Politicians have dumped their private chartered flights and helicopters and have taken the AC Chair Cars and the economic flights. Congress ministers and MPs are to cut back on official expenses, first-class travel needs special permission, and ministries have to reduce their expenditure. The campaign is being seen as the Congress' way of expressing its solidarity with a country hit by drought and price rise.
“Are you kidding me?” was the reaction to this austerity drive. It’s an obvious publicity stunt. How long? When media gets other hot news and are least bothered about who travelled how. The game is over; missions accomplished, and then take back the private planes. What an idea Sirji?
If they have to express their solidarity, why not reduce their overall expenditure, raise money out of it and give the farmers who are committing suicides just for a small amount of Rs. 10000. Save the farmer and their family. An article I recently read said that for every year India spend around 18,000 crores for the safety and luxury of the politicians. A mere 18 crore could have saved 1,80,000 farmers and their families.
To find YSR more than 5 crores was spent in few hours, actor and actress spent a few lacs to buy a pair of jeans, every movie, every award function just talks in crores. What do I say? Luxury and Extravaganza is more important than a life of a human.
Dont waste the food. Spend money for living not for gimmick.
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Good post Pavithra. It is absolutely true that politicians, celebrities etc do not feel the difference between basic needs and luxuries. But do you think blaming this is gonna change the way it works?
I just read about Sultan of Brunei (read wiki), where he owns around 2000 luxury cars and has spent crores on his daughter's marriage. What'd u say for that? Again, it is the way it is :-)
Very true!!! Blaming not gonna change anything.. If atleast one person realizes the value of money they got.. the purpose of the blog is done :)
One thing not to be forgotten is that many world economies are fueled by 'luxuries'. The current economic situation in the US is bad because people are not spending their money but saving it. India too has a growing retail market with an increasing number of affluent families indulging in items the can afford but do not need.
While the austerity measures could be hogwash, they are a step in the right direction and there is a lot of slack to be cut. We should welcome what they are cutting back on now but also point out more areas where things really need to be tightened up.
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