Do we have the reason to live till 80?

This is the question which most of the Indians must be soughing of to ask with our Finance minister before publically declaring the budget in the Parliament this year. You may think I am stupid and utilizing my mind in an useless topic to discuss on,but I have a question. Why do we make such a huge tamasha over the Budget that's presented to Parliament every year on the last day of February? Its’ not like IPL, Navratri, Christmas, Salman Khan's new girlfriend that we make such an hipe of the issue. I can see the only reason behind the tamasha over the budget is the regular action of this government against the countrymen in many aspects. Now many of you will think that what we common people have to do nothing with the budget? Government cannot provide aid to each and every door and so we should let the Government to do their work. Is this really any reason to take off our faces away from the hot burning issues of the country? I would rather say NO. Only those people give this damn stupid kind of excuses who do not have ability to think or do anything new or revolting. Taking off your faces or ignoring the problem does not mean that the problem does not exist anymore, it’s only you who cannot want to see the problem and do not have courage to solve them.

To begin with, how many of us understand the Budget? Not me, for sure. All I do is look for stuff that could either save taxes of my parents or reduce costs or any new appraisals for the government and non-government employees. Most years, neither happen. But hope springs eternal in the human heart. So I listen to the analysts, read a couple of articles the next morning to see if I have missed out anything. But one thing which I have noticed in the resign of UPA govt. is that they don't like the middle class. It's the poor they keep talking about. It sounds good and politically correct. And seeing the terrible poverty all around us, we shut up when taxes are increased in the name of the poor. Whether the money ever reaches the poor is another matter altogether. They always keeps on talking about providing mandatory facilities and privilege to the poor people, but does anything really reaches to them? I don’t think anything said by the govt. and the finance minister was made realistic. At a point in time where not just India, but the entire world is grappling with the issue of food shortage and escalating food prices, especially owing to the worst drought that has recently hit China (affecting eight major wheat-growing provinces that account for around 80 per cent of the country’s total wheat output), and at a point in time wherein black money and corruption have taken up gigantic proportions, the least that was expected of our honourable Finance Minister was a few bold steps to arrest both the issues. To tackle the impending food crisis, most governments across the world are planning and drafting policies to control the expected food shortage and the anticipated food price hike. Many west Asian countries even booked their order to help them out at the time of food shortage and making their inventory strong to survive during shortage and to make the prices under control. In this light, whatever our Finance Minister announced in his Union Budget 2011-12 had no meet with respect to restoration of food grain stock; neither was any attempt made to address the expected inflation that may creep in within the next few months. Taking this altogether, I meant to say  “Do we have the reason to live till 80? ” Rather , I should modify my question as “Did our Finance minister leave any reason for us to live till 80?” We people are constantly making suppressed under so many burdens and are compelled to make strong future planning that it almost impossible to lea your life unconstraintly. Suming up my statement as our Finance minister is very friendly and have strong affinity to millionaires and industrialist. He don’t want to waste his valuable time and mind on thinking about the middle class family which possess the majority mass of the country. Indian economy is considered to be the most queer and inexplicable economy of the world. There must be some reason behind this assumption. Amongst many, I would like to discuss on the most important reason according to my point of view. India is developing with the growth rate of about 8% every year, it means India is doing good in its business affairs and also international affairs too. When country is developing then it is utmost important that the people of that country is also developing and earning better than earlier, means the growth rate of people is also gradually increasing , then why there is not much changes in the number of slums and the people below poverty line and the farmers committing suicide. Still here exists almost the same number of houses as it was earlier who earn their bread and butter everyday and adversely even the earning member is not sure that next day will he manage to earn something or not. Now, coming back to topic at grass root level,about middle class people. Inflation- this was the term something which sounds good in hearing before a decade but not knowing the meaning of the term because very few of the common people knows about the term. But I can bet for now that this term “Inflation” is as popular in India as “Sachin Tendulkar” is. Sachin Tendulkar is the term which every age, group ,gender of people know and so Inflation too. What will the poor people and lower middle class people do for their survival who don’t have so much earning to buy such a expensive grains and pulses and vegetables. Finance minister, no doubt.  is increasing the pay  of the employees but increasing the inflation rate even much faster. He need to think about the middle class family and the smaller businessmen. There is nothing left in the recent 6-7 years whose prices were not been increased. When a country is developing with the growth rate of about 8%,then how come its economy being so unstable and how come that its inflation rate is rising so much and reached to about 11%. So unstable and fake is the Indian economy, at least situation evident this. This is the condition of so called developing country-India.

Secondly,  India is increasing in the number of billionaires every year as the data indicates, but does we have any billion dollar global products? In India, billionaires are being made without having any commensurate global products and without taking any support of global product.Finally, there has been an intense debate that this budget is beneficial only for the male community as tax exemptions have been provided only to them. It is unfortunate that the popular media focused on tax concessions as a key component of the entire budget, while such concessions help only the top 2% of the population.And this population is the same  which forms a majority of the television audience, and also are the potential tax payers. By doing this, does it make any difference for the middle class family? Moreover, what came as a shocker was the FM’s announcement of the creation of a new very-senior citizen category to provide them with exemption and concession. The fact is that there are very few fortunate Indians who would live up to the 80s leave alone the 90s as most Indians either die well before reaching this age bracket or spend their entire lives on hospital beds waiting for death as any Indian’s average life expectancy is just 64 years. Also, we are a nation where the majority constitute the working class and thus retire at the age of 60 with hardly any scope for further income. Thus, such concessions would only benefit the super rich class, where people manage to live longer and have wealth and income that comes under the tax bracket. So, again I ask to Pranab da,”Do we have the reason to live till 80?”

Last but not the least, in a budget less than 0.5 per cent of the entire budget emphasising on health, then how can FM expect people to live till 80 to avail of those benefits? You should have first given a way for Indians to live till the age of 80, before declaring tax concessions for them else you should make the two different budgets clearly stating “BUDGET FOR SLUMDOGS” and “BUDGET FOR MILLIONAIRES.”