Austerity

With all this racket about austerity nowadays, politicians must be considering a change in career. People become politicians in the hope that someday, they too will swim about in a swimming pool filled with public money, or even have a scores of black-cat commandoes guarding them. They go through so much trouble just for that. Begging for votes from every Tom, Dick and Harry, beating the shit out of all your opponents, rigging polling booths,manipulating votes, spending large amounts of money on your campaign, and even larger on the police and EC officials for keeping their mouth shut. All that is hard work. And they can't even indulge themselves with public money after that? Austerity is a bitch!!

My absolute lack of knowledge of government policies and economics means I can't comment on any of this, but looking at the inflation, unemployment, growth rates, etc, I can say all this is a sham. If the Congress wants to associate itself with the common man, then they should improve their condition, not push more people into the "common" category. At least Mayawati is upfront about what she thinks by building statues of herself, extorting money for her birthday and the works.


Looking at the image, I have a suspicion that very soon, Behenji will replace the lions on the Asoka Pillar with statues of herself!

Another thing that the Congress screwed up, is the interpretation of Shashi Tharoor's "cattle class" tweet. I think I am the only sane person who interpreted his tweet properly. What he meant to say is that the airlines have been successful in competing with the railways. In order to make the people accustomed to travelling by train feel at home, the airlines have started adopting certain strategies.That's exactly what he meant by the "holy cows!!" remark. He was surprised how closely the aircraft interiors resembled the interiors of a train. In fact, due to Twitter's character limit, he couldn't tweet suggestions to make such travelers more comfortable. I'm sure some of those would have included releasing toilet sewage directly onto whatever is below it like trains do, or having the cabin crew selling tea while shouting"Chaaaiyaaa Chaaaaiyaaa" in that particular irritating tone. They already have the delays and technical breakdowns, and you will also feel cheated like you do on the trains because of the overpriced eatables.

Update- Shashi Tharoor tweeted @ 23:56-"i now realize i shldnt assume people will appreciate humour. &u shouldn't give those who wld wilfully distort yr words an opportnty to do so"
That's stating the obvious!