came from the Congress High Command Sonia Gandhi and was issued by senior leader Pranab Mukherjee, his initial outburst was followed by silence.
When a thief is caught, his immediate reaction and action is to cover up the crime. Pranab Mukherjee was so quick to justify his action that he was heard saying – “Austerity measures is nothing new. Earlier also it was there but it was not practiced.” Point to be noted… if Austerity measures were there, why the Congress was not practicing it according to Pranab Mukherjee’s statement? It clearly shows the Double-Standard of the Congress!
Surprise and more surprise follows, courtesy our TRP hungry News Channels. While the qualified Editors and news readers seem to be too intelligent as compared to the common public, they supported the government’s austerity drive like any pound foolish traders would do, thinking he was saving a penny… Point to be noted: Public money is being wasted in millions now because of Congress Austerity Drive – Hundreds of News correspondents of electronic and print media, editors, news channels, police and security personals are wasting their time unnecessary just to cover Congress Austerity Drive (which minister is traveling economy and who is traveling by train) – if one will calculate the salaries of all these people, it would run in crores and the time wasted by them surely shows how callous, stupid and foolish our whole system is… because the outcome of the drive will not save but spend more money as we are all seeing with our blind eyes.
Congress has surely failed the nation because of various reasons: Continuous Price Rise of Essential food Grains; No Drought and Flood Aid or Relief to poor farmers and poor villagers; Failure to contain Swine Flu in the nation by not being prepared before the epidemic; False promises made by PM and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar about having enough stock of Food Grains while food grains in various places were rotting in open rain, sugar shortage is evident because of its rising price week after week; Unable to contain the regular inflow of Fake Currency in various banks and system; Have failed to check corruption in the system because corruption cannot be checked by mere statements of PM in various high-level conferences… well, the list is endless…
Penny wise, pound foolish – Congress’ Austerity Drive is just a hog wash to fool the public and nation for the State Assembly polls to be held in October… Indian citizen needs a government who performs and not show double standard by shouting aloud about their acts of Austerity by spending pound and show the world that they have saved a penny!
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