a commisar starts on a farm survey upon directed to do so by the party boss. he comes upon a farm and ask the farmer: how is the potato harvest this time, comrade? farmer (terrified of commisar and afraid to disappoint him): very good, sir commisar sir, very good. commisar (all smiles): well, how good, comrade? farmer: very very good sir; like if you were to pile up all the potatoes, they would touch the feet of god. c (all happy): well, that's best news i ever had. commisar proceeds to step away, and suddenly is all worked up and angry at the thought of god, and snarles: hey, there is no god in this land, don't you know it dummy. farmer : yes, commisar sir. and thre are no potatoes either.
What Bidwai neglected to mention is that you first need to have businnesses in order for them to have tax 'write-offs' as he put it. Those so-called write-offs are part of the incentives to induce businesses to set up shop, thereby creating employment and growing the economy, something this Commie will never attest to. In fact, in all the so-called poverty-alleviation scams to date, the intended victims received less than 7% of the allocated monies- the rest went into the pockets of Commie netas and babus like him - the so-called secular front. And what's with his tirade against the military budget? It must be really galling to this Commie toad that India can now match his Mandarin bosses militarily -even best them in some respects.
RE:No farmers budget
by Suresh Bhave on Mar 16, 2008 09:26 AM
What's your point Bodh? You mean to say that business should be encourage. One cannot argue against that, but I feel that that has nothing to do with ideologies. If a commissar can be corrupt, so can be a capitalist. Where is the defence budget going to go? Into the pockets of generals and their children? Just as we have to live with so many bacilli and viruses inside our bodies, so also the nation has to live eith all these ills. Private business is as bad or as good as public enterprise, at least, in public enterprise the bad people do not have a stanglehold and good people still can have a say. Take the example of BPOs. For saving a few thousand rupees they were quite prepared to risk the lives of their employees who have to travel late at night. They were refusing and one so called IT Evagelist here in Pune, had argued that it was not the business of BPOs to control the behaviour of taxi services. The court had to step in to teach BPOs to see beyond service provider concept. Take the private bus services. For Mumbai pune journey that should take no more than three hours, these buses take even as much as seven hours because they spend much of that time waiting to catch passengers to fill the bus to capacity. Look at the mark up of anything upto 300 percent on manufactured goods on which then incredible discounts are given. The thing is that most of the economists are in the pay of capitalists. We need not go tho the other extreme and take a balanced view.
RE:RE:No farmers budget
by Suresh Bhave on Mar 16, 2008 09:28 AM
Read the last sentence as "we need not go to teh other extreme, but take a balanced view instead.
Beijing Bidwai, as we all know, the socialists, marxists and communists, are responsible for ALL the poverty in India. This has resulted in the plight of the farmers. And you are a extreme left wing militant who swears by the ideology of marxism and communism. So an extreme left wing militant is not qualified to comment on the plight of farmers.
RE:Beijing Bidwai and his crocodile tears for farmers
by Prem Kumar on Mar 17, 2008 09:00 AM
Whats your point, Rajan shah?
Praful has only pointed the real ground situation, which is also said by your own Rahul Gandhi. Then why bring in unnecessary arguments of Commie/Beijing and distract attention from real issues - farmer's plight!
tax breaks to corporates will increase jobs and investments is sad joke. Any stats to prove it? I can prove anti-thesis to it, Anil & Mukesh featuring in top 10 richest man, Tata trying to become one all indicates only rich becoming super-rich and poor denigrating even faster.
Even US is realizing that tax breaks to corporates isn't helping economy and they are giving tax breaks to all individuals. Ring a bell?
RE:Beijing Bidwai and his crocodile tears for farmers
by Suresh Bhave on Mar 16, 2008 09:31 AM
It is so surprising that even on so staid a subject as the annual budget, we allow our emotion to override thought. We must set aside the prejudices and discuss thesubject in a cogent fashion.
The farmers have been driven into bankruptcy by unscrupulous traders and middlemen who are really the backers of every political party in India. If the traders and middlemen had paid the right prices for farm produce to the farmers, the loan write off would not have been necessary, all those thousands of farmers who committed suicide would be alive. The loan write off is merely a subsidy for the luxurious lives of the traders. Why does government allow exports and imports of the same commodity, that is so to let the traders make money. The agriculture minister is the dearest friend of the traders. One cannot have anything against the traders as such, but the cartel they and the government have formed is aimed at looting the consumer and the farmer to finance politicians. Farming sector is to our government what Mexico has been to the USA. Exploit the sector and when it is on the deathbed give it a bit of blood transfusion so it mught live to be exploited again. A comparison of the consumer prices and cost prices will show the extent of exploitation. Just see how careful the APC is in fixing the prices for grains, costs are calculated to the last gram of urea so that traders can buy the produce at a bit higher, hoard it and sell it at sky high prices. Traders are the bane of the farmer and the consumer. He is also the money lender. This fact is never revealed by the wiley politician, whether of UPA or NDA or even the left.
" By contrast, most Western Europeans in a comparable income-bracket would pay 50 to 70 percent, and the Japanese even more."
Yes, true. But compare what they get in return. Germany and Switzerland have high tax rates but they provide healthcare and education free of cost. Totally Free !!
Now you may not like this since it concerns rich but - Have you ever driven on germany roads ?? Or for the poor - Ever been inside a local bus in Germany ??
RE:Praful jee..
by Suresh Bhave on Mar 16, 2008 09:41 AM
We should nave been able to do better thatn that. I have heard that in Brazil, where the economic situation was even worse than in India a few decades ago, educaiton is now entirely free, including education in foreign universities, everything paid for by the government. They have on anvil huge schemes such as damming the southward flowing rivers to foem a huge reservoir, which when filled to its capacity, can meet the needs of eight countries on its banks for 12 years even if not one more drop of water is added to it. I believe that this is because of the break down of the 'prisoners' dilemma' situation in that country. Voters and representatives have agreed that the latter's being honest is the best remedy for all ills including poverty, illiteracy and inequality. One hoped that Dr. Man Mohan Singh should be able to bring the statesmanship that such changeover requires, but as the budget and his recent politiacal economic communal statements show, that hope ahs been dashed completely. he is a politician concerned with survival now and not a statesman aiming for survival in annals of history.
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by Gajanan Netravali on Mar 14, 2008 02:55 PM
What's wrong with you? Why do put such a long heading and then repeat the same thing below?
